Human beings are great experimenters. We are always looking for something to ease the endless suffering of our lives. Very few mind-altering substances have broken into the mainstream. Mainly due to the fact that history has shown that their repeated use leads to significant devastation upon the mind they are…

Medicine has a long history of bad ideas. Prior to the advent of antibiotics in the early 20th century, your town doctor was probably no better than your grandmother at medicine. Just about every ailment was treated with morphine. We had bloodletting. There were mysterious elixirs with cocaine in them…

(Image courtesy of fool.com) I’ll preface this by saying I’m a nobody in the world of finance. But I have a theory about bitcoin, and I’m arrogant (or ignorant) enough to think my theory is right. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve set up accounts on three exchanges Paypal…

(image credit to warrior trading news) If you have spent much time on Reddit message boards or paying attention to capital markets you may have seen that “Pot Stocks” recently took off. A combination of M&A within the industry, anticipated liberalization, and high short interested loaded the spring that sent…

(A crash course in immunity: An Entire Medical School Semester in 10,000 characters.) One of the most common questions I am asked about the COVID vaccine is how long will the immunity against COVID last. The short answer is, we don’t know yet. Not only is that answer short, it…

The world has by under siege by a virus that is neither apocalyptic nor dismissible. It is somewhere in the middle. It’s not quite flu, but it’s not quite plague. It has spread on a massive scale. A scale larger than any of us have ever seen. There have been…

In the years prior to 911 congress and the FAA were working on legislation to improve security for commercial airline cockpits. The FAA is a notoriously slow organization and there was much debate on not only fortifying the cockpit doors but to what degree. Pilots and flight crews argued that…

(https://www.endocrineweb.com/conditions/type-2-diabetes/type-2-diabetes-overview) A phase 2 trial comparing once weekly insulin injection (icodec) to daily insulin injection (glargine) in type 2 diabetics was published in NEJM this week. Insulin is one of the most difficult treatments for patients to stick with and understand. …

J. Falatko D.O. (Results table published with original article. You can view the original article by clicking on this link: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817) The mask controversy rages on. From the beginning of the pandemic it has been one of the hottest debated topics. The debate has been engulfed in a fire of…