The politicization of research funding is pervasive and paramount in decision-making.
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Category Archives: Healthcare
The EpiPen scandal is just a symptom of America’s unexplained allergy epidemic
Governments have vast financial interests that skew their medical research.
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Junk Science Week: Robert De Niro gets Vaxxed
A documentary on the mother of all medical controversies.
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Scientists are often bought
Governments pay scientists to produce results that suit their public policy agendas; corporations must then commission defensive studies.
Junk Science 2015: Public health’s scary century
Public health advocates have transformed society in their zeal to promote the greater good. Continue reading Junk Science 2015: Public health’s scary century
Why doctors aren’t shocked that mumps have hit the NHL
Mumps outbreaks occur continually, most of them small and unreported. They’re attracting attention today only because NHL players are involved. And they’re certain to attract attention in future.
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Free the pharmaceutical market
Rolling back the government advantages given vaccines would level the R&D playing field and help end the drought in pharmaceutical breakthroughs.
Don’t rush to hand out the Ebola vaccine
Mistakes in novel areas of science inevitably happen, and especially in highly politicized periods where public panic can run high and governments are under the gun.
Crippling medical research
The medical-industrial-governmental complex spends more and more but has less and less to show for it.
We’re more vulnerable to diseases
Our bodies have changed in the last generation, making us more susceptible than we were a scant few decades ago.
