And don’t forget what was prior to those things—sanitation, clean water, hygiene, refrigeration—that vaccines take most of the credit for. Milk pasteurization started because of very high infant mortality caused by filthy dairies in crowded cities with cows being fed distillery waste, and sick people milking cows with dirty hands. Raw milk from grass fed cows in the countryside was not responsible. Mandatory pasteurization created the consolidation of the dairy industry, taking control away from farmers. Just an example how a public health measure that had good intentions morphed into more power and profits for a large industry. They don’t want back yard chickens and people buying raw milk from farmers because decentralization deprives Big Ag of profits. Public Health works for large corporations, not the public.
Anything with the word Big/Large translates to Corrupt, Out of Touch, Greedy, Manipulative, Out of Control, Probably Narcissistic in governments and corporations.
And how long was Big Tobacco enabled to hide the fact that smoking caused cancer, heart disease and strokes? I find it interesting that the most destructive invisible threat to mankind is the one that is never talked about - supernatural Evil. If you want to truly understand the propagation of fear in the world that enables governments to control people, then you must begin with Satan. "Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil. Our battle is NOT (italics added) against human forces but against the principalities and powers, the rulers of this world of darkness, the evil spirits in regions above. You must put on the armor of God if you are to resist on the evil day (current times??); do all that your duty requires, and hold your ground. Stand fast, with the truth as the belt around your waist, justice as your breastplate, and zeal to propagate the gospel of peace as your footgear." (Ephesians 6:11-15).
Now we need to cease attacks on alternative medicine, like herbalism, homeopathy, chiropractic, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Bowen technique, etc. It seems the more people reach out for alternative treatments, the more strictures are put on them.
I love this stack, and title, Docs Malone. "The Absurdity of Public Health".
You're point about cigarettes yes. My Dad passed years ago, due to his smoking habit and I'm sure it didn't help his lungs, to have been exposed to God knows what, during his WWII job as a crew of a big gun. Aluminum powders and such, he likely inhaled, along with the cigarettes they threw into his foxholes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_explosives_used_during_World_War_II
So, a Big Win, but ish. The Truths about cigarettes, has not been permitted to be thoroughly researched. We Must allow scientists to have the freedom, and the tools needed, to discover and prove, WHY.
The WHY will expose the Evil Ones too much. They are VERY afraid of us, doing so!
Link, Dr. Chris Exley. Title, "Killing Us Softly, Part 1" 2024- "What is it in tobacco or in the act of smoking which is damaging to health? These are the enigmas of smoking tobacco which have remained largely unanswered. We are interested in the myriad ways that humans are exposed to aluminium in everyday life. Intriguingly one such way is smoking tobacco and the main reason for this is the presence of significant amounts of aluminium in tobacco." https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/killing-us-softly-part-1/comments#comment-55427501
Perversely, sugar and a happy accident (for big tobacco) led to the popularization of smoking. In one of his books Taubes (or somebody he quotes) claims that early tobacco was too harsh to draw into the lungs, limiting its popularity. At some point, a batch of chewing terbaccy (which is cured with sugar) was mixed in with the smokable kind, and the result was found to be less harsh. This eventually led to mass popularity of cigarettes and millions of early deaths, including (IMO) my father’s about 20-30 years before his time, if his non-smoking parents and siblings’ lifespans were any measure.
And just now, Dr. Chris Exley, stacked another, hitting squarely also, this same Absurdity target! His explains a Rejected "study", that was just published, despite it's a crap study! Of course the topic, aluminum adjuvants in childhood vaccines.
Many of us born before 1954 remember a very different America. We were raised before every headline became an emergency, before every disagreement became a crisis, and before fear became one of the most profitable industries in the world. We grew up in a time when people solved problems face to face, trusted their instincts, worked hard, raised families, and understood that life itself always carried risk. Yet somehow society was stronger, not weaker.
Today, many governments, corporations, and media organizations have discovered that fear creates obedience. A frightened population is easier to control, easier to divide, and easier to profit from. Fear sells pharmaceuticals, fear wins elections, fear grows bureaucracies, and fear convinces free people to surrender freedoms little by little while believing it is for their own protection.
The older generation remembers something important: human beings are far more resilient than modern systems want us to believe. We survived without being told to panic every hour of the day. We understood that common sense, family, faith, community, and personal responsibility mattered more than endless regulations created by people far removed from everyday life.
The great awakening happening today is not about politics alone. It is about people beginning to recognize how often fear has been used as a tool. Younger generations are starting to ask questions. They are realizing that constant anxiety is not normal, and that freedom requires courage. The path forward is not hatred or violence, but awareness, education, critical thinking, and refusing to surrender independent thought.
