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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.
Microplastics and Global Health - Science-Based Medicine
Jul 3, 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 ...
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 ...
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.
Update on GMOs and Health | Science-Based Medicine
Jun 21, 2023 · Based on this evidence, 280 scientific organizations around the world have declared that GMOs are just as safe as non-GMO foods and present no special risk. There is, in fact, an overwhelming scientific consensus that GMOs currently on the market are safe and pose no threat to the environment. On the contrary, GMO technology has been critical ...
Why Scientific Plausibility Matters - Science-Based Medicine
May 31, 2023 · Why plausibility must play a central role in scientific medicine. Applying the scientific method to medicine revolutionized the profession. While this was a long process, there was an inflection point, at least in the US, when the Flexner Report was published in 1910. The report was the basis for aligning US medical education with the standards ...
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.”.
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 ...