You probably heard about American Academy of Pediatrics et al. v. Kennedy et al., the law suit brought by the AAP and several other medical organisations against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr). The ...

Our resident defender of the indefensible, DUllman, regularly comes out whith the notion that Darwin was a great fan of homeopathy. I always found this hard to believe. So, I asked AI: "What did ...

In the US, a felon is defined as a person who has been convicted of a felony. A felony is the most serious category of criminal offense. The US legal system distinguishes folonies from “misdemeanors” ...

This landmark study, often called the "Nürnberger Kochsalzversuch", is historically significant as probably the first recorded instances of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. It was ...

Large-scale randomized trials have found that multivitamin–multimineral (MVM) supplements and cocoa flavanols may benefit several age-related chronic conditions among older adults, but it remains ...

The regualtion of so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) differs from country to country which can and does cause a lot of confusion. Here are very brief summaries of some of the countries that I know ...

In the early 19th-century Austrian Empire, few figures held as much power over the physical and institutional health of the state as Dr. Andreas Joseph von Stifft (1760–1836) – after all, he was the ...

The Austrian news magazin PROFIL published a review of my new book. Both the book and the review are in German. I took the liberty of translating the latter for my readers who do not read German: It ...