By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD https://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/ The British social hierarchy of the Middle Ages and beyond was divided into “three estates of the realm”: the king, the clergy, and the commoners. More modern times brought the fourth estate, the non-establishment, independent journalists. Our founders knew that for a successful democratic republic, the press had […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD – https://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/ Breathless headlines featuring ‘the Virus” are beginning to fade into a chronic undercurrent of fear thy neighbor for he might be bearing the gift of Covid. What you won’t see in the headlines are stories about a more pervasive and ultimately more lethal virus: a growing disregard […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD – http://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/ These days more and more apparently intelligent people seem to upspeak. That’s the irritating “Valley Girl” inflection where every sentence sounds like a question. Don’t these people trust their own thoughts and words? Perhaps upspeakers’ brains are fried after being fed a steady diet of DEI, ESG, […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD – https://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/ One of Albert Einstein’s many aphorisms, “three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed,” is particularly apt in the Covid era. Our government’s duty is to warn the public of a possible pandemic and recommend precautions. However, the initial Covid tactic was to strike fear […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD – https://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/ While everyone is preoccupied with mask-shaming and vaccine-cheerleading, scientists are engaged in critical research with a more lasting effect on our lives. For 100 years scientists have dreamed of creating and developing life outside of a womb. In March 2021 that dream came true. Scientists grew naturally […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD – https://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/ Discarded surgical masks strewn along the sidewalk aptly represent COVID-19’s lasting legacy. The federal medical bureaucracy’s response to the pandemic has resulted in a wasteland of lost economic and educational opportunities, psychologically damaged children, terminally lonely nursing home residents, and lives lost to suicide, illicit drug overdoses, […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD http://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/ On Martin Luther King, Jr.’s holiday, I’m reminded that Rev. King was not only a thinker but a man of action. While today’s social justice omphaloskeptics are pondering white privilege, Marxist critical race theory, and “the intersectionality of health equity,” COVID-19 is busy killing black and brown Americans. […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD – https://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/ Constitution Day passed us by without the celebration it richly deserved. Limiting the powers of the federal government is at the core of our Constitution. Ten years ago, the Affordable Care Act tested the limits of federal powers. The barely-noticed federal takeover of student loans, the mandated […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD – https://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/ What a great country we are! Where else do we have immigrants from around the world who stood in line for years or risked their lives to be part of the U.S. and also mobs of people who want to overthrow the government that brought the world […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Planet of the Humans, a Michael Moore vehicle, came and went with little fanfare. Perhaps it was the message that our feeble attempts at halting climate change were just that: feeble and useless. Solar panels, wind turbines, electric cars and the like were criticized as mere “band-aids” and corporate […]