A new preliminary study published in Nature suggests that COVID-19 vaccines might actually boost the immune system to make immunotherapy more effective. If confirmed in followup studies, this result suggests that the vaccines do the opposite of causing "turbo cancer." The post The opposite of “turbo cancer”: COVID-19 vaccines sensitize cancer to immunotherapy first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.| Science-Based Medicine
Surgeon general nominee Dr. Casey Means is an advocate of "functional medicine." She, MAHA, and a new "board certification" will falsely legitimize quackery. The post Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey Means and functional medicine: Legitimizing quackery first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.| Science-Based Medicine
The US Supreme Court recently heard a case that could have devastating effects on the standard of care in medicine, and the indicators of where the justices fall are not good. The case is Chiles v Salazar, in which a licensed therapist is arguing that a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for gay and trans clients violates her free speech. So the […] The post Is (Conversion) Therapy Speech? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.| Science-Based Medicine
Last week, news stories reported that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had convened an "aluminum working group." Among the "scientists" there are antivax scientists about whom I've been writing for over a decade. Everything old antivax is new again. The post RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 4: Aluminum edition (or: Everything old is new again…again) first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.| Science-Based Medicine
People who keep whistling past the graveyard (of vaccines) to assure themselves that RFK Jr,. won't take away their vaccines are deluding themselves. One seven-minute video he posted last week shows that, weaponizing an old one deceptive antivax trope claiming that vaccines didn't do that much to improve global health. The post Robert F. Kennedy Jr. weaponizes an old antivax trope in his quest to eliminate vaccines first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.| Science-Based Medicine
Last week, it was reported that Mark Blaxill had been hired at CDC. It looks like RFK Jr.'s resurrecting every washed up antivax crony he can find to staff HHS. The post Mark Blaxill: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. resurrects another washed-up antivax activist first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.| Science-Based Medicine
The CDC's newly reconstituted antivax Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met last week. The results weren't as horrific as I'd expected, but not for lack of trying. In this post, I'll focus on one presentation as a lens through which to look at the meeting as a whole. The post Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 3: Antivax rhetoric and incompetence at ACIP first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.| Science-Based Medicine
The Food and Drug Administration appears to be about to weaponize a classic antivax trope against COVID-19 vaccines, the abuse of reports to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System to falsely portray them as deadly, even as news reports suggest that RFK Jr. will further restrict access to COVID-19 and three childhood vaccines. Here we go again. The post Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 2: VAERS, the FDA, and ACIP first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.| Science-Based Medicine
People who keep whistling past the graveyard (of vaccines) to assure themselves that RFK Jr,. won't take away their vaccines are deluding themselves. One seven-minute video he posted last week shows t| Science-Based Medicine
The recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act prompted a major overhaul of the Internal Revenue Code's QSBS rules, write guest authors Ling Kong and Michael Shaff of the Michelman & Robinson law firm. In this commentary, the authors break down what’s changed and why it matters.| Crunchbase News
This isn’t just the friendly “technology makes everything faster, cheaper, and more efficient” kind of story, writes guest author Aron Solomon. Rather, he warns, this is where technology steps in not because it’s better than humans, but because the humans simply aren’t there anymore.| Crunchbase News
