Steven Salzberg
Viewpoint: Acupuncture pseudoscience — Debunking Washington Post’s tiresome promotion of ‘legalized quackery’
Acupuncturists claim to treat many conditions, but they especially like to claim that they can treat chronic pain, for a ...
Viewpoint: Could $40 herbal supplement Prostolaxen cure enlarged prostates — or is it just snake oil?
Dietary supplements aren’t regulated by the FDA, unless you claim that they’re a drug or that they can treat a ...
Two science-based sides to the ‘vaccine debate’? Let’s review the evidence
Are there two sides in the vaccine debate? ...
How safe are the new COVID vaccine boosters?
In case you haven’t heard, there’s now a new set of vaccine booster shots that protect against the latest variant ...
Why newly approved Alzheimer’s drug is such a disaster
A few months ago, the FDA approved a new drug, aducamumab, to treat Alzheimer’s disease. This was the first time ...
mRNA technology can revolutionize the flu vaccine, too
The reason the Covid-19 vaccines were developed so quickly is that they used a new, much faster and easier-to-create type ...
Viewpoint: Case closed — Ivermectin doesn’t work for treating or preventing COVID despite social media and rightwing media claims
Ivermectin doesn’t work. It doesn’t prevent Covid-19, nor does it treat it. Unfortunately, the official government response to this misinformation ...
Viewpoint: Just 12 people are responsible for 76% of Facebook vaccine misinformation. Should the ‘Anti-Vaxxers Disinformation Dozen’ be shut down?
Covid-19 has already killed millions, and millions more may die before we get it under control. The only realistic way ...
Maybe both sides are right: If SARS-CoV-2 was leaked from a Wuhan lab, it doesn’t mean the virus was necessarily engineered
The “lab leak” hypothesis about the origin of Covid-19 has been getting a lot of attention lately, and deservedly so ...
‘I was wrong’: Why we shouldn’t start giving COVID-19 vaccinations now
I wrote a blog post [on August 2] that has generated tremendous pushback, including an op-ed in the New York Times as well as ...
Viewpoint: Watch out for ‘charlatans and scammers’ touting coronavirus cures
The coronavirus pandemic has the whole world's attention. For now, there's no treatment and definitely no cure for COVID-19, the ...
Natural GMOs: Study shows that 12 popular foods were genetically modified by mother nature
Even though no one has found any evidence that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are harmful, anti-GMO activists have campaigned against ...
Finger length can predict sexual orientation, personality traits, cancer risk? Here’s what the science says
I saw an article in Science that claimed "finger lengths can predict personality and health." Huh? The author, science writer ...
Bioweapons research gets quiet OK from National Institutes of Health: Here’s why that could be ‘horrific’
For more than a decade now, two scientists–one in the U.S. and one in the Netherlands–have been trying to create ...
Glyphosate meta-analysis appeared to raise legitimate concerns that Monsanto’s Roundup may cause cancer, then Genetic Literacy Project pointed out study’s fatal flaws
In the new study, by a group of scientists from UC Berkeley, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the University of ...
Defending 23andMe’s DNA health test: ‘You will learn something’ of value
The New York Times decided to publish an editorial ... warning people to "be careful about 23andMe's Health Test." What are they ...
Why a decline in mortality rates among very old people may be ‘an illusion’
An intriguing phenomenon has emerged in recent years: among very old people, the rate at which people die appears to decline when ...
EU court ruling limiting gene editing ironically underscores safety of modified crops
A European Union court [July 25th] issued a new decision about GMOs. Disappointingly, this decision is likely to further confuse rather than ...
Wading through California’s coffee-cancer controversy
California might soon start requiring Starbucks to warn its customers that coffee causes cancer. Has California gone nuts, or is ...
FDA obstructing approval of DNA based ‘germ tests’ that swiftly diagnose infections
The standard diagnostic technology for identifying microbes, decades old, is simply too slow and imprecise to help most patients. The ...
Homeopathic remedies containing deadly wolfsbane available at CVS
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Homeopathic drugs contain some ...
Activists should be protesting overuse of antibiotics, not GMOs
Antibiotic resistant bacteria is growing steadily more problematic around the the world, yet activists continue to protest against GMOs rather ...
Does GM corn cause cancer? A flawed study fails to convince
Last week a scientific paper appeared that reported that eating genetically modified (GM) corn causes cancer in rats. Specifically, the ...
