Thank you so much for cross-posting A Midwestern Doctor's (AMD) substack. I've earned my online medical "degree" from your substack, AMD's substack, and others. Always love learning from great critical thinkers!
Dr. Kory, you generally are funnier than AMD, but you both are so very amazing and greatly appreciated by readers who want to learn and do their own critical thinking. AMD is particularly adept at explaining how he tests his own hypotheses rigorously. You both are great teachers. Dr. Ryan Cole and others remind us often that "doctor" means "teacher".
But have you ever heard it when Kory & Marik get together? They could be a stand up comedy routine! I listen to their Weekly Webinars on FLCCC’s website while I’m doing boring chores at the house or while driving. I’m always cracking UP! They’re both hilarious, and Marik’s humor is so dry. I hope to meet them both someday.
About 2.5 years ago, we pulled the kids out of elementary school and started homeschooling. I’ve been impressed and amazed at how self-motivated they are when they get to determine their schedule and do work in any order that suits them as opposed to being told what to do and when. But now the oldest is ready for high school and I’m torn about whether to send him back (for the socialization and for subjects beyond me ability.) I’ve had no issue skipping Jr High. For me, Jr High was a time of fist fights, anxiety, sexual experimentation I wasn’t psychologically ready for, drug experimentation, cigarette smoking and stealing…all bad things, especially for kids. With my kids, I’ve never heard either one so much as utter a swear word or even get angry with another human for more than a few minutes. I cherish their sweet innocence but wonder if they need some real world wake up?
As you know, many options for socialization. Ask yourself what kind of socialization do you want them to have? You know what’s going on in most local schools. Kids confused about what sex they are. Kids being persuaded to pretend to be someone they aren’t, offered hormones, and parents are not told. Teachers - not all but some - who think that the color of one’s skin, or one’s “gender identity” is more important than one’s character or work ethic.
Is *that* the socialization you want for your kids?
Same! My guys went back in 9th but only bc they wanted to. If they hadn’t wanted to, I would have been fine too. I let them know they weren’t trapped there & id pull them out if they didn’t like it. Ask them what they want. Also read John Taylor Gatto & John Holt’s books about self directed learning. And Gabor Mate’s Hold Onto Your Kids.
I think "socialization" is fairly worthless. This is like thinking hanging around in an insane asylum will help you. I can't think of anything that 4 years of high school did for me (long ago as it was), as far as getting along with people. Chimp-brains, angst, hidden standards. It's not really applicable for any professional setting (well, maybe customer service).
Your kids aren't missing much. Prom is kind of lame, homecoming, HS football. Big deal. More bad influences than good, I'd say.
I agree! When people asked me how my kids would get 'socialized,' I'd tell them the last thing I wanted was for a bunch of nine and eleven year olds to be teaching them how humans act. (Granted our kids didn't really enjoy being around most kids when they were kids... I didn't either though.)
Now that they're 19, 19, & 17, I can see a difference. People are often telling us how great our kids are, like we had something big to do with it. All we did was get out of their way and let go of the fear that if we didn't micromanage their whole lives, things would go badly.
The thing I noticed most when my kids were learning outside the public schools was I actually enjoyed being with them, and they got along better than most siblings, because they'd lost that age discrimination thing that kids pick up in school.
They were scared, when they were home, that they were 'behind' school kids. My older son wanted the whole high school experience he'd seen on TV. He's an extrovert. Once they got back to school, they were shocked at how not behind they were and how little effort most kids put into their work, if they did any at all, and like you said, all the 'experiences' weren't as fun as the movies made them look.
My homeschool group had a scavenger hunt/fun night/fancy eats night out for their prom alternative… my daughter and all her friends dressed up and had a blast! 😁👍🏽 Some kids had dates, some didn’t and everyone had a good time together…
Now that’s what I wish that I could have had instead…. 😎
I went to a Catholic all girls' school and loved it. But if I had kids, I'd wait until college for them to experience life on their own. I doubt most colleges have bullying, anti-social behavior or peer pressure and classwork is taken far more seriously
Jr. high is just the beginning of all the ugly crap… CRT, transgender nonsense (identify as a cat if ya want!), harder drugs, hard bullying ( I had 3 young ladies ask me to beg their mom’s to homeschool them because of the sexual bullying going on in high school!) 😳😱😱😱
Unfortunately things are NOT getting better in public schools today… my husband is a school teacher and every day he comes home with another story… and NOT a good one…. 😵🔥 he is hoping to retire before it gets any worse… 🙏🏽
This is our 23rd year of home education and we have always been painfully honest about current events, issues of morality, politics, medical issues, religion, etc… My kids are a wealth of information and our talks have had a bunch of learning on both sides… I love our talks… 💖
We even talk about the situations their friends get into… ( What NOT to do and how about those consequences…? )
It’s up to us parents to prepare them for the future… deep discussions and learning from the good and the bad have been so important…
I never wanted to put them back into the Cesspool when I have kids coming up to me on a regular basis wanting to GET OUT of the high school drama that surrounds them everyday…
Many kids are constantly telling my kiddos how they wish their parents would homeschool them.
It sounds like you are doing a WONDERFUL job… happy, well adjusted kiddos… Why change?
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Good luck and many prayers and blessings for you and those precious babies 😊
I got 5 1/2 more years of homeschooling to go Lord willing 😊👍🏽💖 I wonder if I’ll get a trip to Hawaii for my pension? 🤣🤣🤣
My hubby started in the public schools around 30 years ago… what truly surprises me are some of the parents (apathy is really a thing!) A lot of these kids that have come up to me to talk with THEIR parents about homeschooling have legitimate problems happening in the public schools…
One young lady was being cornered by several boys and had been touched inappropriately several times after being cornered. She was frightened… She was angry…. And I went to her mother immediately… 😱😱😱 Her mother was completely aware of the issue and she just blew the whole situation off…. I was completely flabbergasted at this point! Long story short, I finally told the girl to scream, fight, do WHATEVER you have to do to stay safe. The administration at the school knew what was happening but couldn’t provide protection for her… 🔥🔥🔥
Here is another sad part, I was discussing this with some friends of mine at church and after bringing it up with their daughters at home, they were shocked to hear that many of their daughters or their daughter’s friends had gone through some of these same things! Most of the young ladies were “embarrassed“ or “afraid” or just thought that was something they were just supposed to put up with or “go through in high school.” 😳😱😡😡😡
With the transgender crap going on and boys being allowed in the girls’ restrooms, I can only imagine how MUCH WORSE this is going to get…
Sorry, venting… the stories I could tell… 😞
Anyway, bottom line… please everyone, homeschool your precious babies… there are so many great choices out there… if I can do it, ANYONE can!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💖
And I sure wish that I could write as well as you doc… 😁
The Homeschool Legal Defense Association has done a number of studies over the years. One important finding is that education of parents has a HUGE impact on academic results of Public Schooled kids, but very little for home schooled, who average around the 80th percentile even from parents who did not graduate high school. THE LESS "QUALIFIED" YOU ARE TO HOME SCHOOL, THE MORE IMPORTANT IT IS THAT YOU DO IT.
I am really hoping California's vaccine laws and the COVD-19 lockdowns will make homeschooling much more popular. In addition to the benfits many children get from it, it also places extremely necessary competition on the public schools.
