Christopher Lasch and the Distemper of Our Time: A Chronicle Foretold
Why Christopher Lasch, who died over 30 years ago, is the historian of our times…or perhaps our first psychohistorian?
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Coffee Break: The Powell Memo Kills American Science, Driving While Nonwhite Is Hazardous, and Science Can Recover but It Will Take Patience and Persistence.
Can medical science recover from the Powell memo and Project 2025 via slow science?
Read more...Coffee Break: Covid Denialism Is Not a Cure; Updates on the War on Cancer and Medicare
Covid and cancer are not going away soon, but if Dr. Oz has his way, Medicare might.
Read more...Biomedical Research, Its Funding and Its Practice: Where Do We Go from Here?
How biomedical research is funded by public institutions and performed in universities and research institutions, both now in danger
Read more...Coffee Break: End-of-the-Week Thoughts on Science and Other Matters Arising
Today’s Coffee Break: Scientific research on chronic and infectious disease in jeopardy; recent advances in evolutionary biology
Read more...Coffee Break: End-of-the-Week Thoughts on Science and Other Matters Arising
Today’s Coffee Break: Research universities and science advances at risk, along with healthcare. And is AI for the artificially intelligent?
Read more...Politico-Scientific Responses to the Current Pandemic: An Update Based on a Retrospective by Anthony Fauci and Gregory Folkers
Anthony Fauci and Gregory Folkers take a stab at delineating what HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 have taught us about pandemic responses
Read more...Coffee Break: End-of-the-Week Thoughts on Science and Other Matters Arising
This week’s science/medicine Coffee Break: Alzheimers, a Covid vesicle spray? mask decision rules, the science funding/pipeline train wreck.
Read more...Coffee Break: End-of-the-Week Thoughts on Science and Other Matters Arising
KLG’s first weekly Coffee Break medical science sightings. Feedback and recommendations for sources welcome!
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