Trump is again deploying his tariff weapon, mainly at hapless American patients and consumers….and Indian drugmakers.
Read more...The Trump Administration plans to launch a new war against citizens, here via a pilot scheme to use AI to cut Medicare services.
Read more...When asked in early 2000 how long I thought COVID-19 would last, I answered three years. Alas, it has now been nearly six years since a frightening respiratory disease was first noticed in Hubei Province centered in Wuhan. Retrospective analyses indicate the virus was already circulating in other parts of the world. It soon became […]
Read more...How an informational civil war is starting in the wake of MAHA.
Read more...As bad as you thought AI was, it’s worse.
Read more...Part the First: The Next Surgeon General Prepares for her Closeup. In a surprise to absolutely no one, Casey Means MD discloses financial ties to supplement industry. New financial disclosures from surgeon general nominee Casey Means show that she’s made hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting supplements and other health and wellness products, details likely […]
Read more...Chatbots are designed to be addictive and have produced psychotic behavior. But suppliers have yet to implement protective features.
Read more...Part the First: Unintended Side Effects of Vaccines. From Science-Based Medicine this week: Unintended Side Effects HPV and Shingles Vaccines—Reason for Concern. This headline is genius in its indirection: Emerging trends in the peer-reviewed scientific literature show new evidence of unintended effects of two popular vaccines—the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and shingles vaccines. Surprising findings […]
Read more...More proof that the Adminisration MAHA plans are all hat, no cattle, save for RFK, Jr. collecting licensing fees on the phrase.
Read more...American medicine is rife with conflicts of interest and soft corruption. Don’t kid yourself that RFK, Jr. and his allies are any better.
Read more...How the debate over RFK, Jr. imposing big policy changes at the CDC illustrates the depth of tribalism in American discourse.
Read more...Part the First and Only on this Friday Afternoon: One More Revolution of the Accelerating Doom Loop of Science. The following is an update to our previous discussion earlier this week. As everyone should know by now, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has fired the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. […]
Read more...Advocates for those with austism debate the value of prevention versus better care and support.
Read more...The American scientific community is in a difficult place. I started my first job in an academic research laboratory (funded by the Energy Research and Development Administration and the National Science Foundation) in 1975, which somehow was fifty years ago when I was the youngest person in the laboratory instead of the oldest. I have […]
Read more...An important legal battle looms about dietary supplement companies being able to make health claims when they lack clinical trial evidence
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