Why should you care about the curious case of Dr. Peter Marks, MD, PhD? Because Dr. Peter Marks provides an excellent case study of what happens when the government settles for acceptable instead of excellent in scientific administrator (bureaucrat) positions.
The Curious Case of the FDA’s Dr. Peter Marks Continue Reading
We can forget about seemingly simple fixes, like giving politicians the right to fire civil servants on the spot. Besides, giving clueless and corrupted politicians yet more power is not going to make matters better. Real reform will have to be dramatic, and it will come about only in dramatic circumstances.
How to Cut Through the New Gordian Knots Continue Reading
In a fascinating book released in September, Vaccines, Amen. The Religion of Vaccines, lawyer Aaron Siri explains how the American public was systematically misled by the very institutions they are supposed to trust.
How CDC and FDA Defrauded the American Public about Serious Vaccine Harms Continue Reading
If “new things” are what have brought us to this crisis, then it is “old things” that become the weapons of the counter-revolution. Faith, family, community, and nature itself ground us in the reality of who we really are as humans.
To Reclaim Our Nature Continue Reading
This isn’t merely about the legacy of an individual but an urgent call for introspection and reckoning with the values and principles we hold dear as a society and a scientific community. The soul of science is at stake here, and the shadows cast by authoritarian tendencies threaten to engulf the vibrant, robust tradition of scientific debate and discourse, replacing it with a monologue of power and control.
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Own “Gain-of-Function” Continue Reading
Fauci will be remembered as a consequential figure for his contributions. But he will also be remembered as a cautionary tale of what can happen when too much power is invested in a single person for too long.
Anthony Fauci: The Man Who Thought He Was Science Continue Reading
The confirmation hearings for Jay Bhattacharya as secretary of the National Institutes of Health just ended. Nothing played out like I had expected. And yet, now that I think about it, it played out exactly as I should have expected.
Is This What Winning Looks Like? Continue Reading
Some of our fellows, writers, and scholars have made some recommendations for insightful books that can help frame up some of the complexities of our time. They don’t explain everything but they can surely help us toward greater understanding.
What Should We Be Reading? Continue Reading
Competing truths may be difficult and devastating to accept, as we have been enduring in the last few years, but the pain and cognitive dissonance are most certainly survivable, as survivors of childhood sexual abuse and assault survivors can attest. We may even transcend and thrive, be strengthened, and become guides for others.
What It Means to Lose Trust Continue Reading
One can only hope a counterrevolution will take place, a Great Reawakening, that will lead Westerners back to the core principles of both genuine science and the faith tradition that inspired Zev Zelenko to become a great doctor and an even greater human being.
Zev Zelenko, Physician and Moralist Continue Reading
