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August 6, 2020

Rhyming with Hiroshima: Not the First Time Doctors Have Fought Medical Censorship

Image: Public domain. This is not the first time doctors have had to fight official censorship of medical information in order to do what they believe is right. From my 2011 piece on Kenzaburo Oe's "Hiroshima Notes": "Today, we take...


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Published on August 06, 2020 12:06

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: If We Rationalize Mass Murder, We Allow it to Happen Again

Image: Public domain. Here are some of my writings on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I try to post them every year on this date, if only to counter the flood of "yeah it was terrible how we ("we")...


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Published on August 06, 2020 11:25

August 5, 2020

Does Anyone Have the Right to be Obese?

According to CNN, the "US obesity epidemic could undermine effectiveness of a Covid-19 vaccine." Says the article: "...scientists in the emerging field of immunometabolism are finding obesity also interferes with the body's immune response, putting obese people at greater risk...


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Published on August 05, 2020 17:50

August 1, 2020

Are We Living Through a Re-run of Dallas Buyers Club?

I wrote this piece back in 2014, about the film "Dallas Buyer's Club", and thought I'd repost it here. (It originally appeared on Economic Policy Journal on April 8, 2014.) There is nothing new about what is happening now with...


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Published on August 01, 2020 15:25

July 28, 2020

WTMWD #24: Rachel Mills on what we can learn from Haiti & how to best help those in developing countries

I speak with Ron Paul's former communications director, Rachel Mills, about her chidhood experience in Haiti, what she learned about poverty, racism and social systems. She also tells us what we can do to truly help people in underdevelolped countries....


           
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Published on July 28, 2020 17:20

July 27, 2020

July 25, 2020

Devastating Smackdown of Google's Censorship of Scientific Inquiry

Image: Public domain. Remember the time Google deleted without warning a user's GoogleDoc document talking about hydroxychloroquine as a possible effective treatment for Covid-19? No? Well you can read about it here: "What it does show is that WHO—whose recommendations...


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Published on July 25, 2020 13:46

July 24, 2020