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“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” -Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman. Healthcare has become a field dominated by so-called experts.  Self-declared “experts” are typically academic doctors who claim to be sufficiently prestigious that we should trust them blindly.  Either they disregard the need to provide any data since they are experts, or their studies are pharmaceutically financed, poor quality, restrictive as to who is being studied, and uti

Although fully normalized in our society, the idea of equating disease to numerical abnormalities has little precedence in healthcare and virtually no evidence of efficacy.  It does distill complex medical illness into simplistic numerical categories, and in this way it feeds people’s cognitive needs to sidestep the nuanced and complex face of illness, while providing the medical industrial complex a facile way of creating disease, increasing profit, and selling a deceptive m

“Healthy is an outfit that looks different on everyone.” “It’s not just about losing the weight.  It’s about losing the lifestyle and mindset that got you there.” Many people seek to lose weight.  Some are truly overweight, some are tinged by a society that values skinny over chubby, some simply feel uncomfortable in their own skin.  But, despite so many attributions to the contrary, weight loss is not always a path to better health.  People with cancer and severe chronic ill

“Tranquility can’t be grasped except by those who have reached an unwavering and firm power of judgment—the rest constantly fall and rise in their decisions, wavering in a state of alternatively rejecting and accepting things.  What is the cause of this back and forth?  It’s because nothing is clear and they rely on the most uncertain guide—common opinion.” -Seneca Medical science is typically no more than opinion, crafted by those who profit most by the proliferation of mani

“Drug companies have been allowed to market hundreds of prescription drugs to doctors and sell them to unsuspecting patients despite...

“Basically, many researchers are claiming that they have proved something to be true, but all they have actually done is to manipulate...

“The pharmaceutical industry, from 1999 to 2018, spent $4.7 billion on lobbying expenditures at the federal level, more than any other...

Sadly, over the past few years, healthcare has become politicized, creating dangerous and misleading binaries pitting one side against...

“The truth is it’s a low tier, low credibility piece of trash observational study that belongs in the trash basket. You can learn...

Many people in the practice have asked for new weight loss drugs, some have started them, some have stopped. While we completely...

When you go to the hospital and you are older, it is likely they'll draw labs for a heart attack. You may be dizzy, may have a bad cold,...

“Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the...

“both doctors and pharmacists were succumbing to the alure of commercialism and thus became unreliable allies for the ‘intelligent’...

“Since fear precedes and forestalls knowledge and reflection, it is quite useless to try and convince the frightened with rational...

“The mark of an effective vaccine is not that it prevents mild illness, but rather that is lowers your chance of severe illness,...

For the past year a large contingent of concerned doctors and medical groups inveighed against the FDA’s preliminary decision to approve...

Our videos and the most recent newsletter explore various aspects of health screening, assessing the risks and benefits of tests such as...

In our recent newsletter, from December 2022, we highlight cancer screening and discuss a new study that touts the life saving magic of a...

“Doc, what’s my cholesterol, all of it, the LDL, HDL, ratio, the whole thing?” This is a common question; inquiring people want to know! ...

As physicians we are often asked to be your source of knowledge, to sift through the medical nonsense spewed out by alleged "experts," by...