It has been reported that a woman who suffered a severe headache after injuring her neck during a workout died following a visit to a chiropractor. Joanna Kowalczyk, aged 29, declined a procedure at ...

Harald Walach is probably known to many of my readers (he is also a co-author of the paper that was the subject of yesterday's post), not least because I posted numerous articles about him on this ...

According to the authors of a recent paper, "the placebo response in clinical trials has four components: regression to the mean (RTM), measurement artefacts, natural tendency (NT) of the disease, and ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today is 'HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY'. A day to remember the liberation of Auschwitz, 80 years ago, and the 6 million Jews murdered during the Third Reich. I find it hard not to mark this occasion. Allow ...