02Jun 2024 by Post

On Tobacco, Technocracy Has a Clever New Idea

Australia, Brookline, cancer, cocaine, Culture & Ethics, European Union, fentanyl, fossil fuels, global warming, hard drugs, health emergency, Malaysia, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, meat, Medicine, meth, New England Journal of Medicine, New Zealand, nicotine, Norway, Oregon, Philippines, Singapore, smoking, technocracy, THC, Tobacco Free Generation
Is tobacco just the first villain to be punished by a growing technocracy that seeks to limit freedom based on an ever-expanding definition of “health”? Source
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23Dec 2023 by Post

No. 10 Story of 2023: Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning — and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope

20th century, abortion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anxiety, Atheism, Bolsheviks, Charles Darwin, Communism, crime, Culture & Ethics, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Dante Alighieri, demons, evil, Faith & Science, fentanyl, fine-tuning, Fyodor Dostoevsky, gender identity, homeless, illegitimacy, Inferno, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Choe, Judeo-Christian tradition, mutilation, Promiscuity, Return of the God Hypothesis, Russia, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, suicide, Templeton Prize, universe
You would have to be willfully blind, or just stay far away from our major city centers, to miss some of the more obvious signs of the spiritual crisis. Source
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10Feb 2020 by Post

Fewer “Deaths of Despair” Increases U.S. Life Expectancy

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Good news: U.S. life expectancy has increased. From the New York Times story: Life expectancy increased for the first time in four years in 2018, the federal government said Thursday, raising hopes that a benchmark of the nation’s health may finally be stabilizing after a rare and troubling decline that was driven by a surge in drug overdoses. Part of the reason for the improvement was a decrease in what are known as “deaths of despair”: Deaths from overdoses dropped by 4.1 percent in 2018, to 67,367 from 70,237 in 2017. The decrease was largely driven by a dip in deaths from prescription opioid painkillers, which set off the opioid epidemic in the late 1990s before heroin and, later, fentanyl moved in. Provisional data suggests those deaths continued to fall…
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