The newsletter presents historical essays and quotations that criticise vaccination and mainstream medicine, framing them as hidden or suppressed history. It also promotes a historical novel about 1880s England and its medical cruelty, so readers get a mix of contested health claims and book marketing.
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A blog by an emergency physician that examines medical research, health misinformation and science communication. Readers get personal clinical stories alongside critical, method-focused reviews of studies and claims.
Each issue opens with a closely observed scene of an older stranger in New York, then reads it as a clue to health or money, rating the evidence behind it. A reader gets short, sourced explainers on aging, symptoms and Medicare costs with the caveats left in.
A personal newsletter of first-person essays about living with multiple sclerosis, covering symptoms, medical experiences like MRIs, and physical challenges such as hiking the Grand Canyon. Readers get vivid, reflective storytelling about uncertainty, fear, and resilience.
A weekly serial that reads through James Salisbury's nineteenth-century book on diet and disease, chapter by chapter. It sets his claims about meat-and-hot-water regimens in historical context and checks them against what modern medicine knows.
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