The Multi-Billion Dollar Tamiflu Con
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The lesson is to stop letting pharmaceutical money write the rules of medicine. Whenever someone is trying to hand you a prescription for a drug that will “prevent”... Read more.
Four Forms of Numericide
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Four targets — blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, and BMI — the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, four ways to medicalize you, four ways to apply a disease-mongered... Read more.
Mandatory Testosterone Screening Is a Tactical Retreat from Medical Reason
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Servicemen and women deserve better than to be used as a captive market for a "high-tech snake oil scam". True tactical advantage comes from ensuring that the safety... Read more.
An Ode to Remembrance on Prescribed Harm Day
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There are many more hidden Vioxxes in our medicine cabinets, which exist due to systemic flaws in drug regulation that allows dangerous medications to flood the... Read more.
The Great Menopause Grift
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The grift goes wide and deep. Many influencers and physician-educators have financial ties through sponsored content or brand partnerships, sometimes pushing lines... Read more.
Cycles of Enthusiasm, Reversal, and Revival in Medical Practice
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It’s hard to generalize, but when reversals are based on better quality evidence, we should presume they’re in the public interest. However, when they are based... Read more.
Malflusiva and the Wheeking Guinea Pigs
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The most infuriating part of the VRBPAC meeting was that the members actually acknowledged and discussed some of these concerns, but instead of postponing its recommendation,... Read more.
The Trouble with Cancer Screening in Healthy Adults
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We framed screening as prevention; instead, it has become a factory of medicalization, anxiety, and expense. If medicine’s moral compass is to be preserved, we... Read more.
Less Is More in Medicine
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We need to be asking questions about whether sending more of our collective wealth towards our healthcare system is producing good returns. We might expect that... Read more.
The Biggest Breast Cancer Advance in the Last Twenty Years
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Some clinicians and public-health researchers would argue that the media narrative minimizes known and proven downsides of these drugs, often trivializing or ignoring... Read more.
The Ozempic Paradox
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The same week that our drug regulator, Health Canada, approved the first generic version of semaglutide—the active ingredient in weight-loss drug Ozempic—a major... Read more.
Let’s Save Our Doctors’ Time for Sick People
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What would a smarter approach look like? Our health systems need to create clear, evidence-based thresholds for when to recommend screening or primary prevention... Read more.