The need is not to rush into a new global health framework absent ‘a thorough public debate,’ Kennedy said, but to ‘strengthen national and local autonomy to hold global organizations in check and to restore a real balance of power.’
Global Governance vs. Democratic Sovereignty Read Journal Article
There is no reconciliation possible between the two competing modes of moral thinking that arose out of modernity; law, duty, intention, and consequences all really do matter, and the deontologist and consequentialist are always going to be talking past each other.
Consequentialism Discredited Read Journal Article
According to a recent article in the BBC, some person at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology was given 10 million dollars by the Wellcome Trust to start making new designer DNA. Because our DNA is such a crapshoot.
New Designer DNA by the Wellcome Trust Read Journal Article
While the specific figures combine data from multiple sources, the trend is undeniable: in 1950, over half of 30-year-olds were married homeowners. By 2025, some analysts project that number as low as 13%.
The Boomer Mirage Read Journal Article
I’ve never been as excited and nervous about a new book of mine. Each chapter covers an animating spirit of the historical American ethos: respect, hard work, pioneering, gratitude, patience, faith, independence, forbearance, and so on.
A Small Book About Real Life Read Journal Article
Welcome to the SSRI marriage apocalypse: a phenomenon so widespread that entire online communities have formed to support its casualties. Spouses gathering in digital refugee camps, comparing notes about partners who transformed into unrecognizable strangers after starting antidepressants.
Your Spouse Started Antidepressants and Became a Stranger Read Journal Article
The era of corporate EBM is over, and the future of medicine is decentralized, N-of-1, non-corporate, non-government, person-to-person, direct primary care, based on the totality of evidence, decency, life experience, dialogue, and personal values.
Germophobia isn’t generally considered a condition all by itself. Not all people with OCD are germophobes, but it’s much safer to say that most, if not all, germophobes are further along the OCD spectrum than most.
What Makes a Germophobe? Read Journal Article
One of the things we have learned is just how much regulatory capture factored into the COVID response, how economics turned vaccine technology into an industrial profit machine. One crucial piece of evidence for this came from the Pfizer report.
In Plain Sight Read Journal Article
For years, I have trained residents and students to perform brain death exams. I’ve overseen transplants. I’ve supported grieving families and celebrated recipients. But I’ve also seen the slow erosion of principle under pressure. It’s time to draw a line.
The Moral Cost of Modern Transplant Medicine Read Journal Article
The Ninth Circuit has abdicated its power and authority to hold public servants accountable. When the courts cannot be relied upon to hold public servants accountable, who can? And where does that leave us?
The Ninth Circuit Rules—Court-Sanctioned Authoritarianism? Read Journal Article
Autism is advertised as a natural divergence. Autism is attributed to a range of causes, from childhood vaccination to the impersonal routines of metropolitan societies. Yet we do not know what autism is.
What Autism Is Read Journal Article
