Each year I like to document the the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine here on SBM - it's a great reminder of the power ...
"Just saying the same thing over and over again, whether in social media or in medical literature, ain’t gonna get it done."- ...
Idaho parents are shielded from criminal prosecution if they choose "prayer or spiritual means" over effective medical care for their children, even as their children keep dying.
Until the BMJ demonstrate the integrity to revisit their own dismal failures regarding life and death matters, there's no ...
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya sought to spread a deadly pathogen. Does he belong in the HHS Hall of Heroes with legends who tried to ...
I was reminded of the Power Balance fad when I saw wellness patches on social media. I’ve previously blogged about “GLP-1 ...
A new report from the NYT tells a chilling story of how the Centers for Disease Control has been hollowed out over the last 18 months under Trump and RFK Jr. We have been covering this story as it ha ...
For many years, Science-Based Medicine has documented the troubling trend of state legislatures increasingly substitute ideology for evidence in public health policy. This trend that accelerated ...
Last week, The Atlantic published an embarrassingly contrarian piece about how public health “needs” the “make America healthy again” movement. Public health needs MAHA only if it “needs” to integrate ...
The occasional abnormal elevation in body temperature associated with infection is as much a part of the human condition as abstract thought or the desire to lose weight without exercise or cutting ...
I’ve been writing about antivaccine pseudoscience for a long time now, both here and elsewhere. Indeed, I was thinking about this the other day and realized that I made my first big splash countering ...