Faye Flam

F.D. Flam

Former Bloomberg Opinion Columnist

F.D. Flam is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering science. She is host of the “Follow the Science” podcast.

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Bloomberg Opinion

Why Some People Live to 100 Despite Doing Everything Wrong

February 7, 2026

February 7, 2026

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Why Some People Live to 100 Despite Doing Everything Wrong

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January 31, 2026

January 31, 2026

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Stop Shaming Bottled Water. We Need Better Tap

Florida Becomes Second State To Ban Fluoride In Drinking Water

January 10, 2026

January 10, 2026

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The New Food Pyramid Is a Mess. It’s Still Better Than the Old One

US Flips Food Pyramid To Promote Protein, Cut Added Sugar

December 27, 2025

December 27, 2025

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Science Still Made Incredible Breakthroughs While Under Attack

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December 20, 2025

December 20, 2025

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Experimenting on Dogs Is Getting Harder to Defend

Beagles From Mass Breeding Factory Up For Adoption At Animal Rescue Centers In Virginia

December 11, 2025

December 11, 2025

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The Real Microplastics Problem Isn’t in Your Brain

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November 18, 2025

November 18, 2025

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James Watson Had a Brilliant Mind and a Broken Moral Compass

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November 15, 2025

November 15, 2025

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AI Thinks It’s Smart. Chimps May Beg to Differ.

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November 8, 2025

November 8, 2025

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How Women Could Be the Key to Unlocking Longer Life

Temperatures Soar To Highest Of The Year

October 31, 2025

October 31, 2025

What History’s Great Disasters Have in Common

At Princeton, a course on “Understanding Disasters” suggests that catastrophe is less about incompetence than the blind spots that success leaves behind.

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October 18, 2025

October 18, 2025

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TikTok Diets Are Helping People When Medicine Can’t

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September 27, 2025

September 27, 2025

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What Archaeology Can Teach Us About Extreme Inequality

More egalitarian societies thrived for millennia. Those lessons can apply today.

Action/2015 Rallies Across Globe, Sydney To NY To Delhi, Urge World Leaders To Commit To Global Goals For People And Planet - NY

September 20, 2025

September 20, 2025

OpinionF.D. Flam

Crucial Evidence About Life on Mars Is Stuck ... on Mars

The Perseverance Rover has samples of potential ancient life on the planet. The challenge is getting them back to Earth.

NASA Perseverance Rover Lands On Mars

August 29, 2025

August 29, 2025

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Summer’s Over Already? Your Mind Tricked You, Again.

Research shows how your brain shapes the experience — and distortion — of time.

Tourists Spend As Brexit Anxiety Temporarily Quelled By Summer Sun

August 22, 2025

August 22, 2025

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Do You Know What’s in Your DNA? If Not, That’s a Problem

From ICU patients to postpartum heart failure, genetic information could change outcomes — if only it were used.

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August 9, 2025

August 9, 2025

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AI Doesn’t Just Lie — It Can Make You Believe It

Research shows the ease with which artificial intelligence can manipulate people into remembering things that never happened.

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August 8, 2025

August 8, 2025

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What If Everything We Think About Obesity Is Wrong?

New research offers novel insight into the causes of overeating but it’s being lost to political posturing.

Lawsuit Filed Against Food Companies For Designing Addictive Processed Foods For Children

August 2, 2025

August 2, 2025

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Too Many Scientific ‘Discoveries’ Get Discredited

From Martian microbes to arsenic-based life, the breakthroughs that often steal the show later turn out to be wrong.

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July 18, 2025

July 18, 2025

Were Americans Ever Really Healthy?

The history of nutrition science in the US suggests that the Make America Healthy Again movement would make more sense without the ‘A.’

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July 13, 2025

July 13, 2025

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Another Moon Landing Will Take More Than Rocket Science

The first lunar landing took place more than 50 years ago. There are myriad reasons we’ve struggled to do it again despite the technological advances.

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