Biotech is in the driver’s seat of global health and public health workers and the media know who butters their bread. Each public health worker who goes along with the narrative is part of the problem.
The Infectious Disease Frenzy Continue Reading
There are people who enter your life not by chance, but by purpose — who arrive precisely when the world feels most confusing and frightening, and who hand you the courage to build something. Warner Mendenhall was that person for me.
RIP Warner Mendenhall Continue Reading
Illness is made to be seen. Death, made for ritualised appearance. By looking for them, we do not destroy them. Let us train our eyes on illness. Determine that when it comes it is a fall.
Forget About ‘Healthy Life’ Continue Reading
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.
Reflections on Brain Death, Hope, and the Limits of Certainty Continue Reading
The Covid lockdowns may not have been remotely effective, but at least they harmed millions of people and created long-lasting negative impacts that we’re still dealing with today. That’s the conclusion of a massive new body of research.
The Shocking Damage Caused by Covid Policies Continue Reading
Perhaps there are other explanations. But from those I’ve listed, I hope the thing is a hoax. Because any of the other explanations reveal what kind of country we have become: censored and self-centered. And these poor bridesmaids are left to themselves.
Jailed for Hantavirus Exposure Continue Reading
The old paradigms are failing and new paradigms are struggling to be born. Standing in the breach are mainstream health science reporters. They’re just smart enough to be arrogant but not wise enough to know what they don’t know.
The Trouble with Health Science Reporters Continue Reading
Given that life expectancy in this country has stagnated over the past 12-15 years, and it is universally acknowledged that chronic disease has risen, it’s past time that we step back and take a hard look at what we’ve done.
Detours and Missteps on the Road to Medical Advances Continue Reading
Unsurprisingly, a recent paper from members of SAGO concluded: “We did not find evidence to suggest that SARS CoV2 (sic) resulting from experimental manipulation was more likely scenario than it emerging from recombination events.”
The WHO Denies the Lab Leak Continue Reading
We need to be asking questions about whether sending more of our collective wealth towards our healthcare system is producing good returns. We might expect that anything spent on healthcare provides good returns, but what if those investments end in losses?
Less Is More in Medicine Continue Reading
The Predictability Horizon in a Complex Adaptive System is short. It is imperative that the response of the system be carefully and frequently monitored. We can no longer bury the signals that can warn us of “something we had not anticipated.”
The Danger of an Unexamined Status Quo Continue Reading
Diseases associated with poverty—those that are endemic, predictable, and devastating—often fail to attract media attention because they don’t instill fear in the right audience or in the right way.
The News-to-Death Ratio Strikes Again Continue Reading
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