You might think that someone who purports to be sincerely concerned about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 would also be unwilling to collaborate with someone who sought to spread SARS-CoV-2. You'd be wrong though.

The NIH announced that Dr. John Gaitanis, who has served as expert witness for plaintiffs of "vaccine injury" cases and is affiliated with the autism biomed quackery group MAPS, will lead the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Lysenko marches on.

There is a long list of prolific pandemic pundits who have become totally silent about the current events they enabled.

Professors Richard Ebright and Byrce Nickels used their voice to enable the "charlatans and quacks", the people responsible for the devastation of our biosafety response.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects tens of millions of people worldwide each year with about 5 million deaths. For those who survive there is often permanent neurological impairment. TBI is therefore a serious public health issue that needs to be addressed. The largest international study of TBI was recently published in Nature Medicine, providing some insight into how best to approach the […]

I am baffled.

On Friday, the NIH released an RFI (request for Information) on a proposed new format for reporting the scores of grant applications determined by study sections. If implemented, this new system will make it easier to hide political manipulation of grant funding.

2020 is more than just a security blanket for MAHA/MAGA disinformation superspreaders, it's an indispensable tool for them. It is a distraction and a reflexive excuse for their current failures.

Two countries are putting warnings and limits on Vitamin B6 supplements.

On Monday, Donald Trump signed an executive order full of antivax goals. It's a frontal assault on vaccines.

A viral Instagram post claims that cancer is not a disease, but rather a defense mechanism against "toxins." Everything old is new again under MAHA.

In October 2024, you gave the introduction to a COVID Amnesia Project conference that featured disinformation superspreaders and advocates of herd immunity through mass infection. How do you feel these MAHA/MAGA doctors are doing today?

We have to deal with artificial intelligence (AI). We cannot simply dismiss it or criticize it, and we certainly shouldn’t just embrace it without significant skepticism. But I feel it is necessary for any science communicator to do their best to become AI-literate – even if AI itself is not your field of communication. AI now touches everything. For example, increasingly people […]

The subluxation lives on in new chiropractic education standards.

Montana recently finalized rules to implement its expansion of "right-to-try." providing a chance for the unscrupulous to profit.

"The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated."-- Michael Hobbes

The FDA is determined to stop the sale of compounded GLP-1 drugs

Last week, The Atlantic published an embarrassingly contrarian piece about how public health "needs" the "make America healthy again" movement. Public health needs MAHA only if it "needs" to integrate antivax and quackery into medicine and public health. Sound familiar?

From shuttered labs to kids with measles, others are paying the price for your need to feel "special" and "heterodox," and no one should let you forget that.

Pseudoscience requires apathy about its victims, and that's the most grotesque part about it.

Crowding and Influenza.

A Reuters news story last week reports that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been trying to go way farther than previously suspected in his quest to eliminate vaccines.

What oncology's hardest decisions can teach the rest of medicine.

"Explosive diarrhea" is a fitting legacy for Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and everyone else involved with the failed MAHA/MAGA project he enabled.

Two new papers and renewed safety concerns for this popular (yet unproven) therapy.

When vaping was first introduced it was marketed mainly as a safer alternative to smoking and as a potential smoking cessation method. But increasingly people who have never smoked are vaping, and now the concern is that vaping is more of a pathway into smoking than one out of it. According to the CDC, about 30% of all adults who vape have […]

MAHA apologist Dr. Joseph Marine recently wrote an article on how to make the CDC great again. Wait, what? Trump's been in office a year and a half, and the CDC isn't great?

We need to remember the doctors who literally stood behind Donald Trump, and we don't need their permission to do so.

David Zweig is welcome on my podcast with Dr. Wendy Orent to answer that question.

Update on ivermectin/mebendazole cancer study