Category: Science and Medicine

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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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EBM hierarchy

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
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Garden of Healing

As I read the plaques in the Garden of Healing, I thought it would be a fun project to compare the content with reality.

/ July 15, 2025
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Tried to Summon a Social Media Mob to Bully and Silence a Dissident Scientist, but the Mob Had Other Ideas

The mob doesn't trust the medical establishment, and today Dr. Bhattacharya is the medical establishment.

/ June 28, 2025
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As Trust in our Medical Establishment Justifiably Collapses, They Are Making Cheerful Propaganda Podcasts From Their Safe Spaces

Some of us believe in civil debate and discussion, even though Drs. Vinay Prasad, Marty Makary, and Jay Bhattacharya do not.

/ June 27, 2025