The Post-Partisan Emporium

Hippocratic vs. Technocratic Medicine BY  AARON KHERIATY     The following excerpt from my book,  The New Abnormal , was published on  The Stream  this week, reprinted here with permission (yes, I gave permission to Regnery, the book publisher, which gave permission to The Stream, which gave permission back to me to print this excerpt — intellectual property!). Enjoy… Hippocratic vs. Technocratic Medicine Many of our technocrats seem undeterred by the failure of public health policies and associated new technologies to mitigate the COVID pandemic. Consider, for example, Pfizer’s and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines. How successful was this technology in its first large-scale trial run in humans? A useful metric to cut through a lot of statistical noise is all-cause mortality. We can argue about the causes of death. Did this person die with COVID or from COVID? Was this fatality a vaccine side effect or a random temporal association? But we cannot argue about the body count. It is hard to spin d

Cool Cannibals Karen Hunt “Death makes me very angry. It doesn’t make any sense to me. Death has never made any sense to me. How can a person be there and then just vanish, just not be there?” Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle T hree years ago, I didn’t know about the gruesome practices you are going to read about here. Part science, part magic, they are the stuff of nightmares. They are dreams of eternal youth. While animals and Artificial Intelligence are being “humanized,” humans are being dehumanized. Who will gain from this and who will lose? WARNING: This essay contains photos and information about cruelty to animals and humans and might be disturbing for some. TRUTH IS SELDOM POPULAR AND OFTEN HARD TO FACE. Every month, Lishan Su receives a small test tube on ice from a company in California. In it is a piece of liver from a human fetus aborted at between 14 and 19 weeks of pregnancy. Here is a 14-week-old fetus. The large dark mass is the very desirable liver: Here is a 19-week-old fet