The Tobacco Wars
How Australia's war on tobacco backfired.
Andrew Bushnell
· 17 min read
Health
A collection of 223 posts
The Long Road to Medical ‘Miracles’
How decades of invisible science produced two cancer breakthroughs.
Henry I. Miller
· 9 min read
How Canada Jumped the Rails on ’Gender-Affirming Care’: A Quillette Investigation
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.
Jonathan Kay
· 24 min read
How a UN Agency Misled the World on Cancer Risk
Nathan Schachtman’s indispensable new paper explains how the International Agency for Research on Cancer has misled the public with its classifications of carcinogens.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 11 min read
“Too Much Science in the Curriculum”
Tragicomic scenes from reparations-based medicine.
Steve Salerno
· 18 min read
A Costly Misconception
Now that glyphosate has become a national-security issue, it’s time to revisit the source of misinformation about this controversial herbicide.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 10 min read
The Cost of Indifference
The sad and curious case of the chronic fatigue syndrome.
Samuel Kronen
· 16 min read
Cousin Marriage and Inbreeding: A Genetic History
What large-scale genomic data reveals about consanguinity, inherited disease, and the uneasy politics of discussing biological risk.
Zoe Sankey, Francisco Ceballos
· 7 min read
More Vaccine Fearmongering
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.
Henry I. Miller
· 6 min read
The BPA Panic and the Distortion of Science
A new article in MIT’s ‘Undark’ magazine recycles old misinformation about a supposedly toxic chemical.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 10 min read
America’s Public Health Is Under Attack
The hepatitis B vaccine episode is a preview of what happens when scientific institutions are corrupted by people who reject the scientific method itself.
Henry I. Miller
· 7 min read
Pre-Existing Convictions
In anticipation of the ‘new results’ RFK Jr. has promised about the causes of autism, an overview of what science has already learned.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 13 min read
The Language of Independence
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s doctrine of self-reliance has been corrupted by social media, wellness culture, conspiracy theorists, and the “sovereign citizen” movement.
Samuel Cornell
· 6 min read
A Baseless Attack on Groundbreaking RSV Therapies
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.
Jake Scott
· 9 min read
Rethinking “Harm Reduction”
Once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, San Francisco now stands as a morbid example of how that approach has gone astray.
Christopher Calton
· 18 min read