For decades, I have warned of the harms done by misleading health information. It is therefore a delight and pleasure to see that - all of a sudden - the subject has become a most popular subject.

Building a cabinet is a delicate art. While previous US administrations seem to have prioritized professional competence, policy expertise, or public trust, the Trump standard requires considerably ...

I just watched a video where Alice Weidel vehemently denied the existance of extremist or nationalsocialist ideologies within her party, the Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD). Yet, the official ...

Please allow me for once to post a short story, a piece of pure fiction (I promise to not do it again in a hurry): On Midterm Election night, Trump declares that the election is being stolen before ...

In medicine, when critical thinking gives way to wishful version of thinking, confidence ceases to be a virtue and becomes a ...

Speaking at a rally in Ohio, the President of the United States of America, Donald J Trump, recently informed the crowd that he knows more about everything than anyone in the world. Let’s be precise, ...

Guest post by Björn Geir In November 2023, a woman in her forties attended an acupuncture session in central Oslo. Needles were inserted into her neck, shoulders and areas close to the thorax. During ...

Coffee enemas are a form of so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) promoted by some practitioners and celebrities without credible scientific evidence. Their use is associated with several adverse ...

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap,” Dolly Parton once observed wittily and self-critically. Her bon mot made me realise that homeopathy offers an equally remarkable, proposition: it costs a ...

The pervasive use of cell phones has led to a substantial increase in pulsed electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in our immediate environment. For pharmaceuticals, close proximity EMF effects are considered ...

I know many people – myself included – whose blood pressure increases when Trump is mentioned. But this post is not about the anger and stress by which the orange felon might jeapardise our health ans ...