Since America’s inception, we have outpaced the rest of the world in technological innovation.

Scientific figures such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison have always seemed present with us, and their heirs — modern-day titans like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk — maintain that tradition. Alongside their innate genius, their innovative successes occurred through hard work and revolutionary thinking, incentivized by a system that rewards hard work and provides an opportunity for efforts to bear fruit. Their achievements met the exacting tests of hard science.

Today, however, all of that is jeopardized by a very unlikely source: money-hungry plaintiffs’ lawyers.

To illustrate, consider the sheer number of science-related articles over the last week, month or year about weight-loss fads, new superfoods, longevity “breakthroughs,” diets to cure cancer, diets that cause cancer. You name it, it’s been published.

In many instances, such articles were reported in otherwise respectable news outlets, which republished those “findings” from “science journals” unworthy of the name. Some of those findings are........

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