Comments from AAPS President Paul Kempen, MD, PhD: Today, I was greatly dismayed to read an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), apparently signed by all (over 30) members of that editorial […]
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has taken the unprecedented step of jumping into electoral politics, in an editorial apparently signed by all of the 30-plus members of the editorial staff.[1] It states that: […]
Did you feel frustrated watching the vice-presidential candidates’ debate? According to Sen. Kamala Harris, more than 200,000 premature American deaths are Trump’s fault. According to Vice-President Pence, China is to blame. Biden has a Plan. […]
Will the huge rollout of COVID tests help end the pandemic—or assure that it will never end? We have had pseudo-epidemics before. In 2006, much of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was shut down, and 1,000 employees […]
Volume 76, no. 10 October 2020 The worldwide depression and chaos from the response to COVID-19 might be just a dress rehearsal for the global totalitarian technocracy so long envisioned. The “climate crisis” wasn’t generating […]
The announcement that President Trump and the First Lady have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 shows that the need for early treatment to prevent serious illness and death from COVID-19 is extremely urgent, states the Association […]
If you watched the Trump/Biden debate, you likely thought it was a slugfest, but were you able to figure out the candidates’ positions? The press might want to ask for clarification, or follow up on […]
All of us are affected by the constraints on normal life—especially parents of school-aged children. From the graph below, it looks as though the pandemic is over. It shows the number of daily new “cases”—that […]
Is your life “on hold” pending a COVID-19 vaccine? Do you want to be first in line, a late adopter, or a skeptic? Do we have to give it to everyone to find out what […]
You may well ask why the U.S. should be a world leader in per-capita COVID-19 deaths. Our morning paper calls passing the 200,000 mark “unfathomable.” A better question: Why is the death rate about 75 […]
