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London Izabella-Ryén Gadd was just 12 years old when she died. She was a bright, empathetic, and deeply loved young girl who locked arms with her mom when they walked together and felt everything more deeply than most. Looking back at her life, it is clear that London was not a broken child. When she…Continue reading Not Broken, Betrayed: How the System Killed 12-Year-Old London Gadd
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Nobody in their right mind would seriously defend the puppy mill operations that exist in the United States. Yet, like so many other seemingly well-intentioned causes captured by the nonprofit industrial complex (which, let’s not forget, often profits from a problem rather than solving it), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals…Continue reading The Puppy Mill Industrial Complex
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As of 2022, one in four emergency departments in the United States was staffed by a private equity-owned physician group. That figure is likely higher today, given the rapid pace of acquisitions since then. Here is an example. When ER physicians arrived for work at Valley Health in Winchester, VA, on April 2nd, they had…Continue reading The Private Equity Takeover of America’s Emergency Rooms
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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In America, infants are dying at a rate of around 1,300 to 4,500 per year, depending on the reporting source. Lives ended suddenly, unexplained, with the greater medical system appearing to be okay with it, as evidenced by their lack of deeper investigation into the ‘syndrome.’ Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has long haunted parents…Continue reading The Evolving Lens on SIDS: From Mystery to Focus on CDC’s Schedule
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Make no mistake. The skies above us are no longer guaranteed to be blue and soothing. They have and will continue to become the battlefield of the future. When the so-called “contrails” behind jets are finally openly discussed as more than mere condensation—indeed, as sulfur dioxide being injected into the stratosphere—we must all open our…Continue reading Geoengineering: Above Our Heads, Against Our Will
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