2021
Doctors must be honest with parents about unknown risks of COVID-19 emergency vaccine. USA Today. 2021
Opinion: COVID-19 Vaccines Are Good, but Shouldn’t Be Mandated for School Kids. US News and World Report. 2021
Covid vaccines for children should not get emergency use authorization. BMJ Opinion. 2021
American Kids Can Wait for Vaccines. The Atlantic. 2021
Setting the record straight. There is no COVID heart. Stat 2021
Kids don’t need COVID19 vaccine to return to school. Stat. 2021
Kick U.S. Kids to the Back of the Global Vax Line. MedPage Today. 2021
COVID Vax Opponents and Rigid Proponents...Are Both Anti-Science? MedPage Today. 2021
Will the Real Covid Expert Please Stand Up. MedPage Today. 2021
The Counterlife of COVID19: What Might have Happened? MedPage Today. 2021
Social Media a Parasite on Public Health. MedPage Today. 2021
Vaccine Passports are a Bad Idea. MedPage Today. 2021
The COVID Endgame: A Look Into Prasad’s Crystal Ball. MedPage Today. 2021
What To Make of that Danish Reinfection Study. MedPage Today. 2021
TV Pundits: Stop Beating Up Joe Citizen. MedPage Today. 2021
Facebook: A worthy judge of medical info? MedPage Today. 2021
The Hidden Cost of Avoiding Death. MedPage Today. 2021
Vivek Murthy’s Conflict of Interest is a Problem. MedPage Today. 2021
Double-masking is a double distraction. MedPage Today. 2021
ZeroCovid or Harm Reduction?. MedPage Today 2021
Do Lockdowns Work. MedPage Today. 2021
Tribalism and Virtue Signaling in Post-COVID Vax Messaging. MedPage Today. 201
Find Your Purpose in Medicine With 'Ikigai'. MedPage Today. 2021
Throw Away Your Mask After COVID Vaccination? MedPage Today. 2021
Counterpoint by David Aronoff
Public Schools Should (Almost Always) Stay Open. MedPage Today 2021.
We Need More Than Pandemic Preparedness. MedPage Today. 2021.
2020
Why Did Fauci Move the Herd Immunity Goal Posts? MedPage Today. 2020
Don’t Cancel Christmas. MedPage Today. 2020.
Forget about Mentors, Sponsors and Coaches. MedPage Today. 2020
Applying Skepticism to Medical Skepticism. MedPage Today. 2020.
Reform Residency but Don’t Ask for Pity. MedPage Today 2020
Here's How to Think About the Danish Mask Study. MedPage Today. 2020
What Does 'Follow the Science' Mean, Anyway? MedPage Today. 2020
We Should All Care About Censorship in Science. MedPage Today. 2020
My Feedback: Too Much Feedback. Medpage Today. 2020
Abstinence only Thanksgiving is Not Public Health. MedPage Today. 2020
More Science, Less Speculation on Covid LongHaulers. MedPage Today. 2020
Beyond COVID tribalism. MedPage Today. 2020
Great Barrington vs. John Snow is a False Choice. MedPage Today. 2020
Reform or Boycott Extra Fellowships. MedPage Today 2020
Less #Mobtwitter; More #ProductiveOutrage. MedPage Today.
Is ‘it can’t hurt’ the rationale for giving Trump unproven Covid-19 treatments? STAT 2020
Anatomy Factoids Don’t Make Great Physicians. Medscape. 2020
How to be the two-billionth most important person who lived. MedPage Today. 2020
Less #MobTwitter, More #ProductiveOutrage. MedPage Today. 2020
The Unexpected Side Effect of Covid-19. CNN. 2020
Trump’s Medical Judgement is Wrong. Washington Post. 2020
Has the Pandemic Infected Our Approach to Medicine? Medscape. 2020
Covid-19, a ‘supernova in human history,’ will need multiple perspectives to understand and manage. STAT. 2020
Scientists who express different views on Covid-19 should be heard, not demonized. STAT. 2020.
Trumps Not a Doctor, He is Just Playing One on TV. Washington Post. 2020.
Stopping the Med School 'Arms Race.' Medscape. 2020
2019
The ‘cancer growing in cancer medicine’: pharma money paid to doctors. STAT. 2019
Why 'Don't Make Enemies' Is Cowardly Advice. Medscape. 2019
Med Student Instagram 'Influencers' No Different From MDs on Pharma Payroll. Medscape.2019
On Twitter, and in Life, Aim to Persuade the Swing Voter. Medscape. 2019
'Making Room' for a New Generation of Medical Leaders. Medscape. 2019
Public Commenting Has Been Hijacked by Biopharma. Medscape. 2019
Vinay Prasad reviews Jeanne Lenzer’s book on the medical device industry. BMJ 2019.
2018
Prasad on Medicine. Medscape.
When Do We Need Randomized Controlled Trials, and When Can We Manage Without Them? Medscape.2018
FDA's Genomic Screening Approval Blurs Research and Practice. Medscape.2018
Calling Out the FDA's 'We Don't Regulate Medicine' Mantra. Medscape.2018
'Twitter Cheerleaders': A Megaphone for Bad Science. Medscape. 2018
21st Century Physician: Triaging the Tsunami of Medical Information. Medscape. 2018
2017
2016
Why a Cancer Moonshot is Unlikely to Give us a Cure. (Washington Post)
2015
Five Years of Cancer Drug Approvals: Most Cost too Much and Give us Too Little. (RAPS invited rebuttal)
Why Are Most Cancer Drugs So Expensive. (Guest of Allen Frances at the Huffington Post)
Perspective on the Selective reporting of primary, secondary endpoints common in randomized oncology trials. (HemOnc Today)
The Folly of Big Science Prizes. (The New York Times)
When Doctors Rely on Promise Instead of Proof. (Baltimore Sun)
Why NEJM Gets Conflict of Interest Policies Wrong (Lown Institute)
2014
Let's Take a Close Look at PARADIGM-HF (CardioExchange)
And, the redacted discussion (CardioExchange)
2013
President Bush's Cardiac Stent (Washington Post)
How Should We Weight Conflicting Advice About our Health (Footnote1.com)
2012
Clinical Researchers Meet the Physician Scientists (Kevin MD)
Work Hour Reform is a Moral Imperative (Kevin MD)