If Congress adopts sweeping federal preemption in this area, it will not merely reshape meat markets; it will establish a precedent that states may no longer meaningfully govern the terms under which food is produced and sold within their own borders.
Should an Industry-Friendly Rider in the Farm Bill Override Over 1,000 State Laws? Continue Reading
We need to be asking questions about whether sending more of our collective wealth towards our healthcare system is producing good returns. We might expect that anything spent on healthcare provides good returns, but what if those investments end in losses?
Less Is More in Medicine Continue Reading
Now, months after the internal disputes first erupted, the FDA continues to face questions about what officials knew, when they knew it, and why the agency failed to promptly release its investigations into paediatric deaths following Covid vaccination.
Inside the FDA’s ‘Cover-Up’ of Child Deaths Linked to Covid Vaccines Continue Reading
The Predictability Horizon in a Complex Adaptive System is short. It is imperative that the response of the system be carefully and frequently monitored. We can no longer bury the signals that can warn us of “something we had not anticipated.”
The Danger of an Unexamined Status Quo Continue Reading
Here’s the article in question. It was written and published on Dec. 5, 2025, 6:00 AM EST by Brandy Zadrozny in MS NOW. I am posting my X remarks and defense of some of the false and defamatory comments made therein.
Article Written and Published by Libelists? Continue Reading
In the normal, sane world of my childhood, this wouldn’t have been extraordinary. But this was November, 2022, and the world was just beginning to recover from the insanity of the Covid-19 response.
Education Shrinkflation Continue Reading
While each of us are free to live by our own privately held theories regarding the actions taken by, or in the name of, Collective X or Collective Y, it is never right for the government to do so.
The Demonization of Men (and Everyone Else Too) Continue Reading
From the vaccine debate, we have learned that if government agencies truly want to promote the greater good, then best practice would be to take all of the differences among the various demographic groups in the population into consideration.
Inside the Great Vaccine Debate Continue Reading
I began to recognize that from the 1960s through the end of the 20th century, there were a series of illnesses that I initially referred to as ‘fad’ diseases. I now refer to these conditions as ‘meme’ diseases.
The Rise of the Meme Disease Continue Reading
Diseases associated with poverty—those that are endemic, predictable, and devastating—often fail to attract media attention because they don’t instill fear in the right audience or in the right way.
The News-to-Death Ratio Strikes Again Continue Reading
The right-wing populist wave that broke over much of the world in 2016 barely lapped at Australia’s shores. The nation’s compulsory, preferential voting system and homogeneous, middle-management style politics formed a bulwark against the tide. Now, that bulwark is starting to crack.
Australia’s Bulwark against Populism Is Cracking Continue Reading
This is not just a political or technological battle. It is a question of what it means to remain human. For those who choose integration, that is their right. But for those who do not, that must also remain a choice.
The Noble Savage Continue Reading
