I've long argued that antivax beliefs, indeed all science denial, is conspiracy theory. Leave it to The Brownstone ...

With more pregnant women being diagnosed with syphilis, there has been a steady rise in potentially deadly congenital ...

Perusing the hellscape that is what Twitter has degenerated into as X, I found an alternative cancer cure testimonial, which ...

The virus massively disrupted schools around the world, and those of us who did nothing more than acknowledge this obvious ...

The following is a post lightly updated from 2011. If you’ve seen it before, then thank you for following the blog for so long! New posts are coming soon! With healthcare costs continuing to rise, ...

Imagine if we could save over 8 million lives per year globally through public policy. Many of these preventable deaths are in younger people and fall disproportionately on the poor and disadvantaged.

Neuroanatomical research has long established that there are statistical differences at the macroscopic level in male and female brains. There are also functional differences in terms of memory and ...

Bird is the Word. Indeed. Finest tribute to Charlie Parker ever, at least as I understand the lyrics. But then, didn’t Frank Zappa say something to the effect it is foolish to look for meaning in rock ...

Last week, I wrote about a poorly framed article in the New York Times by Apoorva Mandavilli about people who thought they were vaccine-injured, pointing out how it seemed to downplay vaccine benefits ...