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The Long Med Con: The Self-Styled Expertise and Expansive Invoices of Mark & David Geier

All it takes is a coming-of-age consultancy and you, too, can morph from an average teenage Joe or Josephine to an instant "vaccine expert"

/ June 12, 2025
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RFK Jr. Sacks Entire CDC Vaccine Committee

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 else, SBM needs to chronicle every anti-science move that this administration makes. As most people, and certainly most readers here,...

/ June 11, 2025
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Dr. Vinay Prasad is Repeatedly Undermining RCTs. Why?

It's quite the journey from "RCT or STFU" to "we will always have a place for controlled clinical studies."

/ June 10, 2025
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Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad embrace a “more fluid concept of evidence” at the FDA

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 "more fluid concept of evidence" now reigns at the FDA—selectively.

/ June 9, 2025
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Should You Take Vitamin K With Your Vitamin D?

Vitamin K is increasingly marketed with Vitamin D. But is this combination evidence-based?

/ June 5, 2025
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Seed Oils Are Not Bad For You

So-called “health influencers” – self-appointed health gurus spreading their unvetted opinions about health through social media, have apparently decided that seed oils are bad for you. Our chief health guru, RFK Jr, even blames seed oils for the obesity epidemic (based on the flimsiest of evidence and logic, which is his MO). I’m not exactly sure where this demonizing of seed oils...

/ June 4, 2025
No turbo cancer at ASCO

No turbo cancer at ASCO: William Makis vs. Scott Adams and A Midwestern Doctor instead?

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 quack fight online to distract me from the meeting.

/ June 2, 2025
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Our Medical Establishment In Power Versus Our Medical Establishment Out of Power

Now that they have power, Drs. Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, and Jay Bhattacharya have different standards than they set for their predecessors.

/ May 29, 2025
An orange prescription pill bottle with a white cap labeled "Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take" appears under the large title "Rethinking Medications" by Jerry Avorn, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Rethinking Medications: Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take

A critical appraisal of the state of the prescription medications in the United States

/ May 28, 2025