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Guest opinion: RFK Jr.’s poor approach to science will send us backward

I am a registered dietitian nutritionist and was recently invited to give a nutrition presentation to local adults. Because of the prevalence of nutrition misinformation, I first addressed how to evaluate the credibility of nutrition sources. Trustworthy sources on nutrition will hold valid ...

Guest opinion: Policymakers don’t need to reinvent the wheel for AI

According to a recent article in The New York Times from Kevin Roose, it is remarkably easy to manipulate artificial-intelligence chatbots. The discovery came about after Roose, a noted critic of AI, asked a number of chatbots like Microsoft’s Sydney, Google’s Gemini and Meta’s Llama to ...

Guest opinion: You cannot make up this stuff

You cannot make up this stuff. While competing factions inside any organization can create confusion, a master class in confusion is playing out inside my church and my faith — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — over the strange bedfellows of homosexuality, peacemaking and ...

Guest opinion: Concerning research on girls’ stress and well-being

Last year, I wrote an article titled “Troubling research on girls, confidence and social media” that shared some findings of a large study published in 2023 called The Girls’ Index. The report highlighted compelling data on girls in the United States. It was the largest national survey of ...