A scattered assortment of US dollar bills in various denominations, including $100, $50, and $20 notes, displaying portraits of historical figures such as Benjamin Franklin and Ulysses S. Grant. The bills overlap and cover the entire frame.

Hopkins Business School to Platform COVID-19 Contrarians at Health Policy Symposium

Drs. Jay Bhattacharya, Scott Atlas, and Marty Makary are also set to speak at Stanford next month

/ September 8, 2024

Biosafety Now: Releasing The Virus Was Mass Murder. Intentionally Spreading It Was Forgivable.

I suppose it's my turn to be called a fraudster, liar, perjurer, felon, grifter, stooge, imbecile, and maybe even murderer. What I won't get is a reasonable explanation as to why supposedly releasing a deadly virus was mass murder, but intentionally spreading it was a forgivable "policy position".

/ September 6, 2024
A silhouette of a man in a suit holds a smartphone, standing in front of a background with Wi-Fi signal icons and concentric circles emanating from the phone. The imagery suggests a connection between technology, communication, and connectivity.

WHO Systematic Review of RF and Cancer

In our increasingly technological world, we are constantly exposed to radio frequency electromagnetic waves (RF-EMF). It would certainly be inconvenient, to say the least, if this ubiquitous and essential technology had negative health effects. But of course we would need to know if this were the case so that steps could be taken to fix it. Fortunately, a recent systematic review conducted...

/ September 4, 2024
Chart titled "At a Glance" showing estimated new cancer cases in 2024 as 2,001,140 and deaths as 656,870. Graph shows decreasing trends in both cancer incidence and death rates from 1992 to 2022. Mantaring note: the 5-year relative survival rate for 2014-2020 is at an encouraging 69.2%.

Quoth Myrna Mantaring: “US government data” confirms a “143,233% increase in cancer cases due to COVID vaccination”? I answer with a plea for math-based reality checks.

Myrna Mattaring, a retired scientist who worked in diagnostic labs, claims that COVID-19 vaccines caused a 1432% increase in cancer cases, a clearly impossible claim. Here I make a plea for examining such claims, including a much more famous and accepted one, with basic math.

/ September 3, 2024
A graphic image of LLM showing interconnected nodes representing various applications and features of Large Language Models (LLM). The central node is labeled "LLM" and is connected to surrounding icons such as a lightbulb, book, chat bubble, graph, and more.

LLMs: Fighting Fire with Fire

Using LLM tools to tackle AI-driven science misinformation head-on

/ September 2, 2024

Vaccines: Saving Lives and Money for Over 200 Years

Vaccines save lives and money according to a recently published CDC report. This shouldn't come as a surprise, but it's still nice to see.

/ August 30, 2024

Homeopathy in Pharmacist Education

A new paper that looks at homeopathy in pharmacy education raises more questions than answers.

/ August 29, 2024

Are We Ready for Mpox

Are we ready for the next potential pandemic? It seems like we are just get over COVID and already we have to worry about the next one. We first covered the monkey pox (now mpox) in 2022. Since then it has continued to be a concern. Where do our efforts to contain this infection stand? To recap, the disease mpox is the...

/ August 28, 2024
A historic illustration depicting an operation with medieval Islamic physicians. One patient lies on a table while three doctors dressed in traditional robes and turbans tend to him, one holding his wrist and the others examining and discussing the patient.

The Biopolitics of Quackademic Medicine in Iran

The problem of quackademic medicine in a place we in the US don't often consider.

/ August 27, 2024