As anticipated, RFK Jr. continues to be a wrecking ball on the American healthcare scene as HHS secretary. His latest move to undermine vaccines in any way possible is to reduce the number of vac ...

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 ...

As SBM readers know, our medical establishment rose to power not because of their genuine accomplishments, but rather because they were social media celebrities who “proposed”, “argued for”, “called ...

I’ve written quite a bit about Steve Jobs in the wake of his death nearly four weeks ago. The reason, of course, is that the course of his cancer was of intense interest after it became public ...

An eminent oncologist, cancer researcher, and cancer center director is promoting a study that seems to show—but, when critically examined, doesn’t—that COVID vaccines are associated with increased ...

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 ...

The anti-fluoride movement continues to make dubious claims about the safety of fluoride in public drinking water. They are also expanding into new social media platforms, like TikTok, where ...

Saturday, a second child died of measles this year, a little more than a month after the first death of a child of measles in two decades had been reported. This brings the total number of measles ...

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 ...

In the science communication world, perhaps especially in the subset that we self-identify as “scientific skepticism”, there is a lot of criticism of bad science reporting. The media often gets a lot ...

A long time ago in what seems now to have been a very different time but now appears in retrospect just to have been the early stages of the process that has led us to having a rabid antivax activist ...

When patients ask me if a chiropractor can help them with their problem, I often think to myself, “OK, do I give them the short answer or the long answer?” The difficulty is often in the fact that ...