We must teach younger generations to question narratives respectfully, to value truth over propaganda, and to understand that governments should serve the people — not rule through fear. Real power returns to the people when citizens stop reacting emotionally to every manufactured crisis and start thinking calmly, independently, and courageously.
Fear loses its power the moment people recognize it for what it is.
I remember when I was in my late 20s, living alone in my apartment, watching a news segment on tv. At one point, I said out loud to the news reporter, "Just give me the facts. I'll decide how much emotion I want to attach to the story". It was this mindset that helped me see through all of the horses--t that was being heaped on populations everywhere from the outset of covid. It was also what kept me from rolling up my sleeve for an unnecessary, poorly & inadequately tested, experimental injection. I questioned every single aspect of what was being advised & implemented, from the masks, social distancing, plexiglass-glass partitions, business closures, home-schooling, quarantining, & everything else associated with covid. All of it was not only completely unnecessary, but insane. Those whom I fully expected would see through all of the nonsense, did not. It has pretty much shattered my confidence in any & all health care professionals as well as our federal health agencies & "experts". I now trust only myself. Period.
It is my opinion that most if not all experts are self appointed. Had sequenced retrovirlal RNA on my dissertation research and was brought on to do same with
sea urchin small nuclear RNA (snRNA) on a post-doc. My new boss was told by some experts in the field that snRNA had too tight a 2ndary structure to be sequenced. Luckily he let me go ahead and try and 4 pubs and an atta boy from the agency on his grant renewal proved those experts wrong. That experience left me wary of expert opinion.
Yes!! My moment was when a series of Detroit high school shootings were in the local news most every night. I was watching 5o'clock news as typical for me, a reporter covering the latest shoved a mic into the crying face of a girl who had just lost her best friend and said "how do you feel about this?" I turned it off, and haven't watched trad news in 30+ years.
Thank you, William. I remember those days. However, I still remember hiding under my desk in case an atomic bomb was dropped on our school. This would have been in the late 1940s. I believe the 24/7 news cycle and internet is creating great anxiety in our lives. Too quick to jump on a story being pushed by those who want us to be afraid.
Victor, did you grow up in South Florida? I remember the Cuban missile crisis and being drilled to get under our desks in the event of a nuclear bomb blast. My skeptical science teacher pulled no punches explaining why that was a stupidly useless exercise.
The feminization of our culture has had a lot to do with that. Not pc to say, but truth sometimes hurts. I remember being hectored by some suburban harridan for roller blading without a helmet. Ostensibly I was "setting a bad example for the children." Good grief but these hags are insufferable.
Vic grew up in Flint MI. Dianne is the writer. My early school years were in Seattle WA, then to Flint where we met. Yes, I’m sure this went on all over the US. Good for your science teacher telling the truth.
I used to give presentations on relative risks. More than 300 Americans die every year falling off ladders. Around 70 die from bee stings. Around 60 from lightning strikes. And my favorite: an average of 7 per year die from pulling vending machines over onto themselves. Useful to know when the Panicans start clamoring...
My favorite quip, which at least sounds plausible, is: You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. Well, that’s probably true in North America and Europe. But there are plenty of parts of the world where the snakes, spiders and much else are just a wee bit more toxic.
I knew a guy who was pretty messed up from wolf spider bites. He fell through a rotten floor in an old house in Earth, TX and got bites that necrotized and never healed.
My concluding line at the risk presentations was that life was full of risks and tradeoffs, we had to take the responsibility to inform ourselves and act accordingly.
The new Hippocratic oath? “ First do no harm, unless it benefits you and instills fear in the populace”. Edit. If we let the sociopaths like those of the WEF have their way.
In the late 1980s I worked for the United States public health service. You are very correct it is absurd.. that is not to say that it does not accomplish some beneficial outcomes, but the cost of producing those outcomes is laughable.
I am 84 (going on 102) and having,developed an early interest in science have paid,close attention disease reports. And I can say with some certainty that both cancer and autoimmune disease incidence has greatly increased within the last 50 or so yrs. Suspect both conditions result from the immune system being severely compromised by the environment.
How do you define "the environment"? The natural world, or the social, economic, technical world? I suspect we suffer as a nation from the latter far more than former!
