GLP Weekly: Should we test COVID vaccines by intentionally infecting volunteers?; Media badly misreport study on Roundup and monarchs; and more!

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Bayer’s Roundup weedkiller wiping out monarch butterflies? Media badly misreport recent study Andrew Porterfield ‘Challenge studies’: Should we be testing COVID vaccines by intentionally infecting volunteers? Ricki Lewis Viewpoint: Rethinking ‘critical race theory’ — What happens when broad racialist viewpoints ‘invade’ science? Andreas Bikfalvi, Marcel Kuntz Do you have food allergies? Manipulating the gut microbiome might treat them Esther Landhuis Podcast: Where do babies come from? How developmental genetics revealed the secrets of life’s earliest stages Kat Arney Viewpoint: How the ‘Food Justice’ movement reinforces inequality while doing little to improve health outcomes Margot Finn Why COVID-19 hits men harder than women Adam Moeser Podcast: Neuralink brain chips; Flu vaccines during COVID; US farm system unraveling? Cameron English, Kevin Folta Viewpoint: UN’s ‘hand-in-glove’ alliance with anti-pesticide groups cripples response to Africa’s ravenous locust swarms James Njoroge Resurrection of phrenology? AI’s quest to link facial features and criminality has a shady Victorian legacy Catherine Stinson