It really makes our job more challenging when otherwise reasonable medical journals publish pseudoscientific nonsense. The ...
Hilariously and without realizing it, antivaxxer Steve Kirsch nailed the essence of why a recent antivax "report" by the ...
I am calling for Dr. Vinay Prasad to manage the FDA in a mature, professional, competent, transparent manner.  That’s just the bare minimum, and yet, he can’t even manage that.
Dr. Vinay Prasad seems poised to stop the "too many too soon" approach and start making Andrew Wakefield's dreams a reality.
My doctor recently recommended that I get a cardiac CT calcium scan to help stratify my risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).
It was the best of interviews, it was the worst of interviews. At times I was born aloft on the wings of enlightenment, other times I feared I would drown in a sludge of foolishness. On the one hand ...
Because he can masterfully feign concern over evidence and data, Dr. Prasad is the Shohei Ohtani of spreading doubt and mistrust about vaccines. It's no surprise that under his "leadership", disease ...
Deniers of well-established science, such as the anthropogenic climate change, the theory of evolution, and vaccine science, frequently attack the scientific consensus. Some go farther and attack the ...
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been a very useful paradigm for assessing evidence in medicine. However, like any other framework, it can be misused, particularly when fundamentalist EBM ...
The newly reconstituted CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet this week. Packed with antivaxxers, the antivax-adjacent, and the unqualified, ACIP will begin the dismantling of the ...