What we measured
We loaded sciencebasedmedicine.org in a real browser, accepted the cookie banner, and scored what came back. Every number below is on a 0–10 scale where 10 is best.
- Ad restraint
- 10
- Design
- 8
- Reach
- 7
- Editorial
- 9
- Signal-to-noise
- 9
- Access
- 9
- Cadence
- 8
- Independence
- 9
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Clutter, hierarchy, typography and whitespace, scored from our screenshot
Tranco rank for the registrable domain, capped where the feed is a section
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How much of the feed is the thing you subscribed for
How much is readable without a paywall or a login
Whether it publishes often enough to be worth a slot
Ownership, and how much it constrains what gets covered
What it looks like
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Latest from Science-Based Medicine
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- Trump’s Frontal Assault on Vaccines
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- Stanford President Jonathan Levin: You Should Host a Conference on the Job Performance of MAHA/MAGA Doctors
- AI And Pseudoscience
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- Montana’s new “right to try”: Opening the door to profit from unproven drugs
- Guests on the “Why Should I Trust You?” Podcast Want to Hang Doctors. Why Should I Trust It?
- The FDA vs. Compounding Pharmacies: GLP-1 Edition
- Does public health “need” MAHA? No more than medicine “needs” CAM!
- Stephen Macedo And Frances Lee: Defend Your Essay That Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Would Restore Trust in Public Health
- In 2014, Dr. Kelly Brogan and Sayer Ji Told People Natural HPV Infections Were “Beneficial, Not Deadly.” What’s Happened Since?
- The Madness of Crowding
- RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 11): Eliminate the CDC vaccine schedule!
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- #5 Stronger by Science82.5