Category Archives: Banana republic

Debate Over Conflicts of Interest at Top Pediatrics Association: What About Corruption in Medicine Generally? And With RFK Jr.’s MAHA Brand?

American medicine is rife with conflicts of interest and soft corruption. Don’t kid yourself that RFK, Jr. and his allies are any better.

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Coffee Break: COVID-19 and Cancer, NIH Weaponized Against the People, Consciousness, AI and the Internet, and Famine

Part the First: How Do You Awaken Sleeping Cancer Cells.  Short answer: Inflammation.  Speaking from experience, anyone who have ever been treated successfully for cancer never fully relaxes after his or her tumor or condition is resolved.  Formerly metastatic cells can remain dormant for a long time.  Recent research has shown how they are reawakened. […]

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Funding the Fundamentals of Biomedical Science: The National Institutes of Health in 2025 and Beyond

In the United States, the aim of the Current Administration is to support something called “gold-standard science.”  Their clear implication is that American scientists have been publishing something less than the gold standard – perhaps silver or bronze, or maybe even brass, when gold is the standard of the day (here and here).  We have […]

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