Dr. Makary’s right-hand man at the FDA, Dr. Vinay Prasad, has long expressed similar thoughts, writing: ...

As anticipated, RFK Jr. continues to be a wrecking ball on the American healthcare scene as HHS secretary. His latest move to undermine vaccines in any way possible is to reduce the number of vac ...

Wealthy tech bro turned antivax crank Steve Kirsch attacked Paul Offit for refusing to debate antivaxxers, while Dr. Mike was "surrounded" by MAHA stans. These recent events led me to revisit the ques ...

Posing as an wise, elder statesman, a neutral guardian of science, Dr. Ioannidis managed to pontificate mightily on COVID from a safe distance without ever being forced to acknowledge the tragic reali ...

I have summarized their responsible and obligations in a document titled the Murray Hill Declaration, which borrows heavily from its inspiration, the Great Barrington Declaration. Adopting measures to ...

I’ve written quite a bit about Steve Jobs in the wake of his death nearly four weeks ago. The reason, of course, is that the course of his cancer was of intense interest after it became public ...

Antivaxxers who “repurposed” deworming drugs like ivermectin and fenbendazole are peddling cancer “miracle cure” testimonials that remind me of laetrile and Stanislaw Burzynski. Truly, everything old ...

That there is an “autism epidemic” is taken as a given by those who feel autism has a dominant environmental cause. The Age of Autism blog, for example, bills itself as a, “Daily Web Newspaper of the ...

Science-Based Medicine as a philosophy, blog, and approach to medical practice is primarily about optimizing and affirming the relationship between science and critical thinking with healthcare. One ...

Ever since there have been vaccines, there has been an antivaccination movement. It began shortly after Edward Jenner discovered how to use the weaker cowpox virus to induce long-lasting immunity to ...

In a previous article, I discussed Dr. John Ioannidis and his supposed “biggest mistake”. He said: So I think that science is about mistakes, it’s about making mistakes, but trying to realize them and ...