For those with advance ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or certain brainstem strokes, they can be what is referred to as ...

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

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 ...

Rethinking Medications: Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take by Jerry Avorn presents a critical appraisal of the state of the prescription medications in the United States. It explores the complex ...

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 ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “make America healthy again” is basically Lysenko 2.0. It’s come to the NIH and is destroying the crown jewel of US biomedical research with ideology and cronyism. You can see ...

Well, I’m an unboosted male. That’s my preferred pronoun, by the way. This “gold-standard science” didn’t matter to Drs. Vinay Prasad and Marty Makary, however. They ignored this evidence, and with ...

After the Secretary stated that only the COVID vaccine had been subjected to placebo-controlled testing, Senate HELP Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy demurred: The secretary made the statement that no ...

David Geier, cosplaying a scientist. It is well known by now that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has appointed his long-time associate David A. Geier to conduct a study of a possible association ...

Since becoming HHS Secretary, RFK Jr. has been deceptively weaponizing principles of evidence-based medicine against vaccines. Will weaponizing research ethics be next? It might if the ideas of one of ...

While the medical world is melting down from the absolute apocalypse that is RFK Jr., it’s good to celebrate that (at least for now) medical progress continues to march on. Recently published in the ...