Universal Flu Vaccine Disasters
It's back! Remember back in 2010 when the Universal Flu Vaccine was first introduced? After various "risk groups" and age groups were identified, the CDC had only 85% coverage and wanted more. When CDC added the 18-49-year-old remaining age group in 2010, it made annual influenza vaccination a universal recommendation for everyone age 6 months [...]
Pregnant? On The List?
Every year it seems that more people are added to The List of people who qualify! Qualify for what? Medical products! Of the $1.53 trillion market share of the pharmaceutical industry, the U.S. takes the lead. Once upon a time, two main categories were always excluded: pregnancy and sick people. For evidence of such a [...]
Paid To Protest
Who has time to protest when you have to have a job to make ends meet? What if you are paid to protest? Suddenly protesting is a career choice! The World is a Stage How much do crisis actors get paid to go where the crisis is? According to ZipRecruiter, it works out to be [...]
What is “Common Knowledge?”
What is the fastest way to shut down critical thinking and end conversations? Utter the phrase common knowledge. Used in a sentence: it's common knowledge that there are two types of people in the world, "essential and nonessential." Repeated often enough, designer phraseology hypnotizes the mind until accepted as fact, without question or verification (i.e., [...]
Weaponizing Healthy People: ‘Orthorexia nervosa’
Orthorexia nervosa is the dinosaur in the room! As the latest fad diagnosis, Orthorexia nervosa reflects the de-evolution of our species. The diagnosis was unearthed in 2019 when science declared (without evidence) that eating clean is unhealthy. A recent December 2025 study concludes that Orthorexia nervosa is positively related with psychological distress among nursing, medical, [...]
Mattel™ Launches Autistic Barbie Doll
Move over Barbie doll in a pretty pink dress! The global company, Mattel,™ has made a new Barbie doll to represent kids with autism spectrum disorder. The latest Barbie doll is said to "avoid eye contact." Don't all dolls do that? And that's not all! "'It comes with sensory tools such as a fidget spinner, [...]
