"If there were a widespread and persistent youth nicotine crisis, perhaps such drastic, but still misguided, action might be more understandable from policymakers. However, young people aren’t smoking as much as they used to." reason.org/commentary/counte… via @ReasonFdn

Public health and the medical establishment can never be trusted.

My doctors stopped wanting to give me the medicine that I was able to have quality of life again with. It was paid for by my insurance! They forced everyone off. Pushed everyone towards medical marijuanna. Not covered by insurance and SUPER EXPENSIVE!! Give me a fucking break already 🤣🤣🤣

ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS ILLUSIONS IN MODERN SOCIETY IS THE BELIEF THAT GOOD HEALTH IS ENTIRELY WITHIN OUR CONTROL. Anyone stumbling across my timeline this morning may notice that I’ve been amplifying some rather disturbing responses to the ongoing conversation surrounding Christina Applegate and her health. Apparently, we’ve reached a point where strangers armed with an iPhone, an internet connection, and an inflated sense of medical expertise feel qualified to attribute another human being’s suffering to everything from veganism and breast implants to COVID-19 vaccinations. The controversy surrounding Christina Applegate’s recently reported MS misdiagnosis has become the catalyst for a much larger conversation, one that I believe society desperately needs to have. When did we become so comfortable treating another person’s illness as evidence of their poor judgment? When did we decide that a person’s medical suffering was an invitation to scrutinize their lifestyle, dissect their decisions, and assign blame? What troubles me most isn’t simply the speculation. It’s the extraordinary arrogance underlying it. There appears to be a surprisingly widespread belief that if you eat the right foods, exercise consistently, prioritize sleep, avoid certain substances, avoid breast implants and follow the appropriate wellness rituals, you can somehow negotiate immunity from serious illness. YOU CANNOT. You can reduce certain risks. You can improve your odds. You can make responsible decisions about your health. But you cannot purchase biological certainty with good behavior. Ask the marathon runner diagnosed with cancer. Ask the lifelong athlete who develops an autoimmune disease. Ask the person who ate impeccably, exercised religiously, and never smoked a cigarette, only to suffer a devastating medical event. Ask the millions of people whose lives have been altered by Long COVID, many of whom were young, athletic, and exceptionally healthy before infection. COVID-19 itself has killed millions worldwide and left countless others dealing with prolonged, sometimes disabling symptoms. Yet somehow, we have people confidently attributing complex medical conditions to a stranger’s personal choices while overlooking the biological unpredictability of illness itself. I sometimes wonder whether this attitude is rooted in something deeper than ignorance. Perhaps it’s fear. Perhaps blaming sick people provides healthy people with a comforting illusion: If I can identify what they supposedly did wrong, I can convince myself the same thing will never happen to me. It’s psychologically convenient, isn’t it? Because acknowledging that illness can strike despite our best efforts means confronting an uncomfortable truth about our own vulnerability. And that requires humility. Health is not a certificate of moral superiority. Illness is not proof of irresponsibility. And suffering is not an invitation for strangers to conduct a public trial of someone’s life choices. Christina Applegate doesn’t owe the internet a defense of her diet, her medical decisions, her body, or her past. She deserves the same compassion and dignity that every seriously ill human being deserves. Before you congratulate yourself for being healthier, wiser, or more disciplined than someone whose body is failing them, consider something. You may be doing everything right. You may also be extraordinarily fortunate. And those are not necessarily the same thing. The human body does not operate on a merit system. Perhaps the next time you encounter someone living with a devastating illness, instead of asking what they did to deserve it, you might ask yourself why you feel so certain it could never happen to you. Because sometimes the most important health lesson isn’t about nutrition, exercise, or supplements. It’s about humility.

I’m not sure which scheme is bigger: the harm reduction industry or the spinal cord stimulator industry. Harm reduction whackos have somehow convinced the federal government that distributing crack pipes is a public health intervention, while MDs and medical device manufacturers have convinced patients to implant dangerous medical devices like spinal cord stimulators

Dear Secretary Kennedy, I am writing to inform you of what I have personally witnessed as a paramedic: young adults in their 20s suffering strokes, heart attacks, and aortic dissections that caused them to collapse and die at the ER entrance. The volume of damage I have seen following COVID-19 vaccination has been extensive. These injuries are not being properly documented. I have been laughed at by physicians after delivering young patients when I raised the possibility of vaccine injury upon learning they had recently received the COVID shots. The data remains skewed in favor of the pharmaceutical companies. The bias that was permitted and actively advanced by your predecessors is still present and continues to produce lasting harm in communities. My request is direct. Issue a comprehensive questionnaire to healthcare facilities requiring every physician, nurse, and medic to report the post-vaccination injuries and sudden deaths they have personally witnessed. In addition, establish clear documentation standards going forward that record COVID-19 vaccination status so outcomes can be evaluated against actual exposure rather than remaining in permanent speculation. Most Americans know someone who believes they were harmed by this product. It is time the record is settled for those living now and for the generations that follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, Harry Fisher Paramedic God bless

BREAKING NEWS🚨Politico reports: “Calley Means, senior adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., resigned on Thursday over frustrations that the Make America Healthy Again agenda had stalled inside the White House.” politico.com/news/2026/10/22…

Calley Means resigns due to frustration with lack of MAHA progress. politico.com/news/2026/10/22…