Public Health

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

Science Of Losing Weight Shows It's Hard But Not Impossible

Seeing pictures of preened celebrities, or even slimmer friends, makes many wish that their arms were that little bit thinner or abs more tightly toned. Most of us have an existing desire to be a normal healthy weight, but not everyone seems able to achie ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 3 2025 - 11:26am

After Pre-Diabetes, Will CDC Call Pre-Hypertension A Pandemic Next?

A new paper says that before your blood pressure rose, hypertension was already damaging blood vessels and brain matter. How is that even possible? It won't matter, if history is any indication, career bureaucrats at the US Centers for Disease Control ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 15 2025 - 4:30am