Escepticismo y pensamiento crítico

Last week, I discussed Dr. William Makis' false claims of "turbo cancers" due to COVID-19 vaccines. Now it's hydroxychloroquine-promoting epidemiologist Harvey Risch's turn.

Those of us who thought about vaccines before the pandemic know perfectly well that anti-vaxxers start with their conclusions and work backwards to retrofit the "evidence." Doctors who do the same sho...

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Alternative medicine is essentially what you get when you remove science from the equation (at least as a method of determining if an intervention is safe and effective) and emphasize marketing.Pre-F...

Tap water fluoridation has been called one of the most successful public health interventions of all time by the CDC.It has all of the hallmarks of a good public health intervention; it's cheap way t...

Imagine if we had a self-replicating programmable smart bomb that could target specific pathogenic bacteria and kill them, while being entirely safe for the host.It turns out, such a thing exists –...

Two weeks ago I described the master narrative that antivaccinationists have united around with the goal of destroying confidence in COVID-19 vaccination.Antivaccinationists with different backgr...

Over the past few months, I've been working on a little side project that requires me to look at the websites of every medical school in the country.There was one particular point of similarity with...

Think of this post as a continuation of a series related to COVID-19 vaccines.You might recall that, right before the holidays last December, I predicted an impending tsunami of adverse events (AEs)...

In what feels like eons ago, but was actually just last week, reports emerged that hundreds of doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine had been accidentally spoiled, as they had been left out of the r...

I don't understand how Facebook's algorithms work; but I wonder if they have gotten the false impression that I suffer from insomnia, since I have recently been bombarded with information about a mu...

The standard treatment for appendicitis has long been appendectomy, the removal of the appendix. The successful use of antibiotics instead of surgery was first reported in 1956 by Dr.Coldrey in the...

Measles and COVID are different, of course, but they are not categorically different. With both viruses, unvaccinated children suffer the most.Yet, doctors who rightly said "measles can be a devastat...

Sanidad ha creado un portal para informar sobre las pseudoterapias y las pseudociencias y saber cuáles se han considerado pseudoterapias y cuáles aún están en revisión...

Doctors' ErrorsIn prior articles, I discussed several doctors who opined to varying degrees that children need not be vaccinated against COVID-19 (here, here, here, and here).   Each of their ar...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive dementia.Patients have impaired memory and as the disease progresses they have increasing impairment of all cog...

Health regulations are generally established to protect patients and consumers. When it comes to dietary supplements, they have long favored the supplement industry at the expense of the consumer.

As a newborn hospitalist, a large part of my job involves educating parents on a variety of newborn care topics.One of the most important discussions that I make a point to have even with experienced...

Grieving is a normal and healthy part of life, coping with the inevitable loss we all must face.But a significant minority of people suffer from complicated grief following a major life event, which...

Last week, SBM's fearless founder Steve Novella wrote what I considered to be an important post about the danger of conspiratorial thinking to science-based medicine (SBM), noting that anything that t...

La existencia de personas muy inteligentes que se creen afirmaciones sin fundamento demuestra que la inteligencia no previene contra la credulidad...

Two new variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, have been detected and are spreading.The first is the Kent variant (B.1.1.7 strain), which emerged in the UK, and has already spread to...

As I sat down yesterday to write this post, it suddenly occurred to me: This will be my last post of 2020.Out of curiosity, I scrolled back to the very first post I published in 2020 and noticed that...