“The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism.” -William Osler The primary stated justification by the local cardiology group for seeking to censor me was that since I do not blindly adhere to American College of Cardiology (ACC) guidelines I am potentially putting patients at risks. The doctors who sought my censor cited several studies I included in my newsletter that they found particularly onerous. They stated that if patients followed the advice found in the

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” -Albert Einstein For the second time in my career, the Maryland Board of Physicians investigated whether to censor me. The first occurred during COVID, when the medical approach to science constituted following orders and staying quiet. In that frightening era, all of science became embedded in the proclamations of a few “leaders” and anyone who dared challenge their unsubstantiated and often

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.”-Mark Twain “I fear that a view that talks too much about internal biological processes makes people passive victims of their medical disorder which takes away their control…. Forgetfulness, lack of motivation, noise intolerance, social anxiety, low mood, distractibility and concentr

“And, talking about radiation, few wonder why, after hundreds of millions of years of having our skins exposed to sun rays, we suddenly need so much protection from them—is it that our exposure is more harmful than before because of changes in the atmosphere, or populations living in an environment mismatching the pigmentation of their skin—or rather, that makers of sun protection products need to make some profits?” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain fr

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” -Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman. Healthcare has become a field dominated by so-called experts. Self-declared “experts” are typically academic doctors who claim to be sufficiently prestigious that we should trust them blindly. Either they disregard the need to provide any data since they are experts, or their studies are pharmaceutically financed, poor quality, restrictive as to who is being studied, and uti

Although fully normalized in our society, the idea of equating disease to numerical abnormalities has little precedence in healthcare and virtually no evidence of efficacy. It does distill complex medical illness into simplistic numerical categories, and in this way it feeds people’s cognitive needs to sidestep the nuanced and confusing face of illness, while providing the medical industrial complex a facile way of creating disease, increasing profit, and selling a deceptive

“Healthy is an outfit that looks different on everyone.” “It’s not just about losing the weight. It’s about losing the lifestyle and mindset that got you there.” Many people seek to lose weight. Some are truly overweight, some are tinged by a society that values skinny over chubby, some simply feel uncomfortable in their own skin. But, despite so many attributions to the contrary, weight loss is not always a path to better health. People with cancer and severe chronic ill

“Tranquility can’t be grasped except by those who have reached an unwavering and firm power of judgment—the rest constantly fall and rise in their decisions, wavering in a state of alternatively rejecting and accepting things. What is the cause of this back and forth? It’s because nothing is clear and they rely on the most uncertain guide—common opinion.” -Seneca Medical science is typically no more than opinion, crafted by those who profit most by the proliferation of mani

“What, in the tradition of bourgeois democracy, used to be the right to health became, seemingly without anyone noticing, a...

Recently new blood pressure guidelines spread across the news and the medical world with gusto. Orchestrated by “experts” embedded in...