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12:31 PM on Tuesday, October 21

The Associated Press found anti-science bills in 43 states legislatures in 2025. The bills targeted vaccine, fluoride and milk safety laws. (AP Graphic)

How AP tracked and analyzed anti-science legislation in US statehouses

10:13 AM on Tuesday, October 21

For its investigation on anti-science legislation, The Associated Press examined more than 1,000 bills that had been introduced in states across the nation

FILE - Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington, as President Donald Trump looks on. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Takeaways from AP's investigation on anti-science legislation in US statehouses

10:10 AM on Tuesday, October 21

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety, and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law

FILE - Veterinarian Patrick Smith, left, discusses raw milk with dairyman and producer Mark McAfee at the Farmer's Market in Fresno, Calif., on Dec. 22, 2007. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, File)

Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?

10:09 AM on Tuesday, October 21

Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S. They portray the Make America Healthy Again movement as grassroots, but it’s fueled by a web of well-funded national groups led by people who’ve profited – financially and otherwise – from sowing distrust of medicine and science

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8:01 AM on Tuesday, October 21

FILE - This image provided by NOAA shows a North Atlantic right whale in the waters off New England on May 25, 2024. (NOAA via AP, File)

One of the world's rarest whales that makes the Atlantic its home grows in population

6:02 AM on Tuesday, October 21

Scientists have reported an encouraging trend in the population growth of the North Atlantic right whale

A seed bank in England marks 25 years of preserving the world's plant diversity

8:58 AM on Monday, October 20

The Millennium Seed Bank at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew marks its 25th anniversary

How AI can improve storm surge forecasts to help save lives

8:14 AM on Monday, October 20

FILE - An arrangement of peanuts is seen Feb. 20, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

Advice to feed babies peanuts early and often helped thousands of kids avoid allergies

12:01 AM on Monday, October 20

A study that upended medical practice by recommending feeding babies peanut products early to prevent allergies has had a big effect in the real world

Nurse Rod Salaysay plays guitar for patient Richard Hoang in the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health in San Diego, Calif., on Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Javier Arciga)

Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening

9:04 AM on Saturday, October 18

Hospitals and doctors' offices are inviting singers and musicians to help patients manage their pain, as music's ability to reduce pain is gaining attention

Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang delivers a speech at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on April 14, 2014. (Chinatopix via AP)

Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang dies at 103

3:28 AM on Saturday, October 18

Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang, a key figure in modern physics, has died in Beijing at 103

FILE - This photo provided by NASA shows a meteor from the Orionid shower on Oct. 13, 2015. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA via AP, File)

How to watch the Orionid meteor shower, debris of Halley's comet

9:01 AM on Friday, October 17

The Orionid meteor shower peaks this year with the arrival of a new moon, offering a rare chance to see shooting stars without moonlight interference

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