Last week I wrote about the new vaccine schedule under RFK, which reveals his process. He doesn't appear to have one. Our HHS secretary is shooting from the hip, ignoring expert advice, and trusting ...

Dr. Makary’s right-hand man at the FDA, Dr. Vinay Prasad, has long expressed similar thoughts, writing: ...

Wealthy tech bro turned antivax crank Steve Kirsch attacked Paul Offit for refusing to debate antivaxxers, while Dr. Mike was "surrounded" by MAHA stans. These recent events led me to revisit the ques ...

As anticipated, RFK Jr. continues to be a wrecking ball on the American healthcare scene as HHS secretary. His latest move to undermine vaccines in any way possible is to reduce the number of vac ...

I have summarized their responsible and obligations in a document titled the Murray Hill Declaration, which borrows heavily from its inspiration, the Great Barrington Declaration. Adopting measures to ...

It has been fascinating (and frustrating) watching the cultural shift in attitudes toward acupuncture over the last two decades. It is a study case in how to promote pseudoscience, how to exploit the ...

That there is an “autism epidemic” is taken as a given by those who feel autism has a dominant environmental cause. The Age of Autism blog, for example, bills itself as a, “Daily Web Newspaper of the ...

Science-Based Medicine as a philosophy, blog, and approach to medical practice is primarily about optimizing and affirming the relationship between science and critical thinking with healthcare. One ...

The newly reconstituted CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet this week. Packed with antivaxxers, the antivax-adjacent, and the unqualified, ACIP will begin the dismantling of the ...

In a turn that should surprise exactly no one, the BIRD Group’s Tess Lawrie effortlessly pivots from promoting ivermectin as a cure for COVID-19 to promoting it as a cure for cancer. It’s another ...

A correspondent asked me to look into the GAPS diet. I did. I was sorry: it was a painful experience. What a mishmash of half-truths, pseudoscience, imagination, and untested claims! GAPS stands for ...