Dear Students and Parents:
Another school year is upon us.
For many people, including students, the Covid era seems to be over. That confusing, frightening, and traumatic time finally feels like a thing of the past.
However, the harms we …
This Is Not Capitalism
The word capitalism has no stable definition and should probably be permanently retired. That won’t happen, however, because too many people are invested in its use and abuse.
I’m long over trying to push my definition over someone else’s understanding, …
Stages of Covid-19 Infection
[The following is an excerpt from Lori Weintz’s book, Mechanisms of Harm: Medicine in the Time of Covid-19.]
If you think about a virus, what’s the purpose? What’s the virus trying to do? It’s trying to stay alive…And if the …
Cheney’s “One Percent Doctrine” Comes to Public Health
[The following is an excerpt from Thomas Harrington’s book, The Treason of the Experts: Covid and the Credentialed Class.]
I will begin with the necessary preventions. I am not an epidemiologist nor do I have any medical expertise. I have, …
How We Can Rebuild American Science
This is part II of my series on the Covid response as an example of original sin (part I is here). However, I’m coming at it from a slightly different angle today.
I. The state of American science and medicine.
What …
SCOTUS Versus Free Speech
In a 6 to 3 ruling on the Murthy v. Missouri case, the Supreme Court ruled against me and my fellow co-plaintiffs, in effect rendering the US First Amendment a dead letter in the social media age. At stake in …
Save the Voters, Replace the Schools
It’s a modern fetish that we’re brilliant while our ancestors were idiots. After all, they didn’t have iPhones, the Internet, or Kim Kardashian.
This is also academic consensus, for what it’s worth: called the Flynn effect, the idea is people …
The Managerialist Revolution in Medicine
According to Pew research, the number of US adults who place confidence in medical scientists to act in the best interests of the public declined from 40% in 2020 to 29% in 2022. A 2021 survey by the American Board of Internal Medicine …
Anchors in a Sea of Chaos
Dear friends,
Things are getting quite interesting in the mainstream media. Here and there, something real is seeping through the omnipresent facade.
I read in an opinion paper in the New York Times (author: Maureen Dowd) that Biden was removed …
The Seven Deadly Sins of Our World
I. When did the crisis begin?
Lots of writers in the Resistance try to figure out when the crisis began (the crisis being that global monopoly capitalism is trying to enslave the entire developed world via chronic illness).
Obviously the …
What Is Really Going on at Federal Agencies?
Years ago as an intern in D.C., and long before the agencies all locked their doors to visitors, I had the occasion to putter around the Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
These were obviously …
My Board Certifications Have Been Revoked
I will just start by saying that I believe that the ABIM’s decision was 100% predetermined even before we first received their accusation in June 2022. There was no way they were going to declare us innocent of misinformation, even though …
My Board Certifications Have Been Revoked
I will just start by saying that I believe that the ABIM’s decision was 100% predetermined even before we first received their accusation in June 2022. There was no way they were going to declare us innocent of misinformation, even though …
The Forces That Imperil Public Order
On 13 August, an employment judge in the UK ruled that three white police officers had been discriminated against by being passed over for promotion to detective inspector in favour of an Asian woman applicant. The ruling came at the …
More on Time Theft
We live in a four-dimensional world. I work with binocular vision and one of the goals in much of the therapy we do involves establishing the ability to appreciate motion in three of those dimensions, and to sustain that in …