The broken supply chain now leads to an exciting twist as consumers fork over more money for delayed products I thought the above photo was a joke, or perhaps the latest story from the Babylon Bee. But no. I copied it from a friend’s Facebook page. So, let me get…

The “ do as I say and not as I do” policy no longer fools the public As the fourth Covid-19 (Delta variant) wave grips the country, the Federal government daily urges everyone to get vaccinated. How then do you explain that there is no policy mandating employees of the…

Two recent “accicental” cases of miscounting highlight why people don’t trust the media or government The Texas Tribune erroneously reported 5800 children were hospitalized in the state the first week of August. It turns out this number was since the start of the pandemic. That’s not a small error. Yesterday…

Thanks to my surgeon’s pioneering work on non-narcotic pain management, I underwent abdominal surgery with little pain and no narcotics. — Unless you have lived in a cave for the past decade, everyone knows the horrendous cost of narcotic addiction. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost between 1999–2020. Furthermore, one study suggested that about 7% of addicts began their addiction following narcotics prescribed for post-surgical pain. Furthermore, “when extrapolated…

The emergency use authorization for this drug was based upon flawed and limited research by the company that makes it. Last December, the FDA granted emergency use authorization to Pfizer for its oral anti-viral drug, Paxlovid, to treat Covid in high-risk individuals. The claim was the drug was “88% effective…

And worse than that, it can lead to more expensive and even dangerous tests and treatments. — You probably have seen the ads about preventing a heart attack or a stroke with a screening test. This one states, “A heart scan can help you reveal your risk of heart disease and help prevent heart attacks.” While the first part of the sentence may be true, the second…

Resistance to the robotic takeover of our society is futile. A recent headline summed it up for me. I live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, and if you dial 988 now, you reach the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. That’s a good thing. But then I read you could…