Joseph B. Fraiman

Dec 10, 2024 | childrenshealthdefense.org | Joseph B. Fraiman

By Dr. Joseph Fraiman Introduction“Do you think there would have been less deaths overall if we hadn’t had a vaccine?”This question was posed to Dr. Aseem Malhotra by Steven Bartlett during an interview on Bartlett’s podcast “Diary of a CEO.” To which Malhotra responded simply “Yes.”Full Fact, a fact-checking organization, has written a verdict on Malhotra’s answer, claiming: “False.

Dec 9, 2024 | brownstone.org | Joseph B. Fraiman

This article was co-authored by Dr. Timothy Kelly. “Do you think there would have been less deaths overall if we hadn’t had a vaccine?”This question was posed to Dr. Aseem Malhotra by Steven Bartlett during an interview on Bartlett’s podcast Diary of a CEO. To which Dr. Malhotra responded simply “Yes.”Full Fact, a fact-checking organization, has written a verdict on Malhotra’s answer, claiming: “False.

Jan 5, 2024 | jabfm.org | Alison Huffstetler |Joseph B. Fraiman |Shannon Brownlee |Kenneth W Lin

To the Editor: Swartz and his colleagues bring concerns regarding methods of our analysis and methodologies.1 In our systematic review of the literature pertaining to the harms of screening colonoscopy, we judged that a meta-analysis was not statistically sound due to the very high heterogeneity of study results (I2 of 97%).

Aug 23, 2023 | brownstone.org | Joseph B. Fraiman

At first, I hesitated to contribute a chapter to this book due to the fear of being associated with some of the other authors. It wasn’t personal dislike of the other writers, but given that so many of us have had our reputations destroyed these past years, I feared further damage to my own.  It dawned on me that my hesitation was itself a form of self-censorship, and I saw the irony in refusing to write a chapter in a book on censorship.

May 11, 2023 | jabfm.org | Alison Huffstetler |Virginia Commonwealth |Joseph B. Fraiman |Shannon Brownlee

ConclusionUnderstanding and reducing harm is a common goal of clinicians and health systems.19 We conducted a rigorous analysis of harms that occurred in the course of screening colonoscopy, which is the third most common cancer screening procedure in the US, exceeded only by Papanicolaou tests and mammography.20 Recently, a publication in the New England Journal by Bretthauer et al. suggested that the mortality benefits of screening colonoscopy have been overestimated in cohort studies.