Medicine Is Under-Politicised in the UK
A further discussion of how societal problems that impact medicine and health policy are largely kept out of political discourse.
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MAHA Three Card Monte? Decision to Axe Advisory Groups Could Spell Trouble for US Food Safety
Concerns that RFK Jr.’s MAHA may set back food safety, particularly with regard to pathogens.
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...Neoliberalism and a Healthy Population Are Incompatible
It can’t be said often enough that neoliberalism is unhealthy for children and other living things.
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...Labour Is Becoming the Enemy of the Vulnerable and the Disabled
Labour goes all in for cutting social spending, first for the disabled, almost certainly with the excuse that it’s needed to fund rearming.
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...Where Did U.S. Public Health Go Wrong?
How good coordination of public health with private medical practice never came together in the US and got worse in recent decades.
Read more...Checking In on the Democrats’ Search for the “Good Billionaires”
What role is elite reconciliation under Trump playing in the Democrats’ silence on the looting of country? And in the meantime, where shall the rest of us turn?
Read more...With RFK Jr. in Charge, Supplement Makers See Chance To Cash In
Why dietary supplement fans should be worried about RFK, Jr.’s plan to weaken their already lax regulation.
Read more...COVID-19 in Context: A Retrospective View
A look at the state of knowledge when Covid-19 started its spread, and some of the questionable choices made despite that.
Read more...Pain Clinics Made Millions From ‘Unnecessary’ Injections Into ‘Human Pin Cushions’
“It’s not fraud; it’s a fact of life.”
Read more...‘Make America Healthy Again’ by Transforming Animal Agriculture
Will RFK, Jr., tackle the many health-harming the practices around industrial animal farming?
Read more...KLG: The Engineering Ideal in Biology and Its Utility or Disutility
How the engineering ideal in biology, already taken further than is realistic, has become a foundation for the quest for eternal life.
Read more...KLG: “If the Overhead Cuts to NIH and NSF Grants Go Through Without Changes, Academic Biomedical and Other Research in the US Will Crumble into Dust”
Why the Musk attack on NIH and NSF funding formulas will eviscerate US medical research.
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