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RFK Jr. is now an extinction-level threat to federal public health programs and science-based health policy. A week ago, Donald Trump said that, if elected, he would let Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. "go wild" on healthcare. RFK Jr. has said that he'd immediately remove fluoride from drinking water, while surrogates say he'd work to prove vaccines unsafe.
About SBM - Science-Based Medicine
Science-Based Medicine is dedicated to evaluating medical treatments and products of interest to the public in a scientific light, and promoting the highest standards and traditions of science in health care. Online information about alternative medicine is overwhelmingly credulous and uncritical, and even mainstream media and some medical ...
Reference - Science-Based Medicine
This section of Science-Based Medicine is dedicated to reference resources for major topics and issues relevant to science and medicine. For each topic we will give a concise overview followed by an index of SBM posts on the topic, and key outside resources. We will also list important peer-reviewed research relating to the topic with a brief description of the findings.
The Need for Science-Based Medicine
Dec 15, 2021 · The mission of SBM continues. Founder and currently Executive Editor of Science-Based Medicine Steven Novella, MD is an academic clinical neurologist at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is also the host and producer of the popular weekly science podcast, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, and the author of the NeuroLogicaBlog, a daily blog that covers news and issues in ...
Deciding between a vaccine and…an infection? - Science-Based …
Dec 10, 2020 · With the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine approval in the United Kingdom last week, and yesterday, in Canada, widespread vaccination programs are now ramping up in Europe and North America.It is worth noting (marveling, really) that we now have an authorized vaccine for a novel virus that was isolated less than a year ago.And so far, the data that have emerged on the efficacy of the major ...
What is Science? - Science-Based Medicine
Feb 3, 2012 · Nevertheless, one of the basic functions of science is to determine what actions are impossible in this real world. Choosing between the possible and the impossible is a task carried out by means of the laws of denial, which tie us firmly to reality even as imaginations soar unfettered through the universe.
More on Long COVID - Science-Based Medicine
Aug 21, 2024 · There is still a long list of potential causes of long COVID, including: direct or indirect invasion of the virus into the brain, immune dysregulation, hormonal disturbances, elevated cytokine levels due to immune reaction leading to chronic inflammation, direct tissue damage to other organs, and persistent low-grade infection.
What Is Somatic Therapy? - Science-Based Medicine
Feb 28, 2024 · One manifestation of this phenomenon is so-called “somatic therapy”. Here is an explanation of what that is, from Harvard: “A somatic therapist helps people release damaging, pent-up emotions in their body by using various mind-body techniques. These can vary widely, ranging from acupressure and hypnosis to breathwork and dance.”.
Evidence-based medicine vs. basic science in medical school
May 22, 2023 · Last week Dr. Vinay Prasad wrote a Substack arguing that medical students should learn the principles of evidence-based medicine before basic science.This is a recipe for amplifying the main flaw in EBM that science-based medicine was meant to correct, and Dr. Prasad’s arguments would have been right at home on an integrative medicine blog.
Acupuncture and Evidence Based Medicine
Jul 31, 2024 · Founder and currently Executive Editor of Science-Based Medicine Steven Novella, MD is an academic clinical neurologist at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is also the host and producer of the popular weekly science podcast, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, and the author of the NeuroLogicaBlog, a daily blog that covers news and issues in neuroscience, but also general science ...