HEALTHCARE: Can’t trust anything you been told!

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

https://nj1015.com/autism-rates-acetaminophen-claims/

Media clash over acetaminophen and autism: NJ families deserve answers
Bill Spadea
Published: September 24, 2025

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According to one of the sharpest and most respected minds in medicine, Dr. Marty Makary from Johns Hopkins, now serving as the FDA chief, there are 27 studies that in fact do show a link between the commonly used pain drug and autism rates.

Even the company itself posted on X (then Twitter) saying they do not recommend their product for pregnant women.

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Anyone questioning the elites behind big medicine and big pharma are painted as “conspiracy theorists” and dismissed. This is a real disservice to families with children with autism.

We should be questioning every vaccine, every drug, every poison in our water and food supply. We should welcome the scientific studies being promoted despite the millions that the big guys have to suppress real information that threatens their profits.

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Spadea reiterates what I first heard from Sharyl Attkisson

“Do Your Own Research. Make Up Your Own Mind. Think For Yourself.” — Sharyl Attkisson

It’s not that you have a tin foil hat; it’s because you can’t trust anything you been told!

The celebrities, politicians and bureaucrats are all speaking like “authorities” on a topic.  And the inet just amplifies their ignorant propaganda.

A famous line from the inet is that “all the folks that were vaccine experts last week are now experts in ballistics”.  Wish I could create a pity encapsulation of that.  Best I can come up with is:

“Well, I’m not a <<<insert profession that requires a lot of study>>>, I have never played one on TV, and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but here are some simple thoughts.”

I don’t pretend to be an expert in anything, but as fat old white guy retired injineer who’s a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income I think I have common sense.

For example:

  • The Amish don’t have obesity or autism.  Therefore, I suspect that we don’t know <synonym for excrement> about why that is.
  • No office tower has ever collapsed from a fire.  Therefore, I suspect that there maybe other explanations.
  • An intact terrorist passport is presented as evidence; how could that have survived in perfect condition.  Therefore, I suspect that there is more to the story than we know.
  • I don’t believe in the JFK “magic bullet” theory.  Therefore, I suspect a conspiracy.
  • The size of the Pentgon damage and the size of a plane don’t match up; the missing money evidence was destroyed and no videos? Therefore, I suspect that this is not the truth.
  • 7 WTC had financial records evidence that was destroyed in the collapse. Therefore, I suspect that this was too convenient.
     
  • The OKC bombing destroyed all the HRC WhiteWater evidence. Therefore, I suspect that also this was too convenient.
     
  • The East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, a chemical disaster covered up by Governor Mike DeWine’s Ohio EPA and the media has “memory holed” it. Therefore, I suspect that this was a conspiracy.
     
  • The Government’s Decades-Long Cover-Up of TWA Flight 800 was eventually uncovered but no one was punished. Therefore, I suspect that this is not unique.
     
  • SSN# 042-68-4425 is used by BHO44. Therefore, I suspect he was born in Kenya.
     
  • DJT47 assassination attempt in Butler PA needs an impartial investigation; what did CNN know and when did they know it. Therefore, I suspect that this was either propaganda or a conspiracy.
     
  • Was Epstein CIA or Mossad and who killed him. Therefore, I suspect this whole story id one big conspiracy.
     
  • The “ballot dumps” in the same key states at the same time elected Biden. Therefore, I suspect a conspiracy.

And on and on and on and on.

If I had the power, I’d pick out the “little people” at the root of the event and offer them a plea deal.  Just like how they roll up drug gangs, the Mafia, or bribery scandals.  Keep working up the “food chain” until you get to “the truth”.

“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson

We’re entitled to it!

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HEALTHCARE: If scurvy existed today, he argued, regulators would deny the obvious

Saturday, October 4, 2025

https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/exclusive-the-greatest-lie-ever-told?publication_id=975571&post_id=174640705&isFreemail=true&r=60qmwq&triedRedirect=true

EXCLUSIVE: The Greatest Lie Ever Told About Cancer | Daily Pulse

  • If they told the truth about cancer, Big Pharma would collapse overnight.

The Vigilant Fox
Sep 26, 2025

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Richardson didn’t stop there. He drew a straight line from the opioid crisis to cancer, arguing both come from the same corrupt system—one that buries natural solutions because, as he put it, “there’s no money in the big pharma world, in this big medicine world.” Instead, drug companies push petrochemical products, many of them patented and even co-owned by Pfizer and government entities.

Then came his boldest claim: “Cancer is 100% an immune deficiency disease. Nobody has to die of cancer.” To drive the point home, he compared it to scurvy, which once killed millions of sailors until they discovered the power of citrus. “All they had to do was suck on a lemon or a lime and they would never die of scurvy.”

