Dr. Vinay Prasad: "The establishment, the people who set the policies, they have to strive to get things right. They need to do studies. They need to be held to the highest standard." ...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is probably one of the most devastating diagnoses that we should all hope to never hear. Also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, or motor neuron disease, ALS is a prog ...
This will be my last post of the year and as usual I like to look back at how SBM is doing. We have now completed 17 years as a blog, which I think is something in itself. As always I have to thank D ...
The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met last week, eliminating the universal recommendation for the birth ...
Now I got a job, but it don't payI need health insurance, I need somewhere to stayBut without all of these things I can doBut without vaccines, I won't make it throughBut you don't understand my poin ...
Via podcasts, Fox News interviews, and "leaked" memos, our FDA leaders are teasing "profound revelations" about dead children and hidden data, complete with dastardly villains and brave heroes, namely ...
Despite the importance of GoF modifications, they have sometimes faced misplaced concerns or opposition that could lead to their being overregulated or even banned.
There is an entire industry catering to people who, as Webb once famously said on the hilarious Homeopathic A&E skit, have "more money than sense." This is the so-called "wellness" industry, now ...
Ever since there have been vaccines, there has been an antivaccination movement. It began shortly after Edward Jenner discovered how to use the weaker cowpox virus to induce long-lasting immunity to ...
Last week, I wrote about how COVID-19 has exposed the toothlessness of state medical boards. Last week, the American Board of Internal Medicine announced that it was going to permanently revoke the ...
The totality of evidence supports a multifactorial model of ASD in which genetic predisposition, neuroimmune biology, environmental toxicants, perinatal stressors, and iatrogenic exposures converge to ...
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 ...