Category: Science and Medicine
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.”
Nobel Prize in Medicine: Peripheral Immune Tolerance
Each year I like to write a post about the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. While advocating for higher standards of science in medicine we tend to spend much of our time criticizing pseudoscience, so I like to balance that by occasionally just celebrating great medical science, and the Nobel Prize is a great opportunity. The 2025 award for physiology or...
Mockies: Doctors Who Mocked My Warnings About MAHA in 2024 are Copying Me Today. Good.
The dangers of Kennedy and crew were blindingly obvious. Yet some doctors sought to bolster MAHA by undermining and discrediting those who warned about it.
Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!
The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?
FDA approves novel gene therapy delivery platform for a rare retinal disorder
Treatment introduces an expansion of the scope of gene therapies that might lead to similar treatments for neurodegenerative diseases in other parts of the body
The Cholesterol Wars Continue
As a first approximation it seems that the purpose of social media is to misrepresent medical information and to promote wellness gurus who basically have no idea what they are talking about. Part of the problem is that medical science is often complex, and the short attention-span format of social media often favors simple clean narratives. So “wellness influencers” dominate while genuine...
Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Who Claims He Would Have Tamed COVID In 3-6 Months, Can’t Even Run a Single Meeting
It turns out that making podcasts "arguing for" things is a lot easier than actually doing them.
Red Flags For Red Light Therapy
Red light therapy is marketed as a quick fix for fat loss and wellness. The science says otherwise.