You can successfully homeschool through high school! Visit HSLDA’s website for helps with transcript preparation. Follow your state’s graduation requirements. Typically a 4-year college is looking for 3-4 years of grammar/composition/literature, history, science, and math plus foreign language and electives. HSLDA and others offer online academies for high school classes. Also, consider using your local community college to gain concurrent enrollment credits. Some states have programs to pay for these college classes taken in high school, via charter schools or part-time public school programs. Most state schools will accept community college credits, and your child can enter a 4-year institution with 1-2 years of college behind them. In many states, school districts are required to allow students to participate in high school athletics at their local school. Homeschooling through high school allows your children to maintain some of that innocence, observe the real world from an objective vantage point, and pursue their interests and calling without other external pressures. There are many good curriculum companies out there. Sonlight, Memoria Press, and Veritas Press are 3 good ones, but there are many.
I tend to think you should complexity think about the whole situation. What is your kids like? What does he want? What is the school option or options like? How can you make the process of exploring this a valuable experience for him and your family? I have a now 17 year old who experienced a number of different educational environments. I realized some things. Every community (including school communities) has its own culture, and the relationships both individual and overall are very important. When my son was an adolescent he wanted to try regular school. First he went to a charter that had excellent culture, and he was happy and thrived. Despite not having much math experience, he learned quickly and became a Student of the Year candidate. This school closed after a year when some bad actors stole over a million dollars. The next charter school was attended for a few months, but it was terrible. In that time he became convinced that he was stupid and not good at math and most subjects. He internalized what to me was obviously a problem of the school. Bullying was endemic, and he ended up in a physical altercation, which was heretofore entirely out of character and was suspended. I was actually advocating for him to leave, but, despite a long history of being outside of the school system, he allowed his views to be limited to what was projected upon him. I arranged for him visits to three other schools and encounters with some people who were on different educational paths. This allowed him to expand his view and move himself to leave the bad school. The next school he chose was very creative and he enjoyed it a great deal. It was only ended when the pandemic lockdowns forced our family to move. I later found out that at this school there had been a large weed culture, and he had actually had some just outside the school walls. Luckily he did not appear to like this experience of smoking, but I realized how readily culture can be changed in an individual with exposure to especially immersed environments, and how important is a strong and stable sense of self (maybe could have termed this otherwise). My son then attended an elite prep school for almost two years and then chose to homeschool after identifying for himself that education in that context was a very limited concept, and he wanted more for himself.
I don't know where you live and what's available there, but I had access to two different programs (that I was aware of) which offered classes for middle school and high school homeschool students for a reasonable fee per class. (Primarily high school students) These were similar to college classes, although usually even fewer hours spent in class. Most classes met once a week (math and science often twice a week), and the students were responsible for the rest of the work. These classes were taught by moms who were former teachers, current professionals, retired professionals, artists, etc. One of the programs had been ongoing for years, and the quality of the classes was superior. My youngest has significant learning disabilities and I felt that it would be a disservice to put him directly into college without some transition. Gradually increasing his number of daily classes helped with his sensory overload issues - while helping him become accustomed to the expectations of more rigid deadlines. The teachers in the program were gracious and tried to work around his learning disabilities. When he reached college,he was well prepared. My oldest son, after being bullied in a private school - did just homeschool with me for 8th grade, and we were both miserable. I put him in this program, and he loved it. He had always been social, and the kids were wonderful. There was a lunch period, and he could be around kids who weren't being mean to him. I liked it because I wasn't the one enforcing deadlines and grading his papers. (I was shocked how he could have been getting decent grades in private school - with his abysmal writing skills!) By the time he graduated, his writing skills had greatly improved, and he had found more joy in learning.
I would recommend that you look around for these types of programs. Both of mine were available through area churches. One church allowed outside people to attend, (my favorite program), and the other was restricted to church members. I have a feeling that since COVID there are more available, including co-ops.
Jason, don't know if you're following still the comments, but because I shared a lot in my previous comment to you, something has been bothering me that I didn't mention (not intentionally) and ethically want to do so. I'd message you directly, but, not sure how that works in substack. So, my 17 year old, when he went to the elite prep school for nearly 2 years, there was an unexpected problem. He enrolled during 2020 when it was uncertain whether schools would be in person. Our family had moved to a new place, the spring of remote learning had been hard on him, he was at that time stuck on the idea that he had missed vital learning while not in school and was determined to be in a regular school, and he was lonely. The school was Catholic, and we gambled it would retain some independence of process that would fall in favor of staying open to in-person. In the time that he attended, he took as gospel not the religious part, but the ideological part. He was given a "truth" (in his mind) that mirrored the best ascription to the mainstream narrative. This brought in a huge rupture in our family relationship, as he was taught how he should interpret my behaviors (not masking, not vaccinating) and thoughts (skepticism of the narrative and desire to explore the points upon which the narrative rests). Most of us in this forum have probably been through the violence that these past years have done to some of our relationships, ruptures and easily triggered reactiveness. I regret that I had not been aware and not considered the ideological education that could occur. I now have a young man determined to get that shot upon turning 18 and am unable to broach the topic with triggering him. I had another prior element which had damaged my relationship with my son, so it was not only the school experience which factored into the rupture. It sounds like your children probably have a more solid and stable attachment in your family than unfortunately mine does, but, I would still consider very very carefully what assumed truths of a particular school culture might be and how your child might respond, and what that might mean for your family. At the most diplomatic, every community and institution will bring with it assumed ways of doing things, thinking about things, and processing things. Much may be unconscious for members and possibly taken up without realizing it by any new members. I prize very highly my ability to maintain the perspective of a foreigner in most situations, such that I can hopefully try to see the things that may be difficult to see, and have some choices according to my awareness and intactness. My son is not me, and did not go into that place and respond as I would have, which was a failing of awareness on my part. I have a young child as well, that I think it unlikely I would risk to a school.
If you don’t know them you might LOVE looking into the world of & interviews with John T Gatto & John Holt.
After I was hurt by two “safe & effective” pharmaceutical products made by Johnson & Johnson, we had a whole-life meltdown starting with the decline of my physical & mental health & thus the loss of my career and the job keeping us afloat.
My kids (10,10 & 8 at the time) then showed they too were under significant stress at school. Not knowing what else to do when my 5th grader started talking suicide, we pulled them all out of school).
But being a creative, I knew I couldn’t be one of those “institutional school at home” moms so I was so stressed I was ruining their lives.
I was curious about the history of compulsory education in the US & started learning, which led me to the teachings of Holt & Gatto. I read everything they wrote & listened to every interview/speech. Gatto & I actually became pen pals. We had the kids do “self directed learning” (aka unschooling) & it was shocking but it did what I hoped: it fostered a love of learning & turned their curiosity back on. They wanted to go back to school in 9th grade & eased back in with no problems and are all ready to head off to college, the twins receiving significant academic & merit scholarship! All this because of giving them back their autonomy when it came to learning.
Everyone with kids in their lives whom they love needs to investigate Holt, Gatto & unschooling.
This process also helped me be more skeptical when the Covid news first started.
I wrote Gatto a big thank-you letter after reading his first book. He'd had a stroke but he wrote me back long, encouraging emails. I really appreciated it and was sad to see that he had passed away. He helped me related to kids better, because he showed me they're not little half-baked non-humans who need to be shaped. Now I teach kids ages 2-13 to ice skate and play hockey, and it's so fun. All credit to Gatto.
