Journal retracts study linking hepatitis vaccine to autism that was included in CDC review retractionwatch.com/2026/06/…

What is the diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasound findings for pneumonia in adults? Learn more from the Brass Tacks review article via @AcademicEmerMed - bit.ly/4wQK3Qh Read more from the @thenntgroup - bit.ly/4dAFYbv #NNThursday #FOAMed

Great piece published in Academic Emergency Medicine on how institutions are often pressured to sacrifice high-quality patient care in order to meet performance metrics. @AcademicEmerMed onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

No child deaths have been definitively linked to Covid vaccines, according to a report from the FDA that was quietly made public. nbcnews.com/health/health-ne…

“Dead Tired” from Nathaniel Ladaga, DO and Elizabeth Nisper, MD, highlights how sleep loss impacts performance, safety, and burnout in the ED. Plus, find out how programs should prioritize smart scheduling to support residents' sleep: emresident.org/26jtbt8/ #Wellness #Sleep

Supplementation with Vitamin D or calcium, or both does not help prevent fractures or falls. From a new systematic review of 69 randomized trials and >150,000 participants

This article should be mandatory reading for every medical student, PhD candidate, researcher—and honestly, for anyone who mistakes expertise for certainty. “The importance of stupidity in scientific research” sounds provocative, almost offensive. But Martin Schwartz is not glorifying incompetence. He is describing the real operating system of discovery. Science is not built on knowing. Science is built on tolerating not knowing. That distinction matters. Most of education rewards correctness. School teaches us to answer. Exams reward speed, certainty, and precision. You feel intelligent when you get things right. Research is the opposite. Real research begins exactly where competence ends—at the frontier where nobody knows the answer, including the people you thought must know. That moment is psychologically brutal. You ask the expert. The expert shrugs. You assume you’re missing something. Then you realize: no—this is the work. You are not failing. You are standing at the actual boundary of knowledge. That feeling—“I must be stupid”—is often not a sign of inadequacy. It is often the first sign that you are finally asking an important question. Medicine struggles with this. We train doctors to avoid uncertainty, to fear being wrong, to perform confidence. But the best clinicians and the best scientists know how to sit inside ambiguity without collapsing into fake certainty. This is why AI in medicine also deserves caution. Systems trained only to reproduce established answers may become extraordinarily good at passing exams while being terrible at discovering what matters next. Guideline intelligence is not the same as scientific intelligence. Discovery requires productive stupidity: the willingness to stay with the uncomfortable, to look ignorant, to ask naïve questions, to be wrong repeatedly without protecting your ego. Most people want the authority of expertise. Very few want the humiliation required to earn it. But progress lives there. Not in certainty. Not in performance. Not in sounding smart. In the quiet discipline of saying: “I don’t know… yet.” And continuing anyway.

A new warning by @TheLancet for the American people: the CDC is “on the brink” of collapse. “The CDC was once the gold standard for public health leadership. Today, it is struggling to maintain scientific excellence, trustworthiness, and relevance, a result of the actions of the Trump admin and HHS that have undermined the agency.”

A report showing the efficacy of the covid-19 vaccine that was previously delayed by the head of the CDC has been blocked from being published in the agency’s flagship scientific journal, according to people familiar with the decision. wapo.st/3QCMmps

💬 Viewpoint: Mandatory annual training modules consume millions of physician‑hours each year, yet their largely passive formats may offer limited educational value while contributing to administrative burden and clinician burnout. ja.ma/4vvyvBm

Four million physician hours are spent on mandatory modules each year. They represent not just clinical time lost but “evenings reclaimed and cognitive load reduced.” Redundant training and low-value modules should be a thing of the past. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

5 Logical fallacies in the era of RFK Jr. youcanknowthings.com/5-logic…