If scurvy existed today, he argued, regulators would deny the obvious. “The FDA would be telling us no vitamin C… we’re going to give you drugs to straighten out your bones or to tighten your teeth. And how do I know that, Maria? Because that’s what they’ve been doing with cancer, to the detriment of millions of Americans.”

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Now, I don’t know if this an “inconvenient truth” that’s only now leaking out or is he a “stopped clock” (right twice a day).

I thought his comment about scurvy and regulators was probably very spot on.

He does highlight the conflict of interest between Big Pharma (if we cure it, we don’t get a revenue stream) and the supposed “Gooferment Regulators” (who are getting “royalties” on taxpayer funded research).

To quote an old comic strip “There oughta be a law” aka (TOBAL!)

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HEALTH: My favorite heuristic (rule of thumb) — “factoids” but not “evidence”

Saturday, September 27, 2025

FROM A REPLY TO ONE OF MY FORWARDED MEME-FILLED EMAILS

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FJohn, do you actually believe that vaccines are a hoax?

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Well, … … … …

 … … … … Just off the top of my head:

  • “Covid vaccines” are not what we knew as “vaccines”. Certainly not studied for “safety”. 
  • Older “true” vaccines have a track record. But again never studied for “safety”. 
  • Flu “vaccines” are of dubious value; I never took them. Many times I’ve heard people bitch that they took it and then got the flu. To me that’s was an “interesting factoid”, but not real “evidence”. But enough to make me skeptical.
  • Hep B vaxes are given to ALL babies even if their mother is NOT carrting the Hep B infection? That is at least unnecessary and maybe worse.
  • As far as the autism vaccine link, it’s reported that the Amish don’t get vaxed and they have zero cases of autism. 
  • Japan doesn’t vax children until 4. 
  • My middle age niece remarked, when discussing this, that when her boys were young vaxes were spread out over time; not bunched up at once. 
  • Throw in that Big Pharma is legally immune from vax injury damages. 
  • And that hospitals are incentivized to give them. 
  • And, doctors are paid based on the percentage of their practice that are vaxed.
  • Recently, the Gooferment under RFKjr reported that there was linkage between autism and young black males. 
  • The “advisory panel” for vaxes were merely a rubber stamp for Big Pharma. “Regulatory capture revolving door. They were replaced with respected people with no ties to Big Pharma. Now they are being more circumspect in their recommendation. This maybe be better, but not assured.

Again to repeat my favorite heuristic (rule of thumb) — “factoids” but not “evidence”.

I remember thalidomide when a “harmless” drug cause birth defects in mother’s  GRANDCHILDREN!

So I don’t think they are a “hoax”, but they are not “innocuous”.

Hope that helps understand my thoughts about them.

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HEALTHCARE: Died from anaphylactic shock after CT dye

Sunday, August 31, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/08/25/world-news/law-graduate-leticia-paul-dies-at-22-after-routine-ct-scan/

Law graduate Leticia Paul dies at 22 after routine CT scan
By Richard Pollina  —  Published Aug. 25, 2025, 3:05 a.m. ET

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A young, thriving Brazilian lawyer tragically died after suffering a severe allergic reaction during a routine CT scan.

Leticia Paul, 22, suffered an anaphylactic shock on Wednesday while undergoing a contrast-enhanced CT scan at Alto Vale Regional Hospital in Rio do Sul, according to G1.

The fatal reaction was triggered by the contrast dye injected before the scan. 

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Anaphylactic shock is a sudden and life-threatening allergic reaction that can cause airway constriction, throat swelling, a sharp drop in blood pressure, and other severe symptoms, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Urgent medical care is needed to avoid fatal outcomes.

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This is so sad.  No indication that anyone did anything wrong. 

I guess that the treatment guidelines will need to be revised for (I assume) first time dye recipients?

So young.  

Argh!

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HEALTHCARE: Check for coupons at drug manufacture’s web sites

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

LPT: Check for coupons at drug manufacture’s web sites

A relative of mine was at CVS picking up Treligy and paid a $150 copay. The lady clerk advised her to go home an check the Galaxo website for a coupon for a year’s free copay. If ok, come back with the coupon and receipt and she get a refund. When she did, she found it and the Rx was for someone not on Medicare or Medicaid, she got the coupon and got a refund.

Lesson learned: When taking a brand name med, always check the maker’s website for coupons. Only takes a few minutes and may pay off big time.

