One of Trump’s more questionable claims he made at the now infamous first presidential debate was that he was driving down medical costs for ordinary Americans. Under his presidency, the 74-year-old New Yorker claimed, diabetes medicine insulin had gone from so expensive that it was “destroying families” to “so cheap it’s like water.” “This is big stuff,” he added.
Eager as we are for a COVID vaccine, we need to be realistic about possible harms - and a plausible timeline.
When someone commits suicide, comorbidities on their death certificate don't mean they didn't kill themselves.
While our 'thought leaders' worried about the elderly in the year 2050, a virus that would kill hundreds of thousands of elderly people this year was spreading like wildfire.
I'm deep diving into a new research project. There's lots to read and lots to learn.
An impressive new book about the shortcomings of scientific research is inadvertently ironic.
Donald Trump speeches. Celebrity tweets. Corporate news repetition. Chaos. Vapidity. Manufactured dissent. Graphic fighting sports.
This is what fills our field of vision. It consumes our thoughts, overflows our brains with anti-intellectual mud. Yet most of these things are the bug splatter across the windshield. They are not the actual highway, the path forward, actually deserving of our focus.
Tall buildings, dependent on elevators, have become precarious investments.
How a safe, well-understood malaria drug was demonized as a COVID-19 treatment. Because a politician said good things about it.
Journalist George Gilder declared the pandemic over in April. Mathematician Isaac Ben-Israel insisted the virus would burn out everywhere 70 days after it began.
