Biomedicine & Biotech

Pseudoscience has recently been rampaging in the US. While much of it concerns vaccines, an "oldie" is again making the rounds: the myth that HIV is not the sole cause of AIDS.

When it comes to clinical trials of a norovirus vaccine – something that has been ongoing since the 1970s, it's the Wild West. The early vaccines were crude and the outcomes has been universally dismal.

From the frenzy of people who object to the use of mRNA technology in vaccines, one might conclude that genetic material from space aliens was being injected into people in some grand plan to convert humans into giant tadpoles.

Recent Russian clandestine attempts to use “authentic” U.S.

Well, are you? I'm not kidding. This is real, not satire. 

Dr. Phillip B.

Their eyes tell their sad stories as ghostly white irises give way to vacant stares. We can look at them, but they can’t look back at us.

When I first wrote Antibiotics – The Perfect Storm (2009-10), I described the various factors that went contributed to the conundrum that still confronts us today.