Category: Science and Medicine
Stocking Your Home First Aid Kit: A Pharmacist’s Guide
A well-stocked home first aid kit saves time, stress, and urgent trips to the pharmacy.
Science Based Satire: I Owe Several Doctors an Apology. I Was Wrong About RFK Jr. They Were Right.
While my errors will be permanently memorialized here at SBM, so too will the words of doctors who forevermore will be known for having gifted us Robert F Kennedy Jr.
The Problem with Predatory Journals
The World Wide Web has proven to be a transformative communication technology (we are using it right now). At the same time there have been some rather negative unforeseen consequences. Significantly lowering the threshold for establishing a communications outlet has democratized content creation and allows users unprecedented access to information from around the world. But it has also lowered the threshold for...
First Pig Lung to Human Transplant
In the midst of all the controversy surrounding the science of healthcare, certain technologies continue to progress in the background, with the promise of transforming the practice of medicine. One of them is the development of genetically modified animals as a source for organ transplants. I most recently wrote about this earlier this year, specifically about an experiment to transplant a pig...
Jay Bhattacharya’s “plan to drive Gold Standard Science”: A Trojan horse for Lysenko-izing the NIH
Last week, the NIH published a plan to "drive Gold Standard Science." The plan cunningly wraps what are obvious Lysenkoist ideological purity tests disguised as "academic freedom" and "unbiased peer review" in seemingly reasonable proposals.
With Brains Pickled by Social Media, Our Dishonest, Sheltered, Juvenile Medical Establishment Keeps Trying to Sic Vengeful Online Mobs Against Doctors Who Actually Care for Patients
There are a lot of unstable, angry people out there, and it's easy to get powerful guns in the US.
Traditional Medicine Based Extinction. An Update.
What we do best.
2,500 Commentators Agree: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Has Failed to Earn the Public’s Trust
Rebuilding trust and honest conversations will all have to wait until Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and the rest of our medical establishment are out of office.
Dr. Vinay Prasad’s Catch-22: The Only Way He Can Truly Succeed at His Job is to Get Fired Again
No matter what regulatory decisions Dr. Vinay Prasad makes moving forward, the fact that he was willing to legitimize and quietly work for RFK Jr. in first place means he will always be a failure in my book.
Every accusation was a confession of what they wanted to do if they were to attain power
On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would shift power over grantmaking away from career scientists to political appointees. Lysenkoism 2.0 has been made official policy, and science in the US is in deep trouble.