The World’s Number One Profession?

The World’s Number One Profession?

Proposition: The practice of homeopathic medicine is unequaled as a profession The Argument: 1) The work is fascinating * No-one day passes where insight into the human (or animal) psyche is not gained; * Homeopathic remedies are often made from plants, animal venoms,...
Antidotes to Pharmaceutical Price Gouging

Antidotes to Pharmaceutical Price Gouging

The free market economy has many benefits. But its ruthless economics create perverse incentives in quality of life arenas such as health care: When profit trumps efficient care shameful stories routinely crop up. Here is the latest example: Valeant’s Drug Price...
Cobalt Car Recall

Cobalt Car Recall

You know all those 2.7 million Chevy cars that have to be recalled? As a homeopath, could have told you that Cobalt is an unfortunate name for a car: the word derives from a German word, Kobold meaning “evil sprite,” reflecting the undesirability of the metal that had...