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Man who oversaw one of the biggest academic research frauds in medical...

February 8, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD Robert Califf, MD is a cardiologist at Duke University who led the “Translational Medicine Institute”. Washington insiders and trade publications are reporting...

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Google wants your DNA now (Not just with 23andMe)

Opinion December 17, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD The Wall Street Journal published an article explaining how the pharmaceutical industry data mines credit card records, Internet traffic patterns, and...

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CBS promotes outrageous pro-coffee research, again

March 7, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD The coffee industry has been funding mounds of junk science that purport to show the health benefits of drinking coffee, when in fact, coffee is very unhealthy to...

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The PCSK9 LDL drugs do not cut heart risk in half

March 18, 2015- Op-Ed by Steven E. Greer, MD The American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting is underway, and the main Late Breaking data making the national news came from the PCSK9-antibody drugs...

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Did antidepressants cause the Germanwings pilot to commit suicide and mass...

March 30, 2015- Opinion by Steven E. Greer, MD The facts are now becoming known in the Germanwings Flight 9525. The co-pilot, 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz, was being treated with antidepressants for an...

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The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much

April 5, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD The New York Times has a nice essay explaining why college tuition is out of control. They first detail the conventional wisdom spewed, which is that the public...

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Book review of “Fat Chance” by Robert H. Lustig, MD

February 9, 2013 (20,000 people have read this article as of April 8, 2015) Book Review by Steven E. Greer, MD How did our ancient ancestors evolve from being pure meat eating carnivore hunters into...

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Tiger Woods’ career ended after he bulked up

April 10, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD Ten years ago, Tiger Woods hit one of the most memorable shots in golf when he chipped in a birdie on the 16th hole at Augusta in the 2005 Masters to win the...

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Doctors complain to Columbia about Dr. Oz

Lee Goldman, M.D. Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine Columbia University Dear Dr. Goldman: I am writing to you on behalf of myself and the undersigned colleagues below, all of whom...

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Brigham and Women’s Hospital engages in bizarre PR campaign for daily aspirin

 April 21, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, part of the Harvard University network of hospitals, has begun a rather perplexing public relations campaign. On national...

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Dr. Oz “Lose 20 lbs in 14 days”

May 24, 2015- We spotted this egregious quackery in the Rite Aid pharmacy. Doctors complain to Columbia about Dr. Oz Half of Dr. Oz’s medical advice is baseless or wrong, study says

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The super cool new drug: Marijuana

May 31, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD I was watching Green Day give their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech and the singer made some references to smoking pot, as if it was his generation’s...

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The Netflix Late Reviewer: American Sniper missed the mark

July 4, 2015- by Steven E. Greer, MD I finally saw the acclaimed Clint Eastwood film American Sniper. Bradley Cooper played the character of decorated Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, for which he was...

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta caught exaggerating his surgical exploits

July 9, 2015– CNN’s fame-seeking Dr. Gupta has been caught exaggerating his “life-saving” surgical exploits. Like fellow TV-doctors, such as Dr. Oz and Dr. Snyderman, this TV doctor gave up medical...

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How to handle a defamatory online review of your medical practice

 August 13, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD I still have active medical licenses, but only treat friends and family. I have no office and no “practice” to speak of. Therefore, I found it quite odd that...

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A modern medical wonder finishes second in the U.S. Open golf tournament

June 15, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD 34-year-old Erik Compton finished tied for second in the United States Open golf tournament. That was a good accomplishment by any standard, but it was also a...

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Donald Trump has Tourette’s Syndrome

August 8, 2015- Opinion by Steven E. Greer, MD Donald Trump has a genuine mental problem, in my opinion. The other day, he was giving a nice phone interview with Fox Business’ Trish Regan,...

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Thoughts on the golf swing

August 18, 2015- by Steven E. Greer, MD I thought that Tiger Woods, in his prime, was playing the best golf that a human could possibly play. But these new golfers are even better. This past weekend,...

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When Bad Doctors Happen to Good Patients

August 31, 2015- The NYT has an Op-Ed today by some malpractice lawyers urging a new law to be passed in New York to expand the time frame for filing malpractice suits. Ignore that part of the essay...

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How pain pills almost killed my mother after elective knee surgery

May 21, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD My mother is in her 70’s and in good health except for debilitating knee arthritis. After considerable research and second opinion (a bad spine surgeon misdiagnosed...

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