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.

Trump's Energy Department just killed jobs in 19 states

ARPA-e's announcement sounded good. But now it turns out to be just a tease. It's a lot easier to kill jobs than to create t...

An aspirin a day keeps the grim reaper away

Low-dose aspirin is good for you. Any brand of aspirin will do, Bayer or otherwise. Should you take an aspirin every day to prevent...

Guys: you don't need a PSA test for prostate cancer

Graphic depiction of risk without or with PSA tests, from the Harding Center for Risk Literacy . I learned a new word this week: pseudoe...

Trump's budget proposal eviscerates biomedical research, for no good reason

Donald Trump proposed a budget this week that will cut funding to NIH by nearly $6 billion, or 20% of its $31 billion budget . A cut of th...

The new EPA Chief is a climate denier: why are you surprised?

On Thursday, newly appointed EPA chief Scott Pruitt said he doesn't think human-driven carbon dioxide emissions cause global warming ....

Don't do this: 150 medical practices that all fail, especially acupuncture

This is ineffective - and cruel. Why do people keep doing things to their bodies that don't work, and that even hurt them? This seem...

World's cutest mammal critically endangered because of Traditional Chinese Medicine

A pangolin. Photo (c) Christian Boix. Pangolins, timid little anteaters that are covered with scales, are being hunted to extinction....

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