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After ACIP: Where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely go from here in his quest to eliminate vaccines
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was on The Tucker Carlson Show last week. It got me to thinking: What's next in RFK Jr.'s crusade against vaccines after he turned ACIP into an antivax committee?
Dr. Vinay Prasad: Bodily Autonomy Applies to Raw Milk, Not Vaccines
This is what it looks like when disinformation doctors pretend to value data and science to further their true objective, MAHA politics.
Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad embrace a “more fluid concept of evidence” at the FDA
Last Thursday during a roundtable on stem cell therapies, new FDA Commissioner Marty Makary referred to EBM levels of evidence as an artificial and dogmatic construct. Apparently Dr. David Katz's "more fluid concept of evidence" now reigns at the FDA—selectively.
Our Medical Establishment is Flailing
It's impossible to keep track of it all.
The MAHA Report: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (mostly the bad and ugly)
President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary's MAHA report has landed. It's a mix of the good (a little), but mostly the bad and the ugly (a lot).
Attacking vaccines through the misunderstanding of medical ethics
Since becoming HHS Secretary, RFK Jr. has been deceptively weaponizing principles of evidence-based medicine against vaccines. Will weaponizing research ethics be next? It might if the ideas of one of his advisors, James Lyons-Weiler, are any indication.
Brainspotting is Classic Pseudoscience
Have you heard of brainspotting? It’s been around since 2003 when it was invented out of whole cloth (not “discovered”) by psychotherapist David Grand. It seems to be gaining in popularity recently, so it is worth the SBM treatment. Here is how proponents describe the alleged phenomenon: “Brainspotting makes use of this natural phenomenon through its use of relevant eye positions. This...
Breathing Easy: Treating Allergic Rhinitis
Spring is a miserable season for those with seasonal allergies. There are effective drug- and non-drug measures that can control most symptoms effectively.
HHS is weaponizing evidence-based medicine to falsely portray vaccines as unsafe
Last week, HHS announced that all "new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials." Sounds good? Not so fast. This is really a deceptive weaponization of evidence-based medicine to undermine confidence in vaccines and eliminate at least some of them.
Senator Hassan Sets Secretary Kennedy Straight
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's reckless insistence on undermining confidence in vaccines and reckless elevation of the wholly unqualified David Geier to a potentially influential role at HHS