Updated: 2025-03-07 08:06:00
Myths spread by contrarian doctors to minimize COVID are being recycled to minimize measles. The anti-vaccine circle is complete.
The post Everything Old Is New Again, Again first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
Updated: 2025-03-05 13:16:29
An excellent article on the BBC gives a good overview of the continuing controversy over universal lockdowns as a pandemic mitigation strategy during COVID. We now have significant data about how various countries around the world fared compared to their mitigation strategy. Interestingly, this data is unlikely to resolve the controversy. But it can inform our decisions for the next pandemic – […]
The post Looking Back 5 Year Later – Were Lockdowns Worth It? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
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. […]
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Updated: 2025-02-26 13:14:20
What, exactly, is dyslexia? What causes it, how should it be diagnosed, and stemming from that, how should it be treated? We can even ask a more fundamental question – does it actually exist as a discrete clinical entity? These questions have existed since dyslexia was first described and named in 1887, by German Opthalmologist, Rudolf Berlin. Not surprisingly, he thought the […]
The post Redefining Dyslexia first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
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.
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.
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 […]
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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.
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.
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.
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.
