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One of the outcomes of the alleged new SARS Covid virus that publicly emerged in 2019 is that the medical specialization of virology has been raised to a stature almost Godlike in the media. Few understand the origins of virology and its...
When fewer doctors possess a working comfort with the full spectrum of reproductive health to begin with, assaults on abortion may seem to many physicians like a lamentable thing happening to some distantly affiliated and dimly imagined professional cousin.
Claiming to have the main goals of eliminating malaria, hookworm and yellow fever, the Rockefeller Foundation, over a century ago, took over the core education and practical application apparatus [...]
Orac note: Congratulations on California and everyone who reads this blog who helped pass SB 277 to protect California's children. Here's hoping Governor Jerry Brown signs the bill! I had a big talk to give this morning that required a massive rewrite of my slide set last night; so there wasn't time for the usual Insolence. Some of you might have seen a different version of this post elsewhere. Some of you might not. Either way, I hope you can enjoy!
New understandings of how disease spread informed Imogene Rechtin's ill-fated 1910 campaign to ban a universal human practice