Peter A. Lipson, MD
Founding Fellow
Southfield, Michigan, USA
Peter A. Lipson, MD, is a practicing internist and teaching physician in Southeast Michigan. He writes on the proliferation of harmful health fads and the intrusion of medical "cults" into health care. A primary goal of his writing is to illuminate the differences between science-based medicine and everything else. His perspective as a primary care physician and his daily interaction with real patients gives him what he hopes is special insight into the current "de-lightenment" in medicine. As new media evolve, pseudo-scientific, deceptive, and immoral health practices become more and more available to patients, making his job all that much more difficult, but all that much more interesting for his readers.
After graduating from Rush Medical College in Chicago, Dr Lipson completed his Internal Medicine residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He currently maintains a private practice, and serves as a teaching physician for the internal medicine residency at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. He also maintains appointments as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine and at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, the first being a large, established medical school, the latter a newly-formed medical school which will soon be accepting its first class of students. During his intern year, Lipson led a medical mission to hurricane-ravaged Honduras.
Selected Online Writings:
- “HuffPo blogger claims skin cancer is conspiracy,” Science Based Medicine, 2010 Jul 15.
- “It sounds so ‘nutritionous’,” Science Based Medicine, 2010 Jul 15.
- “Reminder: whooping cough is serious business,” White Coat Underground, 2010 Jul 7.
- “Quack-busting is dangerous work,” White Coat Underground, 2010 Jul 6.
- “The great zombie hoax,” White Coat Underground, 2010 Jul 1.
- “The vaccine problem: are we doing it wrong?” White Coat Underground, 2010 Jun 27.
- “We need to fix Medicare NOW!” White Coat Underground, 2010 Jun 24.
- “Plumbing the depth of quackery at HuffPo,” White Coat Underground, 2010 Jun 14.
- “Narcotic treatment contracts and the state of the evidence,” Science Based Medicine, 2010 Jun 3.
- “Not just stupid, but dangerous,” White Coat Underground, 2010 Jun 3.
- “Too many too soon?” White Coat Underground, 2010 May 24.
- “A challenge to homeopaths,” White Coat Underground, 2010 May 20.
- “Naturopathy for allergies,” Science Based Medicine, 2010 May 20.
- “Allergies, naturopathy, and Spock’s beard,” White Coat Underground, 2010 May 19.
- “The Pill and altmed idiocy,” White Coat Underground, 2010 May 17.
- “Bad science, done badly. It’s bad,”White Coat Underground, 2010 May 13.
- “You pulled that out of where?” White Coat Underground, 2010 May 11.
- “Who doesn’t hate smallpox?” White Coat Underground, 2010 May 7.
- “How do religious-based hospitals affect physician behavior?” Science Based Medicine, 2010 May 6.
- “Toxic supplements,” Forbes blog on Science Business Research, Innovation & Policy, 2010 Apr 30.
- “New autism study: science or nonsense?” Forbes blog on Science Business Research, Innovation & Policy, 2010 Apr 6.
- “Less salt: it’s that simple,” Science Based Medicine, 2010 Apr 1.
- “Vaccinations and autism: are we number 1?” Science Based Medicine, 2010 Mar 25.
- “Will health reform cause doctors to flee?” Forbes blog on Science Business Research, Innovation & Policy, 2010 Mar 18.
- “A nutritional approach to the treatment of HIV infection—same old woo?” Science Based Medicine, 2010 Mar 8.
- “The failure of science by press release,” Forbes blog on Science Business Research, Innovation & Policy, 2010 Feb 25.
- “A victory for science-based medicine,” Science Based Medicine, 2010 Jan 7.
- “The wild Weil world of woo,” Science Based Medicine, 2009 Oct 18.
- “Science-based medicine and eurocentrism,” Science Based Medicine, 2009 Oct 13.
- “Health care reform and primary sources,” Science Based Medicine, 2009 Aug 10.
- “DSHEA: a travesty of a mockery of a sham,” Science Based Medicine, 2009 Jul 20.
- “Medical students actively recruited for CAM,” Science Based Medicine, 2009 mar 30.
- “Tom Harkin’s war on science (or, ‘Meet the new boss…’),” Science Based Medicine, 2009 Mar 2.
- “Medical marijuana: an over-hyped drug,” Forbes blog on Science Business Research, Innovation & Policy, 2010 Feb 18.
- “Health care and the stimulus plan,” Science Based Medicine, 2009 Feb 16.
- “Will Congress finally reform supplement laws?” Forbes blog on Science Business Research, Innovation & Policy, 2010 Feb 9.
- “NCCAM: the not-even-wrong agency,” Science Based Medicine, 2008 Nov 24
- “Does alternative medicine have alternative ethics?” Science Based Medicine, 2008 Nov 10.
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