Doctors Who Glorified Trump Have Permanently Tied Themselves to Everything He Does
The purges, censorship, and politicization in the worlds of medicine and science are not distinct from the corruption and vandalism of the country writ large. We Want Them Infected doctors are part of it all.
Is (Conversion) Therapy Speech?
The US Supreme Court recently heard a case that could have devastating effects on the standard of care in medicine, and the indicators of where the justices fall are not good. The case is Chiles v Salazar, in which a licensed therapist is arguing that a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for gay and trans clients violates her free speech. So the...
RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 4: Aluminum edition (or: Everything old is new again…again)
Last week, news stories reported that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had convened an "aluminum working group." Among the "scientists" there are antivax scientists about whom I've been writing for over a decade. Everything old antivax is new again.
MAHA and the Triumph of Feelings Based Medicine
According to Dr. Marty Makary, vaccines and medications are indicated or not, based on “stories” and how he “feels.”
The Growing Problem of Supplement–Drug Interactions in Seniors
Many people take supplements alongside prescription drugs without realizing the risks.
Nobel Prize in Medicine: Peripheral Immune Tolerance
Each year I like to write a post about the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. While advocating for higher standards of science in medicine we tend to spend much of our time criticizing pseudoscience, so I like to balance that by occasionally just celebrating great medical science, and the Nobel Prize is a great opportunity. The 2025 award for physiology or...
Mockies: Doctors Who Mocked My Warnings About MAHA in 2024 are Copying Me Today. Good.
The dangers of Kennedy and crew were blindingly obvious. Yet some doctors sought to bolster MAHA by undermining and discrediting those who warned about it.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. weaponizes an old antivax trope in his quest to eliminate vaccines
People who keep whistling past the graveyard (of vaccines) to assure themselves that RFK Jr,. won't take away their vaccines are deluding themselves. One seven-minute video he posted last week shows that, weaponizing an old one deceptive antivax trope claiming that vaccines didn't do that much to improve global health.
Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!
The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?
FDA approves novel gene therapy delivery platform for a rare retinal disorder
Treatment introduces an expansion of the scope of gene therapies that might lead to similar treatments for neurodegenerative diseases in other parts of the body