Valentin has shown what a culture does to its young when it translates every sorrow into a diagnosis and every duty into a trauma. The rest is transmission: the slow work of teaching the next child that she is not a brand.
The Commodified Self and the Designed Collapse of Generation Z Continue Reading
Bill Gates has long been one of the most admired people in the world, especially since he stepped down from his role running Microsoft to devote himself and much of his fortune to philanthropy. That reputation has been tarnished recently.
How Bill Gates’ Billions Shape US Medical Research Continue Reading
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.
This work exemplifies dual-use (civilian + military) research of concern: the very same tools developed for pandemic preparedness and biodefense can be readily applied to engineer viruses with enhanced pathogenicity, transmissibility, or immune evasion.
From Baric’s Blueprint to SV40 and Back Again Continue Reading
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.
Ebola in DRC: The Reality and the Media Hype Continue Reading
There is a whole lot of seemingly coordinated panic right now around AI. I’ve written extensively about the legitimate, existential dangers we do need to address in technology. But my spidey sense tells me this current fever pitch isn’t that.
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.
What Lessons Can We Learn from Wendell Berry? Continue Reading
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.
That the CDC even now would push out such propaganda with no basis in science is an outrage because it divides families, spreads lies, and robs people of the joy of observing new life.
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.
A Hall of Mirrors of the Healthy Vaccinee Effect Continue Reading
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?
Medicine Has Forgotten How to Touch the Patient Continue Reading
Such explosive charges—a CIA coverup, Fauci’s complicity, and the misguided approval of Covid vaccines—should have ignited a media inferno, instead we got a cold frost. No front-page headline from the New York Times, no angry Washington Post editorial.
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