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Although some of the criticisms of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s MAHA movement are spot on, why did KevinMD platform a functional medicine quack to make them?

It turns out Jay Bhattacharya's talk, "The End of Free Speech is the End of Science" was really a preview of coming attractions, a mission statement for his leadership.

It's vital that your conference attendees know the speakers' past credibility to judge their current credibility. All you have to do is be honest.

Large language model artificial intelligence applications (LLM AIs) seem poised to have a significant effect on the practice of medicine, both good and bad, which is why we are giving it as much attention as we are here. LLMs give impressive results when tested on medical knowledge, able to pass multiple-choice exams designed for general medical and specialty certification. In fact it […]

The answer is: Very likely not, at least not as long as MAHA embraces quackery and antivax pseudoscience—not that that didn't stop STAT News from ignoring the elephant in the room, vaccines, in search of a "kumbaya" moment between MAHA and public health.

The next time these doctors claim they were right, let's remind them exactly what they claim to have been right about.

Every day they show up to work, with sweet declarations of love for Trump pouring from their lips, they are further reaffirming their decision to bind themselves to everything he does.  

Many products have claims to to “support” your mitochondria. For healthy adults, these claims remain largely speculative and unproven.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been pushing the narrative that raw unpasteurized milk is both safe and better for your health than pasteurized milk. As usual, he is objectively wrong.

State legislatures are considering bills that would legitimize pseudoscience like reflexology and reiki by recognizing their practitioners as health care professionals.

Everything old is new again, even when AI is involved, as a very old antivax trope is rediscovered for a new generation.

It turns out that Tweeting about RCTs 100+ times is a lot easier than delivering even a single RCT.

Trust in MAHA leaders has justifiably collapsed, and the sycophants who previously glorified Dr. Jay Bhattacharya have mysteriously vanished, unwilling to even acknowledge what they helped unleash on us all.

Framing misinformation as coming from "a senior doctor" overrides skepticism

There is a quiet revolution going on. While so much media attention is being spent on debating the risks vs benefits of raw milk, the latest outrages from the systematic dismantling of quality science at the CDC and other federal agencies, and by the tsunami of terrible medical science being pushed on social media, science-based medicine marches on. Public awareness of recent […]

ICAN attorney and antivaxxer Aaron Siri recently petitioned HHS to add 300 "injuries" to the Vaccine Injury Table for the Vaccine Injury Compensation System. It's all part or the plan to undermine and destroy the system, thus driving vaccine manufacturers out of the market.

It’s up to those of us who experienced the pandemic in the real-world to make sure that what actually happened in 2020 isn’t deliberately erased by sheltered disinformation agents who experienced it all from their laptops. 

The war in Iran is challenging pharmaceutical supply chains and revealing strains in the system.

Recently I gave the latest update on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 – bottom line, it was very likely a zoonotic spillover event and not a lab leak. Following that, I interviewed a researcher, Dr. Andersen, who is an expert on the origins of epidemics/pandemics and has researched this very question. He reinforced the spillover hypothesis, indicated he had considered the lab leak […]

A judge recently ruled that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went too far in his drive to turn ACIP into a an antivax committee. Meanwhile, ProPublica reports on where we are heading; it's not good.