Dr. Sara Gottfried, MD, wants you to know she is a doctor. She also wants you to know that you can “reset” your hormones and genes with food and saunas. In the case of the saunas, she’s put the preclinical cart before the clinical horse and extrapolated animal and early molecular epidemiological data off of a cliff.
Every story must have a victim, a hero, and a villain, and the central antivaccine conspiracy myth is no different.
There might be an antivaxer in the White House right now, but it’s at the state level where vaccine policy and school vaccine mandates are decided.
When you’re in an exam room with a patient, sometimes you’re forced to contemplate uncomfortable questions.
There’s a little known aspect of Orac’s history that hasn’t been told for 11 years. Back in the early 1990s, when he was taking a “break” from residency to do his PhD work, he moonlighted as a helicopter flight physician. Here is one of his Tales from the Helicopter.
