V-safe was built to hear from people after vaccination, and these participants used it for that purpose. In their own words, 3,329 people reported serious harm, suicidal thoughts, near-death events, or the death of someone they loved.
Valentin has shown what a culture does to its young when it translates every sorrow into a diagnosis and every duty into a trauma. The rest is transmission: the slow work of teaching the next child that she is not a brand.
The Commodified Self and the Designed Collapse of Generation Z Continue Reading
There is a whole lot of seemingly coordinated panic right now around AI. I’ve written extensively about the legitimate, existential dangers we do need to address in technology. But my spidey sense tells me this current fever pitch isn’t that.
The truths now laid bare are a song that once meant something to us — music that helped us move past heartbreak, yet whose melody now recalls thoughts and feelings long buried. Soft and inescapable, a profound melancholy returns.
Frame the debate so that only one conclusion is possible, then demonstrate some sense of open-mindedness about how people arrive at that conclusion. Be empathic about the journey. Just never, ever allow the destination to be questioned.
We don’t get to choose all of the shadows that enter our lives. We can spend the rest of our lives staring at the darkness, or we can use it to give the picture depth. That feels like awakening to me.
Unlike the scientists who fabricated the Covid-19 virus, those who introduced Gender Dysphoria to the world did not do so by altering an existing biological organism, nor did they discover anything that until that time had remained hidden in nature.
Political Psychiatry and the Genesis of the Trans Epidemic Continue Reading
The same week that our drug regulator, Health Canada, approved the first generic version of semaglutide—the active ingredient in weight-loss drug Ozempic—a major medical journal published findings highlighting the medication’s troubling connection to eating disorders.
You never let go. You never abandon your child, no matter what. You keep trying and loving them and that is what I see in the story we’re reading in the news about Nick Reiner’s parents. True love.
Human cultures across time have recognized that certain plants can facilitate contact with the spiritual world—serving as a kind of spiritual nourishment. And yet, more than what we eat, it is our spiritual life that shapes who we truly are.
Once we cut the behemoth down to human size, we can see that nothing is new, and defeating it is not impossible. It will take perseverance, hope, and a reckoning with ourselves.
The Behemoth of Global Corruption Is an Extension of Ourselves Continue Reading
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.
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