Big Pharma

Anthony Fauci – The Covid-19 Pandemic
August 27, 2026
In November of 2003, Anthony Fauci received a copy of a CIA report titled “The Darker Bioweapons Future,” which warned that pathogens could be genetically engineered to be dangerous. Almost two decades later, COVID-19 became an infectious disease caused by the virus SARS-COV-2. Initially discovered in Wuhan, China, by late 2019, the first U.S. case of COVID-19 was reported in the state of Wash...
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Anthony Fauci – The AIDS Epidemic
August 25, 2026
There is an old saying that “a leopard can't change its spots." And when it’s applied to human behavior, the phrase refers to how a person rarely changes their basic nature and personality. This phrase reminded me of Dr. Anthony Fauci who is back in the news for his starring role in the Covid pandemic. For some people, his leading role in the AIDS epidemic will come as new information and surp...
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Vaccines – Part Two
June 12, 2026
Before we explore vaccines in the “modern era,” it would be helpful to determine what makes a competent scientist? These four elements are considered guiding principles: 1. Do not be swayed by unverified information; base scientific discussions on peer-reviewed evidence. 2. Acknowledge uncertainty in origin theories but remain cautious of interpretations driven by ideology or political a...
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Vaccines – Part One
May 15, 2026
Today’s blog post is about vaccines that were first named by Edward Jenner in a 1798 pamphlet. He was referring to the “smallpox of the cow” or cowpox. To quote from the 2025 book Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality by Dr. Peter McCullough and John Leake, “His proposal for inoculation with a weak form of disease-causing matter to prevent serious illness became the central concept of...
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The Medicalization of Health
April 10, 2026
The way the human body is constructed, pairs of body parts are obvious. If you start at the top, we have two of most everything down to our two feet. The relationship between the pairs is also well documented. If you break a leg, the other one does double duty but both legs will need to heal – one from the break, the other from the overtime. These supportive relationships – shoulders, hands...
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Let’s Make a Deal
October 28, 2025
I believe that saying what you think without self-censoring in order not to offend someone has never advanced a person’s sense of self. I also believe that people can respectfully disagree on important topics and remain colleagues and friends. Maybe one way to do this is to find commonality before simply discarding the other person. But, these days, that has been lost to righteously choosing a s...
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Déjà vu – All Over Again
August 26, 2025
I haven’t thought about Yogi Berra in years and then I read Celia Farber’s reissued book Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS andYogi’s famous saying came to mind. Why the famous saying? I briefly worked as a contracted Marketing Director for my former boss who was running an HMO. Since I was in a financial dilemma, I took the job and told myself that maybe I could make a...
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Thank You
August 6, 2025
It’s been awhile since I wanted to thank a member of Congress. I imagine that I’m like many Americans, tired of this “august body” ignoring what Americans say they want or need. I haven’t seen a poll that says Americans want forever wars and government corruption.  But recently,  Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, held a significant...
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The WHO Debate
July 23, 2025
If it hadn’t been for Covid-19 and the role the World Health Organization played in mandates, lockdowns, and the vaccines, this specialized UN agency might not be in the news. As a result of the Trump administration, a sharpened focus is on the attempt of the WHO to take primacy over individual nation states when/if another pandemic occurs. But first, a quick reminder of WHO’s history. WHO�...
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Witness to a Crime
May 15, 2025
In 1981, I spent the summer in the remote village of Kapenguria, Kenya, working toward my master’s degree in health administration. I’ve written about that life-changing experience in my memoir, The Red Kitchen, and elsewhere. One of my assignments was to create the local hospital’s first census plus work in their Women’s Health Center.  Wandering around the village center one day, I ...
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Hold That Pill
November 15, 2024
“If you think your doctors prescribe medications for you on the basis of their unbiased judgment and objective medical research, Carl Elliott’s book, White Coat – Black Hat, will disabuse you of that old-fashioned notion. In his superb exposé, Elliott shows how the big drug companies have bribed and corrupted the medical establishment so that we no longer know which drugs are effective or w...
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100 Million People
July 15, 2022
I thought I’d read it wrong when I saw this heading in a recent posting from Kaiser Health News (KHN). I looked again and saw that the full title of the well-researched article was as follows: “100 Million People in America Are Saddled with Health Care Debt.” This is slightly less than one-third the estimated population in 2022. This 100 million includes 41% of adults “beset by a health ca...
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PE – Not Your Gym Class
June 15, 2022
Do you remember when the health insurance wordsmiths came up with “patient-centered care?” Like, who else was being treated? Martians? Now, we have yet another turn of phrase - “profit-centered care.” The latest is private equity (PE) companies acquiring hospitals, doctors, clinics, rehab centers, nursing homes, emergency rooms, and anything else remotely related to give investors a “hea...
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Symptomology
September 29, 2020
As some of you know, I’m working on a hybrid—part memoir and part how to get us off our collective ass and provide affordable, accessible healthcare to our people. The biggest barrier is that all we read and talk about are the symptoms—not the disease. This is like hearing an odd noise coming from under the hood of your car. You drive to your regular automotive shop and the son of the boss w...
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“Question Authority” Returns
April 17, 2025
In the 1960s, Timothy Leary, a well-known figure of the counterculture,  popularized many catchphrases like the one above.  It’s message was meant to raise doubts about the Vietnam War among other issues. In 2024, according to Marty Markary, M.D. we need to once again reexamine our assumptions about some medical beliefs. In his most recent book, Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wr...
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