US Medical Care Set to Fracture Over MAHA as States and Physicians Groups Break With Administration Recommendations, Plan to Fund Own Research
How an informational civil war is starting in the wake of MAHA.
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Coffee Break: The Next Surgeon General, Gene Therapy, Ozone Hole Closes, Daylight Saving Time, and American Socialism
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Read more...Coffee Break: Vaccine “Side Effects,” Outdated Theory of Disease, “Life” on Mars, and More on Liberalism
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...Are We Offloading Critical Thinking to AI Chatbots?
Research, much of it by companies with deep investment in AI, suggests that chatbot interactions alter how users think.
Read more...Book Review: This Is Your Brain On Nature
In “Nature and the Mind,” Marc Berman uses neuroscience to show how interacting with nature benefits mental health.
Read more...Coffee Break: CDC and Acceleration of the Doom Loop
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...Should We Try to Prevent Autism?
Advocates for those with austism debate the value of prevention versus better care and support.
Read more...Is American Science Stuck in a Doom Loop?
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...Coffee Break: Beware the Jargon, Chocolate(!), Arsenic Life Final Update, Death Becomes Us, and the Scopes Trial,
Part the First: Beware Scientific Jargon. But everyone here already knows that. Nevertheless, this is a perpetual challenge for every scientist and other scholar who wants to be understood by our fellow citizens without “dumbing it down.” Scientific jargon can be ‘satisfying’ — but misleading. Jargon works especially well for those of my tribe who […]
Read more...The Impact of a Ghostwritten Paper on the Fate of Glyphosate
A downsized EPA faces a deadline to review the herbicide’s safety without much of its in-house expertise.
Read more...‘Alternative Facts’ Aren’t a Reason To Skip Vaccines
Just because RFK, Jr. is wrong on vaccines does not make vaccine orthodoxy correct.
Read more...Cancer Super-Survivors May Hold Keys to New Treatments
Researchers typically ask why people get cancer. What if they studied why some survive — or never develop the disease?
Read more...Coffee Break: Biotech vs. Science, NIH Under New Management, More on Malaria, Dreams of De-Extinction, and an Aside on the State of America
Part the First: Is This How to Do Science? San Diego, with the University of California-San Diego and the Scripps Research Institute leading the way, has been a Biotech/Little Pharma hotspot since the beginning, a strong third behind Boston and the Bay Area. Ups and downs are common, but in the current climate it is […]
Read more...Coffee Break: COVID-19 and Cancer, NIH Weaponized Against the People, Consciousness, AI and the Internet, and Famine
Part the First: How Do You Awaken Sleeping Cancer Cells. Short answer: Inflammation. Speaking from experience, anyone who have ever been treated successfully for cancer never fully relaxes after his or her tumor or condition is resolved. Formerly metastatic cells can remain dormant for a long time. Recent research has shown how they are reawakened. […]
Read more...Long-COVID, Viruses and ‘Zombie’ Cells: New Research Looks for Links to Chronic Fatigue and Brain Fog
A theory of what might cause the many symptoms of Long Covid, which if proven further, should help in developing treatments
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