Public Health

It is an unfortunate reality in America that medical societies have an outsized influence on government policy. We are the only country with a nonexistent condition called "prediabetes" because the…

Politics is about trade-offs. Perhaps a reason President Biden isn't better-regarded is because if Congress didn't give him what he wanted, he circumvents them with agencies he controls, such as OSHA…

One concern about the Affordable Care Act was that in providing access to 700,000 people that companies refused to insure, access would decline along with the surges in cost for everyone. That has…

Data tools like ChatGPT, colloquially called Artificial Intelligence (if you think a fancy autocomplete is actual AI), have the promise to do a lot of good. There are some concerns about human…

It's that time of year when activists, academics, and social media mavens hoping for media coverage begin to promote worry about Thanksgiving.  Some risks are real, even if relatively slight; a…

Like the CDC manufacturing a prediabetes epidemic and pregnant women getting a scarlet letter if they have a glass of wine while pregnant, flossing seems to be a distinctly American phenomenon. Are…

Some controversial claims by epidemiologists with links to anti-meat groups (Frank Hu, Walter Willett, et al.) suggest that a normal human diet containing meat causes inflammation, which they then…

Harvard University, and its anti-science allies like The Guardian(1) paper in England, are again claiming that meat causes diabetes. Such warmed over 1990s anti-meat posturing is nothing new from…

If you are a parent, or know a parent, you have had someone claim that if their kid eats sugar they get 'hyperactive' - that may happen, but only because a child has been told they get hyperactive…

Controversial social media video site TikTok has one supporter - a public relations academic at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. A recent paper, ironically in a journal from a publisher that has…