Gary Schwitzer
@garyschw.bsky.social
Health care journalist for 50 years, now retired except for his Substack. Published HealthNewsReview.org for 16 years. Helping people improve their critical thinking about health care.
FDA’s announcement on banning black box warnings for estrogen was dominated by hyperbole, distortions, exaggerations & unfounded claims. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/fdas-menop...
November 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
FDA’s announcement on banning black box warnings for estrogen was dominated by hyperbole, distortions, exaggerations & unfounded claims. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/fdas-menop...
The seamier side of the FDA. Questions about who benefits most from some agency decisions: political favors or public health? garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/the-seamie...?
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The seamier side of the FDA. Questions about who benefits most from some agency decisions: political favors or public health? garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/the-seamie...?
Let’s stop referring to “the media.” It is inaccurate. There is no such monolith - no such homogeneous entity. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/lets-stop-...
October 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Let’s stop referring to “the media.” It is inaccurate. There is no such monolith - no such homogeneous entity. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/lets-stop-...
I'll keep writing about the hypocritical “tenets of Gold Standard Science” that federal health folks brag about. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Try to fool me with every action you take - well, my momma didn’t raise no fool. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/gold-stand...
October 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I'll keep writing about the hypocritical “tenets of Gold Standard Science” that federal health folks brag about. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Try to fool me with every action you take - well, my momma didn’t raise no fool. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/gold-stand...
If this is the “Gold Standard Science” touted by an Executive Order to restore trust to American health policy, it’s doing just the opposite. Trust is looking more battered, broken and rusty by the day. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/gold-stand...
October 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
If this is the “Gold Standard Science” touted by an Executive Order to restore trust to American health policy, it’s doing just the opposite. Trust is looking more battered, broken and rusty by the day. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/gold-stand...
How numbers help patients more than vague terms. Lessons for physicians, patients, journalists or anyone who communicates about health care. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/how-number...
October 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
How numbers help patients more than vague terms. Lessons for physicians, patients, journalists or anyone who communicates about health care. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/how-number...
It’s Think Before You Pink time again. Not all fundraising promotions are the same - or legit. Some do more for companies & their products than for “the cause.” open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
October 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It’s Think Before You Pink time again. Not all fundraising promotions are the same - or legit. Some do more for companies & their products than for “the cause.” open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
Time to turn the Tylenol temperature down. Social media’s wild claims of a “liberal” pregnant woman dying of overdose, mass hospitalizations and organ failures. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/turn-the-t...
October 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Time to turn the Tylenol temperature down. Social media’s wild claims of a “liberal” pregnant woman dying of overdose, mass hospitalizations and organ failures. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/turn-the-t...
Trump health follies: fake video on "historic new health care system," a post promoting hemp-derived CBD, his FDA banning a dye that hasn't been used for decades & FDA Commissioner double-talk on acetaminophen & autism. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
September 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Trump health follies: fake video on "historic new health care system," a post promoting hemp-derived CBD, his FDA banning a dye that hasn't been used for decades & FDA Commissioner double-talk on acetaminophen & autism. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
Sign up for The Patient Revolution Town Hall on issues of trust in health care. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/sign-up-fo...
September 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Sign up for The Patient Revolution Town Hall on issues of trust in health care. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/sign-up-fo...
September 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Association ≠ causation. So don’t talk about “effect” if cause-and-effect hasn’t been proven. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/you-could-...
September 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Association ≠ causation. So don’t talk about “effect” if cause-and-effect hasn’t been proven. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/you-could-...
STAT News “pierced the hype” on one cancer test and on one cancer treatment. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/two-exampl...
September 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
STAT News “pierced the hype” on one cancer test and on one cancer treatment. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/two-exampl...
“America’s 80-year run as the world’s leader of biomedical research — and 50-year run as the global leader of cancer research — may very well be coming to a close, and for no apparent reason.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
September 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
“America’s 80-year run as the world’s leader of biomedical research — and 50-year run as the global leader of cancer research — may very well be coming to a close, and for no apparent reason.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
“It looks exactly like the report from Michelle Obama's task force in 2010…What's disappointing is that things that'd make a big difference aren't here…I want to see action. What are they going to do? They haven't said.” garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/marion-nes...
September 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“It looks exactly like the report from Michelle Obama's task force in 2010…What's disappointing is that things that'd make a big difference aren't here…I want to see action. What are they going to do? They haven't said.” garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/marion-nes...
If you didn't see Marion Nestle analyze the MAHA children's health strategy report on PBS NewsHour last night, I urge you to watch at this link: open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
September 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If you didn't see Marion Nestle analyze the MAHA children's health strategy report on PBS NewsHour last night, I urge you to watch at this link: open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
Hmm - has he told RFK Jr. this? “You have some vaccines that are so amazing,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, citing the polio vaccine and the COVID-19 vaccine, which was developed during his first term.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com/policy/healt...
September 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Hmm - has he told RFK Jr. this? “You have some vaccines that are so amazing,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, citing the polio vaccine and the COVID-19 vaccine, which was developed during his first term.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com/policy/healt...
1. Will America be healthier?
2. Will we be prepared for next pandemic/major health threat?
3. Is this “Gold Standard Science” & transparency or just slogans?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
2. Will we be prepared for next pandemic/major health threat?
3. Is this “Gold Standard Science” & transparency or just slogans?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
September 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
1. Will America be healthier?
2. Will we be prepared for next pandemic/major health threat?
3. Is this “Gold Standard Science” & transparency or just slogans?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
2. Will we be prepared for next pandemic/major health threat?
3. Is this “Gold Standard Science” & transparency or just slogans?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Big Food industries get a lot of free, fawning news coverage about studies they funded. Big Egg & Big Peanut are latest examples. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
August 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Big Food industries get a lot of free, fawning news coverage about studies they funded. Big Egg & Big Peanut are latest examples. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
Why was this a front-page New York Times story? Unpublished findings, uncontrolled study, observational research. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
August 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Why was this a front-page New York Times story? Unpublished findings, uncontrolled study, observational research. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
How GLP-1 drug use is driving up health care costs. And how PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) - meant to control drug spending - often do the opposite. A few fragments of this crazy patchwork quilt health care system. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
August 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
How GLP-1 drug use is driving up health care costs. And how PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) - meant to control drug spending - often do the opposite. A few fragments of this crazy patchwork quilt health care system. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
The CDC shooting was 12 days ago. The President of the United States has not publicly addressed the shooting. But more than 300 people sent letters, emails and notes to public health workers with messages of hope, support and gratitude. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
August 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The CDC shooting was 12 days ago. The President of the United States has not publicly addressed the shooting. But more than 300 people sent letters, emails and notes to public health workers with messages of hope, support and gratitude. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
Vaccine critics like RFK Jr. often give the impression that scientists haven’t seriously researched whether vaccines might cause autism. This analysis shows how wrong that is. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
August 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Vaccine critics like RFK Jr. often give the impression that scientists haven’t seriously researched whether vaccines might cause autism. This analysis shows how wrong that is. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Ignoring decades of evidence on the danger of too much sun exposure and how best to prevent it. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
August 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ignoring decades of evidence on the danger of too much sun exposure and how best to prevent it. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
Spawned by social media fear-mongering. It is not, as Billy Crystal’s Fernando character oft said on SNL - “better to look good than to feel good.” open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
August 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Spawned by social media fear-mongering. It is not, as Billy Crystal’s Fernando character oft said on SNL - “better to look good than to feel good.” open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...