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With great sadness, I note the loss on October 5th of our longtime friend, Dr. Bruce Ames. ACSH’s Founder, Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, and Dr.

 

In my chat this week with Lars, we covered a range of issues, starting with the World Health Organization (WHO).

Roughly 20% of medical schools have accelerated learning programs designed to graduate physicians in 3 rather than 4 years.

It has been a few centuries now that the powers that be (The Catholic Church) have censored (burned) information about the Earth’s position in relationship to the Sun and placed its controversial and public advocates (Galileo) in spiritual isolati

Sports are a big business in the US. Much has been said about cities spending millions to provide stadiums for their sports franchises. But then there is this. 

I am often most moved in the moment by my current reading, in this instance, Hurari’s Nexus. He discusses fallibility, the opposite of certainty. And then I found this. 

In 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in experimental Physics). It took another sixty years for the second woman to become a Physics Nobel Laureate.

Now that I am four months or so into my Ozempic journey, it is time for an update. Let’s begin with the big goal: weight loss. As I might have predicted, the weight continues to be shed, albeit more slowly.

A decade or so ago, I got to take a tour of one of the Federal Reserve banks; in the vault, there was a massive brass balance that our guide told us could weigh up to 600 pounds of gold (or anything else) to a precision of the weight of a si