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Profiteering in Healthcare
Dr. Don Berwick, who founded the Institute for Health Improvement, is a prominent figure in American healthcare. He recently wrote an opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association that sounds the alarm about creeping “kleptocapitalist” behaviors in medicine that threatens the quality of medical care in the US. The litany of financial…
Fake Research in Medicine
In the late 1990s, the respected British medical journal, The Lancet, published a report that linked vaccines to autism. This was met with a fusillade of objections from credible sources, followed by study after study that proved there was (and is) no association between vaccines and autism. Nevertheless, the fuse on the already significant anti-vaccination…