A collection of 221 posts
The career arc of Canadian Paediatric Society president Natasha Johnson helps explain why her country has become such an outlier in the treatment of trans-identified children.
Nathan Schachtman’s indispensable new paper explains how the International Agency for Research on Cancer has misled the public with its classifications of carcinogens.
Tragicomic scenes from reparations-based medicine.
Now that glyphosate has become a national-security issue, it’s time to revisit the source of misinformation about this controversial herbicide.
The sad and curious case of the chronic fatigue syndrome.
What large-scale genomic data reveals about consanguinity, inherited disease, and the uneasy politics of discussing biological risk.
By spreading unproven claims that Covid-19 vaccines caused the deaths of children, Trump's FDA continues to undermine public trust in vaccines, with disturbing implications for the health of Americans.
A new article in MIT’s ‘Undark’ magazine recycles old misinformation about a supposedly toxic chemical.
The hepatitis B vaccine episode is a preview of what happens when scientific institutions are corrupted by people who reject the scientific method itself.
In anticipation of the ‘new results’ RFK Jr. has promised about the causes of autism, an overview of what science has already learned.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s doctrine of self-reliance has been corrupted by social media, wellness culture, conspiracy theorists, and the “sovereign citizen” movement.
A member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is spreading misinformation about new antibody treatments that protect children from serious Respiratory Syncytial Virus infections.
Once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, San Francisco now stands as a morbid example of how that approach has gone astray.
Evidence suggests that today’s common yoga practices were inspired by a popular 1924 Danish gymnastics manual.
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.”