Garden of Healing
As I read the plaques in the Garden of Healing, I thought it would be a fun project to compare the content with reality.
Dr. Pierre Kory resurrects the false claim that vaccines cause SIDS
Dr. Pierre Kory name-checked me in a post falsely claiming that vaccines cause SIDS. I finally get around to responding.
The Opinion Class: Practicing Focused Protection From Reality
A class of sheltered COVID pundits are eager to conjure an alternate history where we let the virus spread in 2020 and everything turned out just fine.
Go Ahead, Make the Case That Science, Free Speech, and the FDA Are Thriving Under Drs. Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad
Unlike Drs. Adam Cifu and John Mandrola, I do not constantly boast of my "nuance" or claim to be a master of "clinical appraisal." They have so much to teach me.
AI Therapists – Not Ready for Prime Time
Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are being rolled out at a furious pace. There is no doubt they are potentially powerful tools, although with flaws and limitations. But one thing that large language models do well is mimic conversational speech. They are great chatbots. For this reason one of the early uses of these chatbots is as AI therapists. There are no hard...
After ACIP: Where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely go from here in his quest to eliminate vaccines
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was on The Tucker Carlson Show last week. It got me to thinking: What's next in RFK Jr.'s crusade against vaccines after he turned ACIP into an antivax committee?
Dr. Vinay Prasad: Bodily Autonomy Applies to Raw Milk, Not Vaccines
This is what it looks like when disinformation doctors pretend to value data and science to further their true objective, MAHA politics.
Wearables and Wellness Populism: How Smart Watches Got MAHA’d
Fifteen years ago, then-contributor Peter Lipson wrote a short post on this blog that I’ve reflected on many times since. Titled Your Disease, Your Fault, Peter described a central theme that runs through nearly every variant of alternative medicine: That illness is preventable, and therefore, your fault. According to this worldview, disease isn’t a product of biology, inequity, or chance. It is...
Standards in Behavioral Science
How can we decrease the amount of shoddy science and improve the rigor of research in the behavioral sciences?
Big Trouble in Little Pharma
The Excruciating Inspection of David Geier’s DAP Pharmaceuticals