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Liver Failure From Alternative Medicines
One of the persistent themes we confront at SBM is the evolving double-standard in clinical medicine. On the one hand, in mainstream medicine there is a push for higher standards of science and evidence and more effective regulation. At the same time proponents of “alternative medicine” are constantly seeking ways to water down scientific standards and loosen regulations. This is sold to...
An Unimpressive Reiki Study
I often get e-mail suggesting topics to cover on SBM or elsewhere in my social media content. I like getting these e-mails when they are organic, coming from readers here with genuine questions about some questionable claim or practice. But often they are press contacts, by a professional promoter pushing a new study or shopping around an author or someone they represent....
Latest Science on Origins of SARS-CoV-2
Science continues to support a much higher likelihood of of a natural origin for SARS-CoV-2 than a "lab leak."
Glyphosate Remains Controversial
Evidence still supports the efficacy and general safety of glyphosate, although certain concerns are worth investigating.
Latest Autism Data
In April of 2025, HHS secretary RFK Jr. stated: “The autism epidemic is running rampant,” said U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “One in 31 American children born in 2014 are disabled by autism. That’s up significantly from two years earlier and nearly five times higher than when the CDC first started running autism surveys in children...
The Data Is In – Exercise Is Good For You
Many times in my career I have sat across from a patient who expressed that they are getting serious about their health, and then rattle off a list of things that they are doing to improve their health – all mostly worthless. I do not blame them – they are victims of a self-help, supplement, and wellness industry that has completely mislead...
The Health Effects of Air Pollution
Air pollution remains a grave threat to human health, but MAHA is doing nothing about it.
The World Health Organization on Traditional Medicine
The World Health Organization updated their guidelines on "traditional medicine." Unfortunately, as has been the case in the past the WHO tends to be far too credulous about unproven and disproven treatments.
RFK Jr. Turns the Food Pyramid on Its Head
The antivax activist who is now our Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has turned his attention briefly from vaccines to food, all in order to promote the consumption of more meat and dairy products. Will this "make America healthy again"? I think you know the answer.
RFK Jr. Decimates Vaccine Schedule
As we have been warning for months that he would do, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is coming to take away your vaccines. His opening gambit is to remake our system in the image of Denmark, but he won't stop there.