Benjamin Mazer
@mazer.us
Doctor, pathologist, and medical journalist. This is a personal account.
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The Trump administration is turning drug review into make-a-deal
A new voucher program can be used to prioritize drug companies that curry favor
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A new voucher program can be used to prioritize drug companies that curry favor
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The Trump administration is turning drug review into make-a-deal
“FDA decision-making may be reduced to a sequence of ‘make-a-deals’ with Trump, his FDA, or even political allies,” experts warn.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The Trump administration is turning drug review into make-a-deal
A new voucher program can be used to prioritize drug companies that curry favor
www.statnews.com/2025/11/21/f...
A new voucher program can be used to prioritize drug companies that curry favor
www.statnews.com/2025/11/21/f...
Who could argue with RFK Jr’s slam dunk evidence of supplemental figure 4.
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Who could argue with RFK Jr’s slam dunk evidence of supplemental figure 4.
Do Childhood Vaccines Cause Tornadoes? It hasn’t been ruled out.
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Do Childhood Vaccines Cause Tornadoes?
It hasn’t been ruled out.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Do Childhood Vaccines Cause Tornadoes? It hasn’t been ruled out.
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
I'm sure Senator Cassidy is very satisfied that his agreement with RFK Jr is being executed in good faith.
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I'm sure Senator Cassidy is very satisfied that his agreement with RFK Jr is being executed in good faith.
According to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, freedom of speech only applies to select individuals.
Is this radical transparency?
Is this radical transparency?
November 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
According to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, freedom of speech only applies to select individuals.
Is this radical transparency?
Is this radical transparency?
I’m starting to think that his MAHA movement might be anti-vax.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I’m starting to think that his MAHA movement might be anti-vax.
Let me get this straight. We shouldn’t be enriching private insurance companies. But we also shouldn’t be providing more government-run health insurance.
Looking forward to hearing about this mysterious third option for getting people coverage.
Looking forward to hearing about this mysterious third option for getting people coverage.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Let me get this straight. We shouldn’t be enriching private insurance companies. But we also shouldn’t be providing more government-run health insurance.
Looking forward to hearing about this mysterious third option for getting people coverage.
Looking forward to hearing about this mysterious third option for getting people coverage.
Just a regular reminder that our top health leaders, including the heads of the NIH and CDC, have been absorbing an online stream of insane pseudoscience and conspiracy theories for years.
My contrarian take: giving obese people GLP1s is better than giving them a steak.
My contrarian take: giving obese people GLP1s is better than giving them a steak.
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Just a regular reminder that our top health leaders, including the heads of the NIH and CDC, have been absorbing an online stream of insane pseudoscience and conspiracy theories for years.
My contrarian take: giving obese people GLP1s is better than giving them a steak.
My contrarian take: giving obese people GLP1s is better than giving them a steak.
Meanwhile, the former Surgeon General is off doing his guru schtick. I actually don’t think it’s my job as a doctor to tip the world’s scales from fear to love.
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Meanwhile, the former Surgeon General is off doing his guru schtick. I actually don’t think it’s my job as a doctor to tip the world’s scales from fear to love.
"It seems hypocritical for Kennedy to criticize the “revolving door” between government agencies and Big Pharma, while swinging the door wide open for Big Wellness." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | Why Big Wellness Loves Middle Age Women
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November 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"It seems hypocritical for Kennedy to criticize the “revolving door” between government agencies and Big Pharma, while swinging the door wide open for Big Wellness." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Equity in cancer diagnosis is not just a technical challenge but a moral imperative. Cancer is not merely a disease of the affluent; it is a leading cause of death worldwide. bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/4/1/...
WHO is embedding inequality into cancer diagnostics
The WHO has long upheld health equity as a guiding principle, emphasising that every individual deserves the highest attainable standard of health regardless of geography or income.1 2 Yet this princi...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Equity in cancer diagnosis is not just a technical challenge but a moral imperative. Cancer is not merely a disease of the affluent; it is a leading cause of death worldwide. bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/4/1/...
Check out our new editorial on global inequality in cancer diagnostics
bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000889
bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000889
WHO is embedding inequality into cancer diagnostics
The WHO has long upheld health equity as a guiding principle, emphasising that every individual deserves the highest attainable standard of health regardless of geography or income.1 2 Yet this princi...
bmjoncology.bmj.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Check out our new editorial on global inequality in cancer diagnostics
bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000889
bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000889
Financial conflicts of interest subtly influencing medical decision making? Sure.
Cognitive biases and entrenched practices impacting patient care? Yes.
Massive global conspiracy among doctors and scientists? Seems unlikely. We can’t even complete our annual compliance modules.
Cognitive biases and entrenched practices impacting patient care? Yes.
Massive global conspiracy among doctors and scientists? Seems unlikely. We can’t even complete our annual compliance modules.
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Financial conflicts of interest subtly influencing medical decision making? Sure.
Cognitive biases and entrenched practices impacting patient care? Yes.
