…there is a darker side to social media medicine, where social media charlatans convince (mostly young, impressionable women) to start drug therapies for conditions they do not have. Examples of this include antidepressants for normal stress and beta blockers for social anxiety. Then there are the highly exaggerated, sensationalized videos. TikTok, the Chinese owned social media website became the cesspool of user-created, inferior quality content.
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Hits & Misses – 15 June 2026
Food and Drug Administration Edition
- Washington Post: Sunscreen approved by FDA highlights cost of bureaucracy
- Truthout: FDA “Study” on Mifepristone Revealed Weeks After SCOTUS Blocks Restrictions
- WGHN: How an experimental weight-loss drug is being openly promoted by physicians
- Fox News: FDA delays cost Americans trillions and slow lifesaving drugs, new report says
- Brownstone Institute: FDA Exposed: Hundreds of Drugs Approved without Proof They Work
- Fox News: FDA approves fruit-flavored e-cigarettes for the first time in US history
Who is to Blame for the Shortage of Marriageable Men?
A common theory is young men are failing to launch because the well-paid manufacturing jobs that non-elite males had traditionally filled are mostly gone. Nowadays marriages are romantic and financial partnerships, with both partners expected to earn an income. Thus, men are no longer discriminated against by outdated cultural norms of hypergamy, where women are only willing to marry up the social ladder because they’re stuck at home raising kids.
Where Do Consumers Really Get Health Information?
The Pew Charitable Trust says I’ve been wrong all these years. I’ve written for 25 years that Americans increasingly get their health information from the Internet. Furthermore, a few minutes spent surfing the Web for health information can educate patients far more than their physicians would ever have time to explain. In a new Pew survey of where people get their health information, the Internet trails health care providers.