Is Modern Medicine a Sham?
Health now means medicine. When you go to the doctor, do they ask you how much water you drink and the amount of sunlight you absorb every day, or do they ask you what pills you are popping?
To Share Weights from Neural Network Training Is Dangerous
What would happen if the weights got into the “wrong hands” and people started to be targeted intentionally? There can be no probable cause when using AI targeting systems, but would it even matter? What if probable cause was made up?
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A Hidden Post-Pandemic Decline of Female Health
While male health seemed to bounce back, mortality and disabilities in women continue to rise above earlier trends and are not expected to solve themselves soon. This might cause a fundamental change in the dynamics of the gender mortality gap.
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The Meaning of the Semiquincentennial
There is every reason to be proud to be an American. But with that must come the humility to recognize that this country can be “more perfect.” The pathway there is through a deeper understanding of the Founding.
The Creation of New ICD-10 Codes for Post-Covid Vaccine Syndrome
Failure to create ICD-10 codes for PCVS would be to ignore the reality of the syndrome, leaving the sick to face the grim consequences of inaction – left adrift in a medical system unwilling to acknowledge our existence and desperate need for treatment.
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Global Governance vs. Democratic Sovereignty
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.’
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Consequentialism Discredited
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.
New Designer DNA by the Wellcome Trust
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.
The Boomer Mirage
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%.
A Small Book About Real Life
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.
Your Spouse Started Antidepressants and Became a Stranger
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.
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Seven Philosophical Criticisms of Evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence Hierarchies
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.
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