Month: October 2021
A Good Book
Craig Good's new book explains that all food is good and urges us to relax and enjoy rather than worrying and feeling guilty. Good advice, indeed! And solidly based on science.
“Natural immunity” versus the vaccine for COVID-19
Antivaxxers have long appealed to "natural immunity" as being somehow inherently superior to vaccine-induced immunity, which is apparently "artificial". This is a trope that comes from alternative medicine concepts about purity and contamination that is now endangering us in the age of the pandemic.
A Modest Proposal: Close Pediatric Cancer Hospitals
What if people thought about pediatric cancer the way they do pediatric COVID-19? A satirical argument to stop treating children for cancer.
Cases of Newborn Syphilis are Increasing at an Alarming Rate
Cases of syphilis are being diagnosed in infants in record numbers in the United States.