Results for: COVID-19

Dr. Scott Atlas: “I Never Read the Full Great Barrington Declaration Website and Everything”.

Dr. Scott Atlas said the Great Barrington Declaration was aligned with the advice he gave to the President of the United States. He also said he never read it.

/ August 18, 2024
Google reviews alternative cancer clinics

How Google listings are used by alternative cancer clinics to lure in desperate patients

I've long been writing about "alternative cancer clinics" (i.e., quack clinics) that sell false hope in the form of very expensive but ineffective treatments to desperate cancer patients. A recent study demonstrates how they use Google to do this.

/ August 12, 2024

The Hypocrisy Is The Point. Doctors Who Said Not To Mix Politics & Medicine.

Hypocritical articles on politics and medicine weren't really about politics and medicine, they were a message- the standards we set for you, don't apply to us and everyone knows it.

/ August 8, 2024

Measles 2024: ‘Merica, are you okay?

Measles cases are increasing. Kids and even many adults are at risk of injury and death from this vaccine-preventable illness that should be a historical footnote.

/ August 2, 2024

Dr. Adam Cifu Should Recognize, Dr. Vinay Prasad Will Never Admit Measures to Limit Viruses “Work”

Opponents of birth control don't object to condoms because they think they don't work, and Dr. Vinay Prasad doesn't object to masks because he thinks they don't work.

/ August 1, 2024
public health vs. covid

As imperfect as they are, public health interventions save lives

On Friday, JAMA Health Forum published a study that is just more evidence that public health interventions against COVID-19 saved lives.

/ July 29, 2024

Making Up Reasons to Let Unvaccinated Kids Get COVID: Pediatricians Will Run Out of Time and Measles Will Return

Doctors who claimed that only enormous RCTs for every variant could demonstrate the COVID vaccine's benefits, were fine just casually inventing reasons not to use it.

/ July 26, 2024
Donald Trump

Donald Trump bragged that “right-to-try” has saved thousands of lives. It hasn’t.

Former President Donald Trump bragged in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention that "right-to-try" had saved "thousands of lives"? What's the real story? (Hint: Nowhere near that.)

/ July 22, 2024

Dr. John Ioannidis: Yet Another Doctor Who Treats Theoretical Death From The Vaccine With More Gravity Than Actual Death From COVID

Actual death is worse than theoretical death. This didn't used to be controversial in medicine.

/ July 21, 2024

Drowning Deaths Continue Post-Pandemic Rise

More people, mostly kids, are drowning these days, in no small part because of the pandemic.

/ July 19, 2024