Insightful and fascinating glimpse into how medical science has been, and continues to be, distorted by special interests and ideological cabals to the detriment of patients.
Category: Patient Safety
Dietary carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management: Critical review and evidence base – ScienceDirect
“The benefits of carbohydrate restriction in diabetes are immediate and well documented. Concerns about the efficacy and safety are long term and conjectural rather than data driven. Dietary carbohydrate restriction reliably reduces high blood glucose, does not require weight loss …
Propaganda, Pandering, and Politics – AAPS | Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
“It sounds so virtuous to insist that “healthcare is a right.” Thus, if you do not believe medical care should be free, you are not a moral person. This technique echoes Aldous Huxley’s view that “the propagandist’s purpose is to …
The Epidemic of Woke Politicians | Intellectual Takeout
By Martin Cothran When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when all you’ve got is politics (for an ideologue, everything is political), everything looks like it is resolvable by a law. Hence the current …
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How Medicare Ruined American Healthcare | Medpage Today
Regarding the King-Anderson bill, the forerunner of Medicare, touted by JFK which eventually was defeated in the Senate… “Edward Annis, MD, spoke eloquently to an empty Garden and to one of the biggest TV audiences of the times. He explained …
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All Young Cannabis Users Face Psychosis Risk
RI-CLPMs use a multilevel approach to test for within-person differences that inform on the extent to which an individual’s increase in cannabis use precedes an increase in that individual’s psychosis symptoms, and vice versa. The approach provides the most rigorous …
Options Will Increase, Sky Will Not Fall, If ACA Ends
“For example, the AMA complains that hundreds of millions would be at risk of losing “coverage.” In fact, only a net 1.7 million people gained private coverageunder ACA, after subtracting the nearly 6 million who lost it, at a shocking …
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Is the Sunscreen Scare Legitimate?
But just because something gets into your body doesn’t mean it’s bad for you. I know these compounds have chemical names, but the assumption that artificial compounds are worse for you than all of the other stuff we put in …
