Health blogs

Bill Gates writes about global health, climate change, technology, and books he has read, including reviews and annual letters.

Top post: The Deadliest Animal in the World

Derek Lowe, a medicinal chemist, writes the Science 'In the Pipeline' blog on drug discovery, vaccines, and hazardous chemistry.

Top post: Things I Won’t Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

John Walker, Autodesk co-founder, runs Fourmilab, a personal site covering science, software, random number generation, and The Hacker's Diet.

Top post: The Hacker's Diet (2005)

A group blog by physicians and scientists who evaluate medical claims, alternative medicine, screening tests and research quality.

Top post: What the Heck Happened to John Ioannidis?

Dynomight writes data-driven essays that analyze everyday topics like air purifiers, heritability, and health in detail.

Top post: The health benefits of better air

Tim Ferriss, author and podcaster, writes about self-experimentation, productivity, learning, and interviews on his blog and podcast.

Top post: Reasons not to become famous

Steve Pavlina writes personal development articles on productivity, sleep experiments, habits, and quitting conventional jobs.

Top post: Polyphasic Sleep: One Man's 6-Month Experiment (2005)

Physician Peter Attia writes and hosts a podcast on longevity, cholesterol, sleep, nutrition, and health policy.

Top post: Podcast

Alexey Guzey writes essays on science, sleep, productivity, and blogging, including a critique of "Why We Sleep."

Top post: “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors

Phenomena was a National Geographic science blog collective whose writers covered biology, medicine, astronomy, statistics and history.

Top post: Apocalypse Pig: The Last Antibiotic Begins to Fail

An anonymous writing group publishes long, research-heavy posts on obesity, environmental contaminants, lithium, and the practice of science.

Top post: A Chemical Hunger: Mysteries

AIER, the American Institute for Economic Research, publishes free-market economics articles on topics like lockdowns, Bitcoin, and pandemic policy.

Top post: The true cost of a hamburger

Derek Lowe is a medicinal chemist who writes In the Pipeline about drug discovery, the pharmaceutical industry, and hazardous chemistry.

Top post: Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride

Mosaic Science was a Wellcome-funded magazine publishing long-form journalism on biology, medicine and health research.

Top post: The antidepressant effect of sleep deprivation

Julian Shapiro writes long practical guides on growth marketing, writing, building muscle, and startup landing pages.

Top post: The World’s End

Allie Brosh writes and draws a humorous webcomic about her life, dogs, and her experience with depression.

Top post: The Alot Is Better Than You at Everything

Steven Novella, a neurologist, writes about science, skepticism, pseudoscience and medical claims on the NeuroLogica Blog.

Top post: Does glyphosate cause cancer

Kenneth Reitz is a Python developer who created Requests and Pipenv and writes about tooling, open source burnout, and mental health.

Top post: MentalHealthError: an exception occurred

The Genetic Literacy Project publishes articles on genetics, GMOs, agriculture, and health science, generally defending biotechnology.

Top post: Challenging myths yes seeds that grow organic food are often patented

Ben Goldacre, a British doctor and epidemiologist, writes about bad science, media misreporting, and pharmaceutical trial practices.

Top post: Ben Goldacre: Here’s the foreword to my new book, Bad Pharma

BMJ Blogs hosts commentary from medical researchers and clinicians on research integrity, Covid-19 vaccines and public health.

Top post: Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?

Eric Topol, a cardiologist and medical researcher, writes about clinical research, AI in medicine, nutrition, vaccines, and Covid-19.

Top post: The New Obesity Breakthrough Drugs: I'm not using the term breakthrough lightly

Harvard's Science in the News publishes graduate student articles explaining research in genetics, neuroscience, AI, and health for general readers.

Top post: Science genetics reshaping race debate 21st century

Jon Lund Steffensen is the author of Redshift, a free program that adjusts screen color temperature at night.

Top post: Show HN: Redshift - Flux Alternative, Easy to Install on Ubuntu

Nintil is a blog by Jose Luis Ricon on science, longevity, education, and how research gets funded and organized.

Top post: On Bloom's two sigma problem (2020)

Bill Gates's personal site, with book reviews, reading lists, and posts on global health, climate, and his foundation's work.

Top post: Bill Gates - Bookshelf

Stephan Guyenet writes about nutrition science, obesity, and traditional diets, with references for his claims.

Top post: The Carbohydrate Hypothesis of Obesity: a Critical Examination

Mad in America publishes articles critical of the drug-based model in psychiatry, led by journalist Robert Whitaker.

Top post: Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)

Xah Lee writes tutorials and opinions on Emacs, Emacs Lisp, keyboard ergonomics, and avoiding repetitive strain injury.

Top post: How to avoid the Emacs Pinky problem

Quantified Self is a community site about tracking personal data such as health, food, and productivity, with talks, meetups, and member experiments.

