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Insect Loss As an Early Warning of Systemic Biological Failure

Insect Loss As an Early Warning of Systemic Biological Failure

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In medicine, silence can be more alarming than noise. For example, a patient who abruptly stops voicing discomfort or a monitor that ceases activity may signal system failure rather than resolution. Ecology presents a similar scenario, and the silence is concerning.

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Government-Controlled Digital ID is Not the Optional Convenience It Is Being Sold As

Government-Controlled Digital ID is Not the Optional Convenience It Is Being Sold As

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There could hardly be a worse time – and I’m not saying there ever was a good time – to entrust politicians with an ambitious digital ID programme plagued with risks of government surveillance, technocratic over-reach, system failures, and data breaches.

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The Sick Hustle Dispatch: The Seven Deadly Sins of Weight Loss Drugs

The Seven Deadly Sins of Weight Loss Drugs

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Gaining too much weight so that it impairs your health is overwhelmingly linked to diet, exercise, and ultra-processed food, yet these behavioural, social, and environmental factors get eclipsed by the theory of the “chronic relapsing brain disease” requiring ‘medical, science-based’ cures.

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George Crile, Epinephrine, and the Collapse of Thinking in Modern Medicine

George Crile, Epinephrine, and the Collapse of Thinking in Modern Medicine

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Until medicine regains the courage to prioritize physiological reasoning, to question established practices relentlessly, and to value outcomes over prevailing narratives, these mistakes will continue to be repeated confidently, efficiently, and with catastrophic consequences.

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