Science Education & Policy
- Trump's 'No Surprises Act' Reduced Patient Out-Of-Pocket Expenses
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Health care is expensive. If you are convinced that donating blood is a community service and do it for free, the Red Cross sells it for up to $200 per pint. If you need a transfusion, each pint will cost $1,000 and up. That is paid for by insurance. What ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 28 2025 - 11:00am
- Snus Works For Smoking Cessation And Harm Reduction
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Rather than encourage smoking cessation and harm reduction, the US Centers for Disease Control have spent over a decade undermining products that were not Big Pharma. That has been and remains a mistake. Smoking kills, and anything that helps reduce or eli ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 9 2025 - 10:54am
- Doctors Urged To Proactively Address Cancer Myths- Groups Like American Cancer Society Won't
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Information freedom is a good thing but there is no question it has been weaponized. Many scientists have been ruined by activists and their trade groups who use Freedom of Information Act rules to find a sentence in correspondence with corporations or tra ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 28 2025 - 10:32am
- Restoring The Value Of Truth
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Truth is under attack. It has always been, of course, because truth has always been a mortal enemy for those who attempt to seize or keep power in their hands. But the amplification of the phenomenon by today's information technology is extremely worr ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 10 2025 - 1:59pm
- Conferences Good And Bad, In A Profit-Driven Society
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Nowadays researchers and scholars of all ages and specialization find themselves struggling with mailboxes pestered with invitations to conferences, invitations to submit papers to journals, invitations to participate in the editorial board of journals, in ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 5 2025 - 9:43am
- The Valentine's Day Man-O-Meter
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While I'm safely removed from the dating pool, Stephanie Street is not (is this perhaps a pseudonym?). She phoned in a Valentine's Day question to the PRI radio program Fair Game, and won the dubious honor of chatting with me and the host on air ...
Article - Garth Sundem - Feb 7 2026 - 9:45am
- Dogs And Coffee: Finally, Epidemiology You Can Trust
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In 2026, it is easy to feel intellectually knocked around by all of the health claims you read, and all claiming to be supported by science. Weedkillers causing cancer, food coloring causing diabetes, vaccines causing autism, and ultra-processed foods caus ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 17 2026 - 12:21pm
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