In my education foray, previously endowed with a B.A., M.S. (physiology), and M.D. (anesthesiologist, board certified), I found myself in law school. In my naiveté, failed to recognize the potentially lethal (to reason and critical thinking) forces to which I was exposing myself; I was already "overeducated", one might say, yet I began law school 1985 and eventually was taking advanced classes in health law. The profs teaching health law were not resident at the law school, but rather at the school of public health of the same university. The ethos of the place shocked me from the moment I walked in the door. "WE know best" exuded from every assertion, of which there were legion and mostly unrelated to health; hubris reigned supreme and its domain was by no means limited to issues relating to "health". The word "communist" kept bubbling up in my consciousness. Early on I recalled Milton Friedman's assertion that the state will first restrict individual liberty through its control (by financing ever more of it) of "health" "insurance". Like "safety", "health" is an infinitely expandable concept. All the way back in 1985 - when I started law school - it was bedrock creed in schools of public health that anything and everything should be controlled to promote "health". The eminent faculty, of course, defined "health" by fiat. BTW, it is worth recalling the basic definition of "insurance". Insurance is merely a contract whereby one party (the company) agrees to reimburse another (the subscriber), should a covered RISK materialize, in return for payment of premiums. Here, again, the expansion of the very definition of the meaning of "insurance" has allowed near infinite growth of state control of "public health". Much of ordinary care is not a risk requiring indemnification. It gets right to the heart of socialism. Infinite "needs" for possible "health care" meets finite resources. My unlimited health "care" must be paid with finite Other Peoples' Money (OPM). Captures the beating heart of modern America, wouldn't you say?
Wow, so that was your take of a law school 40+ years ago? While it gets off the topic a bit, consider the recent drama in Virginia with the dirty tricks the Democrats almost got away with in their redistricting push. Next, consider that [checks Google] about one in seven State representatives is an attorney, about half the rate of the U.S. Congress. A lot of other elected officials come from similar academic backgrounds. The Federal judiciary, even the Supreme Court, now has an ample supply of dim bulbs and/or openly radical judges. I'm sure many State judiciaries are even worse.
The Leftist indoctrination is pervasive, and you can already see the results in the daily press. It’s daily depressing, for many of us! Not only in Virginia, many high state government officials are openly violating their own laws or at least procedures and traditions. Is this revolution, incompetence, a combination?
This behavior permeates government. Not just public health. Just drive around your town and you will see lunacy directed by “the experts.” Consider an infamous “Y” intersection in our town known for its spectacular traffic accidents. “Something had to be done,” and so “the experts” were brought in. They studied the problem for years, at exorbitant expense, and then decided that a traffic circle (the fad in urban planning at the time) was needed. So, more expensive design, planning, and regulatory study was performed by more “experts.” Then after two years of construction, multiple millions in construction cost, and the predictable project creep, the monstrosity was completed. All of the normal residents, the non-experts asked why we didn’t just make the “Y” intersection into a “T” intersection and add a traffic light. My response to all these sorts of foolishness: “God save us from the experts !!!”
In a similar vein, the famous quote: "If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."— Henry David Thoreau
Well said! Dr. Gary Null in his book Death by medicine lays it out well and that was 20 years ago and nobody is listening! What grabs me is the continued lack of addressing the root cause of C-Diff which kills at least 30,000 Americans each year. Hospitals are the reservoir for the bacteria and their spores and the issue is not addressed. Lost a good friend to the aggressive antibiotic treatment in the hospital who failed to warn!
Senator Rand Paul had a key CIA whistleblower testify today in DC about the managed Covid crisis. . Important event. Needs wide spread dissemination. Sadly, the Democrats see it politically and not as major flaw in how the Federal government functions.
Fire half the staff right now, and tell the balance to focus on top three causes of death using the savings in payroll to supercharge the effort or they can join those let go.
That’s what a good ceo would demand if it were private money with a goal to meet
Just like our government converged on Nikola Tesla’s “free electricity for the world” extensive testing paperwork after his death and whisked them away never to be seen by public eyes, I bet the decades long work on cancer cures have been squirreled away in some box in a dark basement and all because someone does not want to lose the MASSIVE income from charging the public for electricity and, so too, endless cancer treatments. I sincerely believe there IS a cure for cancer but too many are filthy rich just “treating” cancer and are milking this cash cow at the expensive of peoples’ lives. I have no proof, but I no longer give to cancer research companies. They have received plenty from me over the decades with no “cures” to boast about.
