In 2023 Dr. Vinay Prasad said that scientists who recognized the limitations of randomized-controlled trials (RCTS) were ...

Last Thursday during a roundtable on stem cell therapies, new FDA Commissioner Marty Makary referred to EBM levels of evidence as an artificial and dogmatic construct. Apparently Dr. David Katz's "mor ...

I'm sure you are as sick of reading about RFK Jr. as we are of writing about him, but this is the world we live in. We cannot let outrage fatigue cause us to take our eye off the ball. If nothing els ...

So-called "health influencers" - self-appointed health gurus spreading their unvetted opinions about health through social ...

The full results of the National Toxicology Program’s study of cell phones and cancer are finally in. They are somewhat complicated, but ultimately do not support the idea that cell phones can cause ...

Writing for SBM these days is a bit like being in one of those cash grab machines, though instead of money flying over the place, it’s bees and wasps. Every week brings a fresh round of horrors that ...

“Strong Medicine”: Ted Kaptchuk and the Powerful Placebo At the beginning of the first edition of The Web that has no Weaver, published in 1983, author Ted Kaptchuk portended his eventual academic ...

We at SBM have written about German cancer clinics that offer a combination of cancer quackery, some real medicine, plus unproven experimental therapies, all at a high cost, both financially and in ...