Science-Based MedicineExploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine2024-03-28T20:57:07Zhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/feed/atom/WordPressClay Joneshttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=950822024-03-28T20:57:07Z2024-03-29T11:00:00ZA new analysis of 2023 MIS-C cases reveals that the COVID-19 vaccine significantly reduces the risk of this dreaded complication.
The post COVID-19 Vaccination Significantly Reduces Risk of Severe Inflammatory Syndrome in Kids first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Scott Gavurahttp://sciencebasedpharmacy.wordpress.com/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=949932024-03-28T03:25:40Z2024-03-28T13:00:00ZChatGPT may not replace a health care professional's assessment yet, but its capabilities are growing.
The post AI for prescription drug information: Not yet useful for health care – but it’s coming first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Steven Novellahttp://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?page_id=2https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=950022024-03-27T12:09:41Z2024-03-27T12:09:39ZYet again the public is being subjected to warnings about the potential health risks of consuming a common food item based upon insufficient evidence. Last month it was oat products, and now it’s sweetened drinks. The study is a prospective cohort study, which means it is observational. The researchers looked at over 200 thousand participants in the UK biobank. At the start […]
The post Sweetened Drinks and Risk of A-Fib first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0David Gorskihttps://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?page_id=224https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=949362024-03-24T18:31:59Z2024-03-25T07:00:00ZThe term "allopathic medicine" was invented by homeopaths in the 19th century as a disparaging term for medicine. So to see a quack like Mark Sircus try to coopt it as "natural allopathic medicine" is quite something.
The post Mark Sircus and “natural allopathic medicine”? Now I’ve heard everything from quacks first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Mark Crisliphttp://edgydoc.comhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=949202024-03-23T17:34:26Z2024-03-23T17:34:25ZI did not bother going back to the office but decided to wander over the sisters to see if they had anything new from their research. I took a trolley to Southeast and hopped off early. It was a beautiful summer day, and it would do me good to walk. It was a pretty neighborhood with many trees and well-kept gardens. I […]
The post Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. Chapter 12b first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Jonathan Howardhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=943822024-03-23T02:04:46Z2024-03-22T07:06:00ZThe campaign against boosters was just a small part of a pathetic, pandemic-long pattern where doctors expressed grave concern about the mildest harms of measures to limit COVID, even purely theoretical ones, while being totally indifferent to literally anything the virus could do, including the deaths of children and young adults.
The post Some Doctors Cared Much More About Sore Arms Than Cold Bodies first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Steven Novellahttp://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?page_id=2https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=948232024-03-21T17:57:04Z2024-03-20T12:26:20ZThe world is experiencing increasing outbreaks of a completely preventable disease. What's going wrong?
The post Measles Outbreaks on the Rise first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Mark Crisliphttp://edgydoc.comhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=946882024-03-20T14:50:35Z2024-03-19T08:53:00ZScience: Figuring things out is better than making things up. A tee shirt I recently saw. Except… In a recent post Mayo Clinic Promotes Reiki, Steve seemed surprised that the Mayo was offering Reiki. I don’t know. Maybe he was channeling Louie. I know the Mayo is a top hospital, but I trained in Minneapolis at Hennepin County and we would have […]
The post Best Hospital Eye Roll first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0David Gorskihttps://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?page_id=224https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=946242024-03-21T21:06:10Z2024-03-18T07:00:00ZIt's hard to believe that in the 21st century there are still those who deny that viruses exist. However, virus denial and antivax go together and always have. Denis Rancourt, while far from the first or more vociferous virus denier, is an excellent example.
The post Denis Rancourt and “no virus”: COVID-19 symptoms were due psychological stress from the pandemic response! first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Jonathan Howardhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=944252024-03-16T23:17:38Z2024-03-17T07:33:00ZDoctors portrayed those who tried to avoid the virus as pathetic, disordered weaklings, afflicted by irrational panic, fear, and anxiety. It only makes sense if you remember one thing, they wanted you infected.
