Immanent critique is the ultimate academic flex. It shows that you understand your opponent’s argument better than they understand it themselves. It disarms your opponent without a clash of swords (metaphorical or literal).
Christine Grady, HHS chief of bioethics (now retired, unless she chooses Alaska), and her husband, Dr. Anthony Fauci at NIAID, were central figures during the Zika virus controversy. Grady helped shape ethical guidelines, underlying those for a potential Zika vaccine.
From clinical trial design to regulatory approval, from controlling medical journals to silencing dissenting voices, the industry has built an intricate and self-reinforcing web—one that traps doctors, patients, and even regulators in a cycle of pharmaceutical dependence.
The path forward is for us to abandon the outdated dichotomies through which we formerly interpreted politics and the world and instead turn our attention to how to make the world more and more human and less and less inhuman.
The discursive norms on LinkedIn are a convention, a social practice, a type of theater for the purposes of financial gain. The dialect is an artifice. Corporate Pollyannaism is unconcerned and often contemptuous of the truth.
LinkedIn and Soul-Sucking Corporate Pollyannaism Read Journal Article
The following statement was issued by Dr. David Weldon following his withdrawal from being the Trump administration’s pick for the CDC. It is for the ages.
Statement of Hon. Dave Weldon on the Withdrawal of Nomination for CDC Read Journal Article
In homeopathy, the practitioner matches the smallest dose necessary of the stronger similar disease in order to stimulate the vital force and initiate a healing process. The remedy is not the cure.
The industry dedicated billions of dollars to manipulating Americans into taking its products while their government stripped them of their right to legal action; citizens, devoid of the ability to hold the companies accountable, continue to subsidize the federal-pharmaceutical hegemon.
Covid Response at Five Years: Jury Trials and Vaccine Mandates Read Journal Article
Seeing public health institutions as the neocolonialist instruments they have become, and understanding what drives those within them, is essential for progress. A future world that is healthier is still possible, but the public health momentum is clearly pointed elsewhere.
International Public Health: Revival of the Colonialist Agenda Read Journal Article
We recommend a ‘create chaos in the establishment while planting the seeds of new organisations’ strategy for reform. We hope for example to see reform efforts in the media sector before Trump’s presidential term ends.
What Will the Trump Wrecking Ball Hit Next? Read Journal Article
Those who care about the long-term health and stability of the United States should favour more far-reaching structural reforms, that weaken both Congress and the presidential office, and return power to the State and local levels of government.
Executive Orders Are Not a Panacea for America Read Journal Article
The meddling kids now include vast swaths of the world’s population, burning to put power back into the hands of the people as the liberal age promised long ago, while seeking justice for the wrongdoing of these last five years.
The Most Dramatic Narrative Shift in Modern History Read Journal Article
