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

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 ...

There is evidence to suggest that combined low vitamin D and K levels is associated with increased risk of adverse c ...

So-called "health influencers" - self-appointed health gurus spreading their unvetted opinions about health through social ...

I was in Chicago this weekend attending the ASCO meeting, the largest oncology meeting in the world. Nary a talk or poster about "turbo cancer" was seen, but that doesn't mean there wasn't cancer quac ...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been a very useful paradigm for assessing evidence in medicine. However, like any other framework, it can be misused, particularly when fundamentalist EBM ...

With the new mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna likely to be available soon, antivaxxers have been ramping up the fear mongering. Their latest claim is that mRNA vaccines will ...

The full results of the National Toxicology Program’s study of cell phones and cancer are finally in. They are somewhat complicated, but ultimately do not support the idea that cell phones can cause ...

For those of you that missed the Science-Based Medicine day at NECSS last week, I’ve put the highlights in the following post: The idea of a risk-free magic bullet that improves our health seems ...

Writing for SBM these days is a bit like being in one of those cash grab machines, though instead of money flying over the ...

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 let outrage fatigue cause us to take our eye off the ball. If nothing els ...