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
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.
Charles Augustus Leale, Abraham Lincoln, and the Physician We Are Slowly Losing Continue Reading
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.
Moderna Is Building a Modified mRNA “Vaccine” for Ebola Bundibugyo Continue Reading
This is not just a political or technological battle. It is a question of what it means to remain human. For those who choose integration, that is their right. But for those who do not, that must also remain a choice.
The Noble Savage Continue Reading
Think of ChatGPT, or Claude. How many millions of people consult them daily, talk to them, confide in them, ask them for advice, and so on, without reflecting on the undeniable fact that they are not human? They are transhuman.
AI and the Sublime Continue Reading
We have bought the lie that anything that makes our lives easier is good, and that includes letting others do our thinking for us. We have admitted this Trojan horse through the gates, not recognizing the evil enwrapped within its glittering package.
Cruising Toward Enslavement Continue Reading
We have to find some way forward to determine objective truth, or the Golden Rule of Synformation will not only destroy “democracy” via AI-based epistemic capture, but it will also destroy human civilization.
Synformation: Epistemic Capture Meets AI Continue Reading
The good news is that the remedy can be experienced by everybody. It is the recovery of the “beautiful energy cycle” that connects soil to food to body to community and back again.
How Covid Transformed Me into a Gardener and Business Owner Continue Reading
The Industrial Revolution took jobs from people who work with their hands — routine physical work. But AI is taking routine paperwork — people who forward emails, schedule meetings, and sit on diversity committees.
AI Deletes Routine White Collar Jobs Continue Reading
Contemporary medicine is not failing for lack of knowledge. It is failing under the weight of complexity. Nearly every aspect of patient care can now be measured. Yet despite these advances, a fundamental element has been eroded. This erosion is philosophical.
The Lost Art of Medicine: What Maimonides Knew That We Forgot Continue Reading
Some books explain events, and others explain the world in which events become possible. Jacob Siegel’s The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control firmly to the second category. Siegel watched it up close.
The Digital Leviathan Continue Reading
In the end, we cannot stop the circle of life. But we can decide how we meet its final turn. With fear or with clarity. With chaos or with dignity. With denial or with truth. My mother chose dignity.
The Last Lesson My Mother Taught Me Continue Reading
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