Once a person becomes eligible for Medicare, no discounts or rebates are permitted. Medicare turbocharges drug price inflation while often providing only an illusion of a safety net for recipients.

Today’s politicians perennially seek pretexts to further invade citizens’ lives. And there is never a shortage of intellectuals who, like the courtiers long ago, assure their masters that God — or at least social science — blesses their aggression.

For the first time in a long time, Dr Bhattacharya is working to get politics out of the way of good science. The protocol, its implementation, the quality of the science, and the transparency of its findings all deserve scrutiny.

Perhaps people are second-guessing the bits of common wisdom everyone accepted for the past decade to rationalize our subjugation. Perhaps there is something of a Spirit of ’76 moment going on right now that can extend beyond Flock and ALPRs.

It’s straightforward to produce a plausible bit of vaccine cheerleading when you don’t have to actually critically examine the numbers someone hands you. Thus, the story follows a predictable direction honed to please the advertisers whose ads are keeping the Times afloat.

We can solve the nation’s health problems if we establish gold standard science. I mean science that is replicable, at the bleeding edge, and supports scientists with promising ideas wherever they are. Achieving these goals will amount to launching a second scientific revolution.

If you’re looking to the public health system, particularly the physicians, to take back the profession, don’t hold your breath! That’s because, first, do no harm has been irrevocably changed to, do as you’re told!

When dealing with the Complex Domain, the predictability horizon of actions is exceedingly short and frequent monitoring is crucial and adaptability to the reality is a necessity. This is where medicine failed during Covid.

Lockdowns, effectively making the natural process of grieving illegal, hastened this erosion. Requiem Masses that should have a full Church now have maybe a few dozen, others have only immediate family and a few pious friends in attendance.

Given the signs that a more devastating kind of technology than the kind he was familiar with is in the process of asserting itself, it seems safe to say that Heidegger would have reiterated his remark: ‘Only a god can save us.’

And where are we today? Fauci will talk with no one, no reporters, not even on background. His last public appearance consisted of 110 invocations of his right to remain silent under the 5th Amendment.

I can remember, every time someone sits across from me, that the most important person in the room is not the physician. I did not abandon medicine during Covid. I rediscovered the reason I became a doctor in the first place.

Recovering trust requires separating commercial and regulatory functions, enforceable trial transparency, and protection for dissent. Without such changes, calls to “trust the science” risk becoming little more than invitations to submit to one of the most powerful propaganda systems yet devised.

I reported on my national television program that the largest Amish community in the US, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, had rejected masking, vaccines, isolation, testing, and all the other CDC recommendations for Covid…and apparently fared none the worse for having done so.