David Gorski
Managing Editor at Science-Based Medicine
"Antagonist of Bhattacharya" & surgeon/scientist promoting science-based medicine. Editor, Science-Based Medicine blog. Also: @gorskon.bsky.social. (He/him.)
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2 weeks ago |
sciencebasedmedicine.org | David Gorski
I’m going to start this post with two quotes for you to contemplate. First, during the FDA Roundtable on Cell and Gene Therapy held last Thursday, we have the new FDA Commissioner Marty Makary saying near the end of the proceedings:I think we can learn a lot from individual experiences. We tend to talk in the lexicon of clinical medicine about level 1, 2, and 3 evidence.
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3 weeks ago |
sciencebasedmedicine.org | David Gorski
This weekend, I’ve been attending the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting. I’m still here, but leaving for home this afternoon. (I’m leaving a little early and, unfortunately, will miss tomorrow’s sessions, but I have surgery tomorrow.) On Friday afternoon, as I was flitting from one session to another, a thought crossed my mind: Funny, but there were no sessions on “turbo cancer” on the program.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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RT @beyerstein: These grifters make the rubes pay to have their data harvested under the guise of wellness, then they run a tax scam to let…
Sadly, this is going to be the way. ACIP is now a joke; so medical professional societies are going to have to step in and provide science- and evidence-based guidelines as ACIP under @SecKennedy has become utterly unreliable.
Today's ACIP meeting is usually a time where experts come together to inform the future of vaccines. That is not what today will be. That is not what we can stand behind. The AAP will continue to recommend its own childhood vaccine schedule -- just as we have since the 1930s. https://t.co/m2b5tTUPnJ
Unfortunately, this is happening a lot. Insurance companies want cheap; they care little for quality when it comes to cancer care.
UnitedHealthcare has dropped Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from its network, leaving 20,000 cancer patients (including me) without access to our doctors and life-saving treatment starting July 1. Cancer patients cannot simply “go elsewhere.” Finding new specialists
