Steven Novella
Steven Novella, MD, is an academic clinical neurologist at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is also the president and co-founder of the New England Skeptical Society, the host and producer of the popular weekly science podcast The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, the author of the NeuroLogica Blog and founder of Science-Based Medicine.
Steven Novella
iSynchrony has put together a plausible-sounding bit of bafflegab to justify what it sells. The reality of neurology is against their claims. Some alternative medicines are essentially magic – like ... (1833 words)
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Retraction Watch is a great website. As the name implies, it focuses on a key aspect of quality control in science: the retraction of scientific papers that have already passed peer-review and were ... (1194 words)
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A new systematic review published in the International Journal of Obesity looks at the totality of evidence investigating whether consuming low energy sweeteners (LES), such as aspartame, sucralose, ... (1570 words)
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Truly understanding placebo effects (note the plural) is critical to science-based medicine. Misconceptions about placebo effects are perhaps the common problem I encounter among otherwisescientific ... (1027 words)
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Dr. Steven Novella breaks down the latest environmental factor that apparently causes autism. There is an ideological subculture that is motivated to blame all the perceived ills of the world on ... (1006 words)
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THE line which sharply demarks mainstream medicine from alternative medicine is the line of science. It is possible to cross that line, however. Any alternative treatment which is tested in a ... (2405 words)
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