Are Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health Incompatible?
Pandemic-era have often pitted evidence-based medicine proponents against supporters of more traditional analytical methods.
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The California “Department of Political Health” Mandates Covid Infection with Its New “One Day” Order (and How to Stop Them)
California’s new rule mandates Covid infection, violates California’s Adminstrative Procedures Act, and its stated purpose is not justified by statute.
Read more...Our On-Going Covid Pandemic and the Labor Market
The Covid pandemic and the quantity and quality of labor available in the labor market (with an encouraging medieval precedent).
Read more...CBO and CMS Continue to Overestimate Health Care Cost Increases, Creating Unjustified Pressure to Cut Benefits
The CBO and CMS, keep overestimating health cost increase, and at least for the CBO, it’s due to neoliberal fealty.
Read more...Some Economic Effects of the Ongoing Covid Pandemic
A quick march through economic data and thinking about the Covid pandemic.
Read more...When Science Meets Power: A Review
A look at what Covid-19 revealed was wrong about science (or more accurately, “the science”, and what might be done.
Read more...The Collapse of the Public Health Establishment is the Collapse of the Professional-Managerial Class
A White House Press Secretary, the Director of a national public health agency, and the Chair of the Department of Medicine at a major public university.
Read more...Science on Trial, Part 1
A new paper dissects how the Covid crisis demonstrated the failings in how science is practiced now. But are its suggestions for improvement bold enough?
Read more...Both the Flu and RSV Are Airborne Aerosols, Just Like Covid (So CDC and “Droplet Dogma” Are Wrong Yet Again)
A survey of the literature on how RSV and the flu are transmitted, show that, like Covid, they too are tranmitted as airborne aerosols.
Read more...CDC Director Cohen Must Reject HICPAC’s Shoddily Evidenced, Unreviewable, Statistically Invalid, Non-Performing, Conflicted, and Un-Peer-Reviewed Infection Control “Guidance”
What it says on the tin.
Read more...Do Masks Work During the Pandemic? Scientists Say “Yes.” Secondary Reviews of Clinical Trials Say “No.” So, Which Is It?
Four authors with top statistical chops, including Yaneer Bar-Yam and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, stomp all over the anti-mask Cochrane Report.
Read more...CDC’s HICPAC Passes Draft Gutting Patient Protections Against Airborne Respiratory Viruses, Faces Challenge at HHS Office of the Inspector General (and You Can Help)
Sue the b*stards!
Read more...Summary of Guidance for Minimizing the Impact of Brainworms on Individual Persons, Communities, and Health Care Systems — United States
More research needed!
Read more...Did People Die from Covid Because of the Power of Populist Politics?
The role of ideology in bad Covid science and its amplification.
Read more...Did Your Favorite Celebrity Test Positive for COVID-19?
Performers are at particularly high-risk for damage from repeat COVID-19 infections due to travel, lifestyle, and contact with the public at large events
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