What Autism Is Not
Appreciation of structures and arrangements requires precisely the same baseline aptitude that is required by appreciation of thoughts and feelings – and it is this baseline aptitude that autistic people lack.
CDC Quietly Rewrites Its Vaccine–Autism Guidance
The shift may prove to be one of the most consequential public health developments of the decade, and it suggests that something significant is moving behind the scenes in the federal agencies that once seemed immovable.
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When Physicians Are Replaced with a Protocol
Artificial intelligence has not been licensed to practice medicine. But medicine is being quietly reengineered around systems that do not bear moral weight. We may one day discover that the physician has not been replaced by a machine, but by a protocol.
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WHO’s New Pandemic Approach: Expediency over Evidence?
Pandemics will happen. The world will benefit from an international health organization that can help coordinate rational responses, whilst also assisting in managing other public health priorities. The WHO risks making the latter worse by abandoning a robust evidence-based approach.
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The Heart of the Matter: Cardiac Risks of Covid-19 Vaccines
Evidence continues to mount indicating that the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic was counterproductive and harmful, yet mainstream opinion continues to proclaim that it was a triumph. This is based on scientific papers that often manipulate the data.
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How a 2019 NEJM Study Misled the World on Vitamin D
In January 2019, The New England Journal of Medicine published a study that was immediately hailed as the final verdict on vitamin D: it doesn’t work. The study, known as the VITAL trial, was led by respected researchers from Harvard.
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Cochrane Admitted Guilt for Defamation
The Cochrane Collaboration publishes systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions. I was one of the founders but was expelled 25 years later, in September 2018, becoming the only person ever to be expelled.
Should Argentina Leave the WHO?
By engaging selectively, aligning with the United States, and preserving the option of withdrawal, Argentina positions itself to influence the future of global health governance rather than being shaped by it. This strategy safeguards sovereignty in a rapidly changing international environment.
How a Grown-Up Health Care System Operates
If you get a chance to grow up and take control of your “health care” by understanding costs and paying for things in some form, like what happens with a Health Savings Account, you might just seriously consider that.
How Social Media Has Distorted Medical Judgment
As John Adams wisely reminded us, “Liberty must at all hazards be supported.” This includes the liberty to think critically, to question established norms, to engage in debate, and to practice medicine guided by empirical evidence rather than algorithmic determinism.
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Coffee, Nicotine, and the Politics of Acceptable Addiction
This essay only scratches the surface. The strange moral history of nicotine, caffeine, and acceptable addiction exposes a much larger problem: modern institutions have forgotten how to reason about risk.
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Why Governments Prefer Cigarette Revenue over Safer Alternatives
The POUCH Act is a beginning, not an endpoint. If lawmakers are serious about improving public health, they must resist the gravitational pull of the Sinclair Trap and design a nicotine policy that rewards switching rather than punishing it.
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