According to the authors of a recent paper, "the placebo response in clinical trials has four components: regression to the mean (RTM), measurement artefacts, natural tendency (NT) of the disease, and ...

Today is World Cancer Day. It is an international day observed every 4 February to raise awareness about cancer, encourage its prevention, and mobilise action to address the global cancer epidemic.

Many German newspapers reported that a 10-year old boy who had contracted diphtheria has died after months of suffering in a Berlin hospital. The child had not been vaccinated. The boy had been ...

As recently as 2019, a quarter more homeopathic remedies were sold than today in Germany, reported the FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG [my translation]. The largest manufacturer is removing individual ...

This investigation seems highly relevant to my blog and some of the comments it receives: The spread of misinformation has emerged as a global concern. Academic attention has recently shifted to ...

I am not a religious person, but that does not mean that I disagree with everything the clergy says or does. On the contrary, ...

On 27 January, the EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET WASHINGTON, D.C. issued this MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES: ... Financial assistance ...

Most of my readers are probably aware of Robert F Kennedy Jr's attitudes to vaccinations and other crucial health issues See, for instance, here: The ‘moral and intellectual decay’ of COVID disinforma ...

In the series of posts entitled WHAT HAPPENED NEXT, I pick up themes that I addressed more than a decade ago with the intention of finding out whether things have moved on or not. Today, allow me to ...