Gastrointestinal illnesses on cruise ships hit a 12-year high in 2024, and 2025 has been even worse, with cruise lines seeing an entire year's worth of outbreaks in only the first quarter of the year.

Some health experts believe the controversial claims made by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might be due to an obsolete medical theory. Known as miasma theory, this ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has upended medical research and public health in the U.S. in many ways. One of the ideas that could be influencing his overhaul of federal health agencies dates ...

In recent months, the U.S. government has taken steps to defund and dismantle key infectious disease programs, including a National Institutes of Health lab that has contributed to groundbreaking work ...

When you don’t believe in germ theory, the world is your oyster—or maybe your bathtub. Over the weekend, America’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shared pictures on social media of ...

The kids pushed a chair against the door and braced it with a heavy bin. Then they picked up a table to barricade the window at the Science Zone. Now they’re safe enough to sleep, Science Zone ...

When germ theory displaced the idea of “miasmas” we lost important knowledge about tackling airborne disease. Face masks. Ventilation. Air purifiers. Social distancing. Breathing has been in the news ...

Caitjan Gainty runs the Wellcome-funded Healthy Scepticism project. Back in February 2019, when the pandemic was still far from most people thoughts, the Fox News programme Fox & Friends aired a ...

Listen up, sheeple: COVID-19 doesn’t exist. Viruses don’t cause disease, and they aren’t contagious. Those doctors and health experts who say otherwise don’t know what they’re talking about; the real ...