Last week was a hellscape for vaccines, with a RICO lawsuit against the AAP and the newly antivax CDC coming for your HPV and polio vaccines.

Recently the World Health Organization published their guidelines on traditional medicine, actually referring to the category of "traditional, complementary and integrative medicine (TCIM) practices.

When the history of this sad era is written, MAHA doctors will be disgraced pariahs and cautionary tales. Everyone else should be remembered based only on whether they tried to put the brakes on ...

Wealthy tech bro turned antivax crank Steve Kirsch attacked Paul Offit for refusing to debate antivaxxers, while Dr. Mike was "surrounded" by MAHA stans. These recent events led me to revisit the ques ...

The newly reconstituted CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet this week. Packed with antivaxxers, the antivax-adjacent, and the unqualified, ACIP will begin the dismantling of the ...

DIY Botox is popular on TikTok, but injecting an internet-sourced neurotoxin into your face is a gamble that can can lead to serious harms.

If you haven’t heard about this book yet, it’s written by “Anonymous”, edited by Children’s Health Defense lawyer Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense Publisher Liaison and Thinking Moms’ ...

Science-Based Medicine as a philosophy, blog, and approach to medical practice is primarily about optimizing and affirming the relationship between science and critical thinking with healthcare. One ...

It has been fascinating (and frustrating) watching the cultural shift in attitudes toward acupuncture over the last two decades. It is a study case in how to promote pseudoscience, how to exploit the ...

Quackademic medicine has been infiltrating many formerly science-based academic medical centers. Such centers have a seemingly-amazing ability to compartmentalize, insisting on rigorous science for ...

A correspondent asked me to look into the GAPS diet. I did. I was sorry: it was a painful experience. What a mishmash of half-truths, pseudoscience, imagination, and untested claims! GAPS stands for ...