Trump’s Frontal Assault on Vaccines
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...
Cancer quackery: Under MAHA, everything old is new again
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.
Stanford President Jonathan Levin: You Should Host a Conference on the Job Performance of MAHA/MAGA Doctors
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?
AI And Pseudoscience
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 Council on Chiropractic Education reaffirms the subluxation, backs off primary care (sort of)
The subluxation lives on in new chiropractic education standards.
Montana’s new “right to try”: Opening the door to profit from unproven drugs
Montana recently finalized rules to implement its expansion of "right-to-try." providing a chance for the unscrupulous to profit.
Guests on the “Why Should I Trust You?” Podcast Want to Hang Doctors. Why Should I Trust It?
"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 FDA vs. Compounding Pharmacies: GLP-1 Edition
The FDA is determined to stop the sale of compounded GLP-1 drugs
Does public health “need” MAHA? No more than medicine “needs” CAM!
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?
Stephen Macedo And Frances Lee: Defend Your Essay That Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Would Restore Trust in Public Health
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.