Dr. Jay Bhattacharya sought to spread a deadly pathogen. Does he belong in the HHS Hall of Heroes with legends who tried to contain them? The post Jay Bhattacharya, October 2020: “Let People Face the Risk of the Disease.” first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

An anonymous blogger cites a virus denier who claims that our understanding of the mechanisms of cancer metastasis is a "hoax." I cringe but cannot resist. Damn. The post The metastasis hoax? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

"Just saying the same thing over and over again, whether in social media or in medical literature, ain’t gonna get it done."- Dr. Eliezer Van Allen The post Dr. Vinay Prasad Created Long Lists of Randomized Trials for Other People to Do. Does That Make Him an EBM Guru? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Wellness patches lack plausibility and evidence to demonstrate effectiveness The post Transdermal Vitamin and Wellness Patches: Hype versus Evidence first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience shows evidence that our brains are actually two organs combined into one composite organ. The post The Brain is a Composite Organ first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Under antivax crank Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., HHS has been using AI and hallucinated references to justify its priorities. Use slop, get slop out. The post Hidden in Plain Cite: HHS backs Teen Pregnancy Program priorities with phantom references first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Are vaccine advocates in a cult? The post Vaccine Advocates Didn’t Advocate for Moderna’s Failed CMV Vaccine. What Does That Reveal About the Vaccines We Do Advocate For? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Last week The BMJ published an investigation alleging that the algorithm for spotting safety signals after COVID vaccination was flawed and that the FDA ignored it, amplifying an old antivax narrative. Again. WTF, BMJ? The post Once again, The BMJ, wittingly or unwittingly, reinforces an antivax narrative first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

"A cancer expert I admire becomes a Trump collaborator. Should he be dead to me?" That's an easy question to answer. The post Dear John Horgan, Fluff MAHA/MAGA Doctors Less, Bash War More first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

We should abandon the term "natural immunity." Professor Christopher Halkides came up with a wise replacement. The post “There is No Such Thing as Natural Immunity; There is Survivor Immunity.” first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

LLM-based AI models are being increasingly used by physicians to assist clinical decision-making. What might their effect on medical moral reasoning be? The post AI Moral Decision-Making first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

I'm a grown-ass man who likes video games. Is that good or bad for me? The post Video Games: Good or Bad For You. Who Cares? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Dr. Jonathan Howard was right. They really do want you—and your kids—infected, preferably with measles. One way they'll accomplish this is by preventing schools from excluding unvaccinated children during outbreaks. The post Making measles great again in Ohio first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

When it comes to issues related to SBM, our fierce, mighty Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth isn't doing so well. The post The Fox News Stars Got in Charge first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Will approved generic versions of Ozempic eliminate the grey market for compounding? The post Generic GLP-1s are here (for some) first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

A fifty-year-old man was admitted through the emergency room with extensive dry ice injuries to his left leg. For two days his doctors tried to save the leg, but the damage was too extensive, so eventually they had to perform a below-knee amputation. During this time the patient also suffered from small strokes due to fat emboli from the damaged leg. After […] The post Body Integrity Dysphoria – A Rare and Informative Condition first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Dr. Remington Nevin is a the director of a county health department in Michigan but is poised to become Michigan's very own Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a MAHA crank put in charge of a state's public health apparatus. The post Dr. Remington Nevin: Michigan’s own RFK Jr. or Dr. Joseph Ladapo? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

The doctors I write about have all made preposterous pandemic predictions, over and over again, and never once looked back or even noticed the people they hurt in the process. The post Dr. Sherri Tenpenny Predicted That COVID Vaccines Would Kill Over 50 Million Americans. What Happened Next? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Genuine concern is consistent concern, and the silence from the Urgency of Normal about literally everything happening today is clarifying. The post Why Did the “Urgency of Normal” Stop Caring About the Mental, Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Health of our Children? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

More than six years after the pandemic arrived and ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were first touted as COVID cures, the evidence shows more than ever that they don't work. The post Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine Six Years On first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

The integrative medicine industry is all in on making a "scan" of your "biofield" part of your physician's diagnostic toolkit. The post Medical Intuitives: More Integrative Medicine Pseudoscience first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Not-A-Doctor Wendy Weber, a naturopath, has been appointed Director of the NCCIH. Will this mean more MAHA quackery on top of the usual quackademic medicine? The post Wendy Weber, a naturopath, now leads NCCIH. Let the quackery flow (even more)! first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Dr. Vinay Prasad expected us to believe obviously absurd things. There's no reason to trust him or care about what he says today. The post Dr. Vinay Prasad’s Latest Evidence the COVID Vaccine Killed Kids: “Trust Me, Bro.” first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”. The post Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.” first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Last week I wrote about traumatic brain injury (TBI). By coincidence, the BMJ just published a study looking at a type of TBI called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is caused by repeated head injuries over a long period of time, even those not severe enough to cause an acute TBI. They were looking specifically at former NFL football players, because that […] The post The NFL and Brain Injury first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

You might think that someone who purports to be sincerely concerned about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 would also be unwilling to collaborate with someone who sought to spread SARS-CoV-2. You'd be wrong though. The post The Pro-Virus Misinformation of Matt Ridley and the Toxic Apathy of Dr. Alina Chan first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

