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While normal people don't want any child to suffer or die because their parents were tricked by disinformation, the leaders of the anti-vaccine movement, who profit by lying about vaccines, don't care at all.

Lower starting doses with cautious titration reduce toxicity without sacrificing effectiveness

One of the persistent themes we confront at SBM is the evolving double-standard in clinical medicine. On the one hand, in mainstream medicine there is a push for higher standards of science and evidence and more effective regulation. At the same time proponents of “alternative medicine” are constantly seeking ways to water down scientific standards and loosen regulations. This is sold to […]

This picture invariably brings tears to my eyes. It could be the logo, literally and metaphorically, for current health care policy.

With the MAHA movement poised to introduce a lot more "integrative" or "complementary and alternative" treatments into oncology (and medicine in general), a new study shows the likely result.

With Dr. Jay Bhattacharya in power, the headlines now read "Americans Trust Fauci Over RFK Jr. and Career Scientists Over Trump Officials."

Compounding pharmacies are illegally selling GLP-1 drugs, and the FDA is determined to shut that pathway down.

I often get e-mail suggesting topics to cover on SBM or elsewhere in my social media content. I like getting these e-mails when they are organic, coming from readers here with genuine questions about some questionable claim or practice. But often they are press contacts, by a professional promoter pushing a new study or shopping around an author or someone they represent. […]

The bottom line is this: when given the opportunity to prove his real-world prowess, Dr. Vinay Prasad failed.

The MAHA Institute is holding an event called MEVI Roundtable: Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury to fear monger about vaccines. Unfortunately, Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, a prominent oncologist-scientist, will participate.

Our so-called public servants have one set of standards for themselves and another for private citizens who dare to the challenge their government.

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The intelligence community is divided between the zoonotic hypothesis (the virus evolved in animal reservoirs and then crossed over to humans) and the lab leak hypothesis. Essentially the consensus […]

Bad medicine, bad laws, bad choice

Editors of The Lancet published an op-ed decrying RFK Jr.'s one year of failure at HHS. They're correct about RFK Jr, but they are not blameless in what has happened.

Del Bigtree and Toby Rogers, the authoritarians behind the “medical freedom” movement 

Although he took softball questions from MAHA sycophant Bari Weiss, Dr. Vinay Prasad, a public servant, refuses to leave his safe space to answer tough, but fair questions from credible reporters like Lizzy Lawrence.

When a trial has results that defy basic biology, it's reasonable to be skeptical.

Glyphosate is the most used herbicide in the world, with farmer applying about 750 million kg per year. The US is the heaviest user, responsible for 19% of global use. The chemical is popular among industrial farmers because it is safe and effective, and yet it also remains highly controversial. It is also back in the news, and so an update on […]