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In the days since Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Senate hearing and the accompanying 1,100-page document dump, we’ve learned some revealing facts about the man who spearheaded America’s pandemic response.
On July 29, Americans did not witness a serious examination of how the COVID-19 pandemic began. They witnessed the culmination of a story years in the making.
The recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Monsanto v.
From time immemorial, there has been a morbid fascination with conversing with those who have passed to the hereafter.
Join Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and Cam English on the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:
Medical panic often begins with the aesthetics of mathematics. It arrives coated in charts, percentages, thresholds, risk scores, and trend lines, all carrying the aura of objectivity and rigor.
The government’s misguided attempt to address the opioid overdoses did more than change prescribing practices. It changed the relationship between doctors and patients, and not for the better.
