Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are being rolled out at a furious pace. There is no doubt they are potentially powerful tools, although with flaws and limitations. But one thing that large ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was on The Tucker Carlson Show last week. It got me to thinking: What's next in RFK Jr.'s ...

Here's my watch telling me to try harder.Fifteen years ago, then-contributor Peter Lipson wrote a short post on this blog ...

This is what it looks like when disinformation doctors pretend to value data and science to further their true objective, ...

How can we decrease the amount of shoddy science and improve the rigor of research in the behavioral sciences?

Some of us believe in civil debate and discussion, even though Drs. Vinay Prasad, Marty Makary, and Jay Bhattacharya do not.

The book's title refers to an epigram from Jonathan Swift's essay Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting: "When a ...

The DAP facility consisted of a 480 square feet, two room suite with an office space and a separate, unclassified production ...

Oregano oil is being marketed with a variety of health claims, including as a treatment for various infections, inflammatory ...

Do COVID-19 vaccines cause “turbo cancer”? Over the last several months, antivaxxers have been claiming that COVID-19 vaccines cause “turbo cancer”, cancers (or cancer recurrences) of a particularly ...

You might ask how the NIH can do this. Although most NIH grants are longer than a year, with the “gold standard” NIH R01 grant typically being for five years, they are funded one year at a time. After ...

The idea is that “meritorious” equals anything that achieves a certain priority score, say in the best 20% of scores (or, in NIH lingo, lower than the 20th percentile). I’ll let the authors elaborate: ...