Public Health

You Don't Need Government Food Bans For Health, Provide Structure And Choice For Kids

If you need any new evidence that science is just another arm of politics, look to the switch in the Republican party once President Donald Trump embraced former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer, friend of Obama, and anti-science zealot Robert F. K ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 1 2025 - 1:38pm

Does Chemical X Cause Disease Y, And How Do We Know?

That question is particularly relevant this week in light of numerous media articles reporting that exposure to a common chemical is linked to obe ...

Article - Steve Hentges - Jul 2 2025 - 9:09am

Reese's Is Making A Vegan Peanut Butter Cup- Here Are 3 More Ways To Make Candy Sound Healthy

Hershey is rolling out Reese’s Plant Based Peanut Butter Cups this month, and it is a great idea. Plant-based foods are all the rage- unless the entire market is about to collapse- and people who like vegan stuff are willing to overpay for food they can th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 3 2025 - 10:55am

Don't Fear Nuclear Power, No Matter What The Lancet Wants To Believe

70 years ago saw the world's only wartime use of nuclear weapons, when the USA dropped the devastating weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading directly to the end of World War II.  ...

Article - Gil Ross - Jul 7 2025 - 9:45am

Cancer And Diabetes Deaths Down 80%, Why Do Progressives Insist The Modern World Kills Us?

Death rates from non-communicable  diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease continue to decline but you wouldn't know that by corporate media which prints every claim that some useful product is "linked" to shorter lifespans. Weedki ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 10 2025 - 3:30pm

Chocolate Is A Treat- It's Not An 'Antioxidant' Or Anything Except Valentine's Day Candy

Ignore epidemiology claims that chocolate is healthy. It is not, claiming it is requires the same suspect correlation that "suggests" weedkillers causes human cancer and acupuncture prevents COVID-19. No science involved. Mars, Incorporated was f ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 6 2025 - 10:56am

Medicaid Emergency Room Costs For Illegal Immigrants Under $4 Billion In 2022

A cross-sectional analysis of emergency Medicaid expenditures from data in the 2022 Medicaid Budget and Expenditure System found that of the 38 states plus Washington, DC, was nominal compared to overall spending. There are confounders. Not all states allo ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 14 2025 - 12:28pm

Hepatologists Ironically Over-Represented In Alcoholism

A survey asked 185 practicing transplant hepatologists across the U.S. who are among the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases members across the U.S. about "unhealthy" alcohol use- alcohol is a class 1 carcinogen, so unless you ea ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 23 2025 - 2:17pm

The Next Plague: Did We Learn Anything From COVID-19?

In early 2018, colleagues and I released The Next Plague and How Science Will Stop It and coronavirus was in there, because there had already been two coronavirus pandemics, SARS and MERS, this century. No one anticipated that SARS-CoV-2 would erupt in Wuh ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 28 2025 - 9:51am

Forced Organ Donation Remains Problematic But A Science Solution For Transplants Is Coming

There is legitimate concern about increased social authoritarianism in governments worldwide. The state has gained more financial control everywhere. Even in the U.S nearly 60% of wealth is controlled by politicians, and it is the most "capitalist&quo ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 29 2025 - 12:27pm