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Reflections on Brain Death, Hope, and the Limits of Certainty

Reflections on Brain Death, Hope, and the Limits of Certainty

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Physicians can define brain death. Legislatures can codify brain death. Courts can adjudicate brain death. None of them can fully explain life. The greatest physicians I have known understood that distinction. They recognized that wisdom begins where certainty ends.

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Major Journal under Fire for Omitting Pfizer’s Failed Flu Data in Seniors

Major Journal under Fire for Omitting Pfizer’s Failed Flu Data in Seniors

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Unless this system is forced into the open, selective reporting will continue to be standard practice in even the most prestigious journals. And the public will keep receiving a polished marketing story instead of the full scientific truth.

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Charles Augustus Leale, Abraham Lincoln, and the Physician We Are Slowly Losing

Charles Augustus Leale, Abraham Lincoln, and the Physician We Are Slowly Losing

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Maybe the biggest lesson from Leale’s story is that medicine was never just about technical skill. It was meant to include responsibility, sacrifice, judgment, and deep human connection. Those qualities used to define the profession.

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Since Lockdowns, a 12% GDP Loss; Half of US Dollar Purchasing Power Stolen

Since Lockdowns, a 12% GDP Loss; Half of US Dollar Purchasing Power Stolen

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Many of us have had the intuition that the economic damage from 2020 – including industrial stoppages, monetary printing, supply-chain disruptions, extended school closures, and general population demoralization – was greater than official statistics indicate. What follows will shore up this intuition.

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Moderna Is Building a Modified mRNA "Vaccine" for Ebola Bundibugyo

Moderna Is Building a Modified mRNA “Vaccine” for Ebola Bundibugyo

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Predictably, Moderna has secured up to $60 million from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to accelerate development of an Ebola “vaccine” amid an ongoing outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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