Rochelle Walenksy makes an all-too-obvious gambit to save her spot at the CDC. But the very initiative proves she should resign.
Read more...Focusing on the Sacklers as villains obscures the problems that permeate the entire pharmaceutical industry.
Read more...A foundational theory on the role of serotonin is a mere unsupported intuition, but mass drug peddling is nevertheless based on it.
Read more...On the rotten state of evidence-baded medicine, and whether there is any way out.
Read more...The US Is flying blind on monkeypox, and the CDC and public health officials are unwilling to break a sweat to correct that.
Read more...A bizarre scene of court chaos as a lawyer supposedly representing key witnesses, the Skripals, in an infamous poising case, plays very dumb.
Read more...In “Horizons,” a historian of science highlights the crucial achievements of non-Western scientists and thinkers.
Read more...A layperson’s overview of pain channels and how painkillers interefere with them.
Read more...The campaign to admnister Covid vaccines to under five year olds is not going over well with quite a few medical professionals.
Read more...From new PhDs to full professors, the pressure to publish entrenches scientists in the current system, making it resistant to change.
Read more...An analysis of the concentration of key commodities in supply chains shows why the Russia sanctions are having some outsized effects.
Read more...Is this hyperbole: “Attention deficit disorder is the neurological condition of late capitalism.”
Read more...Yet another reason to dispense with disposable coffee cups: nanoplastics, which are ingested when the coffee is drunk. The health implications of their ubiquity is unknown and has not yet been well-studied.
Read more...Ancient and medieval herbal abortifacients were effective and important to those economies.
Read more...California AG Rob Bonta launches investigation into the plastics industry’s half-century campaign to promote recycling myths.
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