Scientific studies are often speckled with words like 鈥渃an,鈥� 鈥渃ould,鈥� 鈥渕ay,鈥� 鈥渁ppear,鈥� 鈥渓inked鈥� or 鈥渃orrelated.鈥� This is bothersome. These terms are just too 鈥渋ffy鈥� to allow for any solid...
The directors and producer behind Died Suddenly, the viral 鈥渄ocumentary鈥� that tried to convince us that the COVID-19 vaccines were felling people by creating fibrous clots, are at it again. Their...
Over the past couple of years, there鈥檚 been a lot of buzz about ashwagandha. This herb, estimated to have an annual market value of $42 million USD is available in health food stores and on Amazon,...
We are drowning in fraud. Simply defined, fraud is intentional deception, usually for monetary gain. We have become used to robo-calls telling us that we have been subjected to a tax audit and had...
Grievances against the pharmaceutical industry are common in new media spaces. Influencers on Instagram tell us to shun drugs and embrace the 鈥渘atural.鈥� Diatribes are shared on Facebook against the...
Like so many, I have been experimenting with Chat GPT, the artificial intelligence technology that can answer questions or produce articles on a given topic in humanlike conversational language. In...
In the first 20 minutes of the movie Sound of Metal, the audience watches a young musician lose his hearing. As the background buzz of car motors, conversation, and birdsong fades to silence, we...
鈥淐linically proven鈥� is a very malleable term. What exactly does it mean for an intervention to have been clinically proven to work? In the world of dietary supplements, the veracity of this phrase...
Ready, Set, Go鈥�. for Ozempic. That鈥檚 what the incessant television ads suggest. 鈥淎sk your doctor about Ozempic,鈥� the ads advise, without mentioning what the drug is for. The marketer鈥檚 hope is that...
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