Tag: Sensible Medicine

Anyone Who Supports Pro-RFK Jr. Doctors, Is Also Pro-RFK Jr.

We don't need "spirited debate" about RFK Jr. We've been trying to warn you about him for years. It's not our fault that some people didn't listen.

/ December 13, 2024

Actually Dr. Adam Cifu, It’s Fine to “Attack” Doctors Who Profit By Spreading Pro-RFK Jr. Propaganda

Doctors who profit in any way by normalizing RFK Jr. should be calmly and politely reminded of this at every opportunity for the rest of their careers. They are not entitled to a safe space.

/ December 8, 2024

Any Doctor Who Enabled RFK Jr. In Any Way Is Anti-Vaccine No Matter How They Describe Themselves

If you associate yourself with Sensible Medicine, you are anti-vaccine no matter how you describe yourself.

/ November 23, 2024

Science Based Satire: What I Would Have Done

A man who experienced the pandemic entirely from his laptop, explains what he would have done had he actually done anything.

/ February 4, 2024

Dr. Adam Cifu: “We Now Need to Accept That This is Here to Get Infected With Again and Again.”

If Dr. Adam Cifu were genuinely concerned about vaccine hesitancy, I would strongly encourage him to learn about the anti-vaccine movement. He'll discover that it is fueled not by a lack of "robust data" on COVID boosters, but rather by exactly the sort of mistrust and anti-vaccine misinformation spread by his own blog and collaborators.

/ January 20, 2024

Sensible Medicine: Medical Misinformation and Medical Groupthink From the Medical Establishment

We all have biases, including in-group loyalty. It's often easy to see such bias in others, though nearly impossible to see in oneself.  As such, it's both normal and dangerous to imagine that only those who disagree with you are vulnerable to groupthink, while you are perfect beacon of independent, rational thought- along with everyone who agrees with you.

/ August 11, 2023

Dr. Vinay Prasad echoes a common antivax trope that portrays concern about a deadly disease as irrational fear

Before the pandemic, antivaxxers likened concern about childhood diseases to mental illness. In the age of COVID-19, Dr. Vinay Prasad accuses medicine of "legitimizing" irrational anxiety and says we should treat COVID like the flu—with one telling omission. In a recent paid Substack, he doubles down and accuses physicians and scientists of anxiety disorders that "interfere with people's lives".

/ September 19, 2022