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.

What's the limit of the human lifespan? And what do World War I veterans have to do with it?

Graph showing lower rate of mortality (blue) in people aged 90-95 versus the rate in people aged 50-55 (orange). Figure from S.J. Newman (...

Russian homeopathy, hiding in plain sight

It turns out that Russia has its very own brand of bogus medicine:"release-active drugs," or RADs. Dozens of scientific articles...

Don't smack your kids!

Spanking doesn't work. What's more, it may cause long-term harm to children. With the holidays approaching, families will be spe...

The problem with our democracy isn't gerrymandering. It's integers

(This week, in the wake of the recent U.S. elections, I take a detour from my usual topics to apply a little math to our election system.)...

Football has corrupted our universities. Time for it to leave.

The University of Maryland, College Park began their first game of the season by honoring their teammate Jordan McNair, number 79, who die...

A dubious homeopathy study made its way into a scientific journal. Will it be retracted?

Homeopaths did it again–they snuck a dubious study into a respectable journal. Well, sort of. Let's quickly look at the study, and the...

World Health Organization endorses TCM. Expect deaths to rise.

Mother and young rhinoceros killed for their horns. Image credit: Wikipedia A few days ago, a news story in the journal Nature repo...

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