Dr. Vinay Prasad seems poised to stop the "too many too soon" approach and start making Andrew Wakefield's dreams a reality.

In various contexts, for practical, philosophical, and logical reasons, there is a default assumption. In the criminal justice system, for example, someone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. T ...

A new preliminary study published in Nature suggests that COVID-19 vaccines might actually boost the immune system to make ...

Because he can masterfully feign concern over evidence and data, Dr. Prasad is the Shohei Ohtani of spreading doubt and mistrust about vaccines. It's no surprise that under his "leadership", disease ...

The fault is not yours alone. You were just a bit player in a larger misinformation media ecosystem that was devoted to ...

My father was a chiropractor who graduated from the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, in 1920. In 1952, I enrolled as a student at Lincoln Chiropractic College in Indianapolis, Indiana ...

One of the common themes of SBM is that medical evidence can be very complex. In order to come to any robust conclusion about what the science says on any question you need to do a careful and ...

The purges, censorship, and politicization in the worlds of medicine and science are not distinct from the corruption and ...

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 ...

Each year I like to write a post about the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. While advocating for higher standards of science in medicine we tend to spend much of our time criticizing ...