I wrote this note in response to a post on "Peachhead2," a parents' bulletin board.

"With all due respect to Dr. Gordon's article and his opinion posted [on Peachhead2] I would love to hear [another] doctor's opinion about the H1N1. I talked to a neurologist last week and he...

Dr. Harvey Karp has just written an excellent blog beginning to discuss the role environmental toxins play in causing autism. I agree that the huge rise in autism is real, and not just related to better diagnosis or reclassification of mental illness. Autism is most likely caused by a genetic...

The Swine Flu news stories must bring to mind the previous ad campaign to sell Tamiflu.

This virus is being made to sound mysterious because the diagnoses are being made in scattered areas. This should merely highlight the fact that tens or hundreds of thousands of people with bad...

Look at the date on this incredible article supposedly published in JAMA!!

Wait! This is not satire? It really WAS published April First in JAMA!???

By some of the most important doctors and authors in the world???

They stole my idea? I'll call my lawyers in the morning.

Well, that wasn't April's only storm. An April Fool's joke I posted to a private group of a few thousand doctors, lactation experts and other medical experts triggered alarm in the halls of my club, The American Academy of Pediatrics.

Interestingly, the AAP may actually have dramatically...

Dr. Rahul Parikh's article entitled, "Parents, Don't Be Immune to Vaccine Truths" should not have been published by the Los Angeles Times. He begins by painting a grim picture of a child in Mumbai who survives a case of tetanus. Instead of attempting to educate parents, his stated aim,...

The Los Angeles Times featured a scary, virtually fact-free article about vaccines on its front page Sunday. They dredged up old stories and concluded with a quote from an over-exposed expert who makes millions of dollars from his vaccine patents.

Parents' blogs and bulletin boards lit up and...

They were disdainful and unscientific in their approach and did not gather the needed evidence. In the absence of that evidence, they should have insisted on further studies to assist in the decision-making process.

Vaccines as they are now manufactured and administered trigger autism in susceptible children.

This will be...

It took fifty years before the courts finally acknowledged that cigarette smoking causes cancer.

There were billions of dollars at stake.

The dozens of court decisions that there "was no proof" were supported by physicians, expert witnesses of all types and hundreds of millions of dollars...

Congress and President Obama will have to challenge the insurance companies' obsession with scalpels, scopes, shots and medication.

The most important thing I do every day is talking to the parents and the children in my pediatric office. There will be no effective reform of health care until a...

No proof, but there is evidence that polycarbonate baby bottles which contain bisphenol A (BPA) have a "hormone-like" effect on the reproductive system. The CDC has issued cautions and now the Canadian government will be banning this toxic substance.

There are a large number of substitutes and

About twenty years ago, I was approached by a manufacturer of vitamins and supplements and asked to write articles for a magazine. This magazine--coincidentally--was sponsored by the manufacturer and all the articles--coincidentally--were about their products.

I should have been a bit suspicious when the first article was to be...

The Los Angeles Times series about the Gates Foundation's investments in companies and industries responsible for death and misery (see Nestle and Ameriquest) caused them to pause for a few seconds.

Then, they promptly flip-flopped back to saying that blind investing is just fine with them. Their CEO's letter...

The Los Angeles Times series on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Foundation's response reveal hypocrisy which harms babies by the millions.

No one questions the good the Gateses and their foundation have done but now they must address the deaths caused by their "blind investments."

Further Amended:

Spinoza's response at the bottom of the comments is well worth reading. I strongly disagree with Dr. Spinoza's opinions and some of his facts, but he has crafted a cogent rebuttal. (I accidentally deleted his first comment and he was kind enough to re-post.)

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Tomorrow's "New England Journal of Medicine" will make the front pages of many if not most major newspapers. They are publishing two excellent studies which show that being overweight shortens life.

I have a different "take" on overweight and obesity because I'm a pediatrician and very few of...

The FDA has finally decided to put even stronger warnings on stimulant medication used to treat Attention Deficit Disorder.

As usual, they've done so for many of the wrong reasons: Rare reports of heart problems and psychotic behavior.

There are over 2 million ADD med prescriptions written each...

Circumcision to prevent AIDS transmission will put millions of infants at risk during surgery (albeit minor surgery) in less than ideal situations and locales.

The reasoning is similar to pulling all of an African male's teeth to prevent cavities.

I do not agree with those on the extreme end...

A couple weeks ago, the "Lancet" announced a medical breakthrough: Using a patient's own bladder cells and a plastic framework, scientists at Boston Children's Hospital got these cells to multiply. They were then able to augment the patient's damaged bladder with this lab-grown bladder and greatly improve her quality...

A new medical study in the April issue of "Chest" associate parents' snoring habits with their children's tendencies to snore.

Their are multiple reasons for snoring including anatomical variations, allergies, overweight and more.

Snoring can cause large breathing problems in children but rarely does. A more commonly recognized phenomenon...