Tag: vaccines
RFK Jr.’s remade ACIP meets: And so it begins (in earnest)…the dismantling of US federal vaccine infrastructure
The newly reconstituted CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet this week. Packed with antivaxxers, the antivax-adjacent, and the unqualified, ACIP will begin the dismantling of the US federal vaccine infrastructure.
Anti-Vax America
In which Dr. Gorski engages in a little shameless self-promotion for what he believes to be a good cause.
RFK Jr.’s vaccine committee bloodbath: I hope you’re all up-to-date on your vaccines…
...because the CDC schedule is about to start shedding vaccines the way antivax newly appointed ACIP members think people vaccinated against COVID-19 shed spike protein. Ground zero for RFK Jr.'s extinction-level event with respect to public health is vaccines and the committee that recommends them for the CDC schedule.
The Long Med Con: The Self-Styled Expertise and Expansive Invoices of Mark & David Geier
All it takes is a coming-of-age consultancy and you, too, can morph from an average teenage Joe or Josephine to an instant "vaccine expert"
RFK Jr. Sacks Entire CDC Vaccine Committee
I’m sure you are as sick of reading about RFK Jr. as we are of writing about him, but this is the world we live in. We cannot let outrage fatigue cause us to take our eye off the ball. If nothing else, SBM needs to chronicle every anti-science move that this administration makes. As most people, and certainly most readers here,...
Dr. Vinay Prasad is Repeatedly Undermining RCTs. Why?
It's quite the journey from "RCT or STFU" to "we will always have a place for controlled clinical studies."
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.
No turbo cancer at ASCO: William Makis vs. Scott Adams and A Midwestern Doctor instead?
I was in Chicago this weekend attending the ASCO meeting, the largest oncology meeting in the world. Nary a talk or poster about "turbo cancer" was seen, but that doesn't mean there wasn't cancer quack fight online to distract me from the meeting.
A Checkered History in Vaccine Court: Mark Geier at the VICP 1988-2003
A not so expert "expert"
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).