• Open Thread: The Floor is Yours

    Updated: 2025-02-27 13:59:00
    I’m taking a few weeks away from the blog. So today, an open thread with a request for suggestions on topics that you feel have been unexplored by the blog. Let me (and the other contributors) know the questions you have and what subjects you want to see addressed. Or use this to comment on anything else, SBM-related. The floor is yours. […] The post Open Thread: The Floor is Yours first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • Dr. Vinay Prasad Embraces Policy-Based Evidence Making

    Updated: 2025-02-22 20:03:00
    Policy-based evidence making means working back from a predefined policy to produce underpinning evidence. The post Dr. Vinay Prasad Embraces Policy-Based Evidence Making first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • Misinformation Doctors Start a Misinformation Journal to Spread Misinformation

    Updated: 2025-02-21 08:33:00
    There is no doubt the "studies" in this journal will conclude We Want Them Infected doctors were right about everything the whole time; mitigation measure were an epic catastrophe while COVID was a harmless cold for everyone but grandma. The post Misinformation Doctors Start a Misinformation Journal to Spread Misinformation first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • Apple Cider Vinegar

    Updated: 2025-02-19 13:03:28
    I just watched the new Netflix series, Apple Cider Vinegar, which tells the story of Belle Gibson, an Australian woman who launched a wellness business based largely on the false claim that she had survived “terminal brain cancer”. It is worth a watch, and overall I feel the writers (this is a fictionalized version, not a documentary) captured the industry of fake […] The post Apple Cider Vinegar first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • “Don’t Worry About the NIH” From the Same Doctors Who Brought You “Don’t Worry About COVID.”

    Updated: 2025-02-15 08:35:00
    Although many doctors who spread COVID misinformation act as if its in poor taste to bring it up today, we don't need their permission to remember. The post “Don’t Worry About the NIH” From the Same Doctors Who Brought You “Don’t Worry About COVID.” first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • Do you need to drink electrolytes?

    Updated: 2025-02-13 14:00:00
    Electrolyte drinks are very popular - but are they necessary? The post Do you need to drink electrolytes? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • BBC Takes On Appeal to Nature Fallacy

    Updated: 2025-02-12 00:57:39
    It’s always good (and frustratingly rare) to see the mainstream media get it right when it comes to pseudoscience in medicine. Too often the narrative is – scientists are baffled at this alternative “one easy trick” to improve your health. Most mainstream articles on pseudoscience in medicine frame their reporting around a positive anecdote, and at best throw in some token skepticism […] The post BBC Takes On Appeal to Nature Fallacy first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • Botulinum Toxin: A tale of medicine, beauty, and danger

    Updated: 2025-02-11 03:15:45
    When used responsibly botulinum toxin is very safe, but patients should be especially vigilant about cosmetic treatments done outside a medical setting. The post Botulinum Toxin: A tale of medicine, beauty, and danger first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • We are not antivaccine, we are pro unattainable vaccine

    Updated: 2025-02-06 08:30:00
    When it comes to vaccines: “If it exists we resist.”  The post We are not antivaccine, we are pro unattainable vaccine first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • The Telepathy Tapes – More FC Pseudoscience

    Updated: 2025-02-05 00:59:33
    Documentaries can be powerful. They can use the mature art-form of cinema in order to convey a specific narrative. The viewer can get drawn into that narrative, unaware they are being exposed to a very one-sided or limited take on a complex topic. I recently, for example, participated in a fun review of the Earthing Movie which was basically propaganda for the […] The post The Telepathy Tapes – More FC Pseudoscience first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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