Science-Based Medicine
WEBAllison Neitzel / September 8, 2024. Science and Medicine. Biosafety Now: Releasing The Virus Was Mass Murder. Intentionally Spreading It Was Forgivable. I suppose it's my turn to be called a fraudster, liar, perjurer, felon, grifter, stooge, imbecile, and maybe even murderer. What I won't get is a reasonable explanation as to why supposedly ...
About SBM - Science-Based Medicine
WEBScience-Based Medicine is dedicated to evaluating medical treatments and products of interest to the public in a scientific light, and promoting the highest standards and traditions of science in health care. Online information about alternative medicine is overwhelmingly credulous and uncritical, and even mainstream media and some medical ...
Reference - Science-Based Medicine
WEBThis section of Science-Based Medicine is dedicated to reference resources for major topics and issues relevant to science and medicine. For each topic we will give a concise overview followed by an index of SBM posts on the topic, and key outside resources. We will also list important peer-reviewed research relating to the topic with a …
More on Long COVID - Science-Based Medicine
WEBAug 21, 2024 · There is still a long list of potential causes of long COVID, including: direct or indirect invasion of the virus into the brain, immune dysregulation, hormonal disturbances, elevated cytokine levels due to immune reaction leading to chronic inflammation, direct tissue damage to other organs, and persistent low-grade infection.
The Need for Science-Based Medicine
WEBDec 15, 2021 · The mission of SBM continues. Founder and currently Executive Editor of Science-Based Medicine Steven Novella, MD is an academic clinical neurologist at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is also the host and producer of the popular weekly science podcast, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, and the author of the NeuroLogicaBlog, a daily blog that covers news and issues in ...
15 Years of SBM - Science-Based Medicine
WEBDec 21, 2022 · A look back at a decade and a half of SBM. The beginning of the new year will mark the 15th anniversary of Science-Based Medicine as a blog. In that time we have published 4,328 articles covering just about every topic in the science of medicine. Hopefully we have at least added a useful voice to the much needed conversation surrounding how ...
Evidence in Medicine: Correlation and Causation
WEBNov 18, 2009 · Founder and currently Executive Editor of Science-Based Medicine Steven Novella, MD is an academic clinical neurologist at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is also the host and producer of the popular weekly science podcast, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, and the author of the NeuroLogicaBlog, a daily blog that covers news and issues in neuroscience, but also general science ...
The Promise of CRISPR - Science-Based Medicine
WEBAug 23, 2017 · CRISPR is the latest rock-star medical technology that promises to revolutionize medicine. Let’s take a look at the hype and the reality. In the 1990s there was a great deal of legitimate hope that antioxidant therapy would treat and perhaps even cure a long list of degenerative diseases. Oxygen free radicals damage cells, and antioxidants ...
What is Science? - Science-Based Medicine
WEBFeb 3, 2012 · Nevertheless, one of the basic functions of science is to determine what actions are impossible in this real world. Choosing between the possible and the impossible is a task carried out by means of the laws of denial, which tie us firmly to reality even as imaginations soar unfettered through the universe.
Evolution in Medicine - Science-Based Medicine
WEBJan 27, 2010 · A recent series of article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) discusses the role of evolutionary biology in modern medicine. The authors collectively make a forceful point - medicine is an applied science. It is based upon a number of basic sciences, and one of those basic sciences is evolution. The most obvious example is bacterial antibiotic resistance.…