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Feb. 7th, 2022 at 4:57 AM
— Milton Packer is amazed to learn what monetizing followers can do for writers
...Me: I have heard that the content on Substack is not moderated. Many people who have been kicked off Twitter or Facebook have moved to Substack. Robert Malone, MD, and Alex Berenson are a couple examples.
Colleague: Yes, and they are making millions of dollars a year by selling their thoughts to subscribers on Substack. Being a physician who spreads disinformation about COVID-19 is very profitable.
Yes. It is very profitable....
COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and Past Trauma: Is There a Link?
— U.K. researchers found that adverse childhood experiences played a role
‘Catastrophic disruption’: What covid-19 school shutdowns have cost the world’s children
Covid-19 has meant shuttered classrooms for more than 1.6 billion kids. The consequences reach well beyond lost learning.
Ask Aradhana, a bright and energetic 9-year-old from India, about what she’s been learning lately, and the child hides behind her mother in embarrassment.
“She only remembers some things, most of it she’s forgotten,” her mother, Vibha Singh, told Grid, standing with her child in her one-room home in a slum in the Indian capital Delhi. The city’s schools have been shuttered for more than 600 days, in what amounts to one of the world’s longest covid-induced school closures...
Why Deaths of Despair Are Increasing in the US and Not Other Industrial Nations—Insights From Neuroscience and Anthropology
The US National Academy of Sciences reports rising mortality for US adults, most steeply for White adults with a secondary education or less. The rise is largely attributable to deaths of despair (suicide and poisoning by alcohol and drugs) with strong contributions from the cardiovascular effects of rising obesity....
...Deaths of despair combined with metabolic and cardiac deaths exceed by 4-fold the next important cause of death, cancer. Moreover, when primary liver cancers caused by alcoholism (50%) and lung cancers caused by smoking (90%) are included, the total number of deaths exceeds the remaining cancers by nearly 5-fold. This annual mortality rate far exceeds that caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and unlike the COVID-19 pandemic, it shows no signs of abating...
Full text: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2788767
Jeremiah Stamler, Pioneer of Preventive Cardiology, Dies at 102
On the occasion of his 100th birthday, The Washington Post wrote of the trailblazing cardiologist and scientist Jeremiah Stamler, MD: "You may not know him, but he may have saved your life."
Hyperbole, it was not.
Over a career spanning more than 70 years, Stamler transformed medicine and the public's understanding of diet and lifestyle in cardiovascular health and helped introduce the concept of readily measured 'risk factors' such as cholesterol, hypertension, smoking, and diabetes.
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