The prevailing understanding of poliovirus pathogenesis posits that the virus, following intestinal infection, gains access to the central nervous system through viremia and subsequent crossing of the blood-brain barrier. However, this model fails to explain several features of the historical polio epidemic.
Technology was, visibly and audially, a force that was bringing about a metamorphosis on a grand scale. Needless to say, today we are witnessing another technological metamorphosis, arguably even more far-reaching than the one that Heidegger perceived with concern.
What Did Heidegger Mean by ‘Only a God Can Save Us?’ Continue Reading
With total command over media and law enforcement, it is possible to rewrite the collective memory of an entire population if you have one generation in which to accomplish it.
Every citizen needs to read these diaries. I’ve likely missed many important details herein. Even in the next century, there will be people talking about their two terrible years in childhood, forced to wear a mask and then jabbed with gene therapy.
A Romp through the Fauci Diaries: Fame Turns to Shame Continue Reading
There are many more hidden Vioxxes in our medicine cabinets, which exist due to systemic flaws in drug regulation that allows dangerous medications to flood the market, harm millions, and linger far too long before reluctant regulators pull the plug.
An Ode to Remembrance on Prescribed Harm Day Continue Reading
Words should not be propaganda that blocks thought; disagreement is no crime. And sex is reality, while gender is not. The concept and the word “gender” should be abandoned by people who respect either accuracy or truth.
GenderSpeak: Weaponizing Gender Against Sex Continue Reading
An economy this top-heavy with paper wealth – as the poor and middle class get destroyed with persistent inflation, slow growth, and unstable labor markets pervasive with dropouts – is not sustainable. It’s not capitalism but rather corruption by the printing press.
The Money Printers Fueling Socialism’s Rise Continue Reading
Perhaps the greatest measure of clinical maturity is not the confidence to prescribe, but the confidence to refrain. The highest expression of medical judgment is not knowing which medication to choose. It is recognizing, with knowledge, when no medication is necessary.
It’s hard to generalize, but when reversals are based on better quality evidence, we should presume they’re in the public interest. However, when they are based on manufacturers pushing for a new market and other invested agencies, can we be sure?
Cycles of Enthusiasm, Reversal, and Revival in Medical Practice Continue Reading
The United States was the land of the free. Limited government. Checks and balances. Separation of powers. The Bill of Rights. But America has instead become a managed society. Its government dominates its people. How did it go wrong?
How the American Republic Became a Managerial State Continue Reading
This automation of human work poses a real existential crisis. Giving up these wonderful ritualistic habits that translate to being able to eat that day, or being with our loved ones, has lead us nowhere but isolated and dependent.
Has Automation Stolen What It Means to Be Human? Continue Reading
Forty years ago I watched a hospital disappear. What emerged from its ruins was not simply the physician I would become. It was the understanding that fear is inevitable and the greatest privilege in medicine has never been avoiding catastrophe.
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