RFK Jr. wants to go fishing in medical records to substantiate debunked theories about autism and vaccines. What could go wrong?
Read more...RFK, Jr. is backing a peptide out of Zagreb, BPC-157, which has lots of fans and very little evidence. What could go wrong?
Read more...Part the First: Functional Art from the Enigmatic Daunians. William Morris famously wrote, “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” Of course, his beauty in response to the immiseration of the working class was for the English rich but nothing is perfect. Our old […]
Read more...On Independence Day of 2025 President Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law. Something that has not gotten much attention, so far, are the consequences OBBBA will have on students who must borrow money to attend college/university, graduate school, and/or professional school. Should American students be forced to go into debt […]
Read more...A detailed look at some of the many mechanisms that translate poverty into sickness and shorter lifespans.
Read more...HHS arouses ire via messaging and a gimmick to try to get hospitals to serve less gawd-awful meals.
Read more...Bayer got a blistering dressing-down from a Federal judge over a proposed sneaky settlement but it is not clear what happens next.
Read more...Quelle surprise! Social media kingpins are more successful at exploiting the lower orders
Read more...A good recap of the Monsanto glyphosate case now before the Supreme Court, including its broader implications.
Read more...Discussing a decades-old FDA loophole for putting new ingredients into the country’s food supply.
Read more...Quelle surprise! Punitive food stamp restrictions do not produce an increase in work levels.
Read more...Not only is Trump inventing his own school of math. but he is also pretending that paying more than market rates for drugs is a savings.
Read more...AI appears to perform no better than astrology, yet even the author of this critical piece defends its use in medicine.
Read more...Part the First: Dealing with Scientific Misconduct. Trust in science has declined during my professional work life. Some, but not all, of this is due to misconduct by scientists, as it should be. The recent case of Sylvain Lesné is one of the more spectacular examples. We have discussed this previously. Dr. Lesné published a […]
Read more...The battle over 24-hour care shifts has pitted the mostly immigrant women against vulnerable patients who rely on round-the-clock care.
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