In 2023 Dr. Vinay Prasad said that scientists who recognized the limitations of randomized-controlled trials (RCTS) were ...

There is evidence to suggest that combined low vitamin D and K levels is associated with increased risk of adverse c ...

So-called "health influencers" - self-appointed health gurus spreading their unvetted opinions about health through social ...

Last Thursday during a roundtable on stem cell therapies, new FDA Commissioner Marty Makary referred to EBM levels of evidence as an artificial and dogmatic construct. Apparently Dr. David Katz's "mor ...

I was in Chicago this weekend attending the ASCO meeting, the largest oncology meeting in the world. Nary a talk or poster about "turbo cancer" was seen, but that doesn't mean there wasn't cancer quac ...

I'm sure you are as sick of reading about RFK Jr. as we are of writing about him, but this is the world we live in. We cannot let outrage fatigue cause us to take our eye off the ball. If nothing els ...

Writing for SBM these days is a bit like being in one of those cash grab machines, though instead of money flying over the place, it’s bees and wasps. Every week brings a fresh round of horrors that ...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been a very useful paradigm for assessing evidence in medicine. However, like any other framework, it can be misused, particularly when fundamentalist EBM ...

Friday night, an old “friend” of the blog, pediatrician and antivaccine apologist Dr. Jay Gordon, made an appearance on Real Time With Bill Maher. In a long segment, the antivaccine misinformation ...

The last three and a half years, during which the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, have been highly educational to me. As much as I thought I knew in early 2020, as news stories about an outbreak of a ...