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Science and MedicineTraditional Chinese MedicineTraditional Medicine

The Red Marks of Pseudo-Medicine: Gua Sha

Claiming that an inflammatory response to injury is inherently therapeutic is a massive leap of faith.

/ February 16, 2026
Cartoon of a duck in a suit and top hat carrying signs for fake doctors and entering a door labeled with doctors’ names, satirizing medical quackery. Text below reads: “Quacks of a Feather.”.
Science and Medicine

The FDA:  Promoting Quack Nostrums Based on “Incredible Stories” While Rejecting Vaccines Despite Successful RCTs

"Vaccines are radioactive now."

/ February 13, 2026
Politics and RegulationPublic HealthScience and Medicine

2026: State Legislatures as Vectors of Health Misinformation and Anti-Science

Anti-science health legislation doesn't just reflect misinformation; it institutionalizes it, cementing false beliefs into population-level risks.

/ February 12, 2026
Line graph showing increasing autism prevalence per 1,000 8-year-olds from 2000 to 2016. Non-profound autism rises from 3.9 to 14.3; profound autism rises from 2.7 to 4.6. Non-profound outpaces profound across all years.
Public Health

Latest Autism Data

In April of 2025, HHS secretary RFK Jr. stated: “The autism epidemic is running rampant,” said U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “One in 31 American children born in 2014 are disabled by autism. That’s up significantly from two years earlier and nearly five times higher than when the CDC first started running autism surveys in children...

/ February 11, 2026
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CommentaryPolitics and RegulationPublic Health

The ICEmen Cometh

The potential effects of the current ICE actions on public health

/ February 10, 2026
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PharmaceuticalsPolitics and RegulationScience and Medicine

The peptide craze sweeping America has a fan in RFK Jr

This could lead to less FDA oversight just when more is needed

/ February 9, 2026
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Science and Medicine

MAHA Leaders Are Recycling COVID Myths to Minimize Measles

Once again, everything old is new again. The circle of disinformation is complete.

/ February 8, 2026
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Science and Medicine

Pandemic Revisionism Is a Pretext for MAHA Vandalism

My YouTube channel is a reliable history of the pandemic. The NY Times is not.

/ February 6, 2026
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Public Health

The Data Is In – Exercise Is Good For You

Many times in my career I have sat across from a patient who expressed that they are getting serious about their health, and then rattle off a list of things that they are doing to improve their health – all mostly worthless. I do not blame them – they are victims of a self-help, supplement, and wellness industry that has completely mislead...

/ February 4, 2026
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Science and Medicine

Pandemic Gurus: If You Can’t Defend MAHA Doctors Today, Then You Must Discard Everything They Said Regarding COVID.

Had MAHA doctors been in charge in 2020, when COVID swamped our hospitals and morgues, they would have brought the same level of malevolence and incompetence they are displaying today.

/ February 3, 2026
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