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.
George Crile, Epinephrine, and the Collapse of Thinking in Modern Medicine Continue Reading
Kennedy is correct that it is harder to quit antidepressants than heroin. The abstinence symptoms are short-lived for heroin but not for antidepressants, and psychiatrists who have worked with both types of patients consistently say that heroin is the easier one.
The Information War Over Antidepressants Continue Reading
We can directly use our resources for the actual burden that remains, and the determinants of good health that freed most of us from them. Unfortunately, such evidence-based approaches predominantly help those with poor ability to pay.
The Importance of Medieval Rats to Pandemic Profit Continue Reading
The most revolutionary step our nation could take would be to increase the number of farmer-caretakers. We need more people growing our food, not fewer. A better “eyes-to-plate” ratio would restore fidelity to our food and health.
We’re Losing the Human Touch in Food Continue Reading
It is all the more imperative that, instead of shrinking back in fear when we behold the nightmare, we confront it. The act of doing so openly instead of ignoring it, effectively denying its existence, is an act of resisting it.
On Waking Up to a Nightmare Continue Reading
Appreciation of structures and arrangements requires precisely the same baseline aptitude that is required by appreciation of thoughts and feelings – and it is this baseline aptitude that autistic people lack.
What Autism Is Not Continue Reading
Adams was an early dissident and among the most famous. He showed the way. To make sure that he is not an example for others, reliable ruling-class venues made sure to attempt to humiliate him in death.
Scott Adams and Intellectual Courage Continue Reading
There are myriad institutional problems in this country that trace to the manifestations of Leviathan in media, tech, pharma, and other industries among which is the legal profession. They have in common an intractable desire to preserve the administrative status quo.
Big Law Is Yet Another Problem Continue Reading
The shift may prove to be one of the most consequential public health developments of the decade, and it suggests that something significant is moving behind the scenes in the federal agencies that once seemed immovable.
CDC Quietly Rewrites Its Vaccine–Autism Guidance Continue Reading
There is no censorship here in Germany,” according to Steffen Meyer, a top spokesman for the German government. In reality, Germans have freedom of speech except for ideas that politicians and government contractors and nonprofit activists don’t like.
Germany’s Latest War on Freedom Continue Reading
Artificial intelligence has not been licensed to practice medicine. But medicine is being quietly reengineered around systems that do not bear moral weight. We may one day discover that the physician has not been replaced by a machine, but by a protocol.
When Physicians Are Replaced with a Protocol Continue Reading
A global climate, health, or development system that depends on the continuous escalation of crisis narratives is structurally incapable of declaring success. Trump’s decision confronts that reality directly. That, more than the budget line, is what has changed.
Trump’s Withdrawal from 66 Organizations Continue Reading
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