Self-Amplifying RNA Vaccines
Self-Amplifying RNA vaccines are coming. Here's a primer to get you ready.
The COVID-as-bacterial-pneumonia conspiracy theory rises again
In yet another example of everything hold being new again, antivaxxers have resurrected the claim that deaths due to COVID-19 are actually due to bacterial pneumonia, just as antivaxxers used to say the same thing about influenza deaths. It is, of course, another case of confusing cause and effect in order to obfuscate.
Doctors Respond to Being Quoted: “I Don’t Think You Realize How Silly You Look Right Now”
"They resorted to ad hominem attacks and dug a deeper hole for themselves."
Science-Based Satire: TCM Experts Baffled by Man Born Without Meridians
Has the first case of complete congenital Qi deficiency been diagnosed in Massachusetts? Is it possible to run a successful landscaping business without any meridians? Where can you get acupuncture and your car detailed at the same time? All these questions and more will be answered in today's post, which I completely made up.
Are “keto supplements” necessary?
A closer look at the science supporting beta hydroxybutyrate supplements
Summer COVID Wave
COVID is still here, happily mutating, and we need to adapt to this new reality.
Quoth quacks, “The medical consensus has changed before, making my quackery science!”
Brave maverick doctors (i.e., quacks) have long tried to portray themselves as "innovators" challenging an ossified medical consensus for the good of patients. This tradition continues among COVID-19 quacks, in particular the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance and its founders.
Vulnerable Children Really Count
Why were misinformation doctors so eager to spread the easily-refutable myth that "no healthy child" had died of COVID?
Update on Dr. AI
Studies have found large language model AIs to have impressive medical knowledge, but they are not quite there yet.
The World Health Organization promotes quackery yet again
The World Health Organization held the First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit this weekend. Unfortunately, its claims of being "evidence-based" aside, the conference followed the WHO's usual pattern of serving as propaganda, not science. The summit was one-sided, organized by believers with the only speakers being believers, to promote a predetermined policy goal of promoting traditional medicine and justify "integrating" it with...
Don’t Blame the Patient