Fauci’s entries are reproduced as written and uncorrected. What remains is his own account of his work, his schemes and worries, his excuses and fears, his contacts and psychological state, and the identities of many people around him, recorded as events unfolded.
The Fauci Diaries: Three Volumes, Fully Indexed Continue Reading
Shockingly, the US FDA has yet to require a specific warning about persistent post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD), revealing even further how much the US system has been captured by the drug companies it allegedly regulates.
Medicine doesn’t need fewer scientific advances. It needs doctors who know how to use them wisely. It needs the courage to investigate when warranted, the discipline to know when not to, and the humility to accept that there will always be uncertainty.
In many low-resourced countries, earmarked finance, externally selected priorities, imported program designs, a growing non-state and donor-dependent workforce, and donor reporting requirements have weakened the link between national choices and national accountability.
Equity with Accountability in Pandemic Preparedness Continue Reading
We can solve the nation’s health problems if we establish gold standard science. I mean science that is replicable, at the bleeding edge, and supports scientists with promising ideas wherever they are. Achieving these goals will amount to launching a second scientific revolution.
If you’re looking to the public health system, particularly the physicians, to take back the profession, don’t hold your breath! That’s because, first, do no harm has been irrevocably changed to, do as you’re told!
When dealing with the Complex Domain, the predictability horizon of actions is exceedingly short and frequent monitoring is crucial and adaptability to the reality is a necessity. This is where medicine failed during Covid.
I can remember, every time someone sits across from me, that the most important person in the room is not the physician. I did not abandon medicine during Covid. I rediscovered the reason I became a doctor in the first place.
I reported on my national television program that the largest Amish community in the US, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, had rejected masking, vaccines, isolation, testing, and all the other CDC recommendations for Covid…and apparently fared none the worse for having done so.
How a Flawed Covid Study Tried—and Failed—to Discredit the Amish Continue Reading
Prescription drugs should be evaluated on clinical evidence by independent professionals. “Ask your doctor” shouldn’t be a tagline on television—it should be a private conversation free from the polluting influence of Super Bowl commercials.
“Ask Your Doctor:” The Media’s Most Dangerous Tagline Continue Reading
The tragedy of the GLP-1 era will not be that these drugs failed. The tragedy will be if they succeed so spectacularly that an entire generation of physicians stops asking why we needed them in the first place.
The Lancet’s latest review of mRNA vaccines, by Blakney and colleagues, presents itself as an authoritative synthesis of the evidence. It delivers a confident account that gives little attention to many of the scientific and regulatory questions that have shaped debate.
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