Just a regular reminder that our top health leaders, including the heads of the NIH and CDC, have been absorbing an online stream of insane pseudoscience and conspiracy theories for years. My contrarian take: giving obese people GLP1s is better than giving them a steak.

Meanwhile, the former Surgeon General is off doing his guru schtick. I actually don’t think it’s my job as a doctor to tip the world’s scales from fear to love.

"It seems hypocritical for Kennedy to criticize the “revolving door” between government agencies and Big Pharma, while swinging the door wide open for Big Wellness." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Life goal fulfilled: I've finally become a correction. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

Equity in cancer diagnosis is not just a technical challenge but a moral imperative. Cancer is not merely a disease of the affluent; it is a leading cause of death worldwide. bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/4/1/...

Check out our new editorial on global inequality in cancer diagnostics bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000889

Financial conflicts of interest subtly influencing medical decision making? Sure. Cognitive biases and entrenched practices impacting patient care? Yes. Massive global conspiracy among doctors and scientists? Seems unlikely. We can’t even complete our annual compliance modules.

MAHA has self-righteously taken up the cause of Americans’ poor health. It’s purely a political movement though. Chronic diseases, obesity, etc. matter. But you won’t hear about the inconvenient causes of our life expectancy gap: guns, cars, drugs, and infections academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Vaccine Policy Changes Require More Than Weak Secondary Findings From Underpowered Trials -a Reanalysis of Randomized Trials on Nonspecific Vaccine Effects papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“When I directly pressed Bhattacharya about this exodus during our meeting, he said that if researchers did not like the way things are in the United States, they were welcome to go elsewhere.” www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...

The FDA commissioner suggested Lyme disease was a bioweapon and it’s not even news anymore.

The American public continues to trust doctors far more than RFK Jr. So who is to blame for the ongoing decline in trust of our public health infrastructure? The data speaks for itself.

This is the kind of stuff our new top vaccine policy makers are choosing to read. I take the bold position that not every single doctor on earth is paid off by Big Pharma.

Weirdly reasonable Daily Mail article on the new COVID vaccine-cancer study that quotes my Substack (without linking to it...thanks). www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

Can the COVID vaccines cause a cancer to literally grow overnight? Despite a new study that's sure to go viral among vaccine skeptics, I take the bold position that they can't. mazer.substack.com/p/coming-to-...

Some thoughts on a new study purporting to show an increased risk of cancer from the COVID vaccines. mazer.substack.com/p/coming-to-...

If someone at Harvard says it then it must be true. By the way, we are trying to shut it down because universities are the enemy.

Yeah it would be pretty weird to take a medication you don't need just for political reasons. 🐴🪱

West Virginia’s success in keeping children safe from vaccine-preventable illnesses highlights the singular power of immunization. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I love the chaos-based science of contrarians using elite institutions to support their beliefs when it’s convenient and dismissing elite institutions out of hand when it’s not.

Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

So are we still pretending to do this whole conflicts of interest are a problem thing?

Scientist behind Trump’s Tylenol claims was paid to give evidence against drug maker www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

"The reason Mr. Kennedy never saw anyone with profound autism when he was growing up is because back then people with autism were sent to institutions. They had no rights to go to school." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

If leucovorin can help hundreds of thousands of people, as the FDA commissioner(!) claims, then running an RCT should be easy, right?

Wow, individual case reports AND mechanistic data?! Christmas came early.

My theory of medical evidence is simple: observational studies for me, RCTs for you.

Today I am issuing a bold recommendation: you should only take a medication when it is truly necessary to treat your medical condition and advised by your doctor.

The public health establishment is so afraid to admit the truth about autism that the only people raising concerns about Tylenol are obscure figures like the dean of the Harvard School of Public Health.

It is so scientifically taboo to ask tough questions that doctors examining the relationship between Tylenol and autism can only publish in obscure journals like JAMA Psychiatry.

To summarize: a study showing an autism odds ratio of 1.6-4.1 for Tylenol use in pregnancy finally explains why autism rates have gone from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 31.

Amazing quote. Jay Bhattacharya, the self-proclaimed King of Dissent, is “obligated” not to criticize the government now that he is in power himself.

Liaison members to ACIP are pointing out that we’ve had an entire morning of discussion about COVID vaccines but the committee hasn’t actually revealed what policy they’re voting on. How can you discuss a secret policy?

The COVID vaccine cancer discussion at ACIP is really unhinged. One member suggests her mom developed an EGFR+ lung cancer because she got the Covid shot two years earlier.

A vaccine myocarditis researcher at ACIP is now complaining that his research grant was abruptly canceled last spring. Ironic!

ACIP is now pushing the Covid vaccine "turbo cancer" conspiracy using small case reports. Both cancer and vaccination are common. Can you spot the problem?

CDC is defending their COVID hospitalization numbers at the ACIP meeting. They used multiple methodologies to look at whether hospitalizations were "with" or "for" COVID and find most hospitalizations are being categorized correctly.

The BMJ editor-in-chief formally pushes back against Doshi and Fraiman's infamous paper on mRNA vaccine side effects, despite Doshi being a colleague at BMJ. Unusual thing to see in medical journals. Fraiman has been on RFK's vaccine advisor shortlist www.bmj.com/content/390/...

I am sick of our healthcare system being run by Pharma-sponsored doctors. We need to clear house from conflicted quacks like Means. I’ve never taken money from drug companies, on the other hand. www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

This equates to 0.5 micromorts for each person receiving a vaccination course (usually several vaccines) That is less than the mortality risk for a single day of skiing (0.7 micromorts)

Los Angeles child dies from rare measles complication years after recovery The county health department said the death is a "painful reminder" of how dangerous measles can be in unvaccinated people. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I think approximately 100% of people think Pharma ads suck. But do these new initiatives stand any chance of holding up to legal challenges? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Covid vaccine deaths: the best data came out of Korea, which did autopsies on all post-vaccination sudden deaths. The country identified 21 deaths out of 44 million vaccinees. Yes people can die from the vaccine, but it’s incredibly rare. mazer.substack.com/p/koreas-rea...

RFK Jr “won’t take sides” on 9/11. He also equates the tragedy to a government coverup of UFOs.

Somehow the "natural remedy" and "holistic medicine" people always seem to end up on a bunch of drugs and supplements. www.thecut.com/article/peop...

There is a desperate conviction that all this culture-war tumult and reflexive distrust could have been avoided if the managerial class had chosen a slightly different set of prescriptions or different tone of reconciliation. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

"The shift from advisory committees to “expert” panels isn’t bureaucratic streamlining — it’s a retreat from transparency, scientific rigor, and public accountability." www.statnews.com/2025/09/05/f...

Most of what we’ve gotten from MAHA is either un-serious or low impact like photo shoots taking raw milk shots, commentary on the long-sunset Food Pyramid and absurd commentary on seed oils in infant formula. kcklatt.substack.com/p/6-months-o...

"Kennedy has already propagated an insidious revolution within the agencies under his control, using a playbook familiar to illiberal leaders—culling expertise, silencing critics, and weaponizing administrative procedure." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...