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I suppose I should start by noting that I don’t frequent YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok, or any other social media or video sites, although I do watch occasional funny videos sent to me by friends, family, and coworkers.

This week, I begin with a bit of shameless self-promotion. This week’s Atlantic has a great article by Rose Horowitch on how free tuition impacts medical school graduates.

With great sadness, I note the loss on October 5th of our longtime friend, Dr. Bruce Ames. ACSH’s Founder, Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, and Dr.

 

In my chat this week with Lars, we covered a range of issues, starting with the World Health Organization (WHO).

Roughly 20% of medical schools have accelerated learning programs designed to graduate physicians in 3 rather than 4 years.

It has been a few centuries now that the powers that be (The Catholic Church) have censored (burned) information about the Earth’s position in relationship to the Sun and placed its controversial and public advocates (Galileo) in spiritual isolati

Sports are a big business in the US. Much has been said about cities spending millions to provide stadiums for their sports franchises. But then there is this. 

I am often most moved in the moment by my current reading, in this instance, Hurari’s Nexus. He discusses fallibility, the opposite of certainty. And then I found this. 

In 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in experimental Physics). It took another sixty years for the second woman to become a Physics Nobel Laureate.