All posts by David Gorski

Dr. Gorski's full information can be found here, along with information for patients. David H. Gorski, MD, PhD, FACS is a surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute specializing in breast cancer surgery, where he also serves as the American College of Surgeons Committee on Cancer Liaison Physician as well as an Associate Professor of Surgery and member of the faculty of the Graduate Program in Cancer Biology at Wayne State University. If you are a potential patient and found this page through a Google search, please check out Dr. Gorski's biographical information, disclaimers regarding his writings, and notice to patients here.

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Two prescription pill bottles labeled Eltroxin (100 mcg) and Synthroid (88 mcg), both containing levothyroxine tablets, are placed side by side on a gray surface.

What do mRNA vaccines, Synthroid, and pharmaceuticals have in common (according to MAHA)?

If you want to understand why Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has halted $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine development, look no further than Synthroid and herbal medicines.

/ August 18, 2025
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK Jr.)

Every accusation was a confession of what they wanted to do if they were to attain power

On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would shift power over grantmaking away from career scientists to political appointees. Lysenkoism 2.0 has been made official policy, and science in the US is in deep trouble.

/ August 11, 2025
Robin toppled. (Vinay Prasad.)

EBM “Boy Wonder” Vinay Prasad is toppled

Evidence-based medicine "Boy Wonder" Dr. Vinay Prasad was fired as CBER Director after less than three months on the job. What can the kerfuffle surrounding his ouster tell us about the FDA and doctors who enabled Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.?

/ August 4, 2025
Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH

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?

/ July 28, 2025
EBM hierarchy

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."

/ July 21, 2025
Pierre Kory

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.

/ July 14, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tucker Carlson

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?

/ July 7, 2025
Clown Car

RFK Jr.’s reconstituted vaccine committee meets for the first time, and I can’t help but think of clowns…antivax clowns

Last week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s reconstituted Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) met for the first time. The proceedings reminded me, more than anything else, of an antivax clown car.

/ June 30, 2025
So it begins

RFK Jr.’s remade ACIP meets: And so it begins (in earnest)…the dismantling of US federal vaccine infrastructure

The newly reconstituted CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet this week. Packed with antivaxxers, the antivax-adjacent, and the unqualified, ACIP will begin the dismantling of the US federal vaccine infrastructure.

/ June 23, 2025
Antivax America

Anti-Vax America

In which Dr. Gorski engages in a little shameless self-promotion for what he believes to be a good cause.

/ June 22, 2025