It has been reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied to Congress, an offence that is punishable by up to 5 years in prison. He told senators during his January 2025 confirmation hearings that his 2019 ...

I hear this phrase far too often, particularly from patients who use homeopathy or another so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) to treat a serious illness. They usually employ this argument to ...

This single-center, randomised clinical trial compared the efficacy of distraction and therapeutic touch for reducing labor ...

Heidi Overton, President Trump’s nominee to lead the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has called for a political reorientation of US medical research. Specifically, she argued that agencies like ...

The medical world, in its deplorable lack of imagination, has spent decades under the misconception that infectious diseases require widespread immunization programs. Enter Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ...

Germany - the birthland of homeopathy - has finally decided to stop reimbursing homeopathic and anthroposophic medicine through statutory health insurance. The decision marks an important attempt to ...

Dolly Rebecca Parton (1946–2026) was an American singer‑songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist, widely known as the “Queen of Country.” Born into a poor farming family in Tennessee, she ...

Remember Didier Raoult? He famously published irreproducible findings claiming that hydroxychloroquine worked for Covid; he has thus featured on this blog before, e.g.: Didier Raoult has now turned to ...

Accurate disclosure of conflicts of interest (COI) is vital for trust and transparency in clinical research, but few studies have evaluated these disclosures in the manual therapy literature. The ...

Anti-vaccination sentiments are a global phenomenon with deep historical roots. Across Europe, North America, and parts of the British Empire, organized resistance to vaccination has unfolded over ...