Welcome! I am Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist, scientific fact-checker, and all around pedant. I’m a science communicator and regular columnist for publications like TIME magazine, the Guardian, Stat News, and more.
Here, you will find everything from dissections of the latest COVID-19 news to insights into medicinal cannabis and what it means for you. There will also be discussions of fraudulent data, bad media headlines, and why it’s important to understand the details of a scientific claim before you change your life based on it.
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So join me on this venture through the fascinating world of medicine, health, and dodgy science, where I will be the slightly sarcastic guide who can’t figure out how to finish writing his About page on Substack and has gone on a bit too long and now it’s a little bit weird.
