Angela Merkel’s standing leg tremors

June 18, 2019- Angela Merkel seems to Continue reading

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Ken Burns series on FDR helps me discover my own history

William-Jennings-Bryan-and-Woodrow-WilsonSeptember 21, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD

I watched with fascination all of the episodes of the Ken Burns PBS series about the lives of Teddy, Eleanor, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt when, midway through the series more

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President Trump talks about plans to make hospital pricing transparent

July 10, 2019

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BRAF and MEK combos for melanoma

Update October 1, 2015- The FDA approved the use of two drugs, Opdivo and Yervoy, to treat metastatic melanoma, as we first discussed with Dr.  Ribas last year. Continue reading

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What is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s prognosis?

December 21, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburd underwent surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Continue reading

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“Non-profit” hospital CEOs make well more than $10 million a year

June 28, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Essay: The real villain in the New Zealand massacre is the video game industry

March 20, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

I normally protect my soul by not watching grotesque videos. I have never seen the films of people jumping Continue reading

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Effects of Exposure to Gun Violence in Movies on Children’s Interest in Real Guns

September 25, 2017- interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

We interviewed author Brad Bushman, PhD of The Ohio State University about his JAMA paper Continue reading

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Fox News’ Tucker Carlson attempts to debate gun control with Annals of Internal Medicine Editor Christine Laine, MD

March 6, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD

The puppets of the NRA on Fox News react predictably after each mass shooting in a school or Continue reading

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IOM report on CDC gun violence research

June 5, 2013

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Reliable gun violence statistics

Newtown kid victimsFebruary 12, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD

In the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut massacre of 20 first graders and six brave adults, Continue reading

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Selective publication of positive trials on antidepressants

January 7, 2008- Interviewed and produced by Steven Greer, MD

Erick Turner, MD, psychiatrist at Oregon Health and Science University and former FDA medical Continue reading

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“You’re telling me this now?” Why the news is suddenly critical of statins and antidepressants

Opinion: February 19, 2012  By Steven Greer, MD

The CBS news show “60 Minutes” made waves with a story asserting that the antidepressants Continue reading

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Did antidepressants cause the Germanwings pilot to commit suicide and mass homicide?

Germanwings-debrisMarch 30, 2015- Opinion by Steven E. Greer, MD

The facts are now becoming known in the Germanwings Flight 9525. The co-pilot, 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz, was being Continue reading

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Hospital lobbyists launch attack on Medicare-For-All plans

August 1, 2019

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TV commercial for Boston Scientific’s Watchman A-fib device

April 23, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD Continue reading

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Elizabeth Holmes uses a fake low voice to be taken seriously

April 20, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD Continue reading

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Why Americans should care deeply about the loss of freedom in other countries

June 9, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

Making the news today is how a Canadian man was actually arrested for the crime of grossly Continue reading

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Essay: How Google accidentally invented surveillance capitalism

March 24, 2019- by Steven E. Greer

I read a few more pages of Surveillance Capitalism (it will be a tough slog to finish this). As Continue reading

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The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much

chart-of-university-growthApril 5, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD

The New York Times has a nice essay explaining why college tuition is out of control. They first Continue reading

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