Another example…… of population control……when I was a kid, Los Angeles started digging to prepare for a subway under the city to deal with the mass transportation needs. The red trolley lines that existed along the roads were then dug up and stopped also. All work was stopped on the tunnels and never finished. The tunnels were purchased by someone in the auto industry in order to encourage the population to buy cars! We have massive traffic issues now, and L.A. has trolleys again and some subway, but look how we were manipulated into buying cars. Throughout our lives, if you look closely, and think reasonably, you can see how we have been “herded like cattle” all for the greed of a few. These people have no remorse and no conscience, and once they are gone from this earth, unfortunately, others will take their place…..
I think one of the "cures" for cancer lies within the psyche. How we feel about ourselves, self-talk, fear, diet (of course) pure air, water and soil would help also. Edgar Cayce once said that a person who hates his neighbor most likely would have heart issues. All the major organs are affected by more than one influence, do you think so too, Barbara?
Once read a tract re cancer outcomes and mental outlook. The most survivors were thise who fought it tooth and nail, determined not to lose. The,2nd best were those who managed to banish it from consciousness and plug on following instructions as surrogate responders. Cannot remember the 3rd but the 4th were,those who surrendered to the disease. My step dad had bladder cancer and fell into the 2nd caragory, at least until a Medicade assugned nurse made it a point if convincing him we was a cancer patient. Did such a fpgood job of convincing him he began to have continuous,tremors and died that nite.
Dr. Malone, your first paragraph about 'the Medical System in the USA says it all. The behemoth of illness in our nation is systemic and interlocking; big Govt holds hands with big Ag, non-elected financial interests, and Pharma's all consuming penchant for total control. It's a 4-headed beast. Not until the 'sleeping giant' (citizens) wakes up and says NO! will air, land, skies, food, H2O be free & clean again. Medical statesmen like yourselves have been a boon to shaking the apathy out of a listless, passive nation. I'm proud to have you & Dr. Jill on the side of truth-tellers and clear-thinking visionaries for a better tomorrow. 👍
Greetings from Michigan's Thumb Coast. Still cold! Still windy! Tree tops bowing up and down! Spring indeed, more like early-mid March, not mid-May!
Dr. Malone's "The Absurdity of Public Health" is yes, indeed "theater," THEATER OF THE Absurd," a genre absolutely unique! "Waiting for Godot" by comparison, is trivial!
As to "private" health care, I do not see too much difference between public and private in these times. Oh, yes, there are a few and far between in the private sector who respect patients as individuals and treat them accordingly. My recent experiences through the last five years have taught me otherwise. We are a "diagnosis" or a "case," allotted 15 minutes, a time slot ear-marked for making money, prescribed a shot or series of shots or given a prescription and dismissed, to make way for the next ""case" and charged for the fifteen-minute time slop! Reminds me of military dependent medical care: in one instance, we were justled into curtained 'stalls (no privacy), then a corps person would move from stall to stall, carrying a clipboard, repeating the same question to each female (yes, ob/gyn), "Do you have any questions for the doctor?" "If not, no talking to him."
On one occasion, the assigned practitioner asked me how many pregnancies and how many live births?' I responded, "Orders, sir; I am not allowed to talk to you!" Taken aback somewhat, he assured me I was allowed to speak, so I gave him the information. I would have enjoyed being the fly on the wall following that circuit of rotation - or, maybe not! Slainte!
The only big win for the reduction of disease in the past 50 years -has had nothing to do with medicine.
It has been that people have stopped smoking, which has reduced heart disease, strokes, and cancer.
-legislation that altered incentives, public messaging, litigation exposure, and advertising access rather than by banning cigarettes outright.
-Massive cultural change
-Litigation against tobacco companies
-Workplace smoking bans
-Insurance incentives
-State and local restrictions
-Social stigmatization
-The gradual disappearance of smoking from elite culture and media
And don’t forget what was prior to those things—sanitation, clean water, hygiene, refrigeration—that vaccines take most of the credit for. Milk pasteurization started because of very high infant mortality caused by filthy dairies in crowded cities with cows being fed distillery waste, and sick people milking cows with dirty hands. Raw milk from grass fed cows in the countryside was not responsible. Mandatory pasteurization created the consolidation of the dairy industry, taking control away from farmers. Just an example how a public health measure that had good intentions morphed into more power and profits for a large industry. They don’t want back yard chickens and people buying raw milk from farmers because decentralization deprives Big Ag of profits. Public Health works for large corporations, not the public.
Anything with the word Big/Large translates to Corrupt, Out of Touch, Greedy, Manipulative, Out of Control, Probably Narcissistic in governments and corporations.
We watch old episodes of Perry Mason. The ubiquity of smoking is stunning.
