While his COVID output and enabling of MAHA doctors should be remembered, it’s not clear why anyone should pay attention to ...

I have long been critical of the World Health Organization's promotion of dubious treatment methods under the banner of "traditional medicine". It now has a global strategy to promote what is calls " ...

A recent report in Nature describes how the Trump administration is weakening peer review in favor of ideology-based grant ...

It is easy to forget how much of an impact the smartphone has had on our daily lives and our society. About 91% of Americans ...

A journal editor decided to retract and remove a bad study by an antivaxxer named Neil Z. Miller. RFK Jr. publicly demanded ...

Marty Makary and Nicole Saphier, our Surgeon General nominee. They had penned an opinion piece in the WSJ regarding the pediatric COVID vaccine but misread a CDC slide set and therefore drastically ...

Kennedy’s sperm obsession combined with his desire for healthy "Trump babies" to serve in a military led by a White supremacist, whom he believes to be a divinely anointed, testosterone-filled über ...

I had been debating whether to write about something other than COVID-19 this week, given how thoroughly the pandemic has come to dominate the blog (at least my contributions), to the point where it ...

Ever since COVID-19 first emerged in 2020, evidence-free claims that it had arisen due to a “lab leak” have proliferated. A recent paper argues that this conspiracy theory has been very harmful to ...

Ashley Alker’s 99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them covers everything: infections, heart disease, animal attacks, poison, car crashes, murder, warfare. The title suggests you’re getting a ranked guide ...

If you are a parent of a young child with autism (especially level 2 or 3, requiring significant support), the promise of a ...