- Balwani and Holmes are off to prison; but medical research has a long history of unethical practices.
- Does ChatGPT have political biases? Yes.
- What conservatives want from Kevin McCarthy if he is to be the Speaker.
- England’s chief medical officer says the nation faces a rising death toll from heart disease and cancer cases – the knock-on effects of dealing with Covid, which saw thousands of routine treatments and appointments delayed.
- Karol Sakora, a prominent British oncologist, warns that “lockdowns and associated choices had an unforgivable impact on cancer patients with an immeasurable amount of suffering as a result.”
- The Incidental Economist discovers Health Care Sharing Ministries. Not mentioned: if a plan is not working, people can always switch to a plan in the (Obamacare) exchanges – which become the ultimate risk pool.
Friday Links
- How the FDA is causing more RSV in deaths in children: “Smart Socks had been on the market for five years, boasted a 90 percent accuracy rating according to peer-reviewed research, and helped over 600,000 parents care for their children….”
- Sam Bankman-Fried’s unholy involvement in the Covid wars.
- Do we need hate crime legislation to protect Anthony Fauci and others from Sen. Rand Paul and other critics?
- The number of requests for abortion pills doubled each month, following the fall of Roe. (NYT)
- 1 in 8 deaths among nonelderly adults due to excessive alcohol use.
- More on the difficulty of CDC reform.
Do We Really Need Primary Care Physicians? What Do They Do?
Americans are constantly being told they need a primary care physician. Supposedly the key to good health is having a close relationship with your family doctor. According to a research paper from Stanford and Harvard medical schools we live longer in areas with high concentrations of primary care physicians:
Thursday Links
- BMJ study: Covid vaccines for young adults is expected to produce more severe adverse events than covid hospitalization averted. In other words, the harm outweighs the benefits for university students who face vaccine mandates.
- Are there more suicides at the year-end holiday season? No. HT: Tyler
- CDC falls short in recognizing the horror of the government’s Tuskegee experiment.
- Why the CDC is hard to fix.
- ChatGPT explained.