Oregano Snake Oil
Oregano oil is being marketed with a variety of health claims, including as a treatment for various infections, inflammatory disorders, and skin conditions. This TikTok video by an “Ayervedic specialist” is typical of the claims made for this product. The claims suffer all the usual problems of the supplement industry, which we can go through them in some detail. But here is...
HHS explains new vaccine recommendations: Is this the “gold standard science” we were promised?
FAQ sent to Congress looks more like fake gold
RFK Jr.’s remade ACIP meets: And so it begins (in earnest)…the dismantling of US federal vaccine infrastructure
The newly reconstituted CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet this week. Packed with antivaxxers, the antivax-adjacent, and the unqualified, ACIP will begin the dismantling of the US federal vaccine infrastructure.
Anti-Vax America
In which Dr. Gorski engages in a little shameless self-promotion for what he believes to be a good cause.
Go Ahead, Make the Case that Science, Free Speech, and the NIH are Thriving Under Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Many smart people reassured us that Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was both qualified to run the NIH and motivated to make it a better place. They should make the case they were right.
Biohacking Backfires: When Self-Tracking Can Harm
Is your fitness tracker helping or hurting your health?
Real Time Computer Communication
For those with advanced ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or certain brainstem strokes, they can be what is referred to as “locked in”. They are mostly paralyzed. A tip of the basilar artery brainstem stroke, for example, can leave one only able to move their eyes. Many with ALS, long before they get to this point, lose the ability to speak because of...
Infection Control/Infection Prevention
Summertime. And the living is easy. Janice Joplin has to be the best singer. Ever. There may be those in the comments who disagree, but remember, within the context of the blog, what I write is canon. Which is not the same as being true. Canon. Any-who. I spend summer on the front porch and rarely venture inside. Outside has had the...
RFK Jr.’s vaccine committee bloodbath: I hope you’re all up-to-date on your vaccines…
...because the CDC schedule is about to start shedding vaccines the way antivax newly appointed ACIP members think people vaccinated against COVID-19 shed spike protein. Ground zero for RFK Jr.'s extinction-level event with respect to public health is vaccines and the committee that recommends them for the CDC schedule.
The Long Med Con: The Self-Styled Expertise and Expansive Invoices of Mark & David Geier
All it takes is a coming-of-age consultancy and you, too, can morph from an average teenage Joe or Josephine to an instant "vaccine expert"