As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. throws his hat in the latest American presidential race, it would be easy to confine his bad ideas to the label 鈥渁nti-vaccine.鈥� He is, after all, the founder and chairman...
Monster stories, like roller coasters, allow us to safely experience one of our most intense emotions: fear. The existence of vampires can alleviate our dread at the thought of dying, while...
As medicine uses more and more complex tools to treat illness, I worry that these newer interventions will be seen as impenetrable black boxes. A pill is easy to understand, but gene therapy?...
Are you kidding me? 鈥淣ature鈥檚 Ozempic"? Really? That message is spreading like wildfire on TikTok about berberine, a compound found in plants such as barberry, golden seal and meadow rue that have...
Prior to the buoyant accounts of the study with the alluring title 鈥淭aurine deficiency as a driver of aging,鈥� it was mostly people who read the list of ingredients on the label of the 鈥渆nergy drink...
Stop me if you鈥檝e heard this one before. Dr. Edward Jenner invented vaccines because of an observation he and he alone made. You see, milkmaids were renowned for their beauty. At a time when...
Scientific studies are often speckled with words like 鈥渃an,鈥� 鈥渃ould,鈥� 鈥渕ay,鈥� 鈥渁ppear,鈥� 鈥渓inked鈥� or 鈥渃orrelated.鈥� This is bothersome. These terms are just too 鈥渋ffy鈥� to allow for any solid...
The directors and producer behind Died Suddenly, the viral 鈥渄ocumentary鈥� that tried to convince us that the COVID-19 vaccines were felling people by creating fibrous clots, are at it again. Their...
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