Federal Agencies

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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Back to School
July 28, 2026
Despite the passage of time, the basic medical school curriculum hasn’t changed all that much. A person technically holds the academic title of an allopathic  doctor (MD) as soon as they graduate. However, to actually practice medicine and treat patients independently, they are legally required to complete a residency program, which typically takes anywhere from 3 to 7 years depending ...
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When Narratives Compete
June 25, 2026
We are all storytellers. It’s part of our DNA. It’s how  we share our experiences, our beliefs, form community, and make sense of the world. Some of our early stories proved to be false but considered endearing - Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny. A more sophisticated word for story is narrative. What is a Narrative? Studiobinder.com provides a good definition: A...
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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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Insanity 2.0
May 28, 2026
“In 1962, President Jack Kennedy warned that ‘the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Half a century later, this captures well the pernicious impact of America’s Iran mythology . . . More ominously, they are conditioning the political climate in the U.S. for an eventual war again...
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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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What Is a Whistleblower?
August 15, 2024
While the term whistleblower didn’t really make it into popular use until the 1970s, brave individuals have been reporting corruption and abuse for centuries. A current definition of a whistleblower is “An employee of an organization who reports abuse, fraud, corruption, and/or dangers to public health and safety. These individuals often have to turn to public reporting when internal reporting...
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Doctor, Doctor
May 1, 2023
According to a recent study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation of women ages 18-35, doctor visits aren’t always positive. More than 46% of women said that their health care provider did some of these things: dismissed their concerns, assumed something about them without asking, and blamed them for their health problems. Moving up the ages, menopause “received little attention in clinic...
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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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How One Man Shaped Medicine
August 1, 2024
In 1910, two of the richest men in America – Nelson D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie – hired Abraham Flexner to review medical institutions across North America. The two had questions regarding the quality of the medical teaching facilities in the US and Canada. Despite his non-medical background, focused solely on the classics, Abraham Flexner was chosen for his perceived objectivity. Unlik...
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How Sausage is Made
November 1, 2022
As a kid, I watched my Grandma Rosie make link sausage (all that gross fat and pork). Gross! Remembering that experience, I am thinking about the midterm elections on November 8th. Like who can ignore them? I thought since we have candidates promising us the sun and the moon, it would be a good time to brush up on how our laws are actually made. We’re told there might be new sausage chefs eager ...
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The Catch-22 of US Healthcare
September 5, 2021
I worked in the health insurance industry from 1982 to 1989, with one regrettable relapse. My first job was with an HMO. I actually believed if we provided more preventive services and made care affordable, the health of all Americans would improve. Those were innocent days, before doctors’ practices were owned by venture capitalists, before medicine became Big Pharma, before insurance companies...
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Social In-Security
October 15, 2020
We all face risks to our economic security throughout our lifetime including loss of wages, outliving one’s savings in retirement, and high health care costs at any age. In the US, we claim to meet these and other personal disasters through various social insurance programs – including the Social Security Act of 1935. According to various scholars, the Act was the “foundation on which modern...
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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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