Category: Commentary
Reproducibility Follow Up
Let's explore dueling narratives about the reproducibility "crisis."
A world-renowned placebo researcher asks, “Does placebo research boost pseudoscience?”
Professor Fabrizio Benedetti is the most famous and almost certainly also the most influential researcher investigating the physiology of placebo effects. In a recent commentary, he asks whether placebo research is fueling quackery, as quacks co-opt its results. The answer to that question is certainly yes. A better question is: How do supporters of science counter the placebo narrative promoted by quacks,...
Gary Null’s Attack on SBM
Gary Null's fact- and logic-free attack on SBM.
Shaping Opinions About Science and Medicine
Responding to a commentary with all the usual anti-science tropes.
Media Literacy Is Key
Media literacy is an important component to teaching science and critical thinking. We'll add that to our to-do list.
Taking On the Wellness Industry
The wellness industry is just one more manifestation of quackery and pseudoscience in health.
Time to Move Beyond the Impact Factor
The impact factor has become the one metric for journal quality. It's time to rethink this system.
JAMA on Medical Misinformation
A JAMA article addresses the issue of confronting medical misinformation. They make good recommendations - but do not go nearly far enough.
Fighting Online for SBM
Physicians are being harassed offline by antivax and other trolls. We can't let that happen.
Marianne Williamson Is An Anti-Vaxxer
Spouting classic anti-vaccine tropes is no way to prove you are not anti-vaccine.