The wave of resident (junior) doctors' industrial action in the UK began already in 2016. The current regrettable situation started in 2026: 1 Feb 2026: BMA announces resident doctors vote 93% yes (53 ...

Influencers are the hollow avatars of modern vanity: self-appointed sages peddling platitudes and products with equal ...

On 1 April 1933, just two months after seizing power, the Nazis launched a nationwide assault on Jewish life: a state-sponsored boycott of Jewish businesses. This was the first visible step on a path ...

Aaron Siri is an American lawyer and anti‑vaccine activist. He has become a key figure in contemporary US vaccine‑policy debates, largely through his legal challenges and close ties to health‑policy ...

We all know, I think, what homeopaths say about homeopathy. We also know what everyone else says about it. And the two set of ...

Most scientists are not Trump-fans [to put it mildly]; this is a trend that is likely not to be reversed by Trumps recent appointment of the first 13 members to the President’s Council of Advisors on ...

Some papers on so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) are such that I am almost lost for words. Here is the abstract of such an article: Background: Autism Spectrum Disorder is a complex ...

Sufficient evidence concerning the impact of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) on clinical outcomes for breast cancer patients in Taiwan is not available. This study sought to examine the association ...

Tons of research (mostly surveys) exist on the reasons why some people – between 20 and 60% - use so-called alternative medicine (SCAM). But these people are often the minority, and few of us ask why ...