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Dr. Pierre Kory resurrects the false claim that vaccines cause SIDS
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Published: July 14, 2025 07:00
Dr. Pierre Kory name-checked me in a post falsely claiming that vaccines cause SIDS. I finally get around to responding.
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The Opinion Class: Practicing Focused Protection From Reality
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Published: July 13, 2025 14:31
A class of sheltered COVID pundits are eager to conjure an alternate history where we let the virus spread in 2020 and everything turned out just fine.
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Go Ahead, Make the Case That Science, Free Speech, and the FDA Are Thriving Under Drs. Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad
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Published: July 10, 2025 07:04
Unlike Drs. Adam Cifu and John Mandrola, I do not constantly boast of my "nuance" or claim to be a master of "clinical appraisal." They have so much to teach me.
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AI Therapists – Not Ready for Prime Time
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Published: July 9, 2025 12:17
Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are being rolled out at a furious pace. There is no doubt they are potentially powerful tools, although with flaws and limitations. But one thing that large language models do well is mimic conversational speech.…
Eliminating vaccines after ACIP: Where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely go from here
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Published: July 7, 2025 07:00
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was on The Tucker Carlson Show last week. It got me to thinking: What's next in RFK Jr.'s crusade against vaccines after he turned ACIP into an antivax committee?
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Dr. Vinay Prasad: Bodily Autonomy Applies to Raw Milk, Not Vaccines
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Published: July 4, 2025 07:14
This is what it looks like when disinformation doctors pretend to value data and science to further their true objective, MAHA politics.
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Wearables and Wellness Populism: How Smart Watches Got MAHA’d
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Published: July 3, 2025 13:00
Fifteen years ago, then-contributor Peter Lipson wrote a short post on this blog that I’ve reflected on many times since. Titled Your Disease, Your Fault, Peter described a central theme that runs through nearly every variant of alternative medicine: That…
Standards in Behavioral Science
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Published: July 2, 2025 12:25
There is an excellent review in The Independent (by Helen Coffey) about the recent cultural shift within behavioral science. It reflects the exact same issues that we address here with medical science – identifying and eliminating shoddy scientific…
Big Trouble in Little Pharma
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Published: July 2, 2025 00:44
The Excruciating Inspection of David Geier’s DAP Pharmaceuticals
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RFK Jr.’s reconstituted vaccine committee meets for the first time, and I can’t help but think of clowns…antivax clowns
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Published: June 30, 2025 07:00
Last week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s reconstituted Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) met for the first time. The proceedings reminded me, more than anything else, of an antivax clown car.
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