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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
A historic shift in the field of mental health has just happened. Decades of failed therapies mixed with dangerous and ineffective pharmaceutical drugs have just been met with a disruptive event with far-reaching significance. A new Executive Order from the White House reads: “Psychedelic drugs, including ibogaine compounds, show potential in clinical studies to address…Continue reading NOW: White House Greenlights Psychedelic Therapies for Mental Health Disorders
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Nobody asked the people living within six miles of an AI data center whether they wanted to be warmer. Nobody asked the deer, the pollinators, the soil, or the migratory birds either. Nope. They didn’t get a vote. A new study has put numbers to something that was hiding in plain sight. Researchers analyzed more…Continue reading Hot Data: What the AI Boom Is Doing to the Land Around Us
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An 84-year-old woman wakes up in excruciating back pain. An ambulance rushes her to Vancouver General Hospital. She is frightened, hurting, and barely settled into the emergency room when the first physician approaches her. Before any diagnosis. Before any treatment plan. Before so much as a scan. The very first words out of the doctor’s…Continue reading The Quiet Kill: How Assisted Suicide Became a Growth Industry
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For those who still need proof that the pharmaceutical industry views human health as a commodity and patients as revenue streams, a new review published in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics just handed it to you—documented, sourced, and damning. The study abstract declared: “Reported bribes amounted to about US $12.6 million, with sanctions exceeding…Continue reading Nineteen Companies. Twenty-One Investigations. Zero Admissions of Wrongdoing.
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For decades, an increasingly unhealthy American public has been handed the same story. The human body is fragile, complicated, and largely dependent on medical intervention to function properly. Got a problem? Hold on, there’s a drug for that. Feeling run down? Probably a deficiency. Something more serious? Here’s a lifelong prescription. What we haven’t been…Continue reading Your Body Was Never Broken. That Was the Point.
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“Life is what happens when you’re making plans. This is one of those stories.” That’s how Del Bigtree introduced Ed Clay during a recent conversation on The HighWire, and it’s hard to think of a better way to describe the path that led Clay from professional fighting to running a regenerative medicine hospital. The Nashville-born…Continue reading Ed Clay’s Hardest Fight: Former MMA Fighter Steps Into One of Medicine’s Most Controversial Frontiers
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