Volume 78, no. 8 The AAPS Educational Foundation has filed suit against the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology (ABOG), the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), and Alejandro Mayorkas, in his official capacity as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The lawsuit concerns […]
Volume 78, no. 7 July 2022 These days being called an “anti-vaxxer” is likely an indelible stain, which implies that one is anti-science and pro-disease. Anyone who voices a concern about any vaccine is likely to be tarred with this label. Almost everyone who writes about vaccine adverse effects prefaces the remarks with “I am […]
Volume 78, no. 6 June 2022 Even if the majority of our population still believes in it, Paul Ehrlich’s “population bomb” has not only fizzled but is imploding. If something does not change, we will have a situation unprecedented in world history, worse than even the Black Plague, Elon Musk pointed out in 2018. A […]
Volume 78, no. 5 May 2022 Many (most?) Americans are apparently becoming NPCs. A feature of video games, the non-player character says whatever the computer algorithm directs. The NPC meme, based on the Wojak meme, appeared on 4chan in July 2016, with this description of the type of person the meme represents: “If you get […]
Volume 78, no. 4 April 2022 We know that both soldiers and civilians are tragically dying in Ukraine. War propaganda being what it is, we don’t know the accurate casualty count, but we know the general mechanism of death (explosion, gunshot wound, etc.), and how it might be stopped (make peace). But while people watch […]
Volume 78, no. 3 March 2022 President Biden proclaimed his first State of the Union message to be about setting a “unity agenda” for the nation. The nation is indeed sharply divided—between those standing for freedom and those accepting totalitarian measures on the pretext of fighting a virus. Biden did not acknowledge this state of […]
Volume 78, no. 2 February 2022 The U.S. Supreme Court split the baby on the vaccine mandates cases. In both, the key issue is the power of the administrative state to force people to accept an unwanted and potentially harmful medical intervention as a condition of employment. The stay on the OSHA mandate on employers […]
Volume 78, no. 1 January 2022 It is clear that America is more divided than even before the War Between the States. The Union and the Confederacy had a common language, common fundamental principles, and constitutions that were alike in most respects. They believed in the existence of right and wrong, good and evil. They […]
Volume 77, no. 12 December 2021 A state of emergency, as from a tornado, flood, wildfire, civil unrest, or even a plague, is temporary. Something that permanently cancels traditions, civil rights, existing law, family ties, friendships, and long-standing institutions is a revolution. In 1665, the Black Plague killed up to 100,000 of London’s population of […]
Volume 77, no. 11 November 2021 According to the Precepts of Hippocrates, “where there is love of man, there is also love of the art. For some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.” The heart of medicine is the patient-physician […]