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A Midwestern Doctor- Why Does Tylenol Cause Chronic Illnesses Like Autism?
Exploring how suppressing acute but manageable symptoms can transform them into significantly more severe illnesses.
Restoring Reason
New English Review – Unsettled Science: Covid, Net Zero and the corruption of debate.
Mothers Little Helper
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Heather Heying- Informed Consent in the Land of Psychiatric Drugs
Make Media Crazy Again
The press is mocking RFK Jr. and President Trump for linking Tylenol to autism.
But universities like Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Mount Sinai — none of them aligned with Trump or RFK — have published research showing the risks.
Science shouldn’t be political.
A thread on autism studies that link prenatal exposure to acetaminophen to increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders.
The Science Is Settled?
I’ve always been skeptical of the disease model of addiction, and the treatment industry that flows from that theory. Disagreements of a fundamental nature in the scientific community on a host of issues are remarkably common, contrary to what the mainstream media would like you to think.
Smith was steadfast in her belief that her actions were volitional from the start. Her drug use and crimes were not the products of an immoral character or a faulty brain incapable of change, but rather of an environment where heroin was accessible and desirable. This outlook determined her experiences in prison and beyond, ultimately leading her to dedicate her life to challenging predominant medical models of addiction with her research. Today, she is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Sound Of Silenced Science
ADHD – the Truth Goes Down the Memory Hole
This is in my view one of the great scandals of our age. We have turned away in horror from the chastisement of naughty children, to such an extent that in some European countries it is a crime to smack a child. Yet we drug children, often at very young ages and in increasing numbers, with amphetamines whose use is in general sternly banned by law. If smacking a defenceless child is wrong, then surely drugging a defenceless child is just as wrong. And yet conventional wisdom, which decides these things, regards the smack as an outrage, and the drug as normal and right. It is in these anomalies that we find out what is really wrong with our world.
Physician Heal Thyself
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A Midwestern Doctor- What Underlies the Erosion of Trust in Modern Medicine?
Each of these follows the same pattern—something new gets introduced as “safe and effective,” people notice the issues and object to it, science, media and the government conspire to suppress those objections, and then once it’s normalized, something even more egregious is done the next time.
Y2Kyoto: Our Fevered Planet
Watching closely weather models for chance at world record cold
Antarctica below -120°F on July 12th from the most recent ECMWF model cycle
Blame the Polar Vortex swirling above and around the South Pole. pic.twitter.com/8Tb46XVkzK
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) July 4, 2025
The Sound Of Settled Science
A comparative genome study of earthworms and their marine relatives could challenge Darwin’s theory of evolution by showing that worms colonized land in evolutionary jumps. […]
The team has shown that marine annelids (worms) reorganised their genome from top to bottom, leaving it unrecognisable, when they left the oceans. Their observations are consistent with a punctuated equilibrium model, and could indicate that not only gradual but sudden changes in the genome could have occurred as these animals adapted to terrestrial settings. The genetic mechanism identified could transform our concept of animal evolution and revolutionise the established laws of genome evolution.
The paper is here.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The Worlds Weirdest And Most Alcoholic Scientist
The Post Fauci Era
Long but very interesting. There’s timestamps for specific topics and a transcript for those who want to follow along.
A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside An Enigma
A long read. Grab yourself a mid-strength beverage.
A Midwestern Doctor- Turbo Cancers and Alternative Cancer Treatments
Recently, Biden was announced to have (likely terminal) metastatic prostate cancer. Scott Adams took that moment to announce that he did as well and that:
The Sound Of Settled Science
I thought nothing could “escape” from a black hole;
A supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of a relatively close galaxy is firing off a rapid-fire slew of ultrafast gas “bullets” into the surrounding galaxy.
This is the conclusion of an international team of astronomers with the U.S./Japanese X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), whose spacecraft was designed to observe the hot plasma winds that blow through galaxies.
The subject of the study was PDS 456, an active galactic nucleus located some 2.18 giga light-years from the Earth in the constellation of Serpens.
The team say that the energy being carried by the “bullets” of wind is far greater than was expected—and could shake up our understanding of how galaxies and their central black holes evolve in tandem.
But it’s Newsweek, so they probably got it wrong.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
What Would We Do Without Experts?
Trust the experts: But that’s kind of hard when we’re dealing with a group of people who seem to think nothing of contradictions.
The Sound Of Settled Science
When humans entered America is one of the most debated questions in archaeology.
People in South America share a complicated connection to groups in South Asia and Oceania? Do they share ancestry from a mysterious group geneticists call Population Y?
The Sound Of Settled Science
Did This Man Just KILL the Big Bang Theory?
Safe and Effective®
Trust the Evidence- Clearing the Air Around Influenza Treatment
If a million people took Tamiflu, 45,000 would experience vomiting, 31,000 would experience headaches, 10,000 would have renal complications, and 11,000 would suffer psychiatric harm.
Inconcievable
Praying For An Asteroid
May the odds be ever in your favour.
New York Post- NASA’s odds of ‘city-killing’ asteroid hitting Earth just went up — the highest probability ever
Update: Kate asks Grok, “If asteroid YR4 2024 makes a direct hit on Ottawa, how wide would be the blast zone, outside of which one could expect to survive?”