Harm Reduction

Instead of coming from the CDC’s Advisory Committee, the announcement was slipped into an article in the New England Journal of Medicine authored by two individuals with little vaccine expertise.

The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement claims to offer freedom, choice, and better health for Americans. Its tactics, policies, and bottom line suggest otherwise.

HHS Secretary Kennedy pulled the vaccination advertisement, wanting to promote, in the words of Stat, “the idea of ‘informed consent’ in vaccine deci

Long-term physical activity is a hallmark recommendation physicians make to patients for a long, healthy life.

The dread double dip, re-dipping your already chewed-upon chip back in the dip.

“When you meet someone who inspires your worst angry voiceJust retreat-happiness is always a much better choice.”

“The two concepts, the social and biological understandings of diversity, have been doing this sort of dance around each other, and sometimes they’re in productive juxtaposition.

Science Progresses One Funeral at a Time – Planck’s principle [1] 

Mosquito season is approaching in the Northeast, and we had a very wet spring. Which means there are going to be 1) a whole bunch of mosquitoes, and 2) a whole bunch of people arguing about whether to spray them or not.

The moment you’ve produced a single numeric “estimate,” you’ve created a guess dressed in statistical clothing. As you add more estimates, your guess may become more or less respectable, but it remains a guess.