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...
“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?
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.
Why Should We Trust Journalist David Zweig Regarding COVID and Schools When He Pals Around With Proud Child-Labor Advocates?
David Zweig is welcome on my podcast with Dr. Wendy Orent to answer that question.
A shoddy, ethically-challenged cancer study gets published… for now.
Update on ivermectin/mebendazole cancer study
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...
“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”.
“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.
Dr. Joseph Marine: Defend Your Article “Why Doctors Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love MAHA”.
You owe it to Sensible Medicine readers to simultaneously to acknowledge the state of STEM under MAHA and argue that you were right about it.
Should We Treat MAHA/MAGA Doctors as Serious Scientists or Political Actors? Their Own Videos Provide the Answer.
Although MAHA/MAGA doctors wrapped themselves in the protective cloak of science to stave off criticism, we are under no obligation to treat doctors who spread COVID disinformation and right-wing political talking points on TV as legitimate and serious scientists.