The Kryptonite Hypothesis
Experts say the medical establishment was wrong to dismiss warnings that common obesity-related medications would trigger COVID-19 deaths.
Experts say the medical establishment was wrong to dismiss warnings that common obesity-related medications would trigger COVID-19 deaths.
Australia’s roadmap out of lockdowns is based on false assumptions that put the vulnerable in harm’s way.
How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.
More than half of environmental scientists working for Australian federal and state governments report having been “prohibited from communicating scientific information”, according to the results of a new survey.
Sometimes the most important voices turn out to be those of independent thinkers whose views were initially doubted.
People struggling with addiction who share a lethal dose of drugs are being prosecuted as killers.
A leading medical journal is launching a global campaign to separate medicine from big pharma, linking industry influence to the pelvic mesh scandal that injured hundreds of women.
In the last six years, the commercial jet manufacturer suffered two worldwide groundings, leading to its current crisis.
Why it’s so hard to see our own ignorance, and what to do about it.
Stories in the media are often the first or even the only way that people hear about science and medical news. So we need to get the reporting right.
After making millions for Enron, launching his own hedge fund, and becoming a billionaire, John Arnold retired at 38. His next act? Fix terrible science.
Long after research contradicts common medical practices, patients continue to demand them and physicians continue to deliver. The result is an epidemic of unnecessary and unhelpful treatments.
The global warming potential of the gaseous fossil fuel may be consistently underestimated.
The history of medicine includes many examples of ideas that were initially ridiculed or rejected by the medical establishment but that later became widely adopted.
Each year, pollution kills twice as many people worldwide as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined, but aid policy has consistently neglected it as a health risk.
Asia has one million hepatitis-related deaths per year and 70 percent of the global death toll, but funding for viral hepatitis is miniscule. (Note: An error was introduced during the editing process: the Global Burden of Disease study is the work of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), at the University of Washington, not the WHO.)
Zulfiqar A Bhutta says that criminal sanctions are necessary to deter growing deliberate research misconduct, which can ultimately harm patients. Julian Crane disagrees: he doubts that sanctions will have any deterrent effect and worries that criminalisation would undermine trust.
A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals.
Dr. Alice M. Stewart, an epidemiologist who first demonstrated the link between X-rays of pregnant women and disease in their children, a finding that changed medical practice, died on June 23 in Oxford, England.