Last week, news stories reported that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had convened an "aluminum working group." Among the ...

The purges, censorship, and politicization in the worlds of medicine and science are not distinct from the corruption and ...

According to Dr. Marty Makary, vaccines and medications are indicated or not, based on “stories” and how he “feels.” ...

When we use the term “drug interaction” we’re describing situations where one substance changes the way another works in the body. That can mean a change in how a drug is absorbed, distributed, ...

Each year I like to write a post about the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. While advocating for higher standards of science in medicine we tend to spend much of our time criticizing pseudoscie ...

The dangers of Kennedy and crew were blindingly obvious. Yet some doctors sought to bolster MAHA by undermining and ...

An eminent oncologist, cancer researcher, and cancer center director is promoting a study that seems to show—but, when critically examined, doesn’t—that COVID vaccines are associated with increased ...

The immune system is not a muscle, not a rocket, not a pump, not a balloon, nor anything else that can be inflated, expanded, or launched into the stratosphere simply by adding more power. This post ...

It’s not clear who first quipped “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy,” but it’s not just a joke. Almost anything would be preferable to a frontal lobotomy. It was a ...

Since the nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for NIH Director, I’ve been seeing a suggestion from certain contrarian doctors for a “randomized trial” of study sections vs. a “modified lottery” to ...

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