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David Gorski

David Gorski

Managing Editor at Science-Based Medicine

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  • English
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The opposite of “turbo cancer”: COVID-19 vaccines sensitize cancer to immunotherapy

A new study suggests that, far from causing "turbo cancers," COVID-19 vaccines might actually boost the immune system to make immunotherapy more effective.
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Here we go again: Another study is being misrepresented as evidence...

An eminent cancer researche is promoting a study that seems to show—but, when critically examined, doesn't—that COVID vaccines are associated with increased cancer risk.
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RFK Jr.’s remade ACIP meets: And so it begins (in earnest)…the dism...

The newly reconstituted CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet this week. Packed with antivaxxers, the antivax-adjacent, and the unqualified, ACIP will begin the dismantling of the
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The NCCIH embraces the quackery that is “functional medicine”

[Editor note: Regular readers might—or might not have—noticed last Monday that, for the first time in more years than I can remember, I failed to post anything and didn't even repost something fr
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Revisiting “integrative oncology”: The battle to integrate quackery...

Nature Reviews Cancer published a commentary promoting "integrative oncology"—or what I like to call "integrating" quackery with oncology. The battle continues.
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Forget “turbo cancers” caused by COVID-19 vaccines. Does COVID itse...

The Washington Post recently published an article asking if COVID-19 infection can cause cancer. Probably not, but it's more plausible than the vaccine.
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Yet another example of how “new school” anti-COVID vaccine antivaxx...

Exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine
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We finally learn from TACT2 what we should have known two decades a...

At SBM, we’ve long argued that chelation therapy for heart disease is quackery. An abstract presented recently finally confirmed that. Why did it take so long?
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COVID-19 antivax quacks are now “repurposing” ivermectin for cancer

COVID-19 antivax quacks are now “repurposing” ivermectin for cancer
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“New school” antivax goes old school as Byram Bridle asks if COVID-...

Antivax scientist Byram Bridle just took the “new school” antivax movement old school by implying that COVID-19 vaccines might cause an “epidemic of autism.”
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RFK Jr. and his “I’m not anti-vaccine” rejoinder to being confronte...

Exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine
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Study laundering: IPAK, antivax “scientists,” and the return of liv...

Mark Skidmore’s antivax paper claiming that COVID-19 vaccines might have killed 278K people was republished in a fake journal, thus “laundering” his study.
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Alternative medicine and antivax: Two crappy tastes that taste ... ...

A study reaffirms the correlation among physicians between antivax views and quackery. Acceptance of alt med by doctors endangers vaccination efforts.
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Dr. William Makis and “turbo cancer”: Falsely blaming COVID-19 ... ...

A prominent oncologist and cancer biologist, Wafik El-Deiry, recently amplified claims that COVID-19 vaccines cause “turbo cancer.” Once more into the fray...
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Health misinformation now has powerful allies - Science Based Medicine

Exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine
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Cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski continues to prey on cancer ... - ...

This year, cancer quack Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski turned 80. Unfortunately, he doesn’t seem to be slowing down charging patients with advanced cancer huge sums for false hope.
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Dr. Vinay Prasad fully embraces the antivax message of “do not ... ...

COVID-19 “contrarians” like Dr. Vinay Prasad have long complained about being labelled “antivaccine.” Why do they embrace antivax messages like “do not comply”?
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The Ohio State Medical Board has finally suspended the medical ... ...

Last week, the Ohio State Medical Board suspended the medical license of Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, a longtime antivax quack. The question is: What took them so long?
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COVID-19 has exposed the toothlessness of state medical boards - Sc...

A report in The Washington Post revealed just how badly state medical boards have been failing when dealing with physicians spreading COVID-19 misinformation.
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“Base Spike Detox” and Signature Spike Support Formulas ... - Scien...

Dr. Peter McCullough and a number of “anti-COVID-19 vaccine” antivaxxers out there has pivoted to quackery to “detox” from COVID-19 vaccines using nattokinase.
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RFK Jr.: A fart-filled argument gives way to an antisemitic conspir...

RFK Jr. endured bad press over a press event, but the fart jokes were mixed with darker side: His antisemitic claim that COVID-19 might have been “targeted.”