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Cantors Paradise “Most mathematicians prove what they can, von Neumann proves what he wants” Share If you enjoy this newsletter, please consider supporting future issues by signing up for a paid subscription at $5 per month, which also gives you access to all previous issues. Thanks! It is indeed supremely difficult to effectively refute the claim that John von Neumann is likely the most intelligent person who has ever lived. By the time of his death in 1957 at the modest age of 53, the H...

Food as Medicine: The Answer to Mounting Health Crises Our toxic diet is feeding diseases that cant be cured with drugs that never resolve the underlying problem Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist and professor emeritus at the University of California–San Francisco, has written a number of excellent books about health. His latest, “Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine,” goes deep into the details of how changes in our food supply...

Food as Medicine — The Answer to Mounting Health Crises Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, has written a number of excellent books about health. His latest, “Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine” goes deep into the details of how changes in our food supply have damaged our metabolic health. (The created term “metabolical” is actually a portmanteau of the w...

Future Challenges in Health (Image by Sasint Tiipchai) The future has always been an unknown that is difficult to unravel and has generated different feelings depending on the present state of those who wonder about it. By Jorge Pompei Thus, with regard to health, some see an irreversible process of deterioration in the face of the increase in the age of the population associated with illness and disability. Others, on the other hand, believe that adv...

Can we transform the entire health care system by empowering the roughly 60 percent of patients who are in private health plans? That’s the premise of a new book I just read by Todd Furniss (@TFurniss on Twitter). The author of The 60% Solution: Rethinking Healthcare, believes there are five major reforms necessary to empower patients and help them get better care at better prices. These include: (1) change governance, (2) modify health savings accounts (HSAs), (3) clear prices, (4) standard...

Thompson listens as public health officials implore Black people to move beyond their skepticism and have faith in medical ingenuity. Thompson sees Black doctors, like John Wesley Patton III, enthusiastically publicize the moment they get vaccinated and stress the importance of inoculation. The suffering the deadly virus inflicts is “no joke,” the anesthesiologist wrote in a January Instagram caption. “Trust science. Don’t lose hope. Stay together. We’re gonna get through this.” But...

June 6, 2013 In case your wondering why the term “Medical Mafia” is used occasionally to describe the unholy trinity of AMA ( American Medical Association), FDA ( Food and Drug Administration), and Big Pharma, here’s a brief historical summary. But first, important to note that I’m not against allopathic medicine. It’s very appropriate for physical trauma from injuries,emergency situations, and can be useful for various ailments. I am against the tyrannical monopoly they enforce wit...

useful for the police to get into that. what effect would have been if the network had been blocked in some way deck? >> that has been a matter of debate. i have contemplated seeking the authorities to switch it off. the legality of that is very questionable. it is also very useful intelligence. it is a massive amount of information and some of it is quite wrong and rather silly. as a result of that, we did not request that it was turned off. >> blackberry and had offered to cooperate ...