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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Who Claimed He “Would Have” Perfectly Controlled COVID, Is Letting Thousands of Americans Get Explosive Diarrhea Now That He Has Power

"Explosive diarrhea" is a fitting legacy for Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and everyone else involved with the failed MAHA/MAGA project he enabled.

/ July 17, 2026

Science vs. Hype: The Unproven Promise of NAD+ IV Therapy

Two new papers and renewed safety concerns for this popular (yet unproven) therapy.

/ July 16, 2026
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Negative Health Effects of Vaping

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...

/ July 15, 2026
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“Learn to love MAHA” vs. “how to make the CDC great again”?

MAHA apologist Dr. Joseph Marine recently wrote an article on how to make the CDC great again. Wait, what? Trump's been in office a year and a half, and the CDC isn't great?

/ July 13, 2026
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A Letter to the American College of Surgeons: Don’t Censor Dr. Marty Makary, Amplify His Voice.

We need to remember the doctors who literally stood behind Donald Trump, and we don't need their permission to do so.

/ July 12, 2026
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NYT Article on Rapid Prompting Method

This is one of those stories that will not go away, and a recent NYT article is fresh evidence of that. The title is: An Autism Breakthrough, or an Illusion? The Fight Over Assisted Spelling.” I always approach such articles cautiously, bracing myself for the cringing experience of reading a non-expert butcher such topics in depressingly predictable ways. This article was not...

/ July 8, 2026
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“Naturopathic Medicine” in Crisis

A scathing federal assessment, foundering naturopathic programs, poor job prospects, abysmal earnings, and staggering student debt pose threats to the future of “naturopathic medicine”.

/ July 7, 2026
Scott Atlas and Donald Trump

“Abolish the NIH”? Dr. Scott Atlas gives the antiscience game away

Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at the right wing think tank Hoover Institution who came to prominence as a COVID contrarian, recently wrote an op-ed advocating the elimination of the National Institutes of health and leaving the funding biomedical research to the "free market." These are the "ideas" animating this administration's science policy.

/ July 6, 2026