Category: Science and Medicine
Guests on the “Why Should I Trust You?” Podcast Want to Hang Doctors. Why Should I Trust It?
"The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated."-- Michael Hobbes
Stephen Macedo And Frances Lee: Defend Your Essay That Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Would Restore Trust in Public Health
From shuttered labs to kids with measles, others are paying the price for your need to feel "special" and "heterodox," and no one should let you forget that.
In 2014, Dr. Kelly Brogan and Sayer Ji Told People Natural HPV Infections Were “Beneficial, Not Deadly.” What’s Happened Since?
Pseudoscience requires apathy about its victims, and that's the most grotesque part about it.
Just in Case
What oncology's hardest decisions can teach the rest of medicine.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Who Claimed He “Would Have” Perfectly Controlled COVID, Is Letting Thousands of Americans Get Explosive Diarrhea Now That He Has Power
"Explosive diarrhea" is a fitting legacy for Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and everyone else involved with the failed MAHA/MAGA project he enabled.
A Letter to the American College of Surgeons: Don’t Censor Dr. Marty Makary, Amplify His Voice.
We need to remember the doctors who literally stood behind Donald Trump, and we don't need their permission to do so.
Why Should We Trust Journalist David Zweig Regarding COVID and Schools When He Pals Around With Proud Child-Labor Advocates?
David Zweig is welcome on my podcast with Dr. Wendy Orent to answer that question.
A shoddy, ethically-challenged cancer study gets published… for now.
Update on ivermectin/mebendazole cancer study
“Naturopathic Medicine” in Crisis
A scathing federal assessment, foundering naturopathic programs, poor job prospects, abysmal earnings, and staggering student debt pose threats to the future of “naturopathic medicine”.
“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.