Common Uses of Marijuana and Tobacco New years bring new adventures. Across the US, people camped out, filed into buses and trains, and drove thousands of miles to witness – Legal Pot. Marijuana cigarettes were lit celebrating the “new history” of America, where the failed Drug War would be put to rest. It just shows […]
Oh Why Do We Need a Y? (1/6/14)
Is Maleness Overrated? Pity the mice. On countless occasions, mice without any say in the matter stand in for humans. And what we do to them can be perverse or bizarre – just so we can understand us a bit better. Or not. So now male mice have been “conceived” in the laboratory who only […]
Learning From the 400,000 Year Old Man (12/18/13)
Where We All Come From Is North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un scared of a thighbone? One that’s 400,000 years old? He should be. A bedrock of North Korean ideology since the 1940’s has been North Korean’s racial homogeneity and superiority over everyone else – particularly hybrid Americans. It’s one way you can keep a […]
Statins and the New Numbers Racket (12/9/13)
The Old Numbers Racket One way to keep a population unhealthy is to endlessly worry them about getting sick. For the last few decades, purveyors of cholesterol as the core of heart disease have created a medical industrial complex that has been hard to suppress. Now that complex is changing its spots again with new […]
How Drugs Change You Through Time (11/19/13)
Steroids Can a single dose change your body the rest of your life? My patient wasn’t thinking about that. He just wanted to have big muscles. Really big. He had been caught red handed with syringes in his back pack. His parents wanted to know what they were – and why. Nothing much, he told […]