Two days after Donald Trump’s McDonald’s stunt, the CDC launched an investigation into an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders. As of Tuesday, the CDC reported 49 confirmed cases and one fatality. “Does anyone else find the timing…
The highly respected journal STAT has just published an article declaring that the dreaded “Long COVID is a new name for an old syndrome.” Preposterous! Incredible! Absurd! Ridiculous! Farcical! Toss in a few more synonyms! No, not at all. Just…
Start with a simple empirical proposition: It is rare that one has all the evidence at hand one would like to have when facing important decisions. This holds true for countless big personal choices — marriage, divorce, buying/selling a home,…
CDC head Rochelle Walensky recently said that “education” is needed to better inform unvaccinated Americans of their ignorance. That would include the unvaccinated who already have immunity, and who certainly aren’t ignorant of it. They are painfully aware of it,…
Coronavirus teaches a recalcitrant humanity an important lesson: seers still cannot, in 2020, see the future. Science tells us as much. Scientists disagree with the science on prophecy. They continue to play Nostradamus. When one’s profession morphs into a religion,…
The coronavirus is reminding everyone that you cannot rely on government and that ultimately it is the private sector that will provide the solutions. Many non-medical government officials and members of the media are predicting massive cases of COVID-19 and…
Sacramento After news broke about a serious and sometimes deadly outbreak of vaping-related illnesses, my colleagues who work in the harm-reduction field — i.e., health activists who argue that smokers ought to reduce their potential harm by switching to less-deadly…
There is a real crisis in America. The severity of the crisis transcends religious and political boundaries. It has nothing to do with the shrinking of the ice caps; it has everything to do with the expansion of the waistbands….
Last week, the horrific facts behind baby Melanie Sanders’ death finally came to light. Just sixteen weeks old, she died after contracting a virus raging through the neonatal intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Medical staff who examined newborns’ eyes failed to…
