{"id":9439,"date":"2025-12-31T23:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/first-opinion-stat-most-read-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T23:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:04:13","slug":"first-opinion-stat-most-read-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/first-opinion-stat-most-read-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: The most-read First Opinion essays of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: The most-read First Opinion essays of 2025<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>You can chart 2025\u2019s biggest and most important life sciences topics through the most read First Opinion essays of the year: vaccines, health insurance costs, whether AI is fulfilling its promise, the MAHA movement, and general chaos within the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>But the top 20 pieces \u2014 10 free, 10 behind our STAT+ paywall \u2014 are more interesting and revealing than that list, with each story adding important nuance and personal voices to debates often flattened into pro or con.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/31\/first-opinion-stat-most-read-2025\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Torie Bosch<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/31\/first-opinion-stat-most-read-2025\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: The most-read First Opinion essays of 2025 You can chart 2025\u2019s biggest and most important life sciences topics through the most read First Opinion essays of the year: vaccines, health insurance costs, whether AI is fulfilling its promise, the MAHA movement, and general chaos within the federal government. But the top 20 pieces \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2143],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-opinion","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}