The metastasis hoax?
An anonymous blogger cites a virus denier who claims that our understanding of the mechanisms of cancer metastasis is a "hoax." I cringe but cannot resist. Damn.
Once again, The BMJ, wittingly or unwittingly, reinforces an antivax narrative
Last week The BMJ published an investigation alleging that the algorithm for spotting safety signals after COVID vaccination was flawed and that the FDA ignored it, amplifying an old antivax narrative. Again. WTF, BMJ?
Making measles great again in Ohio
Dr. Jonathan Howard was right. They really do want you—and your kids—infected, preferably with measles. One way they'll accomplish this is by preventing schools from excluding unvaccinated children during outbreaks.
Dr. Remington Nevin: Michigan’s own RFK Jr. or Dr. Joseph Ladapo?
Dr. Remington Nevin is a the director of a county health department in Michigan but is poised to become Michigan's very own Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a MAHA crank put in charge of a state's public health apparatus.
Wendy Weber, a naturopath, now leads NCCIH. Let the quackery flow (even more)!
Not-A-Doctor Wendy Weber, a naturopath, has been appointed Director of the NCCIH. Will this mean more MAHA quackery on top of the usual quackademic medicine?
“Autism biomed” is now in charge of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
The NIH announced that Dr. John Gaitanis, who has served as expert witness for plaintiffs of "vaccine injury" cases and is affiliated with the autism biomed quackery group MAPS, will lead the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Lysenko marches on.
The opposite of “transparency”: Sneaking Lysenkoism into NIH peer review
On Friday, the NIH released an RFI (request for Information) on a proposed new format for reporting the scores of grant applications determined by study sections. If implemented, this new system will make it easier to hide political manipulation of grant funding.
Cancer quackery: Under MAHA, everything old is new again
A viral Instagram post claims that cancer is not a disease, but rather a defense mechanism against "toxins." Everything old is new again under MAHA.
Montana’s new “right to try”: Opening the door to profit from unproven drugs
Montana recently finalized rules to implement its expansion of "right-to-try." providing a chance for the unscrupulous to profit.
Does public health “need” MAHA? No more than medicine “needs” CAM!
Last week, The Atlantic published an embarrassingly contrarian piece about how public health "needs" the "make America healthy again" movement. Public health needs MAHA only if it "needs" to integrate antivax and quackery into medicine and public health. Sound familiar?