Category: Politics and Regulation
RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 11): Eliminate the CDC vaccine schedule!
A Reuters news story last week reports that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been trying to go way farther than previously suspected in his quest to eliminate vaccines.
Negative Health Effects of Vaping
When vaping was first introduced it was marketed mainly as a safer alternative to smoking and as a potential smoking cessation method. But increasingly people who have never smoked are vaping, and now the concern is that vaping is more of a pathway into smoking than one out of it. According to the CDC, about 30% of all adults who vape have...
“Learn to love MAHA” vs. “how to make the CDC great again”?
MAHA apologist Dr. Joseph Marine recently wrote an article on how to make the CDC great again. Wait, what? Trump's been in office a year and a half, and the CDC isn't great?
“Abolish the NIH”? Dr. Scott Atlas gives the antiscience game away
Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at the right wing think tank Hoover Institution who came to prominence as a COVID contrarian, recently wrote an op-ed advocating the elimination of the National Institutes of health and leaving the funding biomedical research to the "free market." These are the "ideas" animating this administration's science policy.
Is the Homeopathic Industry “On the Ropes”?
The U.S. homeopathic industry is under growing regulatory and legal pressure.
Lysenkoism 2.0 in action: Dismantling peer review at NIH
A recent report in Nature describes how the Trump administration is weakening peer review in favor of ideology-based grant approval at NIH. Lysenkoism 2.0 is in full swing and getting worse.
Lysenkoism 2.0 in action: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abuses his power to bully journal editors over a retraction
A journal editor decided to retract and remove a bad study by an antivaxxer named Neil Z. Miller. RFK Jr. publicly demanded to know why. This is Lysenkoism 2.0 in action in 2026.
Antivaxxers vs. the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
Here in Michigan, antivaxxers have scored a couple of political victories that are less than is being claimed. What do they mean for public health in the state?
The Baloney Protection Act
We have had to endure a great deal of interference from government in the conduct of institutions that should be governed by science and evidence. I’m sorry to report – here is one more. Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Tommy Tuberville (R- AL) have recently introduced a bill that would limit the FDA’s ability to regulate the blatant pseudoscience of homeopathy. This...
Sabotaging America’s Future: The Catastrophic Cost of Federal Research Cuts
The gleeful efficiency of an arsonist who mistakes the blaze for proof of his power