The major pet food corporations do not merely sell food. They fund the university departments in the UK and the US where veterinary nutritional science is researched. They stock the waiting room shelves and put posters on the surgery walls.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network reports that illicit e-cigarettes are being used as part of trade-based money-laundering schemes linked to fentanyl trafficking. Illegal vaping products are no longer just a regulatory nuisance or a youth-use talking point.
FinCEN’s Warning—and the Predictable Failure of Prohibition Continue Reading
A medical journal expressed concern that someone with no health care experience was leading one of the foremost organisations dedicated to ensuring good clinical decisions. Wilson made the organisation ineffective, and his actions harmed Cochrane’s mission about ensuring high scientific standards.
Can Cochrane’s New CEO Save the Sinking Ship? Continue Reading
Despite the availability of advanced tools to manage human life, societies are seeing spiraling rates of illness, loneliness, and anxiety, with resilience on the decline. This paradox highlights a contradiction that has become increasingly apparent in the face of significant progress.
Books on history are written by the “victors;” that is, by the dominant paradigm, and such books give an inadequately accurate view of history. The books written by Dr. Coulter are therefore a refreshing and even compelling review of medical history.
There was a time when the aspirations of Alma Ata drove public health. If the nations of the G20 seek a more stable world, returning its public health approach to evidence and reality could be a step forward.
Closing the Deal: The Misinforming of the G20 on Pandemics Continue Reading
That new elite prototype has started to take shape inside the MAHA movement. It might not yet be a fully formed counter-elite, but it certainly looks like a promising kind of one.
Is the MAHA Movement Building a Genuine Counter-Elite? Continue Reading
The problem with the America First Global Health Strategy is not that the US is engaged abroad. It is that Washington has wrapped a sprawling, path-dependent set of programs in a nationalist label without doing the hard work that strategy requires.
The Problem with America First Global Health Continue Reading
The waiting rooms are quiet now. Yet, in the face of this silence, there is hope—an opportunity for action. By reaching out to local representatives, supporting community clinics, individuals can contribute to turning the tide.
We owe understanding, catharsis, and lessons learned to the thousands of people whom we allowed to die during Covid and to their loved ones. We owe it to our children whose education, social life, and mental health we significantly disrupted.
The Third Period: My Covid Speech in the Czech Parliament Continue Reading
A large outbreak of hysteria occurred in the media over the past week, regarding a small Nipah virus outbreak in eastern India. ‘Hysteria’ is the correct word in terms of proportionality. It is not the right word in terms of intent.
Nipah Virus and the New Public Health Order Continue Reading
Within just over a week of publishing our paper, we received an email notification from the publisher of the journal that our paper was “under investigation” prompted by “pubpeer commenter” Kevin Patrick under the pseudonym Actinopolyspora biskrensis.
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