And everyone was skinny - we swapped out comfort smoking for comfort eating.
Perhaps because unhealthy diets provided Pharma Fodder at an earlier age.
Just look at the films of all the draftees in 1941. They all ate animal fats and not a fatty among them.
Same with the more modern Mad Men. (For fairness, it was set in the sixties.)
And how long was Big Tobacco enabled to hide the fact that smoking caused cancer, heart disease and strokes? I find it interesting that the most destructive invisible threat to mankind is the one that is never talked about - supernatural Evil. If you want to truly understand the propagation of fear in the world that enables governments to control people, then you must begin with Satan. "Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil. Our battle is NOT (italics added) against human forces but against the principalities and powers, the rulers of this world of darkness, the evil spirits in regions above. You must put on the armor of God if you are to resist on the evil day (current times??); do all that your duty requires, and hold your ground. Stand fast, with the truth as the belt around your waist, justice as your breastplate, and zeal to propagate the gospel of peace as your footgear." (Ephesians 6:11-15).
The same people who railed against tobacco are now proselytizing for marijuana.
And they CAN, because the Corrupt Cabal never allowed the science to happen, and then expose, the Whys.
I told you that stuff would make you crazy.
Now we need to cease attacks on alternative medicine, like herbalism, homeopathy, chiropractic, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Bowen technique, etc. It seems the more people reach out for alternative treatments, the more strictures are put on them.
I love this stack, and title, Docs Malone. "The Absurdity of Public Health".
You're point about cigarettes yes. My Dad passed years ago, due to his smoking habit and I'm sure it didn't help his lungs, to have been exposed to God knows what, during his WWII job as a crew of a big gun. Aluminum powders and such, he likely inhaled, along with the cigarettes they threw into his foxholes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_explosives_used_during_World_War_II
So, a Big Win, but ish. The Truths about cigarettes, has not been permitted to be thoroughly researched. We Must allow scientists to have the freedom, and the tools needed, to discover and prove, WHY.
The WHY will expose the Evil Ones too much. They are VERY afraid of us, doing so!
Link, Dr. Chris Exley. Title, "Killing Us Softly, Part 1" 2024- "What is it in tobacco or in the act of smoking which is damaging to health? These are the enigmas of smoking tobacco which have remained largely unanswered. We are interested in the myriad ways that humans are exposed to aluminium in everyday life. Intriguingly one such way is smoking tobacco and the main reason for this is the presence of significant amounts of aluminium in tobacco." https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/killing-us-softly-part-1/comments#comment-55427501
Perversely, sugar and a happy accident (for big tobacco) led to the popularization of smoking. In one of his books Taubes (or somebody he quotes) claims that early tobacco was too harsh to draw into the lungs, limiting its popularity. At some point, a batch of chewing terbaccy (which is cured with sugar) was mixed in with the smokable kind, and the result was found to be less harsh. This eventually led to mass popularity of cigarettes and millions of early deaths, including (IMO) my father’s about 20-30 years before his time, if his non-smoking parents and siblings’ lifespans were any measure.
And just now, Dr. Chris Exley, stacked another, hitting squarely also, this same Absurdity target! His explains a Rejected "study", that was just published, despite it's a crap study! Of course the topic, aluminum adjuvants in childhood vaccines.
I love both your titles today. His is "Pharma's Last Stand." https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/pharmas-last-stand?publication_id=730345&post_id=197562107&isFreemail=false&r=3pgazk&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Some folks come into your life to "show you what to do"!
While other folks come into your life to "show you what not to do"!
More often than not....you should always side the path of the "what not to do's"!
Hint.....
you may find optimism and solstice in the well lived life by abstaining from nonsense.
Or maybe not.
It's always a dirt road that leads you to the Gold Mine.
Good stuff, Randall.
Many of us born before 1954 remember a very different America. We were raised before every headline became an emergency, before every disagreement became a crisis, and before fear became one of the most profitable industries in the world. We grew up in a time when people solved problems face to face, trusted their instincts, worked hard, raised families, and understood that life itself always carried risk. Yet somehow society was stronger, not weaker.
Today, many governments, corporations, and media organizations have discovered that fear creates obedience. A frightened population is easier to control, easier to divide, and easier to profit from. Fear sells pharmaceuticals, fear wins elections, fear grows bureaucracies, and fear convinces free people to surrender freedoms little by little while believing it is for their own protection.
The older generation remembers something important: human beings are far more resilient than modern systems want us to believe. We survived without being told to panic every hour of the day. We understood that common sense, family, faith, community, and personal responsibility mattered more than endless regulations created by people far removed from everyday life.
