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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.
Extracorporeal Blood Oxygenation and Ozonation
There is an entire industry catering to people who, as Webb once famously said on the hilarious Homeopathic A&E skit, have “more money than sense.” This is the so-called “wellness” industry, now supercharged by an online army of “wellness influencers”. At first approximation, this entire industry is basically a scam. That may sound unfair, but it is built into its very essence....
The War Over Ultraprocessed Foods
Recently the city of San Francisco sued several food giants (Kraft Heinz, Mondelez and Coca-Cola) for deceptively marketing “ultraprocessed foods” and then externalizing the resulting health care costs onto the public. They cite a recent Lancet review which concludes: “The totality of the evidence supports the thesis that displacement of long-established dietary patterns by ultra-processed foods is a key driver of the...
A New Test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
The headline reads, “Breakthrough blood test finally confirms Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.” As you might imagine, the story is far more complicated than that. Let’s start with some background of chronic fatigue syndrome, also called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). As the name implies, it is a syndrome, meaning a collection of symptoms with a typical natural history – CFS is characterized by severe debilitating...
Creatine Supplements for Brain Function
There is a long history of supplements marketed to enhance memory, focus, overall cognitive function, and brain health. None of them are backed by quality scientific evidence, and they seem to go through the typical conveyor belt of claims – by the time one claim is collapsing, such as ginkgo biloba, the industry is happy to move on to the next. The...
Systematic Review of Homeopathy for Rheumatological Disease
It really makes our job more challenging when otherwise reasonable medical journals publish pseudoscientific nonsense. The European Journal of Rheumatology is considered a respected peer-reviewed journal in the field. I have to wonder if the editors were completely asleep at the switch with this one, or if they may be harboring one or more true-believers (homeopathy remains popular in some corners of...
So Long 2025
This will be my last post of the year and as usual I like to look back at how SBM is doing. We have now completed 17 years as a blog, which I think is something in itself. As always I have to thank David Gorski and all of the regular contributors here for their tireless work without any compensation except fulfilling...