In a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) directly confronted anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his rejection of germ theory—the unquestionable ...

Strange as it may seem, early germ theorists could tell us a lot about today’s attitudes toward climate change. While researching for a new book about the history of emerging infections, I found many ...

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In recent months, the U.S. government has taken steps to defund and dismantle key infectious disease programs, including a National Institutes of Health lab that has contributed to groundbreaking work ...

I am stunned by the irony of two articles that appeared alongside each other in the Metro section of Saturday’s Globe. The first, “Health experts say germ theory denial explains RFK Jr.’s views,” ...

From alleging that the polio vaccine kills more people than it saves to promoting cod liver oil as a remedy during a measles outbreak, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has, ...

I can trace my early career interests along a vector of science literature that began in elementary school, with Paul de Kruif’s 1926 classic, Microbe Hunters, continued with Berton Roueche’s ...

Editor’s note: This year What If?, our annual collection of scenarios, considers the future of health. Each of these stories is fiction, but grounded in historical fact, current speculation and real ...

Forms of germ theory denial have been advocated by the United States secretary of health.