Students in medical schools live through the idea of obedience and worshipping of authority (the professors). They have the fear of not graduating and never get their medical license if they don't follow the general group thinking. Those who dare are ostracized by the others as black sheep. This feeling and fear of being criticized and persecuted by their peers persist through their whole professional life. They turn themselves blind for what is not the present group consensus and even the crazy idea of making human ribosomes artificially produce a synthetic protein is passively accepted and promoted, if it is the wish of the group.
Yes, those are the ones that have never abandoned their critical thinking skills and destine or God shows them (through many means) that there are other ways to practice medicine.
I have a genetic connective tissue disorder. I figured it out on my own in my early 40s after seeing many doctors about various problems stemming from it for years. None of them was able to see and understand the significance in the obvious signs of it because they all were following some sort of mental checklist, apparently. Because it’s said to be rare they disbelieved their own eyes.
So when the story of Covid first broke, I was aware I was once again in a position where I would need to be my own doctor. The rushed frenzy for a so-called “vaccine” was bizarre and highly suspicious. Sadly, all my doctors fully support the lethal jab and were shocked when I told them I’d never take it.
Their training has failed them and their patients. I expected better from them but now have only pity for them.
Im so glad you knew! (P.S. We have cockatiels and other birds too!)
Same here about the missed CTD. Is yours EDS? I was not told I might have something wrong with my connective tissue until I was 40, even though I'd had over a dozen injuries and surgeries, and even then it was a physical therapist to suggested I look into it, not a doctor.
I'd gotten some toxic hip replacement devices at age 39. My gut knew it was the hips making me very, very ill, but for years I didn't trust my own insight. Having been raised by a doctor, I kept trusting that the doctors knew better than I did, yet I was so sick, so neurologically unwell and unable to stand more than a few seconds without searing pain.
I took off investigating on my own finally, attending civil trials of people who'd sued JnJ over my same hip product, interviewing other patients with the hips and whistleblowers and digging through bellwether trial documents. I even went to JnJ's shareholders meeting myself, still naive enough to think, "Maybe they really don't know these things are hurting people."
Then I wanted to help fix all that I'd seen was so wrong (mainly our FDA being 'industry captured) and ended up in DC, lobbying lawmakers and the FDA for improvements to medical device safety and for pre-surgery testing to see if patients were hypersensitive to the materials the surgeons were going to be putting in their bodies... only to find most of the legislators were industry captured too (campaigns funded by Pharma dollars)!
I was so angry that I'd seen all this fraud and collusion, yet there was no way to fix it. Then the covid thing hit in March 2020, I was so glad the toxic hips had helped me see the truth about Pharma, the FDA, etc. I started reading the studies myself, the pre-EUA submissions of Pfizer and Moderna... It was such a racket... what the headlines and talking heads said, vs. what the studies had really been investigating.
I'd had a 20-year career in news before the hips ruined it, and many of my news friends, all working in different cities were telling me the same thing: "Since March 2020, everything's changed in our business." Some were mad. Some were confused. Some were shocked. One said, "I don't know what this is we've been doing since March 2020, but it's not news." Many left the industry permanently. Some stuck with it, and I really lost respect that they just went along, even though they knew the truth.
I think docs also miss things because they're all specialized. They don't know us. Nobody really looks at the whole person anymore... the way my step-dad could, owning his own practice in the 1950s-80s. If he wanted to spend two hours with a patient, he did! Corporations are running the game now, and even the good doctors now have patient quotas, etc. There's not enough time to dig deep, even if they do care. My husband (a CPA by training who'd worked mainly in small business) was encouraged to apply for Practice Manager positions. A friend (a CPA) kept telling him the practices wanted to hire CPAs to make sure they 'optimized' every patient visit. I'm so glad he never got the jobs.
Individuals with EDS (and CTD) tend to have a constitution that is much more sensitive to a lot of things, and this is almost never recognized in the medical field whereas in the integrative field patients like this are very common.
I was SO NAIVE & trusting, even 20 years into my news career, just because I was an honest person, was surrounded by honest people and had a great man who’d raised me after a long career being a wonderful doctor who cared deeply for his patients. I really had to learn a terrible lesson the hard way & my family is still suffering as a result, but I remind myself I could be dead. This cobalt alloy crap has killed several people I know, all my age (late 40s/early 50s).
Btw, I’m looking into high dose vitamin C as an EDS treatment & taking collagen every day plus water walking and ice skating (in full hockey gear) to keep muscle tone. Does anything help your pain? Make sure you get checked for nickel allergy b4 you ever get an implanted anything. I’m seeing most EDSers have a nickel hypersensitivity.
I wonder what homeopathy would have to offer you all? It is a vastly different way of medicine… very person-oriented.
I wonder if homeopathic cobaltum in some form (there are several, I suspect, and I do not know anything about them… except one is also useful post-radiation exposure) might help the cobalt reactions. A well-trained homeopath may be able to offer insight.
A Chiropractor ruptured a cervical disc so I have a titanium plate and four screws, plus donor bone. No problems yet.
As for pain, I take Neurontin and Flexeril for cervical caused migraines. Just got Eubrelvy so am trying that out. Other than meds as needed, staying physically active is key for reducing pain for me. And I can’t sleep on my left side or I’ll throw my neck out but what else is new in EDS land?
As for your story, that’s horrific and criminal. To have both EDS and be seriously injured from fraudulent implants? That’s a heavy cross you bear. I’m so sorry at the unfairness of it all. Your news story reminded me of the devastation caused by the “vaccines.” The magnitude of human suffering caused by those who can prevent it is beyond my comprehension.
The only solace I can offer is this:
“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”
I have had a few patients who got extremely ill from cobalt chromium implants. The one positive thing I can say on this issue is that the medical field is more open to this being a problem now.
I have had a surprising number who developed serious issues after chiropractic, although I have never met someone who had the dreaded cervical spine rupture (I've only heard about it from doctors who had to take care of patients afterwards). I know at the osteopathic medical schools they teach not to do that technique on individuals with ligamentous laxity, but I am not sure if that is taught at chiropractic ones.
I have a family member whose symptoms point clearly to a particular medical diagnosis. But because her labs (limited as they are, the ones being checked, which is actually not the full panoply of labs that ought to be checked) are normal, her dr has no diagnostic “bucket” in which to place her. And thus she is receiving no answers for her concerns. Except for yet more tests that, as another commenter mentions, are borne out of seeing her as so many independent body systems rather than one unified whole.
Sadly, it seems that drs for some years now have been trained to see patients very narrowly. And not to be curious.
I have another family member who has suffered significant harm that likely could have been averted, had a dr or two simply been CURIOUS about why this person developed very extensive, premature disease - and gone looking for aggravating co-existing conditions. As it was, this family member figured out some but unfortunately not all of the co-existing conditions on his own. The one not recognized eventually, in relatively short time, contributed to yet more, likely irreversible harm. All it would have taken was a genuinely CURIOUS dr who was willing to think outside The Guidelines.
Thank you for your comment. I am from UK but I have no pity for the doctors who misdiagnosed me. Ignorant fools they are, paid by taxpayers to poison people. Last time I went to the GP the silly doctor was wearing a mask even though i knew they were pointless and had done since 2020 when I worked out what was going on with Covid a.k.a. the 'flu re-branded.
This explains in part what caused my facial palsy, but the treatment has no doubt exacerbated matters. Not once did the doctors, any of them, suggest diet was an issue.
