David Gorski

1 week ago | sciencebasedmedicine.org | David Gorski

Given that this is a holiday weekend, I had been considering taking a week off to hang out, go on long bike rides, and do some yard work. Then—wouldn’t you know it?—on Thursday, the Trump administration and his “make America healthy again” (MAHA) antivax crank and toady, Robert F.

2 weeks ago | sciencebasedmedicine.org | David Gorski

Ever since antivax activist turned presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bent the knee to Donald Trump in exchange for a high-ranking position related to health in the Trump administration under the false banner of “make America healthy again” (MAHA), I’ve been warning what a threat he is to the federal government’s public health and science programs, warnings that, in retrospect, turned out to have been, if anything, not dire enough.

3 weeks ago | sciencebasedmedicine.org | David Gorski

There’s an old adage or curse that comes to mind nearly every day since Donald Trump won the 2024 Presidential election. Hard as it is to believe, it’s been less than four months since Trump was inaugurated, and nearly every day since then has greeted me with new assaults on the federal infrastructure overseeing biomedical science, medicine, and public health. It’s an assault that began before longtime antivax activist Robert F.

1 month ago | sciencebasedmedicine.org | David Gorski

Having a man who has for the last two decades arguably been America’s most famous and intellectual antivax activist in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been exhausting. Every week, I say that I’m not going to write about whatever new horror Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is inflicting on US federal health, public health, and biomedical research, but then every week he comes up with something new that, to those of us paying attention, is not really new at all.

1 month ago | sciencebasedmedicine.org | David Gorski

When a country puts an antivaxxer and supporter of quackery whose worldview with respect to medicine and biomedical science is as utterly divorced from science and reality as that of longtime antivax activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in charge of the nation’s medicine and public health, there are certain predictable outcomes that we can expect to observe over the next few years. The most obvious of these outcomes is the likely return of once-vanquished vaccine-preventable diseases.