included commentary on articles that appeared in medical journals as well as opinions about controversial medical issues. From the beginning of his career, Edell was a strong advocate for the scientific method and often criticized the media for unnecessarily publicizing unsupported health scares without proper scientific investigation. He was very concerned about the decline in scientific literacy in America. He railed against pseudoscience and magical thinking and was very critical of unproven alternative healing methods, the vitamin and herbal supplement industry, fad diets and diet pills, and many anti-science groups opposing vaccines, or fluoride or other scientifically accepted practices. He also questioned many mainstream medical practices like new born circumcision, cesarean sections, hysterectomies, and the over diagnosis of fad health maladies. He was an early supporter of medical marijuana and research into the therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs. He generally opposed the war on drugs.