Surviving Medicine Part 7: The Real Science of Vaccination

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The advent of the scientific method has produced great human triumphs over the vagaries of nature, especially when it comes to healing sick bodies. Modern ‘healthcare’ is a miracle of human ingenuity and business innovation. However, many of the medical treatments on offer today and in the past are not…

Surviving Medicine Part 6: Vital Signs, Evidence Based, and Standard of Care

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The advent of the scientific method has produced great human triumphs over the vagaries of nature, especially when it comes to healing sick bodies. Modern ‘healthcare’ is a miracle of human ingenuity and business innovation. However, many of the medical treatments on offer today and in the past are not…

Surviving Medicine Part 5: Never Surrender Your Power Over Food

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The advent of the scientific method has produced great human triumphs over the vagaries of nature, especially when it comes to healing sick bodies. Modern ‘healthcare’ is a miracle of human ingenuity and business innovation. However, many of the medical treatments on offer today and in the past are not…

Age and Expectation

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The Zen Buddhists have a concept they refer to as “beginners mind” which means having and maintaining a spirit of openness and eagerness towards the study and practice of a subject, even if one is very experienced. As one teacher puts it, “in the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities,…

ESSENTIAL READING: Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

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Treating a disturbed mind is orders of magnitude more subtle and complex than treating a diseased body. To begin with, there is the problem of deciding what is ‘sickness’ in a mind as opposed to the normal cognitive path of humanity in all its glory. We are, according to every…

Affluence Disorders; What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Weaker

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New words and phrases enter our lexicon regularly, often in response to new and highly specific inventions and behaviors, such as ‘social media’ or ‘sexting.’ The big picture still tends to be summarized by the older concepts that capture unchanging basic human impulses, words and phrases like ‘animal spirits’ or…