Scott Gavura 🇺🇦
Advocate for science-based health policy; pseudoscience critic; blogger, @sciencebasedmed; I post in personal capacity.
Did the World's Leading Vaccinologists Claim Vaccine Safety is Not Well Studied?vaxopedia.org Debunking the claim that vaccine safety is not well studied. Learn why more funding for vaccine safety research is needed to counter anti-vaccine influencers.
A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trialwww.npr.org The testing of lenacapavir was halted because results were so impressive — 100% effectiveness. The decision was made to give all participants the injection rather than the alternative daily pill.
Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...
Does It Work? Does it Do Harm? And More Basic Questions.www.science.org
Measles returned to Costa Rica after five years by French family who had not had vaccinationswww.independent.co.uk Arrival of highly contagious, potentially deadly disease in a country that had been free of it since 2014 is likely to increase fears about the threat posed by the anti-vaccination movement
Measles: Cases rise in Northern Ireland and Republic of Irelandbbc.com There have been 11 cases of measles in Northern Ireland in 2024 and 68 in the Republic of Ireland.
Paul Marik: Disparaging chemotherapy in order to sell cancer quackerysciencebasedmedicine.org Everything old is new once again, as COVID-19 quacks rehash old cancer quack claims that chemotherapy doesn't work in order to sell their preferred cancer quackery.
Offline: In defence of Dr Fauciwww.thelancet.com “Is this what we have become? Is this what we have devolved into?” US Congressman
Kweisi Mfume was reacting to comments from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene at
a hearing of the Select Subcommitt...
Why You’re Paying Your Veterinarian So Muchwww.nytimes.com People have grown more attached to their pets — and more willing to spend money on them — turning animal medicine into a high-tech industry worth billions.
Masks are going from mandated to criminalized in some stateswww.washingtonpost.com Lawmakers in North Carolina and New York say mask bans in response to pro-Palestinian protests would not target medical mask wearing, but critics are skeptical.
Why is The New York Times now promoting an anti-science agenda?sciencebasedmedicine.org This essay stems from concerns about two editorials published in The New York Times recently. We felt that they were problematic in that the past is viewed through a blurred prism to produce revisioni...
“The New York Times” Is Failing Its Readers Badly on Covidwww.thenation.com A pair of shoddy opinion pieces proves that the paper is letting its audience down and undermining the fight to improve our knowledge of the virus.
Why is The New York Times now promoting an anti-science agenda?sciencebasedmedicine.org This essay stems from concerns about two editorials published in The New York Times recently. We felt that they were problematic in that the past is viewed through a blurred prism to produce revisioni...
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The Opaque Industry Secretly Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugswww.nytimes.com Pharmacy benefit managers are driving up drug costs for millions of people, employers and the government.
Chiropractors again banned from giving Australian babies spinal treatmentwww.theguardian.com Regulator reverses last week’s decision allowing baby back cracking practice amid outcry from other medical bodies