U.S. Right to Know articles

U.S. Right to Know articles

U.S. Right to Know

Episodes 99
Avg. Duration 10m
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Since Nov 2024
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Reporting from U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit newsroom covering public health.

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Pharma bribery corrupts health care, puts patients at risk, new review warns

Mar 25, 2026 30m

Sham clinical studies, slush funds, luxury gifts, and shell companies: A new review shows how pharma firms allegedly bribed their way to drug approvals and sales.

PR firm linked to Gates-backed AGRA edited Wikipedia to remove criticism

Mar 24, 2026 7m

Powerful institutions are using covert tactics to shape how they are portrayed online.

Five ways that transparency failures harm our health

Mar 18, 2026 9m

Five federal transparency failings – FOIA shortcomings, weak congressional oversight, dark money in elections, inadequate lobbying disclosure and secrecy in court – harm our health.

Emails show Wuhan scientist suggested hand-carrying research antibodies to China

Mar 09, 2026 8m

Emails reveal Wuhan virologist Zhengli Shi asked a U.S. collaborator to hand-carry antibodies to China, bypassing formal shipping protocols.

NIH files reveal broader coronavirus engineering research before COVID-19

Mar 09, 2026 20m

Documents show scientists across multiple U.S.-funded projects proposed altering spike proteins and cleavage sites in bat viruses — work that echoed ideas later floated in the controversial DEFUSE…

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to back Bayer again, aided by officials who came from Bayer’s law firms

Mar 03, 2026 7m

The Trump administration yesterday handed Bayer another win, urging the Supreme Court in a new brief to side with the German pesticide company in a high-stakes legal case that could wipe out…

Air pollution tied to brain aging, memory loss later in life, study finds

Feb 27, 2026 6m

A study reveals that early 2000s air pollution exposure significantly impaired older adults' memory by 2011, equating to years of cognitive aging, regardless of subsequent air quality improvements.

Tracing Bayer’s ties to power in Trump’s Washington

Feb 24, 2026 24m

Our review of Bayer’s access in Washington found 16 key administration officials with ties to Bayer’s lobbying or legal network. Bayer and its lobbyists have access to people in power at the White…

Bayer lobby tracker

Feb 24, 2026 24m

Here we list Bayer's 13 lobbying firms and the company’s in-house lobbyists.

One exposure. Twenty generations later, the damage is still unfolding

Feb 22, 2026 13m

A single exposure to a toxic agricultural fungicide during pregnancy can echo through 20 generations — with inherited disease risks from kidney disease to infertility not fading, but worsening over…

'Safe' BPA substitutes tied to fertility damage, fetal harm, and generational effects, review finds

Feb 18, 2026 7m

Chemicals increasingly used to replace the controversial plastic additive bisphenol A (BPA) may disrupt fertility, fetal development, and reproductive health through many of the same biological…

Energy Department's lab-leak pivot likely not driven by new intelligence, records suggest

Feb 15, 2026 15m

Internal documents suggest the Department of Energy's reported shift on COVID-19 origins was a clarification of misconstrued data rather than a new analytical pivot, revealing deep internal…

Nanoplastics sneak into brain cells, disrupting puberty and fertility hormones, new study finds

Feb 14, 2026 8m

Tiny pieces of plastic, widely found in food, water, and air, can harm the development and function of specialized brain cells that regulate reproduction, new research reports.

Defense Intelligence Agency considered lab leak scenario in March 2020, new records show

Feb 05, 2026 11m

More than six years after COVID-19 emerged in China and killed millions worldwide, newly released intelligence records show that the Defense Intelligence Agency was evaluating a detailed lab-origin…

Pacifiers, even those labeled “BPA-free,” expose babies to toxic chemical, study finds

Jan 30, 2026 9m

Pacifiers can release bisphenol A, a chemical linked to hormone disruption and developmental problems, with the highest levels found in one marketed as “BPA-free,” a new study shows.

When profit kills: How private equity is eroding health care

Jan 21, 2026 21m

A growing wave of peer-reviewed studies supports the same troubling conclusion: When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients—especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder…

‘Ubiquitous’ flame retardants are linked to higher heart disease risks, major review finds

Dec 23, 2025 10m

Flame-retardant chemicals widely used in sofas, mattresses, electronics, textiles, and other products are increasingly linked to cardiovascular disease risk and other serious health problems,…

Ultra-processed foods damage health in ways that calories don't explain, new study says

Dec 18, 2025 8m

Researchers are getting closer to solving the riddle of how ultra-processed foods harm metabolic, reproductive, and immune health in ways that can't be explained by calories or poor nutrient profile…

Is RFK Jr. backing Big Food's drive to overturn tough new state laws?

Dec 17, 2025 4m

Kennedy promotes MAHA while discussing a national food standard that could override state bans on ultra-processed ingredients, raising concerns about federal preemption and Big Food’s influence.

Social media fuels smoking and vaping among children, especially girls, study shows

Dec 12, 2025 6m

Children and teens who spend hours scrolling social media are far more likely to smoke or vape than their peers, with the highest risks seen among girls and heavy users, according to new research.

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