KLG: The Engineering Ideal in Biology and Its Utility or Disutility
How the engineering ideal in biology, already taken further than is realistic, has become a foundation for the quest for eternal life.
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KLG: “If the Overhead Cuts to NIH and NSF Grants Go Through Without Changes, Academic Biomedical and Other Research in the US Will Crumble into Dust”
Why the Musk attack on NIH and NSF funding formulas will eviscerate US medical research.
Read more...Medicaid Work Requirements Could Boot 36 Million People Off Their Health Coverage: Report
“Work requirements are simply another way to cut Medicaid.”
Read more...Fake Papers Are Contaminating the World’s Scientific Literature, Fueling a Corrupt Industry and Slowing Legitimate Lifesaving Medical Research
Why the problem a rising level of bogus scientific papers exists in the first place and is proving difficult to combat.
Read more...From MAHA to MAGA: Can We Get There?
Why MAHA won’t accomplish much even if it gets off the starting block unless the US also addresses inequality. Good luck with that.
Read more...Medical Research Depends on Government Money – Even a Day’s Delay in the Intricate Funding Process Throws Science Off-Kilter
NIH funding is a case study of how the Trump wreaking ball will damage medical research and undermine US leadership in medicine.
Read more...The Growing Inequality in Life Expectancy Among Americans
To deliver on pledges from the new Trump administration to make America healthy again, policymakers will need to fix problems undermining life expectancy across all populations.
Read more...How Much Will Trump’s Bark Exceed His Bite? Doubts About Whether Disruptive Federal Hiring and Spending Pauses Will Produce Lasting Changes
Trump is adept at using his willingness to be wildly inconsistent to destabilize opponents. But he is unduly fond of using blunt instruments like tariffs that he can impose unilaterally, with insufficient consideration of whether they will work all that well, let alone what bad unintended effects they might generate. What Trump has done so […]
Read more...The Next Unwind of Social Guarantees: Home and Medical Insurance
A Wall Street Journal column suggests that elite conventional wisdom favors more gutting of medical and home insurance as unduly “socialized”
Read more...For Homeless Seniors, Getting Into Stable Housing Takes a Village — And a Lot of Luck
Another indictment of America’s claims of superiority: a coming tsunami of homeless elderly
Read more...Evaluating the Risks of Engineered Viruses and Bacteria, aka ‘Mirror Life’
Scientists seem unduly casual about the threats posed by engineered bacteria and viruses that are chemical mirror images of natural ones
Read more...Make America Healthy Again: Is MAHA a Trope or a Movement?
A look at MAHA’s recommendations, per the Casey Means book Good Energy, and why they are an affluent-focused, neoliberal prescription.
Read more...Health Care AI, Intended To Save Money, Turns Out To Require a Lot of Expensive Humans
Artificial intelligence systems require consistent monitoring and staffing to put in place and to keep them working well. In essence: You need people, and more machines, to make sure the new tools don’t mess up.
Read more...Americans’ Rage at Insurers Goes Beyond Health Coverage – The Author of ‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ Points to 3 Reforms that Could Help
On the prevalence of claims processing fraud by insurers and what if anything can be done about it.
Read more...Health Insurers Limit Coverage of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity
Another type of example of how health insurers screw patients.
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