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People rightly worry that their iPhone or Alexa have become surveillance “listening devices”, and indeed, the microphone can be turned on even when the device is turned off. But imagine a wearable or implantable device that, moment-to-moment, tracks your heart rate, blood pressure, and skin conductance, uploading that biometric information to the cloud. Anyone with access to that data could know your exact emotional response to every statement made while you watch a presidential debate. They could gauge your thoughts and feelings about each candidate, about each issue discussed, even if you never spoke a word.

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Hey technocrats, human beings are not hackable animals. Please stop trying to hack our genetic machinery with your already-failed mRNA technology. Just stop.

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Mattias Desmet: The Madness Of Luigi Mangione Fan Worship & Modern Guillotine Spectacles w/ Dr. Aaron Kheriaty – Ask Dr. Drew

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They Think We Are Stupid, The Guardian edition…

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My friend Robert F Kennedy Jr will be Secretary of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC, FDA, and NIH.

Ka-boom. ??

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Markets, communications, and governing structures within medicine have become increasingly centralized at a national and global level, robbing individuals, families, and local communities of legitimate authority, privacy, and medical freedom. Thus, new medical institutions should be grounded in technologies and models of decentralized communications and information sharing, dispersed authority, and localized markets. To name just one example among many, subscription-based models of direct primary care, which bypass Medicare and other third-party payers, are springing up around the country and in many cases proving financially viable—delivering better health outcomes at lower costs by eliminating the expensive and superfluous bureaucratic middlemen.

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Further increases in medical controls are not the answer to our ills, for this will only worsen iatrogenic harms. We cannot allow the whole world to become one vast hospital—a recipe not for health but for a dystopian totalitarian system run by and elite cadre of physician-therapists in white coats, where anesthetized patients become solitary, passive, and impotent.

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Many patients today, sadly, already experience this state of helpless unfreedom—what Illich calls “compulsory survival in a planned and engineered hell” —where one’s sickness only grows worse. The solution to our health woes will require empowering individuals and small communities with the tools necessary not only to heal, but also to cope with the inevitabilities of pain, impairment, and eventual death. Dependence on and addiction to a broken managerialized system will only make us sicker.

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