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.

RFK Jr. is a famous anti-vaxxer. How does this make him qualified for President?

I’ve written about the anti-vaccine movement and its many proponents more times than I can count. So why write about it again? Because one o...

Hormone replacement therapy is beneficial and safe, it turns out

A new study that just appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association has some good news for women who take estrogen repla...

Calcium and Vitamin D Supplements Still Don't Work, New Study Says

I think I’ll have to add calcium to my list of the Top Six Supplements You Should Not Take . Here’s why. A year and a half ago, I reported o...

Why did humans lose our tails? Blame a "jumping gene"

Most animals have tails, including almost all mammals. For some reason, we humans don’t. This difference has been the source of much specu...

Sadly, the Washington Post once again falls for acupuncture pseudoscience

It’s like playing whac-a-mole . No matter how many times I write a column showing that some wildly implausible practice is nonsense, new art...

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