In this era of controlled drug trials, there is a pretense of attempting to determine whether a drug works and is safe before it is given to patients. However, the definitions of “control,” “efficacy,” and “safety” are loose in practice.
The Moral Hazard of Anesthesia Continue Reading
May all your carrots grow long and straight. May tomato blossom end rot affect your Monsanto neighbor’s tomatoes. May the coyotes be struck blind at your pasture chickens. May all of your culinary experiments be delectably palatable.
The Food Emancipation Proclamation Continue Reading
Like me, Sami is a member of the Critical Psychiatry Network based in England. My experience with lecturing for psychiatrists has led me to believe that over 99% of psychiatrists are uncritical towards their practice.
The Pandemic of Fake Psychiatric Diagnoses Continue Reading
In other times and places, political assassinations have occurred as cultural anomalies, not reflective of the zeitgeist or historical moment, and certainly not approved of by some significant minority of the population. But Charlie’s murder does not feel like that.
The Instinct to Hurt Those with Whom One Disagrees Continue Reading
The America of 1960 was metabolically healthier than the America of 2025, not because our grandparents had better genes, but because they lived in an environment that did not constantly conspire against their physiology.
The Comfortable Collapse: How America Learned to Pretend Obesity Is Normal Continue Reading
Pfizer’s reply to President Trump’s very reasonable call for transparency of data regarding their latest edition of their modified-mRNA Covid injections is nothing less than an insult to the intelligence of every reader, including the President himself.
5 Reasons Pfizer’s Reply to President Trump Is Complete Rubbish Continue Reading
Americans refuse to be demoralized. We want to have good lives, and we believe that this is the country to do it in. That’s the spirit of pioneering. It is not lost. It has just ebbed and flowed.
The Spirit of Pioneering Continue Reading
A 2011 study of nursing homes showed preferential use of hand sanitizer among the staff was associated with a significantly higher rates of norovirus infection, which causes the stomach flu, when compared to facilities that more often used soap and water.
Germophobia Doesn’t Pay, But It Does Sell Continue Reading
America is a commercial culture, but we have always managed to recognize that this means it is also a gift-giving culture, each of us bringing what we have to others to improve their lot and our own at the same time.
The Spirit of Thankfulness Continue Reading
Dr. Redfield should be commended for speaking with more candor, but I wish he had made these points or shared these views four years ago. If he had, the origin narrative might have been starkly different.
Former CDC Director Believes in ‘Early Spread’ Continue Reading
The CDC’s failures during the Covid-19 pandemic were not just bureaucratic errors. Unless we act now, the next public health crisis will expose an even weaker, more distrusted CDC — one that Americans may simply ignore from the outset.
The CDC Needed a Thorough Housecleaning Continue Reading
I changed my doctoral thesis topic to “The Political Economy of Autism” and spent the next four years reading and analyzing nearly everything that has been written on autism prevalence, causation, and cost.
Toby Rogers’ Statement to the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Continue Reading
