Should We Consider Aging a Disease?
Rethinking human “enhancement” in an era of sick-care.
Raiany Romanni
· 6 min read
Health
A collection of 165 posts
Stop Feeding Your Brain Junk Food
A simple way to discourage clickbait influencers from producing low-quality content is for the rest of us to stop consuming it.
Gurwinder Bhogal
· 9 min read
The New Prohibition
The neuroscientific model of addiction is at odds with our freedom to experience the sensual life.
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 10 min read
Warp Speed: Inside the Operation that Beat COVID—A Review
While the overall U.S. response to the pandemic was tragically deficient, we can learn a lot from the public-private partnership that sped vaccine development.
Josh Morrison
· 7 min read
The Burden of the Best?
From self-belief to self-care.
Steve Salerno
· 13 min read
Shanghai on the Edge of Madness
Starvation will push and pull human psychology in unusual directions—it is one of the few things that can overcome fear of the authorities. When famine came to China 400 years ago, it made Chinese peasants receptive to the preachers of class war. When the government failed to provide crucial
Aaron Sarin
· 6 min read
On DarkHorse, Ivermectin, and Vaccine Hesitancy
The following transcript comes from an interview for Iconoclast: Ideas that have Shaped the Culture Wars. It was conducted by Mark Halloran with Eric Topol on October 14th, 2021. Mark Halloran is Editor of Iconoclast. He holds a PhD in biochemistry and a BA in Behavioural Science. Eric Topol is
Mark Halloran
· 24 min read
The Ideological Aversion to Harm Reduction
Putting a patient under general anesthesia is a dangerous business. Waking a patient up from anesthesia is an ugly one. After I turn off the gas the patient typically thrashes and writhes like a sinner in Hell. Yet such resistance has never bothered me. I don’t want good and
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 9 min read
‘As We See It’ and the Changing Discussion About Autism
The show frankly acknowledges issues frequently haunting persons on the autism spectrum.
Jonathan Mitchell
· 6 min read
Autism or Encephalitis? My Son’s Misdiagnosis and Our Family’s Season in Hell
Encephalitis recovery often takes years, not months, and some patients never fully recover.
S. Stiles
· 19 min read
Outback Australia and the Information Wars
How Maajid Nawaz and Tim Pool amplified misinformation about COVID-19 in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities, overshadowing the effective responses led by legitimate Aboriginal leaders.
Matthew Blackwell
· 14 min read
What is Happening to My Profession?
Some of the people who are refusing the life-saving COVID vaccine are alienated from mainstream institutions, which they view as house organs of the political Left rather than trustworthy arbiters of truth.
Sally Satel
· 10 min read
‘It works! It works! It works!’: Jonas Salk and the Vaccine that Conquered Polio
Americans turned on their radios, department stores set up loudspeakers, and judges suspended trials so that everyone in the courtroom could hear what Francis was about to say.
Paul A. Offit
· 8 min read
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Meaning of Human Suffering
Every situation is distinguished by its uniqueness, and there is always only one right answer to the problem posed by the situation at hand.
Samuel Kronen
· 27 min read
Vaccinology, Immunology, and COVID-19
Vaccine technology has sped ahead, serving the critical function to break the link between infection and poor outcomes.
Jesse Pelletier
· 6 min read