Category: Science and Medicine

Dr. Vinay Prasad 2025 = Dr. Kelly Brogan 2015

In 2017, Dr. Vinay Prasad said an anti-vaccine doctor was a "quack". What changed?

/ January 24, 2025
Close-up of assorted red gummy candies with various textures and shapes, resembling berries and fruit.

Why Did the FDA Ban Red Dye #3

The FDA recently removed FD&C Red No. 3 from the list of approved food additives. This was not based on any new data or interpretation of the data, but rather was a response to a petition from food safety and environmental groups. Their argument was in turn based on the Delaney Clause, a 1960 law saying that the FDA must ban any...

/ January 22, 2025

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Was Nice to Someone During a Debate. That Doesn’t Erase the Consequences of His Misinformation.

This is what it looks like when doctors treat the pandemic as an intellectual parlor game.

/ January 17, 2025

Is watchful waiting for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) safe? Preliminary results of the COMET trial

Ductal carcinoma in situ is a precursor of breast cancer that is usually treated with surgery, radiation therapy, and estrogen blockade. A new study suggests that watchful waiting might be safe for some women with DCIS.

/ January 13, 2025

Science-Based Satire: My Patients are Refusing the MMR Because the CDC Added the COVID Vaccine to the Routine Vaccine Schedule

If only they had let more unvaccinated children suffer and die from COVID, we wouldn't be in this position today.

/ January 12, 2025
Ignaz Semmelweis washing his hands in chlorine.

The Semmelweis gambit: A red flag for defending bad science and quackery

A proponent of the Great Barrington Declaration is comparing rejection of its "natural herd immunity" approach to the pandemic to the rejection of Ignaz Semmelweis and his findings. It's a deceptive comparison beloved of all manner of scientific cranks.

/ January 6, 2025

To Spread Mistrust, Dr. Martin Kulldorff Asks RFK Jr. to do an Unethical, Impossible RCT of Vaccines He Knows Are Safe & Effective

Once again, sheltered laptop-class doctors are treating children's health as a parlor game to advance their political objectives.

/ January 3, 2025

A Challenge For Dr. Edward Livingston: Defend the Great Barrington Declaration Without Censoring the Great Barrington Declaration

In 2020, the GBD was all about herd immunity via natural immunity. Today, its defenders censor that.

/ January 1, 2025
Gaslighting gaslighter

Gaslighting RFK Jr.’s role in the deadly Samoan measles outbreak

One of many shameful incidents in the life of antivax activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was his promotion of anti-MMR fear mongering during a measles epidemic in Samoa. Now that he could become HHS Secretary, his apologists are frantically trying to gaslight you. Here's how.

/ December 30, 2024