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My Briar Patch: Notes of a Country Doctor 

It took me about twenty years after medical school to break free of the intellectual "comfort" afforded by the mechanistic consensus. Read More ›
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For Suicide, Disguised “Public Health” Policies Aren’t the Solution

The authors even suggest regulations controlling the manufacture of ceiling fans because some people have used the mechanisms to hang themselves. Read More ›
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The Technocratic Authoritarians Still Want Their “Pandemic Treaty”

Wouldn’t it all have gone a lot better if, instead of our fellow Americans doing it to us, we’d handed over national sovereignty to an international body? Read More ›
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Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster. Read More ›
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Split-Brain Research Confirms Unity of the Human Mind

The NOVA special’s claim is, “The split brain phenomenon suggests that there can be two separated minds, if you will, inside of a skull.” Read More ›
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For Your Own Good: The Looming Health Authoritarianism

If you want to see what is going to go wrong with society next, read the professional journals. Read More ›
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The Contradiction in Peter Singer’s Worldview

He never provides any reason why rationality, self-consciousness, and the ability to plan the future have any value. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: Are Flaws in Our Design Responsible for Bad Things Happening to Good People?

When I lecture, I typically discuss intelligent design as if it were a near-perfect process creating inexplicably complicated living entities. Read More ›
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We’ve Discovered “Covert Consciousness” — But Now What?

Creighton University Medical School prof Charles Camosy thinks it is time for something like a civil rights movement for people in this state. Read More ›
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A Quarter of Comatose Patients May Be Aware But Unable to Communicate

“Covertly” means that the patients were not able to respond directly but brain activity showed that they understood what was asked of them. Read More ›

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