This was triggered by a post over at our long-term friendly-rival blog, LGM. That post, in turn, was triggered by something stupid that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said recently. What Kennedy said: he thinks his distinctive hoarse, raspy voice is “spasmodic dysphonia”, which he suspects may have been caused by taking flu vaccines for years. […]
HealthCare
In the film Belén, released earlier this year, a woman suffering from incapacitating stomach cramps...
In his latest broadside, amateur poet (and Health and Human Services Secretary) Robert F. Kennedy...
Contrary to the beliefs of some in the anti-vaxx world, infectious diseases spread through bacteria...
I’m in the midst of doing research, teaching, and outreach activities on a set of questions around economic growth and its relationship to what we value. My research team has Tim Jackson visiting tomorrow, who will give a talk on postgrowth economics and also talk a bit about his new book, The Care Economy. The […]
Hello again from our current public health clusterfuck, in which COVID infections continue to rise...
The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists,...
“They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle, and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan.” — a White House official. I’ve been a USAID contractor for most of the last 20 years. Not a federal employee; a contractor. USAID does most […]
If, like me, you follow Ones and Tooze, you will know that Adam recently had heart surgery. It was a big deal. Luckily, America has some of the best surgeons in the world, to whom only a small handful of Americans have access – but Adam Tooze is one of them. In the episode dedicated […]
(Hi all, wonderful to become part of this great blog! But now, directly on to some content!) Imagine that you have a toothache, and a visit at the dentist reveals that a major operation is needed. You phone your health insurance. You listen to the voice of the chatbot, press the buttons to go through […]