Month: July 2025
Ivermectin to Control Malaria — A Cluster-Randomized Trial
Another use for Ivermectin from last week's NEJM
Review Recommends High Dose Statins
The exact role of different types of dietary fat and the best approach to prevention in cardiovascular disease has been somewhat controversial. However, the level of controversy among experts is much less than that being generated in the public by outliers and contrarians. Since cardiovascular disease remains a major source of morbidity and mortality, it’s important for the public to be kept...
A department adrift from its own “Gold” standards
Phantom citations, misinformation, and imbalance in HHS communications
COVID-19 contrarian Dr. Vinay Prasad meets real world responsibility
Dr. Vinay Prasad parlayed his COVID-19 contrarianism into a high-ranking position in the FDA. Now he's facing real world responsibility, and knives are out for him. Can he survive?
With Laura Loomer on One Side and Dr. Paul Offit on the Other, Our FDA Leaders are Caught in a Trap of Their Own Making
After years of bashing the medical establishment, Drs. Vinay Prasad and Marty Makary are stuck in a trap. Any attempt to escape only tightens its grip.
FDA Has Replaced its Leadership With Doctors Who Have Done Their “Research”
"Families that say" qualifies as hard data at the FDA.
The Healthcare Costs of Fossil Fuels
While the debate continues about the true impact of burning fossil fuels on the climate and what the optimal policy response should be, we need to make sure we do not neglect another aspect of fossil fuel use – air pollution and the effect it has on our health. There is a growing body of research showing a significant negative impact with...
An antivaxxer attacks the evidence-based medicine paradigm: Echoes of RFK Jr.’s “gold standard science”
Last week, antivaxxer Toby Rogers published two very long screeds attacking the EBM paradigm. Cleverly, echoed some of our criticisms of EBM but twisted them so that they are science denying, rather than affirming—just like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "gold standard science."
Science Based Satire: The Forces I Enabled Are Attacking Science Just Like They Said They Would. Here’s Why Left Leaning Public Health Experts are to Blame.
No one could have foreseen these attacks on science and medicine. There were no warnings, and no one sounded the alarm bell.
As Diseases Spread and Trust in the FDA Crumbles, Its Leaders Are Obsessed with an MRI Abnormality in 1 in 61,500 Males Ages 12-24
Our medical establishment told people to "Stop Trusting the Public Health Establishment". Now, almost no one trusts our medical establishment.