Dr. Kory, you very astutely identified many errors committed in educating and training doctors. However, I do not think these are the result of ignorance or a mistake in judgment. I believe they are features of a plan to brainwash doctors and other professionals. It is a plan to change all of society. I wrote an article to explain what is happening and what to do.
“ I spent years teaching post-graduate fellows critical care medicine and was highly regarded for my teaching methods. The main thing I did differently from my colleagues was to explain my thought process for each patient to my trainees and highlight where I was uncertain, rather than making a few pronouncements about each patient that was expected to be taken as medical gospel. I always thought it was quite strange I was one of the only people who taught in this way, and I found once in training my graduates were much more equipped to handle challenging cases than their colleagues.”
Sadly, this way of teaching is not likely rewarded by the current administrative and reimbursement structures, as this way of teaching requires more TIME.
It is indeed odd that more drs do not teach this way. Particularly with all the lip service given nowadays to “patient-centered” care and “shared” decision making. Which implies that patients are not uniform, nor are disease processes uniform.
Of course, many of those drs were probably not taught this way. Just follow the rules. No reason to discuss.
Seems so many docs nowadays are swamped with trying to see patients and navigate the EMR, they barely have time left for ANY sort of teaching, let alone teaching that is truly interactive and thoughtful.
Try posting your videos to Rumble. They do not seem to pull anything except for pornography or advocating violence. There is an embed code option, which I use to share videos.
Since social media websites consider "Fact Checks" to be a valuable addition to their site shouldn't the sites be changing for this service?
Those who have the money can pay to see the "Fact Checks", while those who are poor would be forced to use the site without seeing the valuable "Fact Checks".
Fun fact I had to share before reading since it's at the very top of a long piece and will be forgotten. Quackwatch .org have a long history waging war on "anti-vax" parents.
Run by Stephen Barrett, M.D., a retired psychiatrist who resides near Chapel Hill, North Carolina & details for his featured writers and pharma shills is in Mathew Crawford's Campfire wiki. :~)
The function of logic (the set of necessary conditions of meaning or ‘making sense’) is not to tell us what the truth is, but to delimit what cannot be true by identifying nonsense. There is a narrow category of a priori truths: truths that apply necessarily and always because to deny them would be nonsensical.
There is nothing subjective about logic; if we ‘apply logic’ subjectively we are committing a logical fallacy. There are more than 100 recognised logical fallacies, but they are all reducible to just 3 laws: the law of non-contradiction (two opposite claims cannot be true at the same time and in the same respect, or, no claim can be both true and false at the same time and in the same respect), the law of excluded middle (a claim can be either true or false with no intermediate possibility), and the law of identity (everything is identical ONLY to itself, or, no two things are identical in every respect). The 3 laws are in fact just different articulations of the same One law of logical sense/meaning, and one could simply rely on non-contradiction to reach the same conclusions. Every misleading claim, every assertion of certainty or truth where the truth is not certain, is associated with a logical error.
The 3 laws are not taught at schools, apart from University courses in philosophy or law; institutional dogmatism and the fallacy of ‘trusted sources’ are taught instead, under the guise of “critical thinking”. Understanding of the laws of logic makes one powerful, able to identify and defeat lies; the lack of such understanding makes one weak and psychologically dependent, a vessel for propaganda.
"...the law of non-contradiction (two opposite claims cannot be true at the same time and in the same respect, or, no claim can be both true and false at the same time and in the same respect)..."
You are implying that observation of X behaving like a particle and observation of X behaving like a wave are “opposite claim in the same respect”. This is false. The opposite claim to “X is a particle” is “X is not a particle” at the same time ; the opposite claim of “X is a wave” is “X is not a wave” at the same time. There is no contradiction in the proposition that a system X exhibits particle-like and wave-like properties simultaneously. If particle theorists make contradictory claims (yes, sometimes they do) this does not invalidate the law of non-contradiction but only their claims.
This is exactly what makes my blood boil when I hear unfounded claims (the You Know What is safe in pregnancy because Dr Collins said so and I trust Dr Collins) that have ZERO support. Other than this nonsense appeal to Trusted Authority. 🤯
And yes, I heard allegedly thoughtful, Christian bioethicist physician say exactly that. And I wondered how he would so willingly trust Dr Collins on that issue when Dr Collins claims to be a Christian yet has no problem with abortion. Not to raise the abortion question. But merely to point out that Dr Collins shouldn’t have been even a Trusted Authority, for this other physician, in the first place. 😠
We need to embrace a new culture in order to fix this. As Balaji Srinivasan says, “Innovation follows culture.” For example the late 1800’s cultural shift that “cleanliness is next to godliness” lead to the invention of sewers and running water. We need something similar. A new code.
We need to relentlessly and en masse demand transparency in the systems that govern over our lives. The lack of transparency leads to corruption. And that is where we are now.
We need a TRANSPARENCY MOVEMENT. And then we need to - decentralize everything.
Marvelous article! I just spent a few days with my nephew and was infuriated as he used several of the techniques you outline to "win" debates with me. He rapidly focused on searching for weak points as he ignored what I was saying. He also asserted premises that were narrow and not proven to frame his arguments. I came away thinking he was not very bright but it's more like he lacks curiosity. Or maybe to entertain the idea the vaccines could change one's DNA is just too unpleasant and it's more comfortable to believe the herd is correct.
Thank you so much for cross-posting A Midwestern Doctor's (AMD) substack. I've earned my online medical "degree" from your substack, AMD's substack, and others. Always love learning from great critical thinkers!
Dr. Kory, you generally are funnier than AMD, but you both are so very amazing and greatly appreciated by readers who want to learn and do their own critical thinking. AMD is particularly adept at explaining how he tests his own hypotheses rigorously. You both are great teachers. Dr. Ryan Cole and others remind us often that "doctor" means "teacher".
Links for sharing:
- A Midwestern Doctor: https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/
- Pierre Kory's Medical Musings: https://pierrekory.substack.com/
But have you ever heard it when Kory & Marik get together? They could be a stand up comedy routine! I listen to their Weekly Webinars on FLCCC’s website while I’m doing boring chores at the house or while driving. I’m always cracking UP! They’re both hilarious, and Marik’s humor is so dry. I hope to meet them both someday.
Oh, yes! Kory and Marik are absolutely a riot! I never miss a FLCCC webinar.
I was referring to A Midwestern Doctor, who is wonderful but more serious in his approach. Sorry if I was unclear. I love them all!
I'm much less serious in real life ;)
Maybe one day, we will all get to meet you. And it will truly be an honor. You are brilliant.
Thank you for your excellent, thoughtful articles. They are much appreciated. Wonderful to see the cross post on Dr Kory's Substack!
I’ve met them both. And it was truly one of the biggest honors of my entire 63 years of life.
Thank you too!
About 2.5 years ago, we pulled the kids out of elementary school and started homeschooling. I’ve been impressed and amazed at how self-motivated they are when they get to determine their schedule and do work in any order that suits them as opposed to being told what to do and when. But now the oldest is ready for high school and I’m torn about whether to send him back (for the socialization and for subjects beyond me ability.) I’ve had no issue skipping Jr High. For me, Jr High was a time of fist fights, anxiety, sexual experimentation I wasn’t psychologically ready for, drug experimentation, cigarette smoking and stealing…all bad things, especially for kids. With my kids, I’ve never heard either one so much as utter a swear word or even get angry with another human for more than a few minutes. I cherish their sweet innocence but wonder if they need some real world wake up?
They will get real world wake up eventually.
