
Welcome to my substack. As a lifetime reader, I felt it was time to get out of the stands and onto the playing field by writing my own stuff. My interests are wide ranging so you might find anything on my site. Medicine, of course is close to my heart.
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Call it irony, hypocrisy, cognitive dissonance, elitism, whatever. I would use a different description: existential stupidity, the kind you only hear from educated, elite intellectuals. The kind that can get you killed. Think Malcolm Caldwe...
Artistic interpretation of a primordial black hole formed in the first moments of the Big Bang. Credit: NASA / G. Bacon (STScI)
On November 7. 2025 the American College of Surgeons went dark to its membership. I mean black hole dark. The f...
“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun” Ecclesiastes 1:9
Courage Coalition
PAS 2026: The Panel They Tried to Cancel
BOSTON, MA | APRIL 27, 2026…
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The explanation with the fewest, simplest assumptions is usually the correct one.
Paraphrase of Occam’s Razor
I asked Grok AI to comment on this image
A recent Substack post displayed this image and stated that it came out of Iran. Alway...
Doctors aren’t the only ones being silenced………
A respected doctor is invited to give a lecture to medical students on the subject of gender-affirming care in minors. He meticulously assembles the available information on the subject includ...
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I was a plastic surgeon for 35 years. Now I hope to use my passion for writing to push back against illiberal, progressive ideology, and to explore other issues of interest. As a Christian, I value critical thinking and clarity over blind agreement.
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