The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or the Department), in support of the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines and in furtherance of the Executive Order of August 10, 2026, "Delivering ...

Rumors are swirling over 2021 texts about COVID vaccines in pregnancy

An explosion of diarrhea and conflicting information

Welcome to Episode 2 of The Communication Lab — where I’m going to teach you my tips and tricks for science and health communication on social media (if you’re new to this series, start here). This w...

A few very exciting announcements

Nope. A look at an interesting AI study that is generating overhyped headlines.

Nope. A look at an interesting AI study that has led to some very overhyped headlines. Yesterday a new study was published in Science comparing the diagnostic capacity of several AI tools to physicia...

Why women are less likely to receive CPR—and less likely to survive

My top 5 public health stories of the week

By now you have likely heard the news: a U.S. District Court Judge has blocked many of RFK Jr.’s vaccine policy changes from the last year. Yesterday, the court issued a preliminary injunction, meani...

I recently gave a talk on vaccine communication, and the most common feedback I got was appreciation for the section on words that confuse people. I’ve written before how a lot of “misinformation” ca...

“The alleged ‘faith-science’ gap has damaged trust in both.”

Common rhetorical tricks that are trending right now

My top 5 public health articles of the week

What these medical terms mean and how they’re fueling confusion about vaccines

Some tools to guide you through the noise

Physician and science communicator Kristen Panthagani talks about why public trust in vaccines has fallen since the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Wednesday RFK Jr.’s CDC updated their website to claim that “vaccines do not cause autism” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not definitively ruled out the possibility. On the su...

Podcast Episode · The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine · 2025-11-08 · 32m

Date: October 17, 2025 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Kristen Panthagani is an emergency medicine resident and Yale Emergency Scholar at Yale New Haven Hospital. She’s a physician-scientist, having completed her ...

Training Health Communicators - The Need for a New Approach

Starting Oct 30 at 1:00 PM EDT

It’s rare that an article has me nodding so much my neck hurts—but this one did. If you care about getting accurate health information to the public, I highly recommend you read it too. Titled ‘For E...

A quick breakdown of the best article I've read all year

The word ‘misinformation’ entered my regular vocabulary around the time it did for much of the country — March 2020. Discovering my newfound love for explaining science and addressing COVID rumors onl...

It depends on which "science" we're even talking about Should science stay out of politics—or is science inherently political? When is advocacy appropriate for scientists, and is it even possible to ...