- Jeffrey Singer and Trevor Burrus on the misguided history of government regulation of addictive drugs.
- “The FBI set up a command post ahead of the 2020 election to send election-related posts to Twitter and other platforms for possible action. A similar group flagged posts on the day of the 2022 midterms…”
- Scott Atlas: Twitter Censorship Contributed to Destructive Pandemic Policies and Is Criminal.
- New documents reveal how the United States government used a secret Twitter portal to censor COVID-19 content that contradicted the government’s narrative.
- A libertarian Medical Oath.
Sunday Links
- Mark Pauly, et. al.: expensive brand name drugs are worth more than what we are paying for them.
- Study: the biggest losers from the (Obamacare) Medicaid expansion: low-income children.
- Should the homeless be forcibly moved to mental institutions?
- More on Ivermectin.
- A woke Hippocratic oath demonstrating that some of the worse political thinking in the modern era comes from doctors.
Ask Your Doctor Four Questions to Avoid Unnecessary Care
I went to a urologist a couple years ago. He examined me and told me he was 85% sure what I had was not serious and would resolve on its own. However, if I wanted to be 100% sure, there was an in-office test ($450) and an MRI ($350) that he could order for me. I got the feeling he was probably really 95% sure I was fine. The urologist likely offered additional tests out of defensive medicine and the fact that some patients desire more care than others. I was cash pay so I opted out of it.
Saturday Links
- Pew Foundation “striking findings.”
- In addition to drug shortages, the US has been experiencing medical device shortages.
- Free covid tests by mail are back.
- CNN: Covid-19 vaccines have saved more than 3 million lives in US. But no mention of Donald Trump or Operation Warp Speed. CTUP: this is like trumpeting the polio vaccine and not mentioning Jonas Salk.
- A defense of Canadian euthanasia: The average age of those who seek assisted death is 76.3, and 65% have cancer.
- All the bad things in the Hippocratic Oath that I bet you don’t know about.