We Could, We Should, We Must
The lesson wasn’t “trust your gut.” It was that the distance between a fringe academic exercise and a thing that happens to half a million people is shorter than it is comfortable to admit.
Ebola in DRC: The Reality and the Media Hype
We are to believe, according to some public health voices and media, that the Ebola outbreak in Ituri in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a threat to us all. It is a story full of obvious flaws.
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What Lessons Can We Learn from Wendell Berry?
The biosecurity State, which is too content to hover over an unhealthy population, thrives on abstraction and fear of the bodies that populate it. Berry’s counter is concrete and affectionate. Love a place…even when everything conspires to make it unlovable.
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Food Labeling Should Not Be This Hard
Even more absurd though is the fact that this is happening in an era in which so much focus is placed on food freedom and so much attention is given to the relationship between what we eat and chronic disease.
A Hall of Mirrors of the Healthy Vaccinee Effect
All studies that use observational data to infer vaccine effectiveness and/or safety likely suffer from major distortions due to HVE. All claims about Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness and safety based on observational data are, therefore, probably misleading and should be revised.
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Medicine Has Forgotten How to Touch the Patient
If someday a patient can pass through an entire medical encounter without being truly examined, we should ask ourselves: have we created the most technologically advanced medicine in history, while simultaneously forgetting how to practice medicine?
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More Access. More Choice. Less Cost.
Secretary Kennedy is right to question the cost and power of the American Medical Association’s Current Procedural Terminology monopoly. But eliminating CPT would solve the wrong problem—and could create a much larger one.
Saving Lives Should Not Require Permission
Will we repeat actions simply because the correct institution has ordered them? The Humane Societies asked whether the apparently dead could be resuscitated. Our question is now more unsettling: can medicine recover its courage before its conscience is gone?
Game Theory and the Push to Go Along
The final kill switch is transparent noncoerced consent. Instead of taking “a share of the loot” from the drug-DOPE game, we need our universities, the National Institutes of Health, and our medical system to enshrine the principle of non-coerced consent.
Four Forms of Numericide
Four targets — blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, and BMI — the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, four ways to medicalize you, four ways to apply a disease-mongered label to you, and four avenues for you to start living under a dark cloud.
WHO’s High-Price Pandemic Plan
The Leeds authors call for transparency and honesty in assessing global health priorities, and in paying for them. The Australian government has a choice to be constructive on behalf of its taxpayers and require better, or through blind acquiescence remain the problem.
Was My Paper on Flu Vaccine Studies a “Hot Potato” for Editors?
Over the years, authors have shared a similar analytical strategy: Early respiratory events were considered differently from later respiratory events (on the assumption that no effect is expected until immunity is built up). “Early” has typically been within two weeks post-vaccination.
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