A collection of 169 posts
Sir Simon Baron-Cohen: “When you systemise, you try to analyse the rules, the events that happen with some regularity, and causal relationships, so you can identify predictable patterns.”
The US health secretary is spreading disinformation about vaccines while the administration he serves guts medical-research agencies and programs.
My best friend had a psychotic break—our crisscrossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.
Musk and Trump are inflicting catastrophic damage on biomedical research.
Vaccination against UTIs is a novel idea that holds enormous promise, but clinical trials must be well-designed and carefully analysed.
A 2015 study found that black newborns attended by white doctors die at twice the rate of those in the care of black doctors. The study’s refutation last year has not altered the progressive narrative of systemic racism in medicine.
Water fluoridation is a scientifically validated public health measure. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to eliminate it is unjustified scaremongering.
Misleading and irresponsible journalism is being used to launder the reputation of RFK Jr.
Denial of “invisible” suffering is bad science and worse ethics.
The politicisation of medicine has had terrible unintended consequences.
The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year.
Directing physicians to treat their patients as racial statistics rather than an individuals is a grievous misdirection of their skills.
A landmark report properly emphasises the application of science, not slogans, in establishing treatment protocols for trans-identified children.
Overselling Covid vaccines during the pandemic has backfired and played into the hands of the anti-vaccine movement.
The malaria vaccine may well help reduce deaths, but we should not exaggerate its efficacy.