Harm Reduction

The folks at City Journal must not be aware of the Rule of Holes, “When you’re in a hole, stop digging.” Their contributors continue to make insupportable, easily disproved claims about the supposed lack of

California’s Proposition 65 (Prop 65) labels are an invasive species across all products and geographies across the US.

The wellness Industry has made a business of scaring people into thinking they are at risk from the benign and mundane.

 

Many of the current nominees for the federal institutions of health, i.e., FDA, CDC, NIH, and HHS, have a checkered past, many being cited as providing false and misleading information during the murky days of COVID.

When Hurricane Helene struck western North Carolina on September 26, 2024, the damage and loss of life were unprecedented – 96 storm-related deaths and at least $53 billion in damages.

“The indigenous peoples of North America, including New England, had a rich history of gambling long before European colonization.

Mark Hahn and I dove into a critical issue: the drug shortages caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

One area where AI has been posited to improve healthcare, although I hasten to add that this has yet to be proven, is diagnostic evaluation, the first and perhaps most consequential step in the “journey” from dis-ease to ease.

This week, Red Lawhern, a long-time friend and writer for ACSH, wrote an article taking the Mayo Clinic and one of its clinicians to task for