As you know, many options for socialization. Ask yourself what kind of socialization do you want them to have? You know what’s going on in most local schools. Kids confused about what sex they are. Kids being persuaded to pretend to be someone they aren’t, offered hormones, and parents are not told. Teachers - not all but some - who think that the color of one’s skin, or one’s “gender identity” is more important than one’s character or work ethic.
Is *that* the socialization you want for your kids?
Same! My guys went back in 9th but only bc they wanted to. If they hadn’t wanted to, I would have been fine too. I let them know they weren’t trapped there & id pull them out if they didn’t like it. Ask them what they want. Also read John Taylor Gatto & John Holt’s books about self directed learning. And Gabor Mate’s Hold Onto Your Kids.
I’m so happy we did this!
I think "socialization" is fairly worthless. This is like thinking hanging around in an insane asylum will help you. I can't think of anything that 4 years of high school did for me (long ago as it was), as far as getting along with people. Chimp-brains, angst, hidden standards. It's not really applicable for any professional setting (well, maybe customer service).
Your kids aren't missing much. Prom is kind of lame, homecoming, HS football. Big deal. More bad influences than good, I'd say.
I agree! When people asked me how my kids would get 'socialized,' I'd tell them the last thing I wanted was for a bunch of nine and eleven year olds to be teaching them how humans act. (Granted our kids didn't really enjoy being around most kids when they were kids... I didn't either though.)
Now that they're 19, 19, & 17, I can see a difference. People are often telling us how great our kids are, like we had something big to do with it. All we did was get out of their way and let go of the fear that if we didn't micromanage their whole lives, things would go badly.
The thing I noticed most when my kids were learning outside the public schools was I actually enjoyed being with them, and they got along better than most siblings, because they'd lost that age discrimination thing that kids pick up in school.
They were scared, when they were home, that they were 'behind' school kids. My older son wanted the whole high school experience he'd seen on TV. He's an extrovert. Once they got back to school, they were shocked at how not behind they were and how little effort most kids put into their work, if they did any at all, and like you said, all the 'experiences' weren't as fun as the movies made them look.
agreed- maturation and character development are more important in this world
Challenges and creating self motivation are extremely important for success.
The PROM… definitely not a great memory! 😑😑😑
My homeschool group had a scavenger hunt/fun night/fancy eats night out for their prom alternative… my daughter and all her friends dressed up and had a blast! 😁👍🏽 Some kids had dates, some didn’t and everyone had a good time together…
Now that’s what I wish that I could have had instead…. 😎
On average, home schooled children I've met are emotionally healthier and often more socially adept but it's also very much case by case.
So true… we are all individuals… all of my 6 kiddos are SO different from each other in every way imaginable.
I went to a Catholic all girls' school and loved it. But if I had kids, I'd wait until college for them to experience life on their own. I doubt most colleges have bullying, anti-social behavior or peer pressure and classwork is taken far more seriously
Jr. high is just the beginning of all the ugly crap… CRT, transgender nonsense (identify as a cat if ya want!), harder drugs, hard bullying ( I had 3 young ladies ask me to beg their mom’s to homeschool them because of the sexual bullying going on in high school!) 😳😱😱😱
Unfortunately things are NOT getting better in public schools today… my husband is a school teacher and every day he comes home with another story… and NOT a good one…. 😵🔥 he is hoping to retire before it gets any worse… 🙏🏽
This is our 23rd year of home education and we have always been painfully honest about current events, issues of morality, politics, medical issues, religion, etc… My kids are a wealth of information and our talks have had a bunch of learning on both sides… I love our talks… 💖
We even talk about the situations their friends get into… ( What NOT to do and how about those consequences…? )
It’s up to us parents to prepare them for the future… deep discussions and learning from the good and the bad have been so important…
I never wanted to put them back into the Cesspool when I have kids coming up to me on a regular basis wanting to GET OUT of the high school drama that surrounds them everyday…
Many kids are constantly telling my kiddos how they wish their parents would homeschool them.
It sounds like you are doing a WONDERFUL job… happy, well adjusted kiddos… Why change?
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Good luck and many prayers and blessings for you and those precious babies 😊
I got 5 1/2 more years of homeschooling to go Lord willing 😊👍🏽💖 I wonder if I’ll get a trip to Hawaii for my pension? 🤣🤣🤣
I have been really surprised to watch how the public school system has changed in the last two decades.
My hubby started in the public schools around 30 years ago… what truly surprises me are some of the parents (apathy is really a thing!) A lot of these kids that have come up to me to talk with THEIR parents about homeschooling have legitimate problems happening in the public schools…
One young lady was being cornered by several boys and had been touched inappropriately several times after being cornered. She was frightened… She was angry…. And I went to her mother immediately… 😱😱😱 Her mother was completely aware of the issue and she just blew the whole situation off…. I was completely flabbergasted at this point! Long story short, I finally told the girl to scream, fight, do WHATEVER you have to do to stay safe. The administration at the school knew what was happening but couldn’t provide protection for her… 🔥🔥🔥
Here is another sad part, I was discussing this with some friends of mine at church and after bringing it up with their daughters at home, they were shocked to hear that many of their daughters or their daughter’s friends had gone through some of these same things! Most of the young ladies were “embarrassed“ or “afraid” or just thought that was something they were just supposed to put up with or “go through in high school.” 😳😱😡😡😡
With the transgender crap going on and boys being allowed in the girls’ restrooms, I can only imagine how MUCH WORSE this is going to get…
Sorry, venting… the stories I could tell… 😞
Anyway, bottom line… please everyone, homeschool your precious babies… there are so many great choices out there… if I can do it, ANYONE can!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💖
And I sure wish that I could write as well as you doc… 😁
The Homeschool Legal Defense Association has done a number of studies over the years. One important finding is that education of parents has a HUGE impact on academic results of Public Schooled kids, but very little for home schooled, who average around the 80th percentile even from parents who did not graduate high school. THE LESS "QUALIFIED" YOU ARE TO HOME SCHOOL, THE MORE IMPORTANT IT IS THAT YOU DO IT.
I am really hoping California's vaccine laws and the COVD-19 lockdowns will make homeschooling much more popular. In addition to the benfits many children get from it, it also places extremely necessary competition on the public schools.
Let the real world wake-up hit when they're older, know who they are and are mature enough to see it for what it is. :)
You can successfully homeschool through high school! Visit HSLDA’s website for helps with transcript preparation. Follow your state’s graduation requirements. Typically a 4-year college is looking for 3-4 years of grammar/composition/literature, history, science, and math plus foreign language and electives. HSLDA and others offer online academies for high school classes. Also, consider using your local community college to gain concurrent enrollment credits. Some states have programs to pay for these college classes taken in high school, via charter schools or part-time public school programs. Most state schools will accept community college credits, and your child can enter a 4-year institution with 1-2 years of college behind them. In many states, school districts are required to allow students to participate in high school athletics at their local school. Homeschooling through high school allows your children to maintain some of that innocence, observe the real world from an objective vantage point, and pursue their interests and calling without other external pressures. There are many good curriculum companies out there. Sonlight, Memoria Press, and Veritas Press are 3 good ones, but there are many.
I tend to think you should complexity think about the whole situation. What is your kids like? What does he want? What is the school option or options like? How can you make the process of exploring this a valuable experience for him and your family? I have a now 17 year old who experienced a number of different educational environments. I realized some things. Every community (including school communities) has its own culture, and the relationships both individual and overall are very important. When my son was an adolescent he wanted to try regular school. First he went to a charter that had excellent culture, and he was happy and thrived. Despite not having much math experience, he learned quickly and became a Student of the Year candidate. This school closed after a year when some bad actors stole over a million dollars. The next charter school was attended for a few months, but it was terrible. In that time he became convinced that he was stupid and not good at math and most subjects. He internalized what to me was obviously a problem of the school. Bullying was endemic, and he ended up in a physical altercation, which was heretofore entirely out of character and was suspended. I was actually advocating for him to leave, but, despite a long history of being outside of the school system, he allowed his views to be limited to what was projected upon him. I arranged for him visits to three other schools and encounters with some people who were on different educational paths. This allowed him to expand his view and move himself to leave the bad school. The next school he chose was very creative and he enjoyed it a great deal. It was only ended when the pandemic lockdowns forced our family to move. I later found out that at this school there had been a large weed culture, and he had actually had some just outside the school walls. Luckily he did not appear to like this experience of smoking, but I realized how readily culture can be changed in an individual with exposure to especially immersed environments, and how important is a strong and stable sense of self (maybe could have termed this otherwise). My son then attended an elite prep school for almost two years and then chose to homeschool after identifying for himself that education in that context was a very limited concept, and he wanted more for himself.
This is a great comment. Thank you for sharing!
& I posted a longer version on the main thread.
I don't know where you live and what's available there, but I had access to two different programs (that I was aware of) which offered classes for middle school and high school homeschool students for a reasonable fee per class. (Primarily high school students) These were similar to college classes, although usually even fewer hours spent in class. Most classes met once a week (math and science often twice a week), and the students were responsible for the rest of the work. These classes were taught by moms who were former teachers, current professionals, retired professionals, artists, etc. One of the programs had been ongoing for years, and the quality of the classes was superior. My youngest has significant learning disabilities and I felt that it would be a disservice to put him directly into college without some transition. Gradually increasing his number of daily classes helped with his sensory overload issues - while helping him become accustomed to the expectations of more rigid deadlines. The teachers in the program were gracious and tried to work around his learning disabilities. When he reached college,he was well prepared. My oldest son, after being bullied in a private school - did just homeschool with me for 8th grade, and we were both miserable. I put him in this program, and he loved it. He had always been social, and the kids were wonderful. There was a lunch period, and he could be around kids who weren't being mean to him. I liked it because I wasn't the one enforcing deadlines and grading his papers. (I was shocked how he could have been getting decent grades in private school - with his abysmal writing skills!) By the time he graduated, his writing skills had greatly improved, and he had found more joy in learning.
I would recommend that you look around for these types of programs. Both of mine were available through area churches. One church allowed outside people to attend, (my favorite program), and the other was restricted to church members. I have a feeling that since COVID there are more available, including co-ops.
Jason, don't know if you're following still the comments, but because I shared a lot in my previous comment to you, something has been bothering me that I didn't mention (not intentionally) and ethically want to do so. I'd message you directly, but, not sure how that works in substack. So, my 17 year old, when he went to the elite prep school for nearly 2 years, there was an unexpected problem. He enrolled during 2020 when it was uncertain whether schools would be in person. Our family had moved to a new place, the spring of remote learning had been hard on him, he was at that time stuck on the idea that he had missed vital learning while not in school and was determined to be in a regular school, and he was lonely. The school was Catholic, and we gambled it would retain some independence of process that would fall in favor of staying open to in-person. In the time that he attended, he took as gospel not the religious part, but the ideological part. He was given a "truth" (in his mind) that mirrored the best ascription to the mainstream narrative. This brought in a huge rupture in our family relationship, as he was taught how he should interpret my behaviors (not masking, not vaccinating) and thoughts (skepticism of the narrative and desire to explore the points upon which the narrative rests). Most of us in this forum have probably been through the violence that these past years have done to some of our relationships, ruptures and easily triggered reactiveness. I regret that I had not been aware and not considered the ideological education that could occur. I now have a young man determined to get that shot upon turning 18 and am unable to broach the topic with triggering him. I had another prior element which had damaged my relationship with my son, so it was not only the school experience which factored into the rupture. It sounds like your children probably have a more solid and stable attachment in your family than unfortunately mine does, but, I would still consider very very carefully what assumed truths of a particular school culture might be and how your child might respond, and what that might mean for your family. At the most diplomatic, every community and institution will bring with it assumed ways of doing things, thinking about things, and processing things. Much may be unconscious for members and possibly taken up without realizing it by any new members. I prize very highly my ability to maintain the perspective of a foreigner in most situations, such that I can hopefully try to see the things that may be difficult to see, and have some choices according to my awareness and intactness. My son is not me, and did not go into that place and respond as I would have, which was a failing of awareness on my part. I have a young child as well, that I think it unlikely I would risk to a school.
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If you don’t know them you might LOVE looking into the world of & interviews with John T Gatto & John Holt.
After I was hurt by two “safe & effective” pharmaceutical products made by Johnson & Johnson, we had a whole-life meltdown starting with the decline of my physical & mental health & thus the loss of my career and the job keeping us afloat.
My kids (10,10 & 8 at the time) then showed they too were under significant stress at school. Not knowing what else to do when my 5th grader started talking suicide, we pulled them all out of school).
But being a creative, I knew I couldn’t be one of those “institutional school at home” moms so I was so stressed I was ruining their lives.
I was curious about the history of compulsory education in the US & started learning, which led me to the teachings of Holt & Gatto. I read everything they wrote & listened to every interview/speech. Gatto & I actually became pen pals. We had the kids do “self directed learning” (aka unschooling) & it was shocking but it did what I hoped: it fostered a love of learning & turned their curiosity back on. They wanted to go back to school in 9th grade & eased back in with no problems and are all ready to head off to college, the twins receiving significant academic & merit scholarship! All this because of giving them back their autonomy when it came to learning.
Everyone with kids in their lives whom they love needs to investigate Holt, Gatto & unschooling.
This process also helped me be more skeptical when the Covid news first started.
I really enjoyed Gatto's work and I put a small nod to him in the article!
Love Holt and Gatto!
I wrote Gatto a big thank-you letter after reading his first book. He'd had a stroke but he wrote me back long, encouraging emails. I really appreciated it and was sad to see that he had passed away. He helped me related to kids better, because he showed me they're not little half-baked non-humans who need to be shaped. Now I teach kids ages 2-13 to ice skate and play hockey, and it's so fun. All credit to Gatto.
I really value the authors whose work stands the test of time after they pass away.
This essential (wonderful) quote by A Midwestern Doctor in this post is why I decided to subscribe to the substack:
"I decided to have my 'purpose' be oriented around understanding the truth of the reality we reside within regardless of where it took me."
Thank you! I've found other ones too since then, but that is still very much a priority in my life.
Students in medical schools live through the idea of obedience and worshipping of authority (the professors). They have the fear of not graduating and never get their medical license if they don't follow the general group thinking. Those who dare are ostracized by the others as black sheep. This feeling and fear of being criticized and persecuted by their peers persist through their whole professional life. They turn themselves blind for what is not the present group consensus and even the crazy idea of making human ribosomes artificially produce a synthetic protein is passively accepted and promoted, if it is the wish of the group.
There are also a lot of black sheeps who resolve to find a way to practice the way they want to once that pressure is no longer on them!
Yes, those are the ones that have never abandoned their critical thinking skills and destine or God shows them (through many means) that there are other ways to practice medicine.