The NIH announced that Dr. John Gaitanis, who has served as expert witness for plaintiffs of "vaccine injury" cases and is affiliated with the autism biomed quackery group MAPS, will lead the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Lysenko marches on. The post “Autism biomed” is now in charge of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

There is a long list of prolific pandemic pundits who have become totally silent about the current events they enabled. The post Why is Sensible Medicine Selectively Silent Regarding MAHA/MAGA? Unlike Science Based Medicine, They Have Paying Customers to Please. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Professors Richard Ebright and Byrce Nickels used their voice to enable the "charlatans and quacks", the people responsible for the devastation of our biosafety response. The post Thanks to Efforts of the “Biosafety Now” Bros, Richard Ebright and Bryce Nickels, We Are All More Vulnerable to Dangerous Viruses, Both Old & New, From Labs & From Nature, Exactly as I Predicted. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects tens of millions of people worldwide each year with about 5 million deaths. For those who survive there is often permanent neurological impairment. TBI is therefore a serious public health issue that needs to be addressed. The largest international study of TBI was recently published in Nature Medicine, providing some insight into how best to approach the […] The post Preventing Traumatic Brain Injury first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

I am baffled. The post Baffled first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

On Friday, the NIH released an RFI (request for Information) on a proposed new format for reporting the scores of grant applications determined by study sections. If implemented, this new system will make it easier to hide political manipulation of grant funding. The post The opposite of “transparency”: Sneaking Lysenkoism into NIH peer review first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

2020 is more than just a security blanket for MAHA/MAGA disinformation superspreaders, it's an indispensable tool for them. It is a distraction and a reflexive excuse for their current failures. The post “I’m Not Talking About 2020. I’m Talking About 2026.” first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Two countries are putting warnings and limits on Vitamin B6 supplements. The post New Cautions About Vitamin B6 and Peripheral Neuropathy first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Trump recently signed an executive order calling for a reduction in the childhood vaccine schedule from the current 17 vaccines to 11. It also calls for breaking up the MMR (mumps, measles, and rubella) vaccine into individual vaccines. The administration is calling these “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations.” Nothing could be further from the truth. This is a continuation of a trend […] The post Trump’s Frontal Assault on Vaccines first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

A viral Instagram post claims that cancer is not a disease, but rather a defense mechanism against "toxins." Everything old is new again under MAHA. The post Cancer quackery: Under MAHA, everything old is new again first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

In October 2024, you gave the introduction to a COVID Amnesia Project conference that featured disinformation superspreaders and advocates of herd immunity through mass infection. How do you feel these MAHA/MAGA doctors are doing today? The post Stanford President Jonathan Levin: You Should Host a Conference on the Job Performance of MAHA/MAGA Doctors first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

We have to deal with artificial intelligence (AI). We cannot simply dismiss it or criticize it, and we certainly shouldn’t just embrace it without significant skepticism. But I feel it is necessary for any science communicator to do their best to become AI-literate – even if AI itself is not your field of communication. AI now touches everything. For example, increasingly people […] The post AI And Pseudoscience first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

The subluxation lives on in new chiropractic education standards. The post The Council on Chiropractic Education reaffirms the subluxation, backs off primary care (sort of) first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Montana recently finalized rules to implement its expansion of "right-to-try." providing a chance for the unscrupulous to profit. The post Montana’s new “right to try”: Opening the door to profit from unproven drugs first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

"The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated."-- Michael Hobbes The post Guests on the “Why Should I Trust You?” Podcast Want to Hang Doctors. Why Should I Trust It? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

The FDA is determined to stop the sale of compounded GLP-1 drugs The post The FDA vs. Compounding Pharmacies: GLP-1 Edition first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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 antivax and quackery into medicine and public health. Sound familiar? The post Does public health “need” MAHA? No more than medicine “needs” CAM! first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

From shuttered labs to kids with measles, others are paying the price for your need to feel "special" and "heterodox," and no one should let you forget that. The post Stephen Macedo And Frances Lee: Defend Your Essay That Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Would Restore Trust in Public Health first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Pseudoscience requires apathy about its victims, and that's the most grotesque part about it. The post In 2014, Dr. Kelly Brogan and Sayer Ji Told People Natural HPV Infections Were “Beneficial, Not Deadly.” What’s Happened Since? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Crowding and Influenza. The post The Madness of Crowding first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

A Reuters news story last week reports that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been trying to go way farther than previously suspected in his quest to eliminate vaccines. The post RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 11): Eliminate the CDC vaccine schedule! first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

What oncology's hardest decisions can teach the rest of medicine. The post Just in Case first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

Two new papers and renewed safety concerns for this popular (yet unproven) therapy. The post Science vs. Hype: The Unproven Promise of NAD+ IV Therapy first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

When vaping was first introduced it was marketed mainly as a safer alternative to smoking and as a potential smoking cessation method. But increasingly people who have never smoked are vaping, and now the concern is that vaping is more of a pathway into smoking than one out of it. According to the CDC, about 30% of all adults who vape have […] The post Negative Health Effects of Vaping first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.