Whatever the underlying issues, it is time everyone stopped pretending the Covid response was anything but a mess, or that we did not know it would be. There is still a place for truth.
The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake – It Was Just Wrong Continue Reading
The future of medicine depends on our willingness to defend these principles, even when doing so requires sacrifice. The doctor-patient relationship is sacred, and it is our responsibility to protect it for future generations of physicians and the patients we serve.
How to Protect Patients and Medical Professionals Continue Reading
In this era of controlled drug trials, there is a pretense of attempting to determine whether a drug works and is safe before it is given to patients. However, the definitions of “control,” “efficacy,” and “safety” are loose in practice.
The Moral Hazard of Anesthesia Continue Reading
May all your carrots grow long and straight. May tomato blossom end rot affect your Monsanto neighbor’s tomatoes. May the coyotes be struck blind at your pasture chickens. May all of your culinary experiments be delectably palatable.
The Food Emancipation Proclamation Continue Reading
Like me, Sami is a member of the Critical Psychiatry Network based in England. My experience with lecturing for psychiatrists has led me to believe that over 99% of psychiatrists are uncritical towards their practice.
The Pandemic of Fake Psychiatric Diagnoses Continue Reading
The America of 1960 was metabolically healthier than the America of 2025, not because our grandparents had better genes, but because they lived in an environment that did not constantly conspire against their physiology.
The Comfortable Collapse: How America Learned to Pretend Obesity Is Normal Continue Reading
A 2011 study of nursing homes showed preferential use of hand sanitizer among the staff was associated with a significantly higher rates of norovirus infection, which causes the stomach flu, when compared to facilities that more often used soap and water.
Germophobia Doesn’t Pay, But It Does Sell Continue Reading
Dr. Redfield should be commended for speaking with more candor, but I wish he had made these points or shared these views four years ago. If he had, the origin narrative might have been starkly different.
Former CDC Director Believes in ‘Early Spread’ Continue Reading
The CDC’s failures during the Covid-19 pandemic were not just bureaucratic errors. Unless we act now, the next public health crisis will expose an even weaker, more distrusted CDC — one that Americans may simply ignore from the outset.
The CDC Needed a Thorough Housecleaning Continue Reading
I changed my doctoral thesis topic to “The Political Economy of Autism” and spent the next four years reading and analyzing nearly everything that has been written on autism prevalence, causation, and cost.
Toby Rogers’ Statement to the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Continue Reading
Over the last 4+ years, we have heard the slogan “safe and effective” ad nauseum in relation to vaccines — repeated by health agencies, media, and pharmaceutical companies. But what does “safe” really mean?
“Safe and Effective” Is Not Rooted in Science Continue Reading
What the hearing revealed was not Kennedy’s weakness but the desperation of his critics — senators clinging to captured institutions, hurling insults and posturing for the cameras. For all the talk of “science,” what unfolded was politics at its dirtiest.
Savages in the Senate: Kennedy Ambushed in a Game of Dirty Politics Continue Reading
