August 28, 2017

Earlier this month, Judge Lawrence Moniz of the Bristol Juvenile Court of Massachusetts pronounced the sentence in the case of Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter. The final tally: one young life ended, another in ruins, and two families who will be dealing with the aftershocks for the rest of their lives.

May 20, 2016

The drug companies and their allies have taken to smearing anyone who questions the values of their nostrums as not just misguided souls but killers.

May 20, 2016

A study published in this month’s New England Journal of Medicine is the latest bid in the medical industry’s ongoing campaign literally to make us all sick.

May 20, 2016

Almost three thousand years ago, the Greek fabulist Aesop told the story of the mountain in labor. The mountain shook, and rumbled, and emitted ominous-looking clouds of black smoke, and as the local villagers looked on in horror, the earth opened up and out of the fissure jumped… a mouse.

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It’s uncanny. It’s almost as if Aesop foresaw the rise of the statin industry.