The discussion focuses on two things – first, the fact that, in the United States, most graduating medical students perform some form of the oath, and second, that in many quarters the relevance of this code of action has lately been questioned.
The Hippocratic Oath and the Covid Debacle Continue Reading
I want to address a new strain of an existing challenge – emotional regulation. Imagine a 15-year-old boy and the challenges he has with impulse control. Now imagine a 13-year-old brain in that body. What would be the expected result?
The Kids Are Not Alright Continue Reading
What has changed is that there has been a concerted psychological campaign to effectively insert abstract and often empirically questionable paradigms of sickness between individual citizens and their understanding of their own bodies.
We’ve Let Them Get Deep Inside Our Heads and Our Communal Lives Continue Reading
We were told public health messaging during Covid was about “following the science.” But what this FOIA-obtained document reveals is something very different: A strategic communication campaign designed to shape perception, influence behavior, and saturate culture through entertainment and media.
The Documents Speak. And They Tell a Very Different Story. Continue Reading
We agree that the international community should continue to support less-resourced members. However, we disagree that this should consist of perpetual and increasing payments to centralized agencies such as GFATM, GAVI, and the Pandemic Fund, or donor bureaucracies like USAID.
Rethinking US Global Health Funding: Welcome, and Long Overdue Continue Reading
While chipping away at disease by disease with commodities like vaccines has proven lucrative to the health bureaucracy, it is not building the capacity and independence that offers a way out. Downsizing Gavi provides an opportunity to turn rhetoric into reality.
Defunding Gavi: An Important Step Toward Decolonization? Continue Reading
Those who uphold a vision of a reunion of nature and civilization are right to be vigilant against the techno-totalitarian potential of medical technology like wearables. But let’s not allow our vigilance to be hijacked by forces seeking to neutralize our movement.
Kennedy and Medical Wearables: A Clarification Continue Reading
Why do organizations and companies die while cities seem to live on? Why did the Western Roman Empire end in 476 A.D while the Eastern counterpart lasted for almost another 1,000 years?
Why Organizations Die While Cities Live Forever Continue Reading
Sure, Zohran Mamdani, surprise winner of the Dem primary for New York City mayor, is an ultra-left-wing wackadoo. But it occurs to us that this veritable assault on sanity deserves a more profound rebuke than the one the Donald fired off.
Zohran Mamdani—Bastard Son Of 33 Liberty Street Continue Reading
Levi is no stranger to weighing risk. A professor at MIT with deep experience in data analytics and risk-based decision-making, he had combed through five clinical trials of RSV monoclonals, including clesrovimab and its predecessor, nirsevimab.
Retsef Levi Explains His Vote against Routine RSV Monoclonal Use in Newborns Continue Reading
On the eve before the US Senate reconvenes, a detailed secret trade-association memo plotting the removal of US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has leaked. It reads like a coup attempt against regulatory reform.
The Plot to Get RFK Continue Reading
The person most associated with civil disobedience is Mahatma Gandhi. In effect, he instrumentalised, operationalised, and weaponised Thoreau’s concept of civil disobedience (1849), turning it into an effective technique for peaceful mass mobilisation against a powerful opponent to win independence.
“Jail Bharo!”—Channelling Our Inner Gandhi Continue Reading
