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.

Allergy sufferers beware! These eyedrops are a scam.

Spring allergy season is upon us, and plants are bursting into leaf and bloom, spreading pollen everywhere. For some of us, this otherwise b...

Washington Post's Science section descends into pseudoscience

The Washington Post has some bad news about migraines. Every Tuesday, the Washington Post has a special section devoted to Health and S...

Why are we growing corn to fuel our cars? Three reasons why ethanol is a bad idea.

Most of us are driving around right now in cars powered by a combination of gasoline and ethanol. Ethanol is a fuel alternative produced f...

Long term antibiotic use for Lyme disease doesn't work, according to new study

Fifteen years. That's how long scientists have been trying to prove a negative: that "chronic Lyme disease" does not exist, ...

This could be the end of youth football

The end of a lawsuit this month might also signal the end of youth football. The plaintiff in the suit, Debra Pyke, claimed that her son s...

Bad news flash: scientists did not cure autism, cancer, or Alzheimer's

This week I'm calling out some recent headlines about medical "breakthroughs" that were wildly misleading. Even when the sci...

Raw food is rich in bacteria, not nutrients

The raw food crazies are making themselves sick. There's a thing called the Raw Food Movement that has been growing in popularity in...

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