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Cancer treatment in America runs on a simple, brutal economic model: the sicker we stay, the more money gets made. Chemotherapy drugs approved by the FDA in 2012 were priced at over $100,000 per patient per year—eleven out of twelve of them. Some immunotherapy treatments run $15,000 per dose. The cancer industry generates hundreds of…Continue reading They Buried it for COVID. Now They’re Doing It for Cancer
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For decades, as if there are no consequences beyond potential death or dismemberment on the battlefield, our service members are asked to put their bodies on the line. What they aren’t told—what the government has known and consistently failed to disclose—is that the enemy isn’t always on the other side of the battlefield. Sometimes the…Continue reading Serve, Suffer, Submit Your DNA: How America Turned Its Veterans Into a Lifetime Experiment
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We are being watched. Most of us know it on some level, the way we sense a room has cameras before we spot them. What we tend to underestimate—badly—is just how many systems are running simultaneously, how much they already know, and how little any of it required our permission. A thread posted to X…Continue reading No Warrant Required: Eyes Everywhere in Surveillance America
If tech billionaires get their way, we may soon live in a future where children are not simply conceived and born, but are instead manipulated genetically before their first breath. What does this mean? Inherited illness is not merely treated before birth, but is edited out altogether. Think stronger bones, sharper minds, and fewer anxieties.…Continue reading WARNING: CRISPR, Capital, and the Slow Erosion of Human Inheritance
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Apple’s new Digital ID feature has arrived. And in true Apple fashion, it is dressed in the language of ease and convenience. Scan your passport into your iPhone or Apple Watch. Move through TSA with a quick tap. In other words, no wallet, no cards, and no friction. If you listen to Apple, it is…Continue reading Apple’s Quiet Path to Identity Control
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Autism was so rare when Dr. Andrew Wakefield went to medical school that he was not taught about it. Yet today, decades later, one in 31 children has autism. In 1998, as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Dr. Wakefield, whose specialty was inflammatory bowel disease, co-authored a paper published in The Lancet…Continue reading Finally Vindicated: Dr. Andrew Wakefield Was Right All Along
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At its simplest, the word “quack” is a slur that means someone who pretends to have medical skill or knowledge that they don’t actually possess. Merriam-Webster states that a quack is “A pretender to medical skill; one who falsely claims to have knowledge of medicine or to be able to cure a disease.” In today’s…Continue reading The Weaponization of “Quack”: Silencing Dissent in Modern Medicine
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Bill Gates recently published a Gates Notes that sounded less like his characteristic call to arms against devastating climate change and more like a strategic repositioning. In his memo, titled “Three Tough Truths About Climate,” Gates plainly noted the climate crisis he’d preached about and written a book on “will not lead to humanity’s demise”…Continue reading Bill Gates and the Death of His Climate Crisis Agenda
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New research has found that certain medications may affect your gut microbiome for years after you stop taking them. The latest report on how common medications can negatively shape our gut microbiome for decades isn’t a passing detail with little impact. Instead, it is a glaring red flag for how prescription medications might impact our…Continue reading The Lasting Impact of Prescription Drugs on Gut Health
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