This post is part of a series that I started in 2019, recapping the scientific results on peer review to that point…

I don’t know when describing yourself as a “medical conservative” became a thing. I only noticed it recently, persistently popping up among…

Metascience – the study of science and its improvement – isn’t simply a field of science. There’s a movement, too. What’s more…

This is the last post in a series highlighting outstanding women in vaccine science or immunology related to vaccine development in the…

This is the second post in a series highlighting outstanding women in vaccine science or immunology related to vaccine development in the…

Women scientists have had pivotal and leading roles in developing Covid vaccines and been celebrated for it – from Katalin Karikó’s role…

I sure don’t envy the people under all that pressure at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. They’ve been at the brunt…

The field of research on communication interventions is heavily littered with studies that are too small, too indirect, and too riddled with…

I think we are drifting perilously close to exceptionalism in the debate about the Covid-19 vaccine for children and adolescents. The narrowed…

Remember when we were told the earliest we could possibly hope for a vaccine was 12 to 18 months? Here we are…

This is one of my older cartoons. Unfortunately, the problem it’s depicting hasn’t gone out of style. But now it strikes me…

You would think a time when we needed to be able to “follow the science” would have been systematic evidence’s shining hour…