Gary Schwitzer

Disillusioned. Disappointed. Broken promises. Second thoughts by some MAHA loyalists on the eve of the midterms. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/days-befor...

Hardly a day passes without publicity about new potential uses for artificial intelligence in medicine. This week, this one lit up the news. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/predicting...

Even if AI can improve breast cancer risk prediction, will that improve patient outcomes? garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/even-if-ai...

“He’s on a mission to shred vaccine infrastructure. He’s about to put forward a series of poorly performed, confounded studies that show that vaccines are causing any number of chronic diseases.” - Dr. Paul Offit garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-si...

So I got this letter from Trump last week. Bottom line: rebates, refunds & rewards for votes…but no meaningful healthcare reform. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/trumps-90-...

The US FDA is held up as an example….of what to avoid. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/us-fda-hel...

RFK Jr.’s falsehoods spread faster & farther than Pinocchio’s probiscis. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/kennedy-wi...

What relevance could an analysis of batters’ launch angles have for medicine? Read the latest Statscast & Stethoscopes. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/can-medici...

Are there lessons for medicine from what baseball analytics have shown? An MD who’s been immersed in baseball stats for years says “Yes.” garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/can-medici...

It’s being promoted as “a simple blood test.” But there’s nothing simple about decisions regarding this test given its limitations. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/fda-panel-...

Priorities. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Toxic combo of politics & science. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/politics-a...

Many of the health industry deals that have been heavily promoted by Trump and RFK Jr. lack teeth and transparency. Enforcement and accountability lacking. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/no-teeth-n...

The perplexing promotion of peptides. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/the-perple...

Political cuts to the food safety system. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/how-foodbo...

Why are foodborne illness outbreaks occuring so often? garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/how-foodbo...

New pancreatic cancer drug is a big step forward, but so is the $480,000 per year cost. Not all news stories addressed this. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/cancer-dru...

Cancer drug sticker shock: pills that cost >$400K/year and >$600/pill. And why journalists need to report on drug costs. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/cancer-dru...

2 observational studies in 2 weeks on menopause hormone therapy were hyped with waffling language. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/read-the-f...

Fake claims about Medicaid fraud debunked. NewsGuard’s False Claim of the Week: “Conservatives twist Virginia governor’s remarks to claim that 300,000 illegal state residents get Medicaid benefits.” www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/the-medica...

This man’s lies, distortion and misinformation erupt from a bottomless pit. www.statnews.com/2026/08/26/k...

Flip-flops you see in so much food/diet news (it cures you…it kills you) is usually because it’s observational research. It’s healthy to be skeptical about firm conclusions from these studies. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/its-health...

Controversial government attempt to control GLP-1 news. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/news-publi...

When he started at HHS, RFK Jr. repeatedly promised his department would operate with “radical transparency” and produce only “gold-standard science.” He hasn’t delivered on those promises. connect.kff.org/the-week-in-...

Here’s an intelligent chatbot you’ll want to try. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/heres-an-i...

Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, with health data being the leading category affected, wiping out findings that don’t align with its priorities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Consumer watchdog group says at least 7 members of FDA advisory committee that recommended 6 peptides be ok’d despite a lack of evidence had financial interests in the peptide and pharmaceutical industries. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

Another observational study miscommunicated. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/one-can-of...

None of Kennedy’s claims about autism causes has stood up to scrutiny: Tylenol during pregnancy, circumcision, hep B vaccine, thimerosal, etc. kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

Journalists, PR professionals & readers of their messages should remember: when studies show a statistical association between 2 things, it does not necessarily show causation. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/3-minutes-...

When signing his vaccine Executive Order, Trump said he’d seen proof of a vaccination the size of a soda bottle poured into a little child's body. That’s an exaggeration of 200 times what actually happens. But he made his case based on that falsehood. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Because he knows better than what decades of studies have shown. www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...

Kennedy: wrong again. www.statnews.com/2026/08/06/m...

Jay “The Butcher” Bhattacharya & NIH riding a new wave of grant terminations. www.science.org/content/arti...

Highly qualified. NOT. Steven Quay, the Biotech Exec Likely to Take Fauci's Old Job. www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

RFK Jr. went off the rails on CNN, the second ugly health policy related TV event in a week, close on the heels of the Fauci hearing. Losing Americans’ trust. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/is-this-th...

How to evaluate news about a new blood test screening for colorectal cancer. What was missing in what I read. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/how-to-eva...

Continuing clash between MAGA and MAHA advocates over environmental health issues. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/the-contin...

26-year old son-in-law of US Transportation Secretary, running for Congress, endorsed by Trump, spreads misinformation about alleged “transgender goat surgery.” garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/politician...

Wisconsin Congressional candidate claims the government is wasting $$$ on transgender goat surgery. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/politician...

Good story by @kristinafiore.bsky.social on expensive multifocal lenses for cataract surgery - with reminders that they’re not for everyone. www.medpagetoday.com/ophthalmolog...

RFK Jr. promotes more preventive health screening while slashing the funding that would provide the evidence to support such screening. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/questions-...

Does RFK Jr. understand what potential problems come with Alzheimer's screening? garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/questions-...

Interesting blog post. chrisickler.org/2026/07/03/t...

Death by a thousand cuts. And a NY Times reporter was denied access to materials that were supposed to be available for public review. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

The National Institutes of Health are experiencing some unhealthy times. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/235-words-...

Coffee - the icon of miscommunicated observational studies. And we saw another round this week. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/coffee-ico...

RFK Jr. & Trump administration cannot truthfully imply or claim that they are the reason for a drop in US obesity rates. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/wrong-rfk-...

When you see X was “linked to” Y in a study, what does that really mean? Count the number of “linked to” stories you see in a day. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/what-does-...

A couple of gems from Howard Wolinsky, veteran health care journalist-turned-prostate cancer patient advocate. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/men-are-no...