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David Gorski

Detroit

Managing Editor at Science-Based Medicine

Surgeon/scientist promoting science-based medicine. Editor, Science-Based Medicine blog. (He/him.) Also at https://t.co/2LecwK3CP9.

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  • MAHA and “soft eugenics” revisited: The “autism tsunami,” Dr. Oz, and your “patriotic duty” to stay healthy

    4 days ago | sciencebasedmedicine.org | David Gorski

    I hadn’t intended to write about the longtime antivax activist who is, tragically, now the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the US, namely Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Truth be told, I’d love to forget about RFK Jr. for a while, as I’m getting a bit of RFK Jr. fatigue (and, I suspect, so are you). I’d love nothing more than to be able to do a post or two about standard-issue quackery of the variety that I used to write about routinely back in the day.

  • How bad is it? RFK Jr.’s extinction-level threat to science-based federal health policy and public health is here

    1 week ago | sciencebasedmedicine.org | David Gorski

    After learning that, in return for his having suspended his independent Presidential campaign to bend the knee to Donald Trump, Trump had said that he’d appoint longtime antivax activist Robert F.

  • Measles, MAHA, and “soft eugenics”

    2 weeks ago | sciencebasedmedicine.org | David Gorski

    Saturday, a second child died of measles this year, a little more than a month after the first death of a child of measles in two decades had been reported. This brings the total number of measles fatalities so far this year to three, and it’s only early April.

  • “Make America Healthy Again”: The new Lysenkoism

    3 weeks ago | sciencebasedmedicine.org | David Gorski

    I’ve been thinking about (1898–1976) a lot, ever since it was announced that longtime antivaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had been nominated to become Secretary of Health and Human Services. Many regular readers will know why if they are familiar with Lysenkoism, the disastrous political campaign led by Lysenko against science-based agriculture based on Lysenko’s rejection of Mendelian genetics in favor of Lamarckism (more on that later).

  • David Geier now works for HHS. He’s supposedly going to do autism/vaccine studies

    4 weeks ago | leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk | Matt Carey |Steven Novella |David Gorski

    I’ve been waiting for an announcement like this since Robert Kennedy was named Secretary of HHS. Someone from his community, someone known for pushing out bad and very biased studies, would be named to do vaccine/autism research. I’ll admit, my money was on someone else. But, in general, this announcement does not surprise me. I first saw this in a link someone sent to me from the Washington Post: Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism. The story is by Lena H.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD
David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon
22 Apr 25

RT @CACancerJournal: Reduced smoking = fewer cancer deaths. From 1970–2022, reductions in smoking accounted for 51.4% of of the drop in ove…

David Gorski, MD, PhD
David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon
21 Apr 25

I couldn't help but hear echoes last week of eugenics and social Darwinism in @SecKennedy's press conference about autism and @DrOz's exhortation that it's our "patriotic duty" to take care of our body and stay healthy. https://t.co/MTW2rxqKAn

David Gorski, MD, PhD
David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon
20 Apr 25

RT @19joho: https://t.co/Fd1RIVzXcV