Steven Novella
Founder and Executive Editor at Science-Based Medicine
The host of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast, and science blogger extraordinaire.
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3 days ago |
sciencebasedmedicine.org | Steven Novella
Oregano oil is being marketed with a variety of health claims, including as a treatment for various infections, inflammatory disorders, and skin conditions. This TikTok video by an “Ayervedic specialist” is typical of the claims made for this product. The claims suffer all the usual problems of the supplement industry, which we can go through them in some detail. But here is the executive summary – claims for oregano oil are based partly on traditional use and partly on pre-clinical data.
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5 days ago |
skepticalinquirer.org | Steven Novella
I still remember (at least in the aggregate) when I first started reading Skeptical Inquirer. It was a revelation—careful analysis by people with expertise on a range of scientific topics, especially those not often covered (and certainly not covered well) by the mainstream media or even science outlets.
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5 days ago |
skepticalinquirer.org | Steven Novella
The denial of anthropogenic global warming—that human industrial activity is forcing the Earth’s climate on average to become slowly warmer over time—has been one of the most significant and important issues the skeptical movement has tackled. The skeptical approach to this issue has been to understand the consensus of expert scientific opinion, the evidentiary basis for that opinion, the confidence levels, and the uncertainty.
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1 week ago |
sciencebasedmedicine.org | Steven Novella
For those with advance ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or certain brainstem strokes, they can be what is referred to as “locked in”. They are mostly paralyzed. A tip of the basilar artery brainstem stroke, for example, can leave one only able to more their eyes. Many with ALS, long before they get to this point, lose the ability to speak because of bulbar weakness – weakness in the tongue and muscles in their throat. The resulting inability to communicate can be devastating.
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2 weeks ago |
sciencebasedmedicine.org | Steven Novella
I’m sure you are as sick of reading about RFK Jr. as we are of writing about him, but this is the world we live in. We cannot let outrage fatigue cause us to take our eye off the ball. If nothing else, SBM needs to chronical every anti-science move that this administration makes. As most people, and certainly most readers here, certainly know, RFK Jr. is a dangerous anti-science and specifically anti-vaccine crank who is now the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Interview on a Chicago radio station about the COVID pandemic. I didn't realize until I was on what their political orientation was - https://t.co/8x2fw8KG0x
Orioles are back. Put out some oranges, and they will come. https://t.co/ufwfi2jb8y
Getting lots of questions about Dr. Mikovits. She appears to be an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist crank. She wrote a book with notorious antivaxxer, Heckenlively. Foreward by nutjob RFK Jr. https://t.co/53Dqx1u1cm