I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.

Daily vitamins are of no value.

In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.

I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

I think it is true that you can eat extremely healthy food at McDonald's, and you can eat amazingly badly at Chipotle.

Your dollar cheeseburger isn't a dollar if you factor in what it's going to cost in health care.

Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk.