Choosing a Good Death
There are many false hopes out there that claim to be treatments and cures.
Mark Taubert
· 7 min read
Health
A collection of 176 posts
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of....What Exactly?
The same is true of happiness and positivity. They’re not mere feelings. They are behaviors.
Steve Salerno
· 15 min read
Coming Together to Honor a Dead Rock Star—And Ward Off Our Own Demons
In the months leading up to the news, I was in a bad place. Nothing in life felt right, and every day was a fight against hopelessness—to the point that even when good things happened, I would remain afraid or numb.
Neil Gray
· 8 min read
The Real Gender Gap in Heart Disease
Men have been dying at higher rates than women over time, and the gap appears to be constant.
Anish Koka
· 9 min read
How ‘Limbic Capitalism’ Preys on Our Addicted Brains
The more rapid and intense the brain reward they imparted, the likelier they were to foster pathological learning and craving, particularly among socially and genetically vulnerable consumers.
David Courtwright
· 11 min read
A Contrarian View of Digital Health
Sending millions more people to clinicians, creating a society even more fearful of lurking diseases, and systematically robbing people of the normal arc of life and death–this, I am afraid, is where the digital health expansion is heading.
John Mandrola
· 6 min read
The Sad Truth About ‘Fat Acceptance’
Unfortunately for some activists, gravity wasn’t invented by white settlers.
Anna Slatz
· 9 min read
How I Lost My Partner to a Parasite
"This monster isn’t David. It’s a parasite of some kind. You see, another consciousness inside him. This thing burrowed into David’s brain … and has been there, feeding off him ever since." - Loudermilk, FX Legion.
Maryam Henein
· 13 min read
On the Eve of the Great Psychedelic Debate
The mint plant salvia divinorum exhibits powerful and unusual psychedelic effects and remains legal.
Matthew Blackwell
· 21 min read
Women Needed a Magazine that Doesn't Lie to Them. So I Started One
Women’s publications have tried to convince women they can be just like men, instead of celebrating femininity and what makes women wonderfully unique.
Brittany Martinez
· 6 min read
Glimpsing Our Own Health Secrets: The Coming Revolution in Health-Care Transparency
Does more transparency mean that patients will become responsible for catching errors that doctors themselves should have prevented?
Amitha Kalaichandran
· 7 min read
The Uncharted Territories of Medically Transitioning Children
Are we venturing into dragon territory with the transitional therapies increasingly made available to transgender youth?
Donna Reynolds
· 16 min read
In Defense of Male Stoicism
Endless articles and innumerable campaigns have been devoted to helping men cry, ending the phrase “man up” and, above all, getting men to talk.
Ben Sixsmith
· 6 min read
A Surfeit of Empathy and an Absence of Compassion
As a parent of an ROGD teen, it has been so disheartening to see so few mainstream sources publishing balanced views on this topic. We have glowing “protransition” pieces in the left-wing press, and (often) angry, and even anti-trans pieces in the right-wing or religious press. These articles are just
Samuel Veissière
· 7 min read
Anthony Bourdain vs. the Tyranny of Wellness
The cult of wellness commands: Thou shalt not contaminate the sacred body.
Jenai Engelhard
· 5 min read