The bullshitting Ketamine Kid is launching thousands of low earth orbit Star Link satellites that only stay in orbit for 5 years and then crash through the atmosphere, burning and creating atmosphere-destroying chemicals that lead to ozone holes, and magnetospheric perturbations. Musk is a depressed person and had a difficult childhood, including an abusive father. …
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Americans Are Taking Many Drugs That Don’t Work – Society’s Capital is Making People Sick and the Rich, Richer
Companies and physicians at the FDA are increasingly using fast-track approval processes to bring treatments that don’t work to patients. I detail the problems of the US treatment system in my book, The Medicalization of America. One of the problems is that most prescription drugs don’t work. Bloomberg has a good article on one of …
Physician Selling a Supplement for Mood Symptoms in Early Postpartum That Doesn’t Work
Despite media hype, a new supplement drink that doesn’t block depressive signals in the brain is not the key to beating the baby blues, according to a new study. The product, which costs $79.95 for a full dose, will be available to buy on April 11th and has been shown in trials to not reduce symptoms …
Another Physician Foisting A Bogus Genetic Test Into the Market
Genetics have little to do with disease. But that doesn’t stop some people from pretending they do, and the hype continues. First it was the physician, Francis Collins at the NIH. So determined was Francis that he and his lab faked 5 studies to prove his point. He was promising that knowing a person’s genetic …
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ALS Drug Pulled From Market; It Should Never Have Gone to Market – And A New Methodology to Better Treat Neurodegeneration
Although a public corporation used poor study design and manipulated data in a small study (Phase II) that found no benefit of the drug, and that truncated needed efficacy studies (Phase III), Relyvrio was approved in 2022 by physicians at the FDA to treat ALS. Now that efficacy studies (Phase III) have been performed in …
Oops, Another Physician Has His Medical Journal Articles Retracted – This Time It’s Columbia University
Sam Yoon, M.D. has had four medical journal articles retracted thus far, including a recent 2024 paper that featured faked data where images were used multiple times in one paper to represent different phenomenon. Physicians in a prominent cancer lab at Columbia University, including the Chief of Cancer Surgery at Columbia, have now had four …
Novel Brain Implant in 2023 From Berkeley/UCSF, Not Neuralink, Helps Paralyzed Woman Speak Using a Digital Avatar
Berkeley engineers develop an AI technology that can help restore natural communication Published by Nature in August 2023, scientists and engineers from UC Berkeley developed a neural prosthetic to enable speech in those unable to speak because of various afflictions, such as brainstem strokes. Led by Dr. Gopala Anumanchipalli, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering …
A Tech Festival Where They Boo Tech – SXSW in Texas
South by Southwest 2024, a combined tech conference and entertainment industry festival held in Austin, Texas, a regressive city inhabited by conservatives like Greg Abbott, Elon Musk, and Alex Jones, ran a minute-long promotional video featuring brief clips from panels earlier in the conference. In each clip, the speakers were either explicitly pro-AI or emphasizing the …
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AI Models in Healthcare Are Not Generalizable When Predicting Disease
Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has made claims that large datasets can be mined to predict and identify diseases and the best course of care for future patients. Unfortunately, we do not know how these models would perform in terms of predicting disease and treatment on new patients because they are rarely tested prospectively on …
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Medical Procedure That Caused Alzheimer’s Disease
New study from the UK’s MRC finds that Alzheimer’s Disease was caused by physicians injecting growth hormone from cadavers into children. This is one more way in which the modern exposome of humans, including those exposed to modern medicine, is causing diseases such as dementia, including Alzheimer’s Disease. Whether it’s C-sections, coronary stenting, colonoscopies, cancer …
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Stem Cells, Health, Technology 