The Sludging of Rural America
Each year, as our primary means of sewage disposal, millions of tons of toxic sewage sludge, labeled as “biosolids,” are spread as agricultural fertilizer across our nation’s farmland, where rural Americans call home.
Is Free Speech Maximalism Just for Young Men?
Even with carte blanche to express ourselves, it’s impossibly difficult for us humans to lay bare our true thoughts. Self-censorship is baked into our DNA. Free speech maximalism serves as a counterweight to this force.
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Who Needs Glyphosate?
President Donald Trump’s executive order invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950 to ensure US glyphosate production and availability is neither necessary nor helpful. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s endorsement of the order has created a firestorm in that health-interested base.
Is the UK Still a Liberal Democracy?
Instead of trying to understand the grievances of their base, the major parties join the elites’ contempt in condescendingly dismissing populist parties as grievance vehicles, holding fast to the belief that their voters will have nowhere else to go.
Observe the Economic Fallout Six Years Later
There’s never been a better time to sign the resolution at CovidJustice.org. There is every intention on the part of elites to try lockdowns again under some other excuse. They can and likely will, whether for infectious disease or some other justification.
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What Does the Fifth Doctor Think about Ozempic?
This is a slightly shortened version of a New York Times article where Katrin Bennhold interviews Dani Blum of the Times’ “Well Team” about Ozempic and GLP-1 drugs. The Fifth Doctor snoops in on the conversation and adds his two cents’ worth.
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How to Build a Post-WHO Global Health Architecture
If policymakers focus on separating normative functions from emergency authority, designing time-bound compacts instead of permanent command structures, and tying funding to measurable outcomes, global health cooperation can be rebuilt without recreating the structural distortions that weakened it.
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The Three Big Lies about Mammography Screening
In invitations to screening, women have been told that by detecting cancers early, screening saves lives and leads to less invasive surgery. I shall demonstrate that all three statements are wrong.
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271 Teenage Cardiac Reports Buried in a File Labeled “Garbage”
Our analysis reveals an unusual and temporally concentrated cardiovascular signal among adolescents. Until these findings are fully examined, serious concern remains that the vaccination campaign may have exposed children to risks that were not adequately evaluated at the time.
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The Quiet Crisis of Procedural Medicine
The solution is not opposition to technology, but advocacy for balance. It is not anti-progress, but in favor of prudence. Medicine is not about doing more, but about doing what is right. Sometimes, this requires the courage to do less.
Covid of the Past: Smallpox in Yugoslavia, 1972
They did not tell me about favorable time trends in the natural course of other infectious diseases for which there was no vaccine, nor about the correlation of those trends with improved living conditions, sanitation, personal hygiene, and nutrition.
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Supermajority of Voters Support Health and Medical Freedom, Poll Shows
We’ve lacked an objective poll that addresses the curiosities everyone has, with plain questions that get to the root of the controversies over health and medical issues. Health Freedom Defense Fund and Brownstone Institute initiated such a poll to find out.
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