Hospitals are price gougers to be avoided at all costs, especially if you don’t need to be in a hospital. A good rule of thumb is to never get services performed at a hospital unless you are too sick to go anywhere else.
Category: News and Events
Saturday Links
- Discovery: Why red wine causes headaches.
- Everything you want to know about Thanksgiving turkeys. And then some.
- After reading about turkey farming you may never want to eat turkey again.
- Report says cancer deaths have plummeted among children but doesn’t explain why. My explanation: drug trials usually use children, not older folks.
- How do bats carry so many deadly diseases without dying?
- Argument: the “American dream” is not mainly about escaping poverty. It is about overcoming the barriers of class.
Thursday Links
- The Pilgrims’ real Thanksgiving lesson
- Was the original Thanksgiving a celebration of the massacre of Indians? No. That’s woke propaganda.
- How to get 8 countries to cooperate on cancer drug research: Start the project before telling any of the regulators.
- Bidenflation: Employer health insurance costs are up 7%; Obamacare exchange plans are up 6%.
- Why are those who supported the Covid lockdowns trying to suppress research showing that the lockdowns didn’t work?
- CDC: Last year’s flu shot was less than 50 percent effective for children and adolescents.
Is Your Dog the Secret to Longevity?
Hardly a day goes by but what I see an article linking something to better health and longevity. For instance, I just read sleep is correlated with longevity. A recent article claimed a consistent sleep schedule is more important than getting eight hours of sleep per night. Another article I read was similar to the Blue Zones post I earlier wrote about, claiming Seventh Day Adventists in Loma Linda, California live longer than average. Marriage helps you live longer (insert joke about not necessarily living longer but it feels longer). Intermittent fasting boosts longevity in mouse models and is thought to boost longevity in humans as well. Also, positive views about aging helps you live longer. Of course, those in good health probably tend to have more positive views of getting older than those in poor health, so take that with a grain of salt. Purportedly, friends boost your health and longevity. That too could be a self-selecting proxy for better health, since the ability to get together with friends is easier when in good health. Finally the Wall Street Journal writes that dogs help you live longer.