Sitemap - 2023 - Vinay Prasad's Observations and Thoughts

Hospitals that reinstate universal masking with flimsy surgical masks are anti-science

If you feel sick this holiday season, should you take a COVID test?

Parents who still mask their kids

Plagiarism by the Harvard President

What is Science Willing to Do for Truth?

Beartown: A Book Review

Mayo clinic punishes Mike Joyner for saying that transgendered athletes have an advantage due to testosterone while building a new 5 billion dollar campus

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: A Book Review

Half of funding in science should go to checking our errors

How to stop forest fires

Desperation oncology: when the doctor becomes the patient

Interest in Long COVID is declining & a new paper showing no CSF abnormalities in neuro Long COVID

David Sabatini is hired by Prague

Elon & Rogan vs. Fauci - Who got more pandemic policies correct?

What Maya Angelou Said to Me in 2005

Advice to premedical students

Getting a COVID booster and a flu shot together increased stroke risk, per FDA analysis

A new FDA analysis finds COVID vax probably causes seizures in young kids (2-4/5)

ELife fires Mike Eisen for Tweets

Nobody wants the new COVID19 booster; And a new STAT piece pushing it, is wrong

How does the NyTimes write about Paper COVID-19 cards going away and not mention that vaccine passports (excluding people by COVID vax status) did not stop the spread of COVID?

The Nytimes 'Science' reporter keeps getting it wrong

The CDC's journal MMWR does not adhere to scientific standards; Instead, is state propaganda: An analysis of masking studies in MMWR

Who is a bigger academic fraud: Ibrahim X Kendi or Francesca Gino & Dan Arieli?

One more error by Apoorva Mandavilli

Apoorva Mandavilli is a terrible science reporter working at the New York Times

Don't you want to be a sommelier?

The USPSTF anxiety recommendations do not address people with intellectually disability -- A New JAMA viewpoint shows how ridiculous academics are becoming

Bob Harrington, Stanford Medicine Chair, was told by superiors not to silence department members, and yet, Jay Bhattacharya reports he did otherwise

The Anatomy Lesson

No accommodation

A University of Pennsylvania Medical Student Sent me this Anonymous Note During the Pandemic

Cornell's New Dean, Bob Harrington, Asked Jay Bhattacharya & Eran Bendavid to stop talking to the press about COVID policy, per B's account

DeSantis and Ladapo Do Not Advise Boosters for <65

Ashish Jha has gone too far with false statements

When are scientists allowed to lie?

Just because something is bad, does not mean your intervention is good

Paul Offit (72) is not getting a booster and neither should any healthy person who had COVID

Myocarditis long term/ New video

The media made Fauci a saint, and has not held him accountable to the American people

Paxlovid doesn't work in average, vaccinated people (no good evidence suggests otherwise)

Do not report COVID cases to schools & do not test yourself if you feel ill

The White House's appointees are lying about what COVID vaccines can do

The most accurate appraisal of Anthony Fauci to date

Anthony Fauci continues to mislead about masking, as CNN confronts him (amazing video)

What does the annual covid19 shot mean for the annual flu shot ?

The Fall COVID19 Shot is already a US Public Health Disaster

JAMA network open paper policing misinformation is full of misinformation

Biden's COVID advisor tweets misinformation & unsupported recommendations

How do you judge a vaccine program?

Did Republicans die more during the pandemic bc they didn't get the vax?

Boosters studies from Israel that the US FDA relied upon were COMPLETELY WRONG

Stanford's President (Tessier-Lavigne) Resigns SUPPOSEDLY because of flawed /fabricated science

In-N-Out Burger is more rational than US Hospitals

The CDC, AAP and public health officials need to tell parents to stop masking their kids

When Doctors Become Political - The 2016 shift

The CDC's MMWR only published observational mask studies - they often reached inappropriate conclusions - they published ZERO randomized studies on masks

Supreme court justices & health services researchers cite bad science in Affirmative Action debate

The only real solution to vaccine skepticism: We need more randomized trials and a new phase IV safety system

When should scientists debate?

Take RFK Jr seriously: what RFK Jr. gets right and wrong

Forest fires and n95 masking

Mayo Clinic Suspends A Doctor Who Commented in NYTimes About Testosterone's impact when Trans-athletes compete in Women's sports

The Surgeon General fights Loneliness & Social Media Use in Kids: Harms fueled by his own Administration's failed COVID policy

My 'rethinking medical education' post was written 100% by ChatGPT

Can Science Answer Political Questions?

My week in review

Rethinking Medical Education: Evidence First, Biology Later

Hemophilia doctors: prescribe 290k/yr drugs and take money from Pharma

FDA employees go to work for Pharma

Will artificial general intelligence end human life?

It's time to hire back & pay back wages to people fired over vaccine mandates

Anthony Fauci sabotaged school reopening in 2020 - Let's read his own words

Long form vs puff pieces

The scientists who undermine randomized trials

Fact checking the ALL IN podcast with RFK Jr

Walensky steps down at CDC: 4 ways she failed to be a scientist

Randomized trials are the BEST way to test masking & other NPIs

Revisionist history: Fauci and Weingarten distance themselves from the School Closure policy they enacted & encouraged

Line up children, the COVID sniffing dog is here to judge you

How come you are happy?

What happens when doctors don't read papers well?

Texas' and Washington's Mifepristone Ruling

7 COVID 19 shots: 5 Wuhan, 2 Bi-valent

Bombshell: New Study on Long COVID in kids and young adults FAILS to link COVID to Long COVID

Chat GPT will change Medicine

Universities fall in love with money, forget debate

Nature-the science journal-endorsed Biden - Trust in Science went down; Votes*** didn't change

The FDA commissioner does not understand how American insurance works

Can colleges mandate ozempic?

You should mask in 2023 exactly as often as you masked in 2017

I sat down with 5 normal people and asked them when they mask, and what precautions they take

Heart attacks and strokes after a COVID diagnosis

Vaccines stop long COVID Immediately! Maybe 29 days before you get it!

More dishonest statements about boosters by the FDA's Marks and Califf

CDC's risk benefit slide is inaccurate

Researchers try to connect elementary school kids masking to Covid+ wastewater

COVID19 influencers again promote flawed paper

The White House & Public Health lied about natural immunity

Public health should lose your trust

Covid 'experts' are killing evidence based medicine

It was cruel to trick people that they can protect immunocompromised loved ones by masking & being precautious

Public health is not like medicine: It doesn't have to generate evidence

Wide confidence intervals means an intervention could still work; Is that the standard we always use in medicine?

The Cochrane Review on Masks is Damning

How do I write so many op-eds and research papers?

No more COVID-19 boosters without evidence

Peter Marks' FDA is Playing Games with Young Men's Health & Maximizing Pfizer's Profits

Are Republicans allowed to be doctors?

Universities still won't debate COVID policy

FDA wants to push a yearly shot on 6 year old girls & 20 year old men without RCTs proving reduction in severe disease

Excess Mortality

Keynote lecture: Physician burnout lecture

Peter Marks of FDA admits he did not demand appropriate efficacy data for bivalent booster

CDC identities a potential safety signal with Bivalent vaccines

Twitter Files: Former FDA commish & Current Pfizer Board Member: Scott Gottlieb asks for a tweet to be censored

Academics go to Pharma

Alcohol: Good or Bad? Why Reductionist Science Can't Answer a Complex Social, Nutritional Question