Category: Science and Medicine
Dr. Vinay Prasad Rose to Power by “Calling For” His Predecessors to do Things. How’s He Doing Now That He’s Had a Chance to Prove His Mettle?
I am calling for Dr. Vinay Prasad to manage the FDA in a mature, professional, competent, transparent manner. That’s just the bare minimum, and yet, he can’t even manage that.
A Tale of Two Interviews: Martin Kulldorff and James Baker
One science-based and the other wish-based
WWTI Doctors, Trump Based Medicine, and the “Vindication” of Andrew Wakefield
Dr. Vinay Prasad seems poised to stop the "too many too soon" approach and start making Andrew Wakefield's dreams a reality.
Dr. Vinay Prasad Doesn’t Realize He’s The Establishment. It’s His Job to Produce Results for the American Public, Not Fluff Donald Trump.
Because he can masterfully feign concern over evidence and data, Dr. Prasad is the Shohei Ohtani of spreading doubt and mistrust about vaccines. It's no surprise that under his "leadership", diseases are spreading and Andrew Wakefield is taking a victory lap.
Professor Stephen Macedo: How Does it Feel to Have Elevated MAGA/MAHA Propagandists?
The fault is not yours alone. You were just a bit player in a larger misinformation media ecosystem that was devoted to rewriting the history of the pandemic, numbing people to the grave risk We Want Them Infected doctors.
Opposing Chiropractic Vertebral Subluxation Theory
There is no credible evidence to support use of spinal manipulation to correct vertebral subluxations as a treatment for non-musculoskeletal disorders
Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey Means and functional medicine: Legitimizing quackery
Surgeon general nominee Dr. Casey Means is an advocate of "functional medicine." She, MAHA, and a new "board certification" will falsely legitimize quackery.
Doctors Who Glorified Trump Have Permanently Tied Themselves to Everything He Does
The purges, censorship, and politicization in the worlds of medicine and science are not distinct from the corruption and vandalism of the country writ large. We Want Them Infected doctors are part of it all.
MAHA and the Triumph of Feelings Based Medicine
According to Dr. Marty Makary, vaccines and medications are indicated or not, based on “stories” and how he “feels.”
Rejecting The Null Hypothesis
In various contexts, for practical, philosophical, and logical reasons, there is a default assumption. In the criminal justice system, for example, someone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Therefore we must act “as if” someone is innocent until the burden of proof is met that they are indeed guilty of the specific crime of which they are accused. In medicine, if someone...