Category: Science and Medicine

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Dr. Vinay Prasad’s Legacy is Shattered Trust & 11 Other Thoughts on His Decision to Spend More Time with His Family

Anyone who defends Dr. Vinay Prasad today is admitting he failed to restore trust.

/ August 5, 2025
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The Book “The War on Science” Reveals How 39 Renowned Scientists and Scholars Enabled the War on Science

While many "progressives" tried to warn about Trump's threat to science, these renown scientists and scholars sat on the sidelines and undermined them.

/ August 1, 2025
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A department adrift from its own “Gold” standards

Phantom citations, misinformation, and imbalance in HHS communications

/ July 29, 2025
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With Laura Loomer on One Side and Dr. Paul Offit on the Other, Our FDA Leaders are Caught in a Trap of Their Own Making

After years of bashing the medical establishment, Drs. Vinay Prasad and Marty Makary are stuck in a trap. Any attempt to escape only tightens its grip.

/ July 25, 2025
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An antivaxxer attacks the evidence-based medicine paradigm: Echoes of RFK Jr.’s “gold standard science”

Last week, antivaxxer Toby Rogers published two very long screeds attacking the EBM paradigm. Cleverly, echoed some of our criticisms of EBM but twisted them so that they are science denying, rather than affirming—just like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "gold standard science."

/ July 21, 2025
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Science Based Satire: The Forces I Enabled Are Attacking Science Just Like They Said They Would. Here’s Why Left Leaning Public Health Experts are to Blame.

No one could have foreseen these attacks on science and medicine. There were no warnings, and no one sounded the alarm bell.

/ July 19, 2025
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As Diseases Spread and Trust in the FDA Crumbles, Its Leaders Are Obsessed with an MRI Abnormality in 1 in 61,500 Males Ages 12-24

Our medical establishment told people to "Stop Trusting the Public Health Establishment". Now, almost no one trusts our medical establishment.

/ July 18, 2025