The post Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, April 2021: “The Central Problem Right Now I Think Is The Fear That People Still Feel About COVID.” first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Mark Crisliphttp://edgydoc.comhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=946062024-03-16T17:17:46Z2024-03-16T17:17:45ZI slept like a rock, no dreams that I could remember, and upon awakening, the ball of anxiety that had been my constant companion was gone. I tried to get it back by thinking of all the unpleasant things that might happen in the next few days. Nothing. I felt good. Acceptance is the final stage of dying, so I must, at […]
The post Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. Chapter 12a first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Clay Joneshttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=944192024-03-14T23:37:45Z2024-03-15T11:00:00ZThe first post-rollout data for the RSV antibody shot looks pretty good, but far too many little ones missed out.
The post Some Good, But Preliminary Real World Data on Those Baby RSV Shots first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Steven Novellahttp://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?page_id=2https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=943922024-03-13T12:30:51Z2024-03-13T12:30:50ZTik Tok is a cesspool of wellness pseudoscience and misinformation. All of social media has the potential to spread misinformation without any filter, but for some reason Tik Tok has become the preferred platform for the most outrageous claims and nonsense. A recent trend on Tik Tok (and within the wellness community generally) is the parasite cleanse. The idea is that many […]
The post Parasite Cleanse first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Jonathan Howardhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=943362024-03-14T19:38:45Z2024-03-12T18:57:00Z"Science cannot survive in a society that does not value truth and strive to discover it."
The post Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Who Posted Pictures of Guillotines and Promised Herd Immunity Would Arrive 3-6 Months After Lockdowns Ended, Fired for “Clinging to the Truth”. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0David Gorskihttps://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?page_id=224https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=942162024-03-18T14:37:28Z2024-03-11T07:00:00ZPrions. Why did it have to be prions? (Again.) The antivax trope that vaccines cause prion disease is an old one, and antivaxxers are trying desperately to resurrect it to apply to COVID-19 vaccines.
The post Prions. Why did it have to be prions? (Again.) first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Mark Crisliphttp://edgydoc.comhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=941732024-03-09T17:43:11Z2024-03-09T17:43:10ZI hopped the trolley to Kenton to spend the afternoon helping Susan with the quarantine. After I got off the trolley, I purchased thirty of the Extra Editions and handed them out to the families of the Cholera victims. Mostly because I wanted people to know about the seawater treatment, I figured that word about the pump water would spread quickly, and […]
The post Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. 11b first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Jonathan Howardhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=940532024-03-09T14:29:10Z2024-03-08T08:08:00ZPro-infection doctors wanted them infected, and in this upside-down mirror world, the only policies that "helped" or "worked" were those that spread COVID.
The post Pro-Infection Doctors Didn’t Honestly Question Whether Mitigation Measures Slowed COVID. They Sought To Undermine Them Precisely Because They Slowed COVID. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Steven Novellahttp://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?page_id=2https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=940602024-03-06T13:58:13Z2024-03-06T13:07:11ZWhat would happen if you were vaccinated 217 times against COVID?
Let's find out.
The post Hypervaccination first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0David Gorskihttps://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?page_id=224https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=939782024-03-04T14:28:19Z2024-03-04T08:00:00ZAntivaxxers 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 is new again.
The post Fenbendazole is fast becoming the laetrile of the 2020s first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Jonathan Howardhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=937062024-03-03T15:36:08Z2024-03-03T08:51:00ZActually running an RCT is a lot harder than merely calling for one. Those who recognized this obvious fact are not against RCTs.
The post Doctors Who Performatively Fetishized RCTs Aren’t Out to Advance Medical Research, But Rather to Sow Doubt & Mistrust first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Mark Crisliphttp://edgydoc.comhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=939672024-03-02T17:02:40Z2024-03-02T17:02:39ZThe morning started too early. For some reason, I snapped awake just before sunrise and could not fall back to sleep. Probably that ball of guilt in the pit of my stomach. I suspected it is a minor example of what a condemned man feels on the morning of his execution. I lay in bed and stared thoughtlessly at the ceiling waiting […]
The post Skeptics in Pub. Cholera. Chapter 11a first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Clay Joneshttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=938772024-03-02T02:20:12Z2024-03-01T12:00:00ZA new study of thousands of cases confirms that sharing a sleep surface with a caregiver significantly increases the risk of unexpected death in infancy.
