Robert F. Kennedy’s Point Is, He’s a Believer in Bodily Autonomy Back when he was auditioning for his current role at the FDA and had to fluff RFK Jr., Dr. Vinay Prasad recorded a video extolling the ...

I have since obtained the long-form Establishment Inspection Report (EIR) from FDA’s first and only visit to DAP between its formation in 2011 and its dissolution in 2021. The EIR provides a complete ...

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 ...

Dr. Bhattacharya said this because he felt he had been unfairly treated himself. On his first day in office, when over 1,000 NIH employees were purged, Dr. Bhattacharya lamented in a podcast with Bari ...

Source: Acting CDER Head Becomes Latest in String of FDA Leaders to Leave Agency Trust in our medical establishment is justifiably collapsing, however you wouldn’t know any of this this from listening ...

Yes, that's what I fear. RFK Jr.'s waiting for the "data" from the bogus "studies" that he's commissioned, so that ACIP can use the results as a pretext for removing vaccines on the CDC schedule or ...

Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad embrace a “more fluid concept of evidence” at the FDA Last Thursday during a roundtable on stem cell therapies, new FDA Commissioner Marty Makary referred to EBM levels ...

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 else ...

One of the perks of being managing editor of SBM is that I’m allowed, on occasion, to use the blog to promote something I’ve done or an appearance that I’ve made. Given the impending meeting of the ...

Dr. Prasad is not the only member of our medical establishment who is undermining RCTs. As Dr. David Gorski discussed Monday they are embracing anecdotal evidence, and recent headlines give a clue as ...

Vaccine schedules are fluid and subject to change based on ongoing risk/benefit assessment. Updated safety information, changes in the epidemiology of the infection, and/or change in the efficacy of ...

Here’s my own smartwatch helping motivate me. Last week my Garmin smartwatch gave me an update after a week of strength workouts, bike commutes, and two runs: “Training Status: Unproductive.” ...