The great awakening happening today is not about politics alone. It is about people beginning to recognize how often fear has been used as a tool. Younger generations are starting to ask questions. They are realizing that constant anxiety is not normal, and that freedom requires courage. The path forward is not hatred or violence, but awareness, education, critical thinking, and refusing to surrender independent thought.
We must teach younger generations to question narratives respectfully, to value truth over propaganda, and to understand that governments should serve the people — not rule through fear. Real power returns to the people when citizens stop reacting emotionally to every manufactured crisis and start thinking calmly, independently, and courageously.
Fear loses its power the moment people recognize it for what it is.
I remember when I was in my late 20s, living alone in my apartment, watching a news segment on tv. At one point, I said out loud to the news reporter, "Just give me the facts. I'll decide how much emotion I want to attach to the story". It was this mindset that helped me see through all of the horses--t that was being heaped on populations everywhere from the outset of covid. It was also what kept me from rolling up my sleeve for an unnecessary, poorly & inadequately tested, experimental injection. I questioned every single aspect of what was being advised & implemented, from the masks, social distancing, plexiglass-glass partitions, business closures, home-schooling, quarantining, & everything else associated with covid. All of it was not only completely unnecessary, but insane. Those whom I fully expected would see through all of the nonsense, did not. It has pretty much shattered my confidence in any & all health care professionals as well as our federal health agencies & "experts". I now trust only myself. Period.
It is my opinion that most if not all experts are self appointed. Had sequenced retrovirlal RNA on my dissertation research and was brought on to do same with
sea urchin small nuclear RNA (snRNA) on a post-doc. My new boss was told by some experts in the field that snRNA had too tight a 2ndary structure to be sequenced. Luckily he let me go ahead and try and 4 pubs and an atta boy from the agency on his grant renewal proved those experts wrong. That experience left me wary of expert opinion.
Yes!! My moment was when a series of Detroit high school shootings were in the local news most every night. I was watching 5o'clock news as typical for me, a reporter covering the latest shoved a mic into the crying face of a girl who had just lost her best friend and said "how do you feel about this?" I turned it off, and haven't watched trad news in 30+ years.
A real education teaches critical thinking.
Thank you, William. I remember those days. However, I still remember hiding under my desk in case an atomic bomb was dropped on our school. This would have been in the late 1940s. I believe the 24/7 news cycle and internet is creating great anxiety in our lives. Too quick to jump on a story being pushed by those who want us to be afraid.
Victor, did you grow up in South Florida? I remember the Cuban missile crisis and being drilled to get under our desks in the event of a nuclear bomb blast. My skeptical science teacher pulled no punches explaining why that was a stupidly useless exercise.
We didn't take it seriously then, either We all joked about "hide under your desk and kiss your ass goodbye."
The feminization of our culture has had a lot to do with that. Not pc to say, but truth sometimes hurts. I remember being hectored by some suburban harridan for roller blading without a helmet. Ostensibly I was "setting a bad example for the children." Good grief but these hags are insufferable.
Hi Barbara,
Vic grew up in Flint MI. Dianne is the writer. My early school years were in Seattle WA, then to Flint where we met. Yes, I’m sure this went on all over the US. Good for your science teacher telling the truth.
I used to give presentations on relative risks. More than 300 Americans die every year falling off ladders. Around 70 die from bee stings. Around 60 from lightning strikes. And my favorite: an average of 7 per year die from pulling vending machines over onto themselves. Useful to know when the Panicans start clamoring...
We better outlaw ladders, kill off the bees, ban vending machines, and figure out how to stop lightning.
You're hired! OSHA needs more people like you.
😆 🤣 Thanks. I think I’ll pass!
My favorite quip, which at least sounds plausible, is: You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. Well, that’s probably true in North America and Europe. But there are plenty of parts of the world where the snakes, spiders and much else are just a wee bit more toxic.
I knew a guy who was pretty messed up from wolf spider bites. He fell through a rotten floor in an old house in Earth, TX and got bites that necrotized and never healed.
My concluding line at the risk presentations was that life was full of risks and tradeoffs, we had to take the responsibility to inform ourselves and act accordingly.
The new Hippocratic oath? “ First do no harm, unless it benefits you and instills fear in the populace”. Edit. If we let the sociopaths like those of the WEF have their way.
No no no! It's been changed. It's no longer the Hippocratic Oath, it's the Hypocritical Oath.
Or Hypothetical, perhaps.
😂😂. I was actually thinking this!!! Great minds think alike!!