The post More Evidence that Ignoring Safe Sleep Advice Puts Babies at Risk of Unexpected Death first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Scott Gavurahttp://sciencebasedpharmacy.wordpress.com/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=938342024-02-28T03:40:33Z2024-02-29T13:39:00ZWhen it comes to drugs or dietary supplements, accuracy should be a given. What’s on the label should accurately describe what’s in the bottle. No exceptions. When it comes to ensuring the products we buy are of high quality, we’re all effectively reliant on regulation to protect us. As a pharmacist, I can’t personally verify that each tablet in your prescription contains […]
The post Quality differences of supplements vs. drugs first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Steven Novellahttp://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?page_id=2https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=938652024-02-28T12:35:51Z2024-02-28T12:34:40ZIs modern medicine descending into pseudoscience, or is scientific medicine still going strong? Unfortunately, I think both of these things can happen at the same time. On the one hand, scientific research in medicine is progressing nicely. We are seeing the results of scientific breakthroughs made decades ago, with monoclonal antibody therapies, new therapeutic targets, the beginning of real genetic therapy, brain-machine […]
The post What Is Somatic Therapy? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0David Gorskihttps://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?page_id=224https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=937322024-02-26T23:50:50Z2024-02-26T08:00:00ZAntivaxxers have weaponized a huge multinational vaccine safety study of 99 million patient records that found rare adverse events and concluded that the risks of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the benefits. How? A combination of the Nirvana fallacy and spin.
The post How antivaxxers weaponize vaccine safety studies to falsely portray vaccines as dangerous first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Mark Crisliphttp://edgydoc.comhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=937262024-02-24T18:29:49Z2024-02-24T18:29:48ZA young woman was waiting at the pump. She introduced herself as Amy Blogg, an Illustrator for the River Weekly. She quickly let us know that she had been briefed by Mrs. Howitt. I demonstrated the workings of the microscope on a blade of grass and an ant. It was met with the usual expressions of amazement by first-timer users. If I […]
The post Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. Chapter 10b first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Jonathan Howardhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=932292024-02-24T17:55:12Z2024-02-23T08:09:00ZThe authors of the GBD advised and influenced many politicians at the highest level. They claim to have delineated many practical policies to protect the vulnerable, and they said it would’ve been possible, certainly. So an obvious question emerges. Why didn’t they protect the vulnerable?
The post The Great Barrington Declaration Wasn’t a Plan For Public Health Officials. It Was a List of Absurd Demands of Them. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Steven Novellahttp://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?page_id=2https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=936572024-02-27T20:57:04Z2024-02-21T12:59:56ZYou know the rule about headlines - if there is a question in a headline the answer is almost always "no". This article is no exception.
The post Pesticide in Oat Products – Should You Worry? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0Mark Crisliphttp://edgydoc.comhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=936102024-02-22T14:14:41Z2024-02-20T05:34:00ZThis is going to be a mostly reference free blog entry. Mostly a rambling opinion about my biases and opinions about science. And you know what they say about opinions. I seem to fret an inordinate amount about adjectives. So often they do not belong in front of the nouns found here at the blog. I remain a touch annoyed at the […]
The post More Unneeded Adjectives first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.]]>0David Gorskihttps://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?page_id=224https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=935732024-02-19T22:00:16Z2024-02-19T08:00:00ZOver the weekend, NBC News aired a story on whole body MRI scans. Although it did include the usual cautions about false positives and the harm they cause, the caution was diluted by the story's focus a rare case of a woman who had a brain tumor detected. Overall, it was false balance that reminded me of vaccine/autism stories 20 years ago.
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