Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience

This is Steven Salzberg's blog on science, pseudoscience, medicine, and other topics. I blogged for Forbes for 14 years, but they started censoring me, so I left in October 2024. I'm just here now, uncensored.

T. rex protein degrades further

An article in Science this week casts fresh doubt on the Tyrannosaurus rex "proteins" that were extracted from a 68-million-year-...

Associated Press turns a story on critical care into commentary on religion

A news story from the Associated Press (and carried by CNN) illustrates how the media can focus on whatever they want to in a scientific or ...

Preserved T. rex or bad science?

Science has published several articles in the past year or so, with much publicity, announcing that researchers had found preserved soft tis...

Victor McKusick, R.I.P.

The genetics world lost one of its pioneers this week - Victor McKusick died of cancer at age 86, at his home in Baltimore. McKusick was a...

Influenza vaccines and free sharing of flu data

I don't usually discuss my day job on this blog, but this week there's some overlap between the two. My comments in this blog back ...

And what else is acupuncture good for?

"Unclear whether acupuncture helps fertility" I love this headline from Yahoo News/Reuters! It just appeared today on the Yahoo N...

NCCAM is funding quack vitamin cures

It's been a while since I looked at what the National Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is spending our tax dolla...

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