The newly reconstituted CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet this week. Packed with antivaxxers, the ...

In which Dr. Gorski engages in a little shameless self-promotion for what he believes to be a good cause.

For those with advanced ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or certain brainstem strokes, they can be what is referred to as ...

That’s the contradiction embedded in this cutting-edge technology: It can often lead to panic rather than peace of mind.

In 2023 Dr. Vinay Prasad said that scientists who recognized the limitations of randomized-controlled trials (RCTS) were ...

I'm sure you are as sick of reading about RFK Jr. as we are of writing about him, but this is the world we live in. We cannot ...

Last Thursday during a roundtable on stem cell therapies, new FDA Commissioner Marty Makary referred to EBM levels of evidence as an artificial and dogmatic construct. Apparently Dr. David Katz's "mor ...

Earlier this month, the hostilities between Gwyneth Paltrow’s den of celebrity pseudoscience and quackery, her “lifestyle” website and store Goop, and skeptics erupted into open warfare, as Goop ...

Antivax immunologist J. Bart Classen published a paper claiming that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines can cause prion disease leading to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s dementia. What are ...

Many smart people reassured us that Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was both qualified to run the NIH and motivated to make it a better place. They should make the case they were right.

The new WPATH standards of care have sparked controversy and intensified debates around gender-affirming care for trans children and adolescents. The general pattern with each iteration of the SOC has ...

A recent article in The Guardian raised an interesting question. Is cholesterol denialism a valid form of skepticism or pseudoscience? Is there valid debate surrounding the benefit of cholesterol ...