Gary Schwitzer
@garyschwitzer
Health care journalist for 50 yrs. Founder/Publisher of http://HealthNewsReview.org, which had a great 16-year run. Now retired but still publishing a Substack.
Reflections by @ShipLives on our work to improve critical thinking about claims made about health care interventions. …ecommunicationbreakdown.wordpress.com/2022/09/13/tip…
The rhetoric of RFK Jr. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/keeping-an-e…
Keeping an eye on the Kennedy capers, following the turmoil left in his wake. open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…
This is disgusting. I got this email tonight & almost vomited. The Social Security PR machine can’t spin this turd into something exciting for seniors. Incomplete. Misleading. Waste of time and money sending this out. Unless this is a fake, which it doesn’t appear to be.
Is artificial intelligence polluting journalism and medicine? A collection of thoughtful analyses in both professions. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/is-artificia…
Marty Makary’s myopic menopause panel. Carefully chosen. In lockstep agreement. Deepening concerns about FDA. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/marty-markar…
When ‘MAHA Wins’ means replacing food dyes instead of funding healthcare and science, we all lose. - Andrea Love, PhD. open.substack.com/pub/immunologi…
Loved this editorial cartoon on FDA commissioner Marty Makary’s “data” on food dyes. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/fdas-marty-m…
FDA’s Marty Makary muddles the evidence on food dyes - pointing to anecdotes & then a quick, vague reference to randomized trial data - a study that did not show what he said it did. open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…
Preventable harm. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/how-disease-…
“Driven by commercialism, direct-to-consumer advertising, and the pursuit of perfect health—a culture of “more is better”—modern medicine has fostered a culture of overdiagnosis and overtreatment.” open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…
Nothing but the best for Trump administration appointees. Hooters…red meat..ok for alpha males to interrupt & educate women. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…
RFK, Jr. cancels another meeting of another important independent group of experts. He appears to be at it again. medpagetoday.com/washington-wat…
Clever ads & claims. But remember some caveats. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/elephants-je…
Record-setting RFK, Jr. measles era. washingtonpost.com/health/2025/07…
For years, regulators and lawyers have been scrutinizing memory supplements’ claims & advertising. Here are things to remember. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/elephants-je…
Last week’s Social Security email to many of us was inaccurate. That’s being polite. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/social-secur…
Many Americans got an unusual Social Security email that seemed more intent on praising the Big Ugly Bill than on being accurate. open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…
How the sausage is sometimes made. Fake journals and fake biomedical conferences emailing invitations to every Tom, Dick & Gary (yes, even me). garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/im-prey-for-…
I’m prey for predatory journals & conferences. Only 1/2 way thru the year & I’ve already received >60 invitations referring to my expertise in cancer, nursing, dentistry, orthopedics, etc. open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…
This executive order is shallow in its veracity, hypocritical, inauthentic, parts of it are ludicrous. It criticizes others for politicizing science as it politicizes science to an unprecedented level. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/gold-standar…