Top post: Effects of a Year in Ketosis [video]

After Babel is Jonathan Haidt and co-authors' publication arguing that social media and phone-based childhood drive teen mental illness.

Top post: Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness

For Better Science is an investigative blog, run by Leonid Schneider, that reports on research fraud, paper mills and misconduct at universities and journals.

Top post: Dana-Farberications at Harvard University

Asimov Press publishes essays on biology, biotechnology, and the history of science, and is editorially independent but part of the company Asimov.

Top post: A Brief History of Lab Notebooks

Tomas Pueyo wrote a widely read 2020 series on Covid-19, covering lockdowns, testing, contact tracing, and herd immunity.

Top post: Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now

Michael Pollan is an author on food, agriculture, and psychedelics, and his site covers his books and essays.

Top post: How to Eat

The director of the US National Institutes of Health writes about biomedical research, including Covid-19 immunity, vaccines, allergies, and cancer.

Top post: Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection

The Brownstone Institute is a think tank publishing essays that criticize the Covid response, including lockdowns, masks and vaccines.

Top post: Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity to Covid-19

The Prepared is a site on emergency preparedness for a rationally minded audience, with guides, checklists, and fact-checks of pandemic news.

Top post: Ise Jingu and the Pyramid of Enabling Technologies

Jake Seliger, a writer and former English instructor, documented his cancer treatment and wrote on medicine, culture and writing.

Top post: I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist, writes a newsletter explaining public health data, mainly COVID-19 and variants, for general readers.

Top post: New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, writes on social media, smartphones and the rise in teen mental illness.

Top post: Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls

Gekk writes personal essays and technical write-ups on Windows, DOS, networking oddities, and living with ADHD.

Top post: ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (2018)

Virological.org is a forum where virologists and epidemiologists post analyses of viral genomes, outbreaks and variants, including early SARS-CoV-2 work.

Top post: Preliminary genomic characterisation of an emergent SARS-CoV-2 lineage in the UK

Seth Roberts, a psychology professor, wrote about self-experimentation, diet, sleep, and the Shangri-La diet, and also speculated on Bitcoin's creator.

Top post: Whatmakesfoodfattening.pdf

Martin Berkhan writes about intermittent fasting, nutrition, and strength training, centered on his Leangains method and 16:8 eating window.

Top post: Nutrition Myths Debunked

Soylent's company blog, with product updates, ingredient and nutrition breakdowns, shipping news, and funding announcements for its meal replacement drink.

Top post: The Biggest Pivot in YC History

The consumer genetic testing company's official blog, covering its research findings, product updates, regulatory news, and security notices.

Top post: Enhanced Customer Security at 23andMe with 2-Step Verification

A pseudonymous writer who posts data-driven essays on intelligence, health, nutrition, economics, and the reliability of published research.

Top post: Ranking Fields by p-Value Suspiciousness

Chris Kresser is a health practitioner who writes about diet, nutrition, seed oils, saturated fat, and digestive problems like acid reflux.

Top post: Industrial Seed Oils Are Making Us Sick (2019)

Stanford Medicine's Scope blog covers biomedical research, infectious disease, and health science for a general audience.

Top post: Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests

A group of health policy researchers, including Aaron Carroll, write about US health care costs and evidence-based medicine, debunking common medical myths.

Top post: A riveting medical science tragic success story

Derek Thompson, a journalist, writes essays on economics, demographics, health, media, technology and American culture.

Top post: If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good for Everything, Should We All Be on Them?

Vincent Racaniello, a Columbia microbiology and immunology professor, writes about viruses, SARS-CoV-2, and related research, and hosts virology courses.

Top post: There is one, and only one strain of SARS-CoV-2

Jawbone's company blog covered its UP activity and sleep trackers, with posts analyzing user sleep data.

Top post: Jawbone UP is back

Strength training research site from Greg Nuckols and colleagues, covering muscle growth, nutrition, and behavior change with evidence-based articles and a podcast.

Top post: Research Spotlight: Walking away from an early grave

Ross Tucker and colleagues write about sports science, covering running, doping, performance limits, shoe technology and athlete testosterone debates.

Top post: Is the "magic 10,000 hours" figure pseudo-science? A sports science perspective.

Reason, who also runs a longevity biotech company, writes news and commentary on aging research, rejuvenation therapies, and life extension advocacy.

Top post: The Prospect of Cancer Does Not Worry Me

KevinMD, a physician-run site publishing essays by doctors on medicine, health care costs, burnout and alternative medicine.

Top post: Could a glass of wine diagnose long covid

Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter, writes a Substack on Covid-19 vaccines, statistics, and his dispute with Twitter.

Top post: White House privately demanded Twitter ban me months before the company did so

Steve Yegge's blog, later continued under the assertTrue name, mixes software opinions with posts on health, longevity, and research claims.

Top post: Are Placebos Really Sugar Pills?