Tag: medicine
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What Is Medicine When Everyone is Sick?
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (May 9, 2026) — Take a fifty-eight-year-old American. Hypertension. Prediabetes. Obesity. Osteoarthritis. Depression. Sleep apnea. High cholesterol. Perhaps chronic kidney disease stage 3a, discovered after routine labs. Perhaps a statin, an SSRI, a GLP-1 drug, two antihypertensives, a CPAP machine, NSAID avoidance, physical therapy, dietary instructions, specialist referrals,…
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Policy Critique: Vitamin K Shots at Birth are a Universally Applied Therapy Not Everyone Needs – And in the U.S., Shots are a Monopoly
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Mar. 23, 2026) — When does “Standard of Care” cross over into “monopoly enforcement of medical therapy given without indication”? It’s true: infants are nearly always born with low Vitamin K. But the low levels are consistent across all mammals to varying degrees. Some researchers argue this may be physiologically intentional —…
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The Safe and Meaningful Integration of AI with Medicine is Possible
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Nov. 30, 2025) — In 2004, as a young Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology in the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, I made a suggestion that, in retrospect, required neither radical technology nor prophetic genius. I proposed that a hospital system—one of the…
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United States of America to Confront Autism Epidemic Under Kennedy Leadership: A Turning Point for Environmental Health Science, Public Health, and Medicine
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (May 15, 2025) — In a landmark press conference on April 16, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a sobering diagnosis—not of a child, but of an entire nation. Flanked by researchers, parents, and reporters, Kennedy declared that the United States…
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When it Comes to Clinical and Translational Research, Efficiency Doesn’t Mean Skipping Steps
by James Lyons-Weiler PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (May 9, 2025) — In recent years, “efficiency” has taken on a dangerous new meaning in biomedical science. Once a term denoting thoughtful optimization—doing more with less without sacrificing quality—it has been rebranded to justify collapsing regulatory safeguards, abbreviating scientific protocols, and sidelining transparency in favor of speed.…
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The Grimanis: Pioneers in Public Health and Ethical Innovation
by Contributor (Feb. 28, 2025) — In an era where medical advancements rapidly evolve, the Grimani family has emerged as a guiding force in public health, blending science, ethics, and philanthropy. Dr. John Leo Grimani and his wife, Irina, have dedicated their lives to initiatives that not only push the boundaries of medicine but also…
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They Hate RFK, Jr., Because He Can’t be Bought (RR)
by Roving Reporter, ©2025 (Jan. 30, 2025) — “Sitting with the Turtle” (1:19) “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the place to hear it here first. Yesterday we witnessed who were the shills for Big Pharma, with Pocahontas, aka Elizabeth Warren, leading the pack. Heck, all the Dems were lined…
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An Urgent Call to All Scientists – We Must Reframe Scientific Priorities for the Future of America with A Unified Approach to Learning Well
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Oct. 27, 2024) — It is October 2024, and we face a crossroads. Science and medicine are represented as advancing at breakneck speed, but the way we fund and prioritize research is outdated, fragmented, and deeply flawed. We are chasing immediate results, throwing resources into short-term translational projects,…
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‘Science for Hire,’ a Gary Null Production
by Dr. Joseph Mercola, ©2022 (Nov. 12, 2022) — In 2003, Gary Null, Ph.D., was a coauthor of the bombshell “Death by Medicine” article1 which described how the conventional American medical system had become the No. 1 leading cause of death and injury in the U.S., claiming the lives of nearly 783,936 people annually. Now,…
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The Experts, Science, Medicine––All Amazing, All Fallible
by Joan Swirsky, ©2022 (Feb. 26, 2022) — For thousands of years, going back to the Bible, women have wept and grieved and pleaded to God over their miscarriages. Indeed, it took all these millennia for modern-day pharmaceutical companies to develop solutions to this ongoing nightmare. In the 1940s, they were happy to offer doctors…
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Climate Alarmism: Our Sanity and Wallets Need a Break
BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS ARE DISRUPTING OUR POLITICS, SCIENCE, ENERGY POLICIES AND ECONOMY by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Sep. 16, 2012) — Pick up any 40-year-old science textbook – on chemistry, biology, geology, physics, astronomy or medicine – and you’ll find a slew of “facts” and theories that have been proven wrong or are no longer the…
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Depopulation IS the Big Plan
CAN NATURAL FOODS AND REMEDIES SURVIVE? by Dr. Laurie Roth, ©2012 (Aug. 1, 2012) — Helping people starve, die and stay sick is big business. Those of us who want choices for medical care, natural foods and treatment options are simply in the way. Big Government, Big Pharmacy and international companies know best – not…