The boys are back in town πŸ˜‚ and we talk COVID policy failures, fact-checking fallacies, criminalizing nurse Radonda Vaught’s fatal med error, Twitter “experts,” safetyism, fixing healthcare efficacy and costs, and MUCH more.

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00:00 Fact-checking the facts, COVID policy failures, RCT’s & parachute studies
08:11 Masking, vaccinating and boosting kids
22:28 Nurse RaDonda Vaught facing criminal conviction after a fatal med error
31:55 4th dose, Twitter giving rise to questionably qualified leaders, virtue signaling
45:30 Adolescent mental health, extreme safetyism, antifragility, mandates
1:25:42 Getting back to fixing healthcare, the burden of medical debt, healthcare’s hidden costs
1:33:01 Solutions like eliminating middlemen, price transparency & direct primary care
1:40:00 Long COVID further inflating cost, reductionism, NIH funding, finding the synthesis position
1:52:27 USA vs. European COVID strategies, mandatory boosters to keep medical license
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