Today is World Cancer Day. It is an international day observed every 4 February to raise awareness about cancer, encourage its prevention, and mobilise action to address the global cancer epidemic.

As recently as 2019, a quarter more homeopathic remedies were sold than today in Germany, reported the FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG [my translation]. The largest manufacturer is removing individual ...

Many German newspapers reported that a 10-year old boy who had contracted diphtheria has died after months of suffering in a Berlin hospital. The child had not been vaccinated. The boy had been ...

I am not a religious person, but that does not mean that I disagree with everything the clergy says or does. On the contrary, ...

Most of my readers are probably aware of Robert F Kennedy Jr's attitudes to vaccinations and other crucial health issues See, for instance, here: The ‘moral and intellectual decay’ of COVID disinforma ...

We often encounter multiple systematic reviews on (almost) the same topic. This provides us with interesting comparisons and is, I think an opportunity to learn. Here is an example: two reviews of ...

On 27 January, the EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET WASHINGTON, D.C. issued this MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES: ... Financial assistance ...

This investigation seems highly relevant to my blog and some of the comments it receives: The spread of misinformation has emerged as a global concern. Academic attention has recently shifted to ...

In the series of posts entitled WHAT HAPPENED NEXT, I pick up themes that I addressed more than a decade ago with the intention of finding out whether things have moved on or not. Today, allow me to ...