“Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body; and a surgeon who performs an operation without his patient’s consent commits an assault for which he is…
Author’s note: Last week, Sen. Ron Johnson (R. Wis.), the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, released a majority staff interim report titled “Failure to Warn: How Federal Health Agencies Downplayed the Risk of Myocarditis and Other Adverse…
It’s been rumored for quite some time, and on Monday it popped all over X: Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce very soon that pharmaceutical advertising on television will be a thing of…
Much to the Democrats’ chagrin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now the United States’ new Health and Human Services secretary. Naturally, this news comes much to the chagrin of Big Pharma as well. Those on the left have long pretended…
As it has in the past, the New York Times published a recent article that attempts to drive a wedge between the factions of the wide tent movement formed by the alliance between Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr….
The prescription painkiller OxyContin was released by Purdue Pharma in 1995; the six-part TV series Painkiller, created by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster and directed by Peter Berg, was released by Netflix in 2023. During the intervening 28 years, Purdue’s…
Rent-seeking describes profit-seeking through the manipulation of the regulatory or legal apparatus rather than by competing with others in the marketplace. Cronyism is a common form of rent-seeking, as demonstrated by the Solyndra fiasco. When the California-based green energy start-up company…
If you Google Robert F. Kennedy Jr., you’re assaulted by this nasty little description courtesy of Wikipedia: “Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954), also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activist, and conspiracy theorist.” That’s the…
For some reason, YouTube has recently decided that I really like 60-second skits about banks and insurance companies. I’m not sure what I managed to watch or say that persuaded the algorithm that finance is a passion of mine, but…
