Stefan Schubert reports on a new study showing that low-quality doctors hurt patients and cost all of us a lot of money.
This is why we should train and hire solely on merit, not on anything else. Not on DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). See, further, this article on the importance of merit.. "In Defense of Merit in Science."
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John Lafebre offers this graphic:
This tsunami of "gender-affirming" double-mastectomies of children is one of the most horrific medical scandals in history. It's happening right here and right now in the United Stated. And the fact that corporate media suppresses information regarding this butchery of children is one of the greatest scandals in journalism. From this article by Leon Sapir:
The U.S. is one of the few Western countries where minors can receive gender surgeries, according to a new report. Teens under 18 cannot undergo double mastectomy in Belgium, Finland, Germany, Luxemburg, Sweden, the U.K., and three Canadian provinces. Countries that allow these procedures typically do so only in “rare cases,” after age 16, and with parental consent. In the U.S., WPATH Standards of Care, Version 8, widely followed and endorsed by the Biden administration, specifies no age minimums for gender surgeries, with the exception of phalloplasty (but even that can be performed if “significant, compelling reasons” exist to do so). In June, unsealed court documents revealed that WPATH eliminated age minimums for political reasons, and under pressure from U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, a transgender woman.
This FDA turn-down of MDMA, which will increase American deaths, was purely to keep profits flowing to Big Pharma.
This recent action regaring the use of MDMA for treatment of PTSD barely scratches the surface of how evil and Poweful Big Pharma is. Let's set aside what happened during COVID, for a minute - - that could be a long book, a parade of horrors where American lives were traded for profit. Kelly Means offers this litany, summarized by Ben Swann:
1.) 80% of The American Academy of Pediatrics' funding comes from Big Pharma
2.) 75% of FDA funding comes from pharmaceutical companies, not taxpayers
3.) Big Pharma funds over 50% of all TV news
4.) The healthcare industry provides 5X more funding for political campaigns than the oil industry
5.) The American Diabetes Association accepts millions of dollars from Coca-Cola, and once claimed that, "in small doses, it's a good drink for diabetics."
6.) 11X more funding comes from the food industry for nutritional research than from the NIH
7.) Over 50% of the Harvard Medical School budget touches Big Pharma in some way
8.) 90% of healthcare costs are due to preventable conditions tied to food
9.) 50% of young American adults are overweight or obese
10.) 33% of American adults have prediabetes
11.) 25% of young American adults have Fatty Liver Disease
12.) Meanwhile, the childhood obesity rate in Japan is just 4%
"Every single institution that impacts your health is incentivized for you to be sick, and incentivized against you being healthy."
"There has been no more profitable invention in the history of America than a sick child."
We should be spending a lot more time living normal lives: visiting friends, taking care of our children (and parents) and contributing positively to our communities, but we have a profound collective case of Burridan's Ass. Because advocacy is strongly prevailing over knowledge seeking, we struggle to know what is true in numerous basic ways.
Brett Weinstein warns that this problem is getting worse.
The Cartesian Crisis describes the inability to be sure of anything—scientific claims, the basic facts of historical events, the degree to which a consensus is actually accepted by others. It leads to the collapse of reason itself. But it’s difficult to illustrate with examples because in each case, people immediately get lost in making the case for their best guess at what’s true.Try spending one day resisting conclusions, and concentrating on the quality and consistency of the evidence. Our average level of certainty may be unchanged, but our reason for certainty is at an all time low. If you did this exercise once a month you’d soon know how rapidly the Cartesian Crisis is deepening.
It’s vital that we each halt our descent into this tsunami of uncertainty. Establish an unbreakable bond with someone you have good reason to trust, and discuss your beliefs and the reasons you hold them, regularly and in person. You won’t regret it.
Buridan's ass is an illustration of a paradox in philosophy in the conception of free will. It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass (donkey) that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water. Since the paradox assumes the donkey will always go to whichever is closer, it dies of both hunger and thirst since it cannot make any rational decision between the hay and water.[1] A common variant of the paradox substitutes the hay and water for two identical piles of hay; the ass, unable to choose between the two, dies of hunger.
I'm not being sarcastic. I think that the lack of hands-on know-how is damaging our children. They are not well-prepared for this world by clicking at their laptop computers and using their credit cards to hire other people to do so many of the physical things they need and want.
Thus,this video made my day:
I posted this on FB twice and FB took it down twice because it was "spam." I had merely posted this image with the link to Twitter, along with a comment that I enjoyed seeing this video of a Chinese kindergarten class:
This is the third time this month that FB has deleted my non-spam posts as "spam."
Here's how Facebook defines "Spam":
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