Words that confuse people: vaccine schedule edition • Vaccine requirements, vaccine recommendations, and "shared decision-making"

How do I find accurate health information online? • Some tools to guide you through the noise

Who am I writing for? • It's been a year, now time for some feedback

Worth the read: Food Intelligence • Nutrition science, diet fads, and the environment that drives us to eat

What happens when public health says “we're not sure?" • A new study suggests trust may actually increase

When “work” doesn’t work • Words that confuse people when talking about vaccines

Do dogs cause autism? • The anatomy of an unfalsifiable hypothesis

Hot takes and cold fronts: public health and weather comms in the new era • A recording from Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD's live video

Health institutions need to empower online creators, or risk getting left behind • A quick breakdown of the best article I've read all year

Tylenol and autism: What parents deserve to know • Nuance and empowerment instead of underestimation.

The birth dose: why are babies immunized against hepatitis B so early? • A look at the evidence behind the birth dose and the push to take it away

Why I stopped using the word 'misinformation' • To many, it feels like a slap in the face

Is science inherently political? • It depends on which "science" we're even talking about

Public health in the face of trauma and violence • And what you can do

Spreading good information in the fight against medical misinformation. With guest Dr. Kristen Panthagani • A recording from Jeremy Faust, MD's live video

Preview: Spreading good information in the fight against medical misinformation. With guest Dr. Kristen Panthagani and Dr. Jeremy Faust. • Join us tomorrow, August 5, at 3 p.m. ET on Substack Live.

We need to train more health communicators • Our new NEJM piece on the need for formal training for informal communication

That's a great question: what happens when we can't perform large trials? • The story of baby Gilbert and the conundrum of rare disease

What just happened • A look back at 6 months of dismantling America's health infrastructure

Introducing the Scale of Flawed Science • An updated hierarchy of evidence for the age of memes, rumors, and AI hallucinations

What we misunderstand about 'doing your own research' • It’s become a punchline—but it points to something broken in how we share health information

RFK Jr fires vaccine advisory committee and replaces members with vaccine skeptics • We need to restore trust in vaccines, but not like this

That's a great question: health information, influencers and the problem of scale • The importance of local messengers in the era of social media

Many healthcare workers may lose access to COVID vaccines • Revoking access for healthcare workers puts vulnerable patients at risk

Science, Policy, and Values • Be clear on where the data ends and opinions begin