The fasco-Marxist "fact checkers" **ARE** the disinformation.
And that Mikkelson dude from Snopes is a joke
I have a genetic connective tissue disorder. I figured it out on my own in my early 40s after seeing many doctors about various problems stemming from it for years. None of them was able to see and understand the significance in the obvious signs of it because they all were following some sort of mental checklist, apparently. Because it’s said to be rare they disbelieved their own eyes.
So when the story of Covid first broke, I was aware I was once again in a position where I would need to be my own doctor. The rushed frenzy for a so-called “vaccine” was bizarre and highly suspicious. Sadly, all my doctors fully support the lethal jab and were shocked when I told them I’d never take it.
Their training has failed them and their patients. I expected better from them but now have only pity for them.
Im so glad you knew! (P.S. We have cockatiels and other birds too!)
Same here about the missed CTD. Is yours EDS? I was not told I might have something wrong with my connective tissue until I was 40, even though I'd had over a dozen injuries and surgeries, and even then it was a physical therapist to suggested I look into it, not a doctor.
I'd gotten some toxic hip replacement devices at age 39. My gut knew it was the hips making me very, very ill, but for years I didn't trust my own insight. Having been raised by a doctor, I kept trusting that the doctors knew better than I did, yet I was so sick, so neurologically unwell and unable to stand more than a few seconds without searing pain.
I took off investigating on my own finally, attending civil trials of people who'd sued JnJ over my same hip product, interviewing other patients with the hips and whistleblowers and digging through bellwether trial documents. I even went to JnJ's shareholders meeting myself, still naive enough to think, "Maybe they really don't know these things are hurting people."
Then I wanted to help fix all that I'd seen was so wrong (mainly our FDA being 'industry captured) and ended up in DC, lobbying lawmakers and the FDA for improvements to medical device safety and for pre-surgery testing to see if patients were hypersensitive to the materials the surgeons were going to be putting in their bodies... only to find most of the legislators were industry captured too (campaigns funded by Pharma dollars)!
I was so angry that I'd seen all this fraud and collusion, yet there was no way to fix it. Then the covid thing hit in March 2020, I was so glad the toxic hips had helped me see the truth about Pharma, the FDA, etc. I started reading the studies myself, the pre-EUA submissions of Pfizer and Moderna... It was such a racket... what the headlines and talking heads said, vs. what the studies had really been investigating.
I'd had a 20-year career in news before the hips ruined it, and many of my news friends, all working in different cities were telling me the same thing: "Since March 2020, everything's changed in our business." Some were mad. Some were confused. Some were shocked. One said, "I don't know what this is we've been doing since March 2020, but it's not news." Many left the industry permanently. Some stuck with it, and I really lost respect that they just went along, even though they knew the truth.
I think docs also miss things because they're all specialized. They don't know us. Nobody really looks at the whole person anymore... the way my step-dad could, owning his own practice in the 1950s-80s. If he wanted to spend two hours with a patient, he did! Corporations are running the game now, and even the good doctors now have patient quotas, etc. There's not enough time to dig deep, even if they do care. My husband (a CPA by training who'd worked mainly in small business) was encouraged to apply for Practice Manager positions. A friend (a CPA) kept telling him the practices wanted to hire CPAs to make sure they 'optimized' every patient visit. I'm so glad he never got the jobs.
Individuals with EDS (and CTD) tend to have a constitution that is much more sensitive to a lot of things, and this is almost never recognized in the medical field whereas in the integrative field patients like this are very common.
EDS it is. Wow, you’ve won the genetic lottery, too. Not rare at all but rarely recognized by too many doctors instead.
Your news background has come in handy for detecting deceit. There’s no shortage of that in the world.
Yea. Genetic lottery. Ha ha! You aren’t kidding!
I was SO NAIVE & trusting, even 20 years into my news career, just because I was an honest person, was surrounded by honest people and had a great man who’d raised me after a long career being a wonderful doctor who cared deeply for his patients. I really had to learn a terrible lesson the hard way & my family is still suffering as a result, but I remind myself I could be dead. This cobalt alloy crap has killed several people I know, all my age (late 40s/early 50s).
Btw, I’m looking into high dose vitamin C as an EDS treatment & taking collagen every day plus water walking and ice skating (in full hockey gear) to keep muscle tone. Does anything help your pain? Make sure you get checked for nickel allergy b4 you ever get an implanted anything. I’m seeing most EDSers have a nickel hypersensitivity.
Here’s my story:
https://www.kvue.com/mobile/article/news/investigations/medical-device-dangers/fda-does-not-test-most-devices-implanted-in-humans-and-many-are-paying-for-it/269-c41ad14d-031f-4166-a18b-4361e8e22cfd
I wonder what homeopathy would have to offer you all? It is a vastly different way of medicine… very person-oriented.
I wonder if homeopathic cobaltum in some form (there are several, I suspect, and I do not know anything about them… except one is also useful post-radiation exposure) might help the cobalt reactions. A well-trained homeopath may be able to offer insight.
A Chiropractor ruptured a cervical disc so I have a titanium plate and four screws, plus donor bone. No problems yet.
As for pain, I take Neurontin and Flexeril for cervical caused migraines. Just got Eubrelvy so am trying that out. Other than meds as needed, staying physically active is key for reducing pain for me. And I can’t sleep on my left side or I’ll throw my neck out but what else is new in EDS land?
As for your story, that’s horrific and criminal. To have both EDS and be seriously injured from fraudulent implants? That’s a heavy cross you bear. I’m so sorry at the unfairness of it all. Your news story reminded me of the devastation caused by the “vaccines.” The magnitude of human suffering caused by those who can prevent it is beyond my comprehension.
The only solace I can offer is this:
“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”
Rev. 22:12
No weapon formed against you shall prosper! What was meant for harm will be used for good! That’s what I keep saying!
Most people are fine with titanium. (Not cobalt-chromium)
God does have a plan. I see Him in this.
I sleep with my hips wrapped in ice bags & that really helps. I keep telling myself this will all work out according to the plan. Xox!
I have had a few patients who got extremely ill from cobalt chromium implants. The one positive thing I can say on this issue is that the medical field is more open to this being a problem now.
Have you tried Near Infrared? That might be another thing worth looking into.
I’m really cold right now so I’m headed downstairs to sit in front of my four bulb lamp stand.
I have had a surprising number who developed serious issues after chiropractic, although I have never met someone who had the dreaded cervical spine rupture (I've only heard about it from doctors who had to take care of patients afterwards). I know at the osteopathic medical schools they teach not to do that technique on individuals with ligamentous laxity, but I am not sure if that is taught at chiropractic ones.
My Neurosurgeon said he’d never seen a disc ruptured into three big pieces before.
God obviously saved my life.
I have a family member whose symptoms point clearly to a particular medical diagnosis. But because her labs (limited as they are, the ones being checked, which is actually not the full panoply of labs that ought to be checked) are normal, her dr has no diagnostic “bucket” in which to place her. And thus she is receiving no answers for her concerns. Except for yet more tests that, as another commenter mentions, are borne out of seeing her as so many independent body systems rather than one unified whole.
Sadly, it seems that drs for some years now have been trained to see patients very narrowly. And not to be curious.
