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Sacerdotal Medicine

While we make fun of premodern medicine, regularly and promiscuously (and are about to start making fun of early modern medicine, regularly and promiscuously), it is important to keep reminding ourselves that there is an end to the madness. Modern medicine has reduced our maternal mortality from 6 out of every 1000 women (the number [...]

I Always Knew Kids’ TV Was Deadly

By now, everyone has read about the study that was published in Circulation that shows an increase in all-cause mortality for every hour of television viewed daily. Specifically, this large, prospective, controlled study (the good kind) found that one hour of tv per day increased your risk of dying of cardiovascular disease by 18%, cancer [...]

World War II and the WHO

We temporarily leave the dark ages to comment on  a study I saw this week about the WHO’s C-section rate recommendations. First, some background. The natural childbirth movement in America began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The origins are mucky and unclear. It is often touted as a feminist response to the increasingly [...]