Results for: COVID-19
Pediatric Hepatitis, A Medical Rorschach Test
Because they are from an old, established cause, pediatric deaths from COVID have receded into the background, overshadowed by pediatric hepatitis.
Supposedly Silenced Scientists and Dr. Rick Bright
Contrarian doctors don't want discussion and debate. That's why they ignore silenced scientists like Dr. Rick Bright.
The CDC and WHO Have Reported an Unusual Cluster of Severe Pediatric Hepatitis Cases
An unusual cluster of severe liver disease in children is being reported around the world. The cause isn't entirely clear, but it may be an uncommon presentation of a common viral infection that isn't COVID-19.
The search for long COVID treatments
What are current treatments for long COVID, and are they effective?
Scientific review articles as antivaccine disinformation
Antivaxxers have always written dubious scientific review articles to try to make their wild speculations about vaccine science seem credible. Usually such articles wind up in bottom-feeding journals. Unfortunately a recent pseudo-review article was published by an Elsevier journal, making it seem more credible when it isn't.
Normalizing Dead Children
Pediatric fatalities from both guns and COVID could be greatly reduced if more people simply cared.
Why is anyone surprised that there are so many antivax physicians?
A new survey suggests that a disturbingly high percentage of physicians are either vaccine hesitant or actually antivaccine. Those of us who have been writing about the antivaccine movement know that this is not new, but it seems new to our colleagues who weren't paying attention before the pandemic and assured themselves that the problem was just Andrew Wakefield. The question is:...
New CDC Data Confirms Continued Rise in Sexually Transmitted Diseases
A new batch of CDC data on chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis from 2020 has dropped and it doesn't look good.
How to design high quality acupuncture trials: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Acupuncture advocates have published guidelines for "rigorous" acupuncture randomized controlled trials. While that sounds good on the surface, the devil is in the details, which reveal that the dedication to scientific rigor is perhaps not so strong.
A Farewell Note
Au revoir, but not forever!