
Our Medical Establishment In Power Versus Our Medical Establishment Out of Power
Now that they have power, Drs. Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, and Jay Bhattacharya have different standards than they set for their predecessors.

Rethinking Medications: Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take
A critical appraisal of the state of the prescription medications in the United States

A Checkered History in Vaccine Court: Mark Geier at the VICP 1988-2003
A not so expert "expert"

The MAHA Report: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (mostly the bad and ugly)
President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary's MAHA report has landed. It's a mix of the good (a little), but mostly the bad and the ugly (a lot).

Our Medical Establishment Supports Viral Mandates
If I am unable to access a vaccine in the future and get a nasty case of COVID, I'll know where to point the finger and so will millions of others.

Book Review: Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
The history of tuberculosis is the history of mankind.

Personalized CRISPR Gene Editing Therapy
While the medical world is melting down from the absolute apocalypse that is RFK Jr., it’s good to celebrate that (at least for now) medical progress continues to march on. Recently published in the NEJM is a case report of a breakthrough that we may look back on as a milestone in medicine. Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare...

1799
“Give me your E. coli, your polio, your huddled Tuberculosis yearning to kill free.” Statue of Liberty, 2025 Originally I was not going to write a post this month. As this goes live, I am in Adelaide on a trip down under. When I was young, aka in my 50s, I would try and write a blog entry while traveling. It is...

Attacking vaccines through the misunderstanding of medical ethics
Since becoming HHS Secretary, RFK Jr. has been deceptively weaponizing principles of evidence-based medicine against vaccines. Will weaponizing research ethics be next? It might if the ideas of one of his advisors, James Lyons-Weiler, are any indication.
Senator Hassan Sets Secretary Kennedy Straight
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's reckless insistence on undermining confidence in vaccines and reckless elevation of the wholly unqualified David Geier to a potentially influential role at HHS