HEALTH
The Prostate Cancer Test Dilemma
At a recent Brownstone Institute event, I spoke on a panel about the importance of judging public health interventions by their real-world impact — by whether they genuinely help people live longer and healthier lives. I had just written about mammography screening, and how decades of research show that while it detects […]
Help Make “The Rash” by Walter Kirn
There are two possible ways history will treat the Covid era. The establishment preference is for a story of a killer pathogen that leapt from the animal kingdom into humans to create a deadly pandemic that was fixed by an innovative vaccine. This is the preferred line in shrunken form, […]
RFK Jr.’s New Autism Advisers Set Sights on ‘Many Unanswered Questions’
Nine new members have joined the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, which provides “advice and recommendations” on autism to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. John Gilmore, executive director of the Autism Action Network, said he and the other new members “are picking up the pieces following a generation of […]
Scientists Want to Use Self-Amplifying mRNA to Vaccinate Those Who Don’t Want Vaccinated
This article was originally published by Rhoda Wilson at The Exposé. A research paper published earlier this month states that one of the researchers’ aims is to develop a vaccine to overcome vaccine hesitancy. The method chosen to spread the vaccine among the population is a self-replicating RNA (srRNA) or self-amplifying mRNA (saRNA […]
When Early Cancer Warnings Are Ignored
After witnessing, and continuing to witness, the reaction to emerging information about the early cancer signal related to Covid-19 vaccination or infection, I recalled the historical timelines of other early cancer signals. What became immediately clear is that this moment is not unique. For more than a century, society has […]
Ultraprocessed Foods Linked to Early Onset of Colorectal Cancer
Story at-a-glance Colorectal cancer was once primarily a disease of older adults, but that pattern has been shifting in recent decades. Rates of early-onset colorectal cancer, meaning cases diagnosed before age 50, have been climbing steadily worldwide, with the steepest increases reported in high-income countries.1 In the United States, the […]
MAHA Bait and Switch? Trump’s EPA Calls for Review of Fluoride Science While Ignoring Historic Ruling on Fluoride
The MAHA movement ought to celebrate that the harms associated with fluoride are finally being debated, but it should not turn a blind eye to the EPA’s efforts to sidestep the 2024 federal ruling that ordered the agency to take regulatory action. On Thursday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) […]
Insect Loss As an Early Warning of Systemic Biological Failure
In medicine, silence can be more alarming than noise. For example, a patient who abruptly stops voicing discomfort or a monitor that ceases activity may signal system failure rather than resolution. Ecology presents a similar scenario, and currently, the silence is deeply concerning. Insects are disappearing across vast regions globally. […]
The Information War Over Antidepressants
Stat News hit the ethical and scientific bottom two weeks ago when they published an article by Stephen B. Soumerai, professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Christine Y. Lu, professor at the Sydney Pharmacy School of the University of Sydney.1 I have rarely seen so much disinformation […]
America’s Favorite Cooking Oil Shows Strong Link to Obesity
Story at-a-glance From restaurant meals to packaged staples, soybean oil is almost everywhere in the modern diet. In the United States, it’s the most widely consumed oil, with intake climbing from roughly 2% of total calories to nearly 10% over the last century.1 During this period, adult obesity has surged to […]
