America Gets Flunking Grade on Chronic Disease

RFK, Jr. this morning:

Good morning. I got the latest numbers from CDC that 76.4% of Americans now have a chronic disease. This is stunning. My uncle was president was 11% 1950 was 3%. Today it's 76.4%. Eight out of 10 of our kids cannot qualify for military service. This is a national security issue. When my uncle was President, we spent zero on chronic disease. Today we spent $1.3 trillion it's the biggest cost. It's increasing, and all of the arguments that Republicans and Democrats have about single payer Obamacare or the various ways of allocate the health dollars--they're all like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. If we don't end this chronic disease, we are the sickest country in the world. That's why we have to fire people at CDC. They did not do their job. This was their job to keep us healthy. Thank you. I need to fire some of those people to make sure this doesn't happen again.

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About the Creation of the Peer Review Process

Eric Weinstein: "If you screwed up covid this badly by getting inside of the Lancet and Nature. Peer review is this fake thing that supposedly stretches back to the founding of the Royal Society. And it's very clear from the scholarship around it that it comes out of the period between 1965 and 1975 initiated by the Medicare Act, predicated on the need for editors for the journal expansion, founded by Pergamon Press and Robert Maxwell. By 1975 there's a giant battle between the [National Science Foundation] NSF and both fiscal and cultural conservatives against something called “Man: A Course of Study” (MACOS), where peer review was born in a Utah clinic. [It] came out of the medical literature because the federal government in 1965 with The Medicare Act picked up the need to pay for so many medical procedures. They wanted to say "Why are we assigning this many medical procedures?" The doctors circled the wagons and said, "We will peer review each other." Then in night, by 1975 the NSF was under the microscope, and they used peer review as a self defense of last resort to say we will be reviewing each other, right? Peer review is a myth."

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