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The Strange Story of Nicotine Patches to Treat Long COVID

20 Nov 2025

Long COVID can feel like being adrift at sea, tiringly kicking those legs to stay above water. Social media provides lifebuoys but many turn out to be tricks of the light.

Everyone Else Is Lying to You: A Damning Archive of Science Denial

16 Oct 2025

“Future generations will know that at least some of us tried to resist the intrusion of quackery into medicine, and they’ll gain some semblance of insight into a confounding reality.”

Doctor Who Compared Pandemic Restrictions to Nazi Germany Gains Keys to the Vaccine Vault

16 May 2025

In the media’s rush to cover the nomination of Casey Means to the position of Surgeon General, one important name was neglected.

You’ve Been Lied to About Rats and the Black Death 

18 Apr 2025

Rats have long been associated with and blamed for the spread of plague, a disease that has killed over 200 million people throughout the past two millennia. The Black Death, a bubonic plague...

The Evidence Shows Masks Work

18 Nov 2022

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette....

Vitamin D is No Cure for COVID

23 Sep 2022

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette....

Eric Feigl-Ding, the Epidemiologist Who Moves Fast and Breaks Things

9 Sep 2022

The tweet that catapulted him to stardom began with the all-caps exclamation, “HOLY MOTHER OF GOD.” This is not language we expect from scientists on Twitter, and certainly not something we would...

The Ivermectin Train Cannot Stop

30 Oct 2021

It started with a laboratory study on African green monkey kidney cells. While the dose used was much higher than what doctors would prescribe, the results were promising. Ivermectin could stop the...

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