Massive global conspiracy among doctors and scientists? Seems unlikely. We can’t even complete our annual compliance modules.
Cognitive biases and entrenched practices impacting patient care? Yes.
Massive global conspiracy among doctors and scientists? Seems unlikely. We can’t even complete our annual compliance modules.
MAHA has self-righteously taken up the cause of Americans’ poor health. It’s purely a political movement though.
Chronic diseases, obesity, etc. matter. But you won’t hear about the inconvenient causes of our life expectancy gap:
guns, cars, drugs, and infections
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Chronic diseases, obesity, etc. matter. But you won’t hear about the inconvenient causes of our life expectancy gap:
guns, cars, drugs, and infections
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
October 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
MAHA has self-righteously taken up the cause of Americans’ poor health. It’s purely a political movement though.
Chronic diseases, obesity, etc. matter. But you won’t hear about the inconvenient causes of our life expectancy gap:
guns, cars, drugs, and infections
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Chronic diseases, obesity, etc. matter. But you won’t hear about the inconvenient causes of our life expectancy gap:
guns, cars, drugs, and infections
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Vaccine Policy Changes Require More Than Weak Secondary Findings From Underpowered Trials -a Reanalysis of Randomized Trials on Nonspecific Vaccine Effects papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Vaccine Policy Changes Require More Than Weak Secondary Findings From Underpowered Trials -a Reanalysis of Randomized Trials on Nonspecific Vaccine Effects
<p><b><span>Introduction:</span></b><span> Non-specific effects of vaccines (NSEs) have been suggested to influence overall health beyond protection against tar
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October 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Vaccine Policy Changes Require More Than Weak Secondary Findings From Underpowered Trials -a Reanalysis of Randomized Trials on Nonspecific Vaccine Effects papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
“When I directly pressed Bhattacharya about this exodus during our meeting, he said that if researchers did not like the way things are in the United States, they were welcome to go elsewhere.”
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NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers
Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.
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October 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“When I directly pressed Bhattacharya about this exodus during our meeting, he said that if researchers did not like the way things are in the United States, they were welcome to go elsewhere.”
www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...
www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...
The FDA commissioner suggested Lyme disease was a bioweapon and it’s not even news anymore.
October 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The FDA commissioner suggested Lyme disease was a bioweapon and it’s not even news anymore.
The American public continues to trust doctors far more than RFK Jr.
So who is to blame for the ongoing decline in trust of our public health infrastructure? The data speaks for itself.
So who is to blame for the ongoing decline in trust of our public health infrastructure? The data speaks for itself.
October 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The American public continues to trust doctors far more than RFK Jr.
So who is to blame for the ongoing decline in trust of our public health infrastructure? The data speaks for itself.
So who is to blame for the ongoing decline in trust of our public health infrastructure? The data speaks for itself.
This is the kind of stuff our new top vaccine policy makers are choosing to read.
I take the bold position that not every single doctor on earth is paid off by Big Pharma.
I take the bold position that not every single doctor on earth is paid off by Big Pharma.
October 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This is the kind of stuff our new top vaccine policy makers are choosing to read.
I take the bold position that not every single doctor on earth is paid off by Big Pharma.
I take the bold position that not every single doctor on earth is paid off by Big Pharma.
Weirdly reasonable Daily Mail article on the new COVID vaccine-cancer study that quotes my Substack (without linking to it...thanks). www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
Covid jabs 'might raise the risk of cancer', contentious study claims
The link between Covid jabs and cancer has previously been dismissed by academics and oncologists after claims it had led to 'turbo cancers'.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Weirdly reasonable Daily Mail article on the new COVID vaccine-cancer study that quotes my Substack (without linking to it...thanks). www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
Can the COVID vaccines cause a cancer to literally grow overnight? Despite a new study that's sure to go viral among vaccine skeptics, I take the bold position that they can't. mazer.substack.com/p/coming-to-...
Coming to an ACIP meeting near you
Expect to see the administration tout a vaccine-cancer link
mazer.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Can the COVID vaccines cause a cancer to literally grow overnight? Despite a new study that's sure to go viral among vaccine skeptics, I take the bold position that they can't. mazer.substack.com/p/coming-to-...
Some thoughts on a new study purporting to show an increased risk of cancer from the COVID vaccines. mazer.substack.com/p/coming-to-...
Coming to an ACIP meeting near you
Expect to see the administration tout a vaccine-cancer link
mazer.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Some thoughts on a new study purporting to show an increased risk of cancer from the COVID vaccines. mazer.substack.com/p/coming-to-...
If someone at Harvard says it then it must be true. By the way, we are trying to shut it down because universities are the enemy.
September 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
If someone at Harvard says it then it must be true. By the way, we are trying to shut it down because universities are the enemy.
Yeah it would be pretty weird to take a medication you don't need just for political reasons. 🐴🪱
September 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yeah it would be pretty weird to take a medication you don't need just for political reasons. 🐴🪱