FWIW YMMV

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HEALTHCARE: AI App That Quickly Appeals Denials

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/big-insurance-uses-ai-to-quickly-deny-claims-physican-fights-back-with-ai-app-that-quickly-appeals/?utm_source=newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=your-5-min-dose-of-good-news-ducks-take-over-town-center&_bhlid=9ae55e2f638cb4ac2fda40c6fc7c6f7bac698b74

Big Insurance Uses AI to Quickly Deny Claims, One Man Fights Back with AI App That Quickly Appeals
By Andy Corbley – Aug 5, 2025 

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The idea that American health insurance companies are using AI to analyze and adjudicate claims for approval or denial sounds terrifying, but one North Carolinian is using AI to fight back.

When Raleigh resident Neal Shah had a claim denied for his wife’s chemotherapy drugs, he thought it was rare, that he was the only one, that it was just bad luck.

Litigating his case on phone calls that lasted for hours changed the husband and father, and he set about creating a sophisticated app that uses artificial intelligence to compare claims denial forms against health insurance contracts, before automatically drafting an appeal letter.

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they’ve built Counterforce to the point where it boasts a 70% success rate in appealing claims.

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https://www.counterforcehealth.org/

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I like the “fight fire with fire” approach.

Completely free?  Astonishing. Wish I had a claim to arbitrate!

(Surprised that Big Insurance hasn’t bought them out or engaged in “lawfare” against them.)

To me, “health” and “healthcare” is not just about “the care you get or don’t get for your health”, but also all the “systems” adjacent to it.

Wonder if this will inspire other efforts to enlist AI against other “insurance” abuses (i.e., raising premiums; denial of coverage; use alf drones and AI against ordinary folks; credit card appeals)?

One could apply the concept to all sorts of adversarial interactions like “eminent domain”, intrusive Gooferment actions like regulations, or “cash confiscations”.

What a great time to be a programmer with today’s opportunities.

How about AI to lobby politicians and bureaucrats to “do the right thing”?

Any other uses?  Leave a comment.

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HEALTHCARE: Father Saved Son AMA From Hospital

Friday, August 1, 2025

WOODS2665: Father Saved Son AMA From Hospital

Tom Woods Podcast #2665

https://tomwoods.com/ep-2665-we-saved-our-son-by-ditching-the-hospital/

Will Boytim’s son drowned several years ago, and his experience with the medical establishment was harrowing yet revealing and instructive — they knew nothing about the kind of treatment that would eventually save him (outside the hospital), and “organ donation” ghouls kept implying that they should just let the boy go — think of all the lives they could save!

DrownedBaby.org

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Listening to this podcast episode was mind blowing.  

Especially listen to the Czech doctor, who went along with the treatment plan, to humor the parents and figuring it couldn’t do any harm.  He rewrote “the book” (i.e., the standard plan for drowning victims) based on what he saw with his own eyes. 

Points that I took away:

  •  Never EVER leave your child alone in a hospital;
  • You MUST be prepared to be a VOCAL “patient advocate”;
  • Have an organized way to keep a record of EVERYTHING that impacts you or your patient;
  • Be familiar with, and keep your own, SOAP <<Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan>> notes (a highly structured format for documenting the progress of a patient during treatment)
  • Have pre-set up an effective communications tool to keep my family and friends informed about conditions with the minimum of effort. (I recommend Caring Bridge. It’s free and puts readers in control of how they receive information.  I have one for myself with two co-contributors for when I’m not able to update either.)
  • With the Patient, it is important to stay optimistic and positive. To a certain extent, I agree that the Universe does supply what you focus on; so NEVER let patient see anything but your “happy face”.
  • With everyone else, it is important to stay realistic and objective.  Facts only; not opinions since you as PA are not an “expert”.  
  • But with the Medical People (i.e., doctors; specialists; nurses; bureaucrats), you ARE the “expert” in your patient (i.e. complete history with lots of data).
  • As her PiA (I call it being the “patient advocate”; been called PIA), I keep all the notes, do the RXes, nd generally fuss over her like a mother hen.

Clearly in my mind, the medical establishment is NOT your benevolent friend with your or your patient s best interest at heart.

I should write up my experiences with my sainted wife’s medical struggles as I tried to be her patient advocate.

Maybe it might help all future patient advocates get ready for their mission!

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HEALTHCARE: US Maternal Mortality Surged More Than 27% Over 5 Years

Sunday, June 15, 2025

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/06/10/us-maternal-mortality-surged.aspx?ui=f9839516412491bb1e06c9e47058c6fb81b9b9b6acedf03e65e93dfdb263c1b9&sd=20210317&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20250610&foDate=false&mid=DM1759206&rid=313130735

US Maternal Mortality Surged More Than 27% Over 5 Years, NIH Study Reveals
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
June 10, 2025

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What Does the Latest Data Reveal About Postpartum Deaths?