In the late 1980s I worked for the United States public health service. You are very correct it is absurd.. that is not to say that it does not accomplish some beneficial outcomes, but the cost of producing those outcomes is laughable.
Fear and greed, fear and greed.
I am 84 (going on 102) and having,developed an early interest in science have paid,close attention disease reports. And I can say with some certainty that both cancer and autoimmune disease incidence has greatly increased within the last 50 or so yrs. Suspect both conditions result from the immune system being severely compromised by the environment.
How do you define "the environment"? The natural world, or the social, economic, technical world? I suspect we suffer as a nation from the latter far more than former!
How about both!?
In my education foray, previously endowed with a B.A., M.S. (physiology), and M.D. (anesthesiologist, board certified), I found myself in law school. In my naiveté, failed to recognize the potentially lethal (to reason and critical thinking) forces to which I was exposing myself; I was already "overeducated", one might say, yet I began law school 1985 and eventually was taking advanced classes in health law. The profs teaching health law were not resident at the law school, but rather at the school of public health of the same university. The ethos of the place shocked me from the moment I walked in the door. "WE know best" exuded from every assertion, of which there were legion and mostly unrelated to health; hubris reigned supreme and its domain was by no means limited to issues relating to "health". The word "communist" kept bubbling up in my consciousness. Early on I recalled Milton Friedman's assertion that the state will first restrict individual liberty through its control (by financing ever more of it) of "health" "insurance". Like "safety", "health" is an infinitely expandable concept. All the way back in 1985 - when I started law school - it was bedrock creed in schools of public health that anything and everything should be controlled to promote "health". The eminent faculty, of course, defined "health" by fiat. BTW, it is worth recalling the basic definition of "insurance". Insurance is merely a contract whereby one party (the company) agrees to reimburse another (the subscriber), should a covered RISK materialize, in return for payment of premiums. Here, again, the expansion of the very definition of the meaning of "insurance" has allowed near infinite growth of state control of "public health". Much of ordinary care is not a risk requiring indemnification. It gets right to the heart of socialism. Infinite "needs" for possible "health care" meets finite resources. My unlimited health "care" must be paid with finite Other Peoples' Money (OPM). Captures the beating heart of modern America, wouldn't you say?
Wow, so that was your take of a law school 40+ years ago? While it gets off the topic a bit, consider the recent drama in Virginia with the dirty tricks the Democrats almost got away with in their redistricting push. Next, consider that [checks Google] about one in seven State representatives is an attorney, about half the rate of the U.S. Congress. A lot of other elected officials come from similar academic backgrounds. The Federal judiciary, even the Supreme Court, now has an ample supply of dim bulbs and/or openly radical judges. I'm sure many State judiciaries are even worse.
The Leftist indoctrination is pervasive, and you can already see the results in the daily press. It’s daily depressing, for many of us! Not only in Virginia, many high state government officials are openly violating their own laws or at least procedures and traditions. Is this revolution, incompetence, a combination?
This behavior permeates government. Not just public health. Just drive around your town and you will see lunacy directed by “the experts.” Consider an infamous “Y” intersection in our town known for its spectacular traffic accidents. “Something had to be done,” and so “the experts” were brought in. They studied the problem for years, at exorbitant expense, and then decided that a traffic circle (the fad in urban planning at the time) was needed. So, more expensive design, planning, and regulatory study was performed by more “experts.” Then after two years of construction, multiple millions in construction cost, and the predictable project creep, the monstrosity was completed. All of the normal residents, the non-experts asked why we didn’t just make the “Y” intersection into a “T” intersection and add a traffic light. My response to all these sorts of foolishness: “God save us from the experts !!!”
In a similar vein, the famous quote: "If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."— Henry David Thoreau
Well said! Dr. Gary Null in his book Death by medicine lays it out well and that was 20 years ago and nobody is listening! What grabs me is the continued lack of addressing the root cause of C-Diff which kills at least 30,000 Americans each year. Hospitals are the reservoir for the bacteria and their spores and the issue is not addressed. Lost a good friend to the aggressive antibiotic treatment in the hospital who failed to warn!
Senator Rand Paul had a key CIA whistleblower testify today in DC about the managed Covid crisis. . Important event. Needs wide spread dissemination. Sadly, the Democrats see it politically and not as major flaw in how the Federal government functions.
Fire half the staff right now, and tell the balance to focus on top three causes of death using the savings in payroll to supercharge the effort or they can join those let go.
