David Gorski, MD, PhD

This is true, for the most part, but certain scientifically rigorous designs can most definitely be unethical.

Of course. What is scientifically most rigorous is sometimes unethical.

Absolutely we will.

There is precedent for sham surgical procedures as placebo. The use of stem cells to treat Parkinson's disease was subjected to sham procedure in a placebo-controlled clinical trial. However, the sham surgical procedure was less invasive, and even then the ethics were dicey at best.

I see what Max did there.😂

One year of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary: The Lancet reacts, and so do I Editors of The Lancet published an op-ed decrying RFK Jr.'s one year of failure at HHS. They're correct about RFK Jr, but they are not blameless in what has happened.

Editors of @thelancet.com published an op-ed decrying RFK Jr.’s year of failure at @hhsofficial.bsky.social. They’re correct about RFK Jr. but are not blameless for the devastation that he is wreaking on US public health, medicine, and biomedical research. sciencebasedmedicine.org/one-year-of-...

KAMALA HARRIS WILL SEND YOUR CHILDREN TO WAR STOP WARS VOTE TRUMP VANCE

It’s rather easy, actually. This guy linked to his Grok answer.😆

So now an antivaxxer is emailing my work address with his Grok-penned arguments. Is this what I'm going to have to put up with now? Antivax harassment by AI slop?

Low-Dose Naltrexone as an Adjunct to the McCullough Protocol Base Spike Detoxification™ in Long COVID Management Symptom control improved while body is ridding itself of Spike Protein

Quelle surprise. COVID-19 quacks and antivaxxers are getting into the low dose naltrexone grift. www.thefocalpoints.com/p/low-dose-n...

I second that request.

Vinay Prasad was respectable before the pandemic. So was Marty Makary. You might not like it, but they were considered so.

And, of course, the protagonist will be patterned after Podcast Jay.🤢

I thought it was The Onion when I first saw the headline.

RFK Jr.’s billionaire running mate is making a comedy about the pandemic Nicole Shanahan has recruited a top screenwriter and enlisted Covid contrarian Jay Bhattacharya.

If you hated that, wait till you see this. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Dr. Howard nails it. bsky.app/profile/joho...

RFK Jr.’s billionaire running mate is making a comedy about the pandemic Nicole Shanahan has recruited a top screenwriter and enlisted Covid contrarian Jay Bhattacharya.

If you hated that, wait till you see this. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Respectable physicians and scientists either fawned over RFK Jr. or, almost as bad, deluded themselves into ignoring all the quackery and antivax conspiracy theories at the heart of MAHA because they liked the idea of better diet and lifestyle to combat chronic diseases. Too bad MAHA is a con job.

My reaction exactly.

Podcast Jay won’t be running CDC, either. He’ll just be the figurehead for RFK Jr.’s dismantling of federal public health and vaccine programs. Podcast Jay is incompetent at actually running anything, but he can serve as a figurehead for the destruction of US public health and biomedical science.

Podcast Jay’s appointment as interim director of the CDC is yet more evidence that he was never in charge of NIH. Memoli and Vought are. They don’t need him there, other than as a figurehead for converting the NIH into the “research” institute for MAHA and a mechanism for political patronage.

Most rib fractures heal on their own, and he’ll attribute his healing to the homeopathy.

The exhibition hall at this confab was educational. Knowing what came next over the next 14 years, I now find all the gold scams, NWO conspiracy theories, prepper stuff, and supplements hawking to have been quaint, but unfortunately prescient, and I didn’t see it at the time.

Steve Novella vs. Julian Whitaker on vaccines at FreedomFest While I and some of the others in the SBM crew were at The Amazing Meeting (TAM) in Las Vegas, our fearless leader Steve Novella got an interesting challenge: To debate Dr. Julian Whitaker about vacci

I even met her in person once.🤣 sciencebasedmedicine.org/battling-ant...

She’s a homeopath, because of course she is. wholehealthnow.com/Home/Instruc...

"Almost autism": A new diagnosis created by antivaccinationists Is it just me, or are medical propaganda films becoming the preferred media for “brave maverick doctors, dubious doctors, and quacks to promote their wares? I just pointed out how everybody’s favorite...

I’ve been writing about Leslie Manookian for a long time. www.respectfulinsolence.com/2013/02/22/a...

Get out the popcorn! Leslie Manookian attacks fellow antivaxer James Lyons-Weiler I always love a good crank fight, and we seem to be witnessing an entertaining one, as Leslie Manookian attacks fellow antivaxer James Lyons-Weiler for not being antivaccine enough. Get out the popcor...

Leslie Manookian? Now there’s a blast from the past! www.respectfulinsolence.com/2018/02/08/g...

Of course, this is a feature, not a bug, of the new regime.

I first encountered @skepticalraptor.bsky.social 15 years ago and have learned a ton from his writing. 🙏

Rest of the WORLD too. Damned autocomplete. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