The featured study, published in JAMA Network Open, analyzed pregnancy-related deaths in the United States from 2018 to 2022 using national birth and death certificate data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Unlike many previous studies, it also examined “late maternal deaths,” which are deaths from pregnancy-related causes that occur more than 42 days and up to one year after delivery.3

• Maternal deaths increased sharply in just five years — {Extraneous Deleted}.

• Where a woman lives made a major difference — {Extraneous Deleted}

• Disparities by race and ethnicity were equally striking — {Extraneous Deleted}

• One-third of all pregnancy-related deaths occurred after six weeks — {Extraneous Deleted}

• Postpartum care often ends too early — {Extraneous Deleted}

The researchers emphasized that identifying and addressing the causes of late maternal death is essential to lowering pregnancy-related mortality in the U.S. “We cannot take our eyes off of maternal health right now,” said Dr. Rose Molina, an OB-GYN at Harvard Medical School and co-author of the study. “If anything, we need to not just maintain focus, but actually increase investment in maternal health.”4

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Seems like the Medical Establishment has taken their collective eyes “off the ball”!

Moms need a longer recovery period?

I like the advice to track your own symptoms or data.  Sounds like a good job for Dad’s or Grandparents to be the “Patient Advocate” in this case for the new mom and the offspring.

Individual responsibility is a little L libertarian “value”.  Don’t depend on the doctors, physician assistants, nurses, or their staffs to be the only ones watching out for you and yours.

When I read the sad stories of bad things happening resulting from postpartum depression and wonder where was all of mom’s “help”?

Sigh!

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HEALTHCARE: Amazing that Brain tumour diagnosis could be made within hours

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/21/brain-tumour-diagnosis-could-be-made-within-hours-say-researchers?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nautilus-newsletter

Cancer research
Brain tumour diagnosis could be made within hours, say researchers
New testing method means treatments could start sooner, possibly before patient leaves the operating table
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
Tue 20 May 2025 19.01 EDT

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A new method for diagnosing brain tumours could cut the time patients wait for treatments by weeks to hours and raise the possibility of novel types of therapy, researchers have said.

According to the Brain Tumour Charity, about 740,000 people around the world are diagnosed with a brain tumour each year, around half of which are non-cancerous. Once a brain tumour is found, a sample is taken during surgery and cells are immediately studied under a microscope by pathologists, who can often identify the type of tumour. However, genetic testing helps to make or confirm the diagnosis.

“Almost all of the samples will go for further testing anyway. But for some of them it will be absolutely crucial, because you won’t know what you’re looking at,” said Prof Matthew Loose, a co-author of the research from the University of Nottingham.

Loose noted that in the UK there could be a lag of eight weeks or longer between surgery and the full results of genetic tests, delaying the confirmation of a diagnosis and hence treatment such as chemotherapy.

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And there are other possibilities. “If you could identify, as we think we might be able to, the specific tumour type fast enough, and drugs were available that could be administered during surgery directly to the tumour area, then you have opened up a whole new class of potential treatment options,” he said.

In addition, he said, rapid diagnoses could help ensure patients are recruited into relevant clinical trials for new treatments as quickly as possible.

Dr Matt Williams, a consultant oncologist at Imperial College healthcare NHS trust, who was not involved in the work, said while faster diagnoses were welcome and reduced the period of uncertainty for patients, the main question was how the new technology could be used to change care.

“At the moment [intra-operative treatments] don’t really exist, although several groups are working on it ,” he said. “But if [we] want to unlock these approaches, we need to be able to make those diagnoses in the operating theatre to then be able to deploy these treatments.” 

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Now that’s impressive.  And, it can completely change treatment and outcomes.  At the very least, it can reassure the patients with slow tumors to be reassured and those with fast ones to be expedited. 

And, intra-operative treatments will surely soon follow.

Kudos and congrats to the team.

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HEALTHCARE: Time to repeal ’86 SHIELD ACT

Thursday, May 8, 2025

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/05/04/whats-the-real-story-behind-vaccines.aspx

What’s the Real Story Behind Vaccines?
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola  —  May 04, 2025

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The 1986 Act shields vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits, which may reduce their incentive to conduct thorough safety testing. This could influence your health decisions, encouraging you to research vaccine safety independently to protect your well-being.

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“MAY”?

Are you kidding me?

It’s apparent that “ACT” alone is responsible for BIG PHARMA’s failure to do ANY safety testing.

And the number of childhood vaccinations “required” has exploded from a few to almost 100.

Sorry, but RFK jr, for all his wild ideas, is NOT automatically wrong to point out that AUTISM rates are skyrocketing and COVID vaxes are killing us.

Time to repeal ’86 SHIELD ACT.

Let the vaccine injured have their day in court.  Where’s an “Erin Brockovitch” bitching about the fate of all those harmed?

Argh!

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