That’s what a good ceo would demand if it were private money with a goal to meet
Just like our government converged on Nikola Tesla’s “free electricity for the world” extensive testing paperwork after his death and whisked them away never to be seen by public eyes, I bet the decades long work on cancer cures have been squirreled away in some box in a dark basement and all because someone does not want to lose the MASSIVE income from charging the public for electricity and, so too, endless cancer treatments. I sincerely believe there IS a cure for cancer but too many are filthy rich just “treating” cancer and are milking this cash cow at the expensive of peoples’ lives. I have no proof, but I no longer give to cancer research companies. They have received plenty from me over the decades with no “cures” to boast about.
Another example…… of population control……when I was a kid, Los Angeles started digging to prepare for a subway under the city to deal with the mass transportation needs. The red trolley lines that existed along the roads were then dug up and stopped also. All work was stopped on the tunnels and never finished. The tunnels were purchased by someone in the auto industry in order to encourage the population to buy cars! We have massive traffic issues now, and L.A. has trolleys again and some subway, but look how we were manipulated into buying cars. Throughout our lives, if you look closely, and think reasonably, you can see how we have been “herded like cattle” all for the greed of a few. These people have no remorse and no conscience, and once they are gone from this earth, unfortunately, others will take their place…..
I think one of the "cures" for cancer lies within the psyche. How we feel about ourselves, self-talk, fear, diet (of course) pure air, water and soil would help also. Edgar Cayce once said that a person who hates his neighbor most likely would have heart issues. All the major organs are affected by more than one influence, do you think so too, Barbara?
Once read a tract re cancer outcomes and mental outlook. The most survivors were thise who fought it tooth and nail, determined not to lose. The,2nd best were those who managed to banish it from consciousness and plug on following instructions as surrogate responders. Cannot remember the 3rd but the 4th were,those who surrendered to the disease. My step dad had bladder cancer and fell into the 2nd caragory, at least until a Medicade assugned nurse made it a point if convincing him we was a cancer patient. Did such a fpgood job of convincing him he began to have continuous,tremors and died that nite.
"Court intellectuals"??? More like court jesters, except in cases such as Anthony Fauci, who is a criminal lying sack of shit.
As soon as I read a line beginning with "experts say . . ." or "a study shows . . . ," I'm out of there.
As a retired Statistician, I'll say:
Statistics are like alienists—they will testify for either side.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli (there is some doubt about whether Disraeli actually said this, but it’s generally attributed to him)
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain
Do not know much about it but suspect Baisian statistics may be the big savior for that field
Don't know about that. I haven't used Bayesian Statistics since graduate school, and I'm retired now.
Nailed it....again.
Dr. Malone, your first paragraph about 'the Medical System in the USA says it all. The behemoth of illness in our nation is systemic and interlocking; big Govt holds hands with big Ag, non-elected financial interests, and Pharma's all consuming penchant for total control. It's a 4-headed beast. Not until the 'sleeping giant' (citizens) wakes up and says NO! will air, land, skies, food, H2O be free & clean again. Medical statesmen like yourselves have been a boon to shaking the apathy out of a listless, passive nation. I'm proud to have you & Dr. Jill on the side of truth-tellers and clear-thinking visionaries for a better tomorrow. 👍
Greetings from Michigan's Thumb Coast. Still cold! Still windy! Tree tops bowing up and down! Spring indeed, more like early-mid March, not mid-May!
Dr. Malone's "The Absurdity of Public Health" is yes, indeed "theater," THEATER OF THE Absurd," a genre absolutely unique! "Waiting for Godot" by comparison, is trivial!
As to "private" health care, I do not see too much difference between public and private in these times. Oh, yes, there are a few and far between in the private sector who respect patients as individuals and treat them accordingly. My recent experiences through the last five years have taught me otherwise. We are a "diagnosis" or a "case," allotted 15 minutes, a time slot ear-marked for making money, prescribed a shot or series of shots or given a prescription and dismissed, to make way for the next ""case" and charged for the fifteen-minute time slop! Reminds me of military dependent medical care: in one instance, we were justled into curtained 'stalls (no privacy), then a corps person would move from stall to stall, carrying a clipboard, repeating the same question to each female (yes, ob/gyn), "Do you have any questions for the doctor?" "If not, no talking to him."
On one occasion, the assigned practitioner asked me how many pregnancies and how many live births?' I responded, "Orders, sir; I am not allowed to talk to you!" Taken aback somewhat, he assured me I was allowed to speak, so I gave him the information. I would have enjoyed being the fly on the wall following that circuit of rotation - or, maybe not! Slainte!
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