Loss of bone density can be a significant issue for adults later in life. A new study found that those who regularly played sports as children and teens had stronger bones as an adult, as compared to those who gave up sports or never played them to begin with.

A Superior Court judge seems ready to throw out not only a $250 million punitive judgment against Monsanto, which makes a weedkiller using glyphosate, but even to reduce the $39 million in compensation to $9 million. Most likely she will order a new trial.

Now, Disney Princesses and films are under attack. We are straying further and further from what most impacts child development, as a source of adult challenges.

After its latest ad campaign, we forced the British distillery to admit it did not believe GMOs were a health concern, nor that non-GMO vodka is suddenly a healthy product.

Treating heart disease requires physicians to identify a 70 percent blockage. But it turns out that they overestimate blockages and that results in, perhaps, more procedures than necessary.

Smokers, like the rest of us, believe that a small reward today is worth a bigger penalty in the future. Smokers also believe that this future is further away than non-smokers. Or put another way, "I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."

Errors in our scientific beliefs are not always due to Big Industry and its evil intent. Science is a human enterprise, constrained by human foibles. Sometimes we just get it wrong.

We shouldn't let politics, on either side of the aisle, distract us from talking about food distribution and how to help small, rather than large, American business.

Among the latest fads are specialty salts, which are sold as if they are magic potions – by those who are always selling magic potions. Sea salt is one of them. In reality, this product should be called "Throw Sea Salt and Money Over Your Shoulder."

Roundup can only affect the shikimate pathway in plants, so how can it be argued the weedkiller harms bees? By invoking the mystical, ill-defined "microbiome." What's next, their chakras?