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Category Archives: Health
What Sickness Tells Me
When the fever comes the man I perform falls away. I cancel the day. I lie down. The plans I made lose their grip, and I see that most of them don’t matter as much as I thought. I used … Continue reading
Genetics and Public Health: Toward an Efficient Division of Labor
The question of how genetics should figure in public health resource allocation has been muddied by two competing distortions. Genomic enthusiasts oversell the clinical actionability of common-disease genetic markers and underspecify what changing risk estimates actually changes about clinical advice. … Continue reading
What Public Health Was Doing Before COVID Came
Before COVID arrived, American public health elites had largely remade their field in their own image. The transformation was not secret or subtle. You could read it in journal priorities, accreditation standards, and the speeches of deans. The field had … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Grok says: UC Berkeley SPH (ranked #8 nationally) is a historic public-university program with deep roots in California’s activist traditions. It explicitly centers environmental justice, critical race and decolonial frameworks, community-engaged research, and “public health as social justice.” The school … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Bloomberg School of Public Health has ranked first among American public-health programs since US News began the count in 1994, with a peer score near five out of five. It enrolls more than three thousand students, employs around nineteen … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Grok says: UCLA Fielding (ranked #8 nationally in 2025 U.S. News & World Report, top-10 in every specialty) is one of the premier public-health schools in the country, with five departments (Biostatistics, Community Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Health … Continue reading
How Do The Health Professions View Each Other?
Here is a blunt Alliance Theory map of how the health professions actually view one another. Not how they talk in brochures. How the status system works underneath. First principle. Healthcare is a stacked hierarchy with one scarce resource at … Continue reading
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Alternative Healers Offer You The Opportunity To Pay Someone To Care For You
People often turn to alternative practitioners because they are searching for care, not just diagnosis. Modern medicine is built around efficiency. A primary care physician may spend ten minutes in a room before moving on. That speed leaves a gap. … Continue reading
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Decoding The Bowels
I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist. This culture has a big emphasis on preventative health. I remember some of the more ardent Adventists I knew were into enemas and the bowels and friendly chats about whether your toilet bowl showed … Continue reading
Decoding Homeopathy
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory explains the popularity of homeopathy by focusing on social trust, status repair, and authority rejection, not efficacy. Once you look at those functions, its persistence makes sense. Here’s the decoding. First. Homeopathy restores dignity to the … Continue reading
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