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Unmasking The Great Ozempic Scam
The GLP-1 saga epitomizes the unsustainable corruption within our medical system

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/unmasking-the-great-ozempic-scam

As my life progressed, I came to see more and more that decisions at every scale, regardless of what people said, were ultimately driven by what made money and by tracing the flow of capital, I found I could often “predict” what was coming next. As I’ve shown here, the Ozempic story is egregious, but it also highlights something most healthcare professionals do not appreciate: medical guidelines are shaped far more by economic incentives (e.g., what makes money) than by scientific evidence.

14 hours ago

Europe's Farmer Protests Are A Warning America Can't Ignore

Over the past two years, farmers across Europe have mobilized at a scale that should dominate headlines. Instead, it has been treated as background noise.

In the Netherlands, farmers have protested nitrogen rules that would force mass farm closures—even among low-input and regenerative operations. In France, farmers have blocked highways and surrounded Paris with tractors, protesting fuel taxes, land-use restrictions, and impossible compliance burdens. In Germany, tens of thousands of farmers drove tractors into Berlin over the removal of diesel tax exemptions that many farms rely on to survive. In Belgium, farmers dumped produce and manure outside EU buildings in Brussels. In Poland, Romania, and Hungary, farmers have protested cheap imports and regulations that apply to domestic producers but not foreign competitors.

These are not isolated events. They are sustained, multinational protests by people who feed entire ...

December 27, 2025

False memory syndrome, mass hysteria, and greed propel indigenous grievances

"In August 2024, one of us — retired psychiatrist Dr. Brian Talarico — visited the long shuttered Indian Residential School on British Columbia’s Kamloops Indian Reserve."
https://www.junonews.com/p/op-ed-false-memory-syndrome-mass

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