I'm taking a few weeks away from the blog. So today, an open thread with a request for suggestions on topics that you feel have been unexplored by the blog. Let me (and the other contributors) kn ...

What, exactly, is dyslexia? What causes it, how should it be diagnosed, and stemming from that, how should it be treated? We ...

Trials in the USAID portfolio could have led to the prevention and/or more successful treatment of diseases like tuberculosis ...

Policy-based evidence making means working back from a predefined policy to produce underpinning evidence.

There is no doubt the "studies" in this journal will conclude We Want Them Infected doctors were right about everything the ...

I just watched the new Netflix series, Apple Cider Vinegar, which tells the story of Belle Gibson, an Australian woman who launched a wellness business based largely on the false claim that she had s ...

Although many doctors who spread COVID misinformation act as if its in poor taste to bring it up today, we don't need their ...

On October 4th 2024, the month before the most consequential election of our lifetime, you opened a conference titled Pandemic Policy: Planning the Future, Assessing the Past. Prior to this, I shared ...