I have another family member who has suffered significant harm that likely could have been averted, had a dr or two simply been CURIOUS about why this person developed very extensive, premature disease - and gone looking for aggravating co-existing conditions. As it was, this family member figured out some but unfortunately not all of the co-existing conditions on his own. The one not recognized eventually, in relatively short time, contributed to yet more, likely irreversible harm. All it would have taken was a genuinely CURIOUS dr who was willing to think outside The Guidelines.
Sadly what you've described is quite common.
Sadly, I know. 😩
I periodically run into patients who have the same story as you with a chronically missed diagnosis.
Thank you for your comment. I am from UK but I have no pity for the doctors who misdiagnosed me. Ignorant fools they are, paid by taxpayers to poison people. Last time I went to the GP the silly doctor was wearing a mask even though i knew they were pointless and had done since 2020 when I worked out what was going on with Covid a.k.a. the 'flu re-branded.
This explains in part what caused my facial palsy, but the treatment has no doubt exacerbated matters. Not once did the doctors, any of them, suggest diet was an issue.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/11/19/sodium-nitrite-e250-the-poison-in-your-food-and-how-to-remedy-it/
Fascinating information. Poisons everywhere!
“You live in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,” declares the LORD.”
(Jeremiah 9:6)
Dr. Kory, you very astutely identified many errors committed in educating and training doctors. However, I do not think these are the result of ignorance or a mistake in judgment. I believe they are features of a plan to brainwash doctors and other professionals. It is a plan to change all of society. I wrote an article to explain what is happening and what to do.
https://tipon.substack.com/p/the-world-economic-forum-has-vulnerabilities?sd=pf
“ I spent years teaching post-graduate fellows critical care medicine and was highly regarded for my teaching methods. The main thing I did differently from my colleagues was to explain my thought process for each patient to my trainees and highlight where I was uncertain, rather than making a few pronouncements about each patient that was expected to be taken as medical gospel. I always thought it was quite strange I was one of the only people who taught in this way, and I found once in training my graduates were much more equipped to handle challenging cases than their colleagues.”
Sadly, this way of teaching is not likely rewarded by the current administrative and reimbursement structures, as this way of teaching requires more TIME.
It is indeed odd that more drs do not teach this way. Particularly with all the lip service given nowadays to “patient-centered” care and “shared” decision making. Which implies that patients are not uniform, nor are disease processes uniform.
Of course, many of those drs were probably not taught this way. Just follow the rules. No reason to discuss.
That's a good point about the time.
Seems so many docs nowadays are swamped with trying to see patients and navigate the EMR, they barely have time left for ANY sort of teaching, let alone teaching that is truly interactive and thoughtful.
Try posting your videos to Rumble. They do not seem to pull anything except for pornography or advocating violence. There is an embed code option, which I use to share videos.
Substack does not support an embed code (or any html) so you have to go with a site they automatically embed into the articles.
Since social media websites consider "Fact Checks" to be a valuable addition to their site shouldn't the sites be changing for this service?
Those who have the money can pay to see the "Fact Checks", while those who are poor would be forced to use the site without seeing the valuable "Fact Checks".
That would be wonderful!
Fun fact I had to share before reading since it's at the very top of a long piece and will be forgotten. Quackwatch .org have a long history waging war on "anti-vax" parents.
Run by Stephen Barrett, M.D., a retired psychiatrist who resides near Chapel Hill, North Carolina & details for his featured writers and pharma shills is in Mathew Crawford's Campfire wiki. :~)
https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=quackwatch&s[]=quackwatch
I had no idea he'd made it on there! Thank you for sharing.
Dirtbag hunting is my best sport & every share makes it better! :~)
I can’t stand that Barrett guy and his website. Wonder how much Pharma pays him?
The function of logic (the set of necessary conditions of meaning or ‘making sense’) is not to tell us what the truth is, but to delimit what cannot be true by identifying nonsense. There is a narrow category of a priori truths: truths that apply necessarily and always because to deny them would be nonsensical.
There is nothing subjective about logic; if we ‘apply logic’ subjectively we are committing a logical fallacy. There are more than 100 recognised logical fallacies, but they are all reducible to just 3 laws: the law of non-contradiction (two opposite claims cannot be true at the same time and in the same respect, or, no claim can be both true and false at the same time and in the same respect), the law of excluded middle (a claim can be either true or false with no intermediate possibility), and the law of identity (everything is identical ONLY to itself, or, no two things are identical in every respect). The 3 laws are in fact just different articulations of the same One law of logical sense/meaning, and one could simply rely on non-contradiction to reach the same conclusions. Every misleading claim, every assertion of certainty or truth where the truth is not certain, is associated with a logical error.
The 3 laws are not taught at schools, apart from University courses in philosophy or law; institutional dogmatism and the fallacy of ‘trusted sources’ are taught instead, under the guise of “critical thinking”. Understanding of the laws of logic makes one powerful, able to identify and defeat lies; the lack of such understanding makes one weak and psychologically dependent, a vessel for propaganda.
"...the law of non-contradiction (two opposite claims cannot be true at the same time and in the same respect, or, no claim can be both true and false at the same time and in the same respect)..."
https://www.discovery.com/science/Double-Slit-Experiment
You are implying that observation of X behaving like a particle and observation of X behaving like a wave are “opposite claim in the same respect”. This is false. The opposite claim to “X is a particle” is “X is not a particle” at the same time ; the opposite claim of “X is a wave” is “X is not a wave” at the same time. There is no contradiction in the proposition that a system X exhibits particle-like and wave-like properties simultaneously. If particle theorists make contradictory claims (yes, sometimes they do) this does not invalidate the law of non-contradiction but only their claims.
Absolutely!!!
This is exactly what makes my blood boil when I hear unfounded claims (the You Know What is safe in pregnancy because Dr Collins said so and I trust Dr Collins) that have ZERO support. Other than this nonsense appeal to Trusted Authority. 🤯
And yes, I heard allegedly thoughtful, Christian bioethicist physician say exactly that. And I wondered how he would so willingly trust Dr Collins on that issue when Dr Collins claims to be a Christian yet has no problem with abortion. Not to raise the abortion question. But merely to point out that Dr Collins shouldn’t have been even a Trusted Authority, for this other physician, in the first place. 😠
We need to embrace a new culture in order to fix this. As Balaji Srinivasan says, “Innovation follows culture.” For example the late 1800’s cultural shift that “cleanliness is next to godliness” lead to the invention of sewers and running water. We need something similar. A new code.
We need to relentlessly and en masse demand transparency in the systems that govern over our lives. The lack of transparency leads to corruption. And that is where we are now.
We need a TRANSPARENCY MOVEMENT. And then we need to - decentralize everything.
Like this
https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/embrace-decentralized-systems-fear?utm_source=direct&r=7oa9d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
That is a great historical point and a great idea!
Marvelous article! I just spent a few days with my nephew and was infuriated as he used several of the techniques you outline to "win" debates with me. He rapidly focused on searching for weak points as he ignored what I was saying. He also asserted premises that were narrow and not proven to frame his arguments. I came away thinking he was not very bright but it's more like he lacks curiosity. Or maybe to entertain the idea the vaccines could change one's DNA is just too unpleasant and it's more comfortable to believe the herd is correct.
The more educated people are, the more likely they seem to be to do this :(
Solid plug from AMD, and wonderful essay by Kory. Thank you both.
Thank you. It wasn't written clearly but I wrote the majority of this and Kory added a few crucial points that I overlooked.
AMD please accept my profuse apologies for misdirecting my compliments. The cross posting function in substack can certainly be confusing.