Great question. It is multifactorial. The medical system is a sophisticated web of malicious entanglements.
1. The medical school selection and training process selects specifically against critical thinking. It takes intelligence to be a successful medical trainee, but, there is a broad spectrum of intelligence, and medical training specifically reinforces and selects for rote memorization and rule following, and severely discourages independent and critical thinking. You are left with the smartest of those who are best at regurgitating rules mindlessly. Critical thinkers get filtered out viciously.
2. Because of the complexity of the medical school selection and training process, it selects for people who wrap their whole identity up in being doctors and flaunting it. These means it is worse than death for most of them to contemplate being questioned by or God forbid removed from being a physician. They'd rather suffer any compromise to their "integrity" than risk their title.
3. Being a doctor selects for and reinforces narcissistic baseless appeal to authority via titles and roles rather than real success in the real world measured through objective tests of skill. Especially for non-surgeons. So, doctors get accustomed to, and patients get gaslit into following their authority simply due to unmerited title and rank. If you question their authority, you're liable to get OFFICIALLY labeled insane.
4. Physician training is absurdly costly and many graduates graduate with massive debt. Because they have no business skills and because the legal and financial environment of medicine is daunting, physicians are hazed into keeping their paycheck secure because they wouldn't know how to pay off their loan debts and mortgages and car notes otherwise.
5. Physicians are given zero financial, legal, or business education. So they become dependent on their wage and are deathly afraid to consider independent practice.
6. Insurance and government programs only reimburse for what is "covered", which means if you go off script you're not getting paid and you're risking losing your job.
7. Medical workers (nurses, MAs, other doctors, social workers, etc), are SUPER liberal Karens, so, so much as whisper an alternative idea and you're liable to have someone "anonymously" call the medical board and report you and call your boss and get you fired.
8. Doctors have spent their whole lives in the library, the lecture hall, and the hospital. They tend to be very naive and thus timid about the real world. They have been spoon fed "knowledge" by the system and been the best to regurgitate it their whole lives. So they are the least likely to accept controversial ideas that may be labeled as "conspiracy theories".
9. They tend to be somewhat conservative in their lifestyle (to keep up appearances and avoid scandal), so, they are very afraid of having turmoil or interruption of their work. The risk of divorce if they have a problem at work is extremely high.
10. The public is still very adherent to looking for doctors based on their credentials, rather than real evidence of their ability to think effectively for the real benefit of their patient. Doctors are afraid of being socially outcast.
Big Tech is suing a tiny Ohio town of Urbana after its city council listened to the residents and voted no on a massive AI data center
Urbana only has a population of about 11,000 but they’re going up against a $20 billion company
The company wants to put in a data center so massive it will use 8 times the entire town’s current annual electricity usage
The data center project would claim 565 acres
The$1 billion AI data center would likely use an enormous amount of water, up to hundreds of millions of gallons per year
For a project of this scale, the Thor Equities’ proposal annual usage could easily reach 300–1,800+ million gallons per year in water usage
“The city council also put a 12-month moratorium in place on all data centers, and on June 16th, they finalized the zoning regulations that said no data centers, leading Thor Equities to file a federal lawsuit against this tiny town. Laughably, they say they look forward to resolving this so they can continue being a strong partner for Urbana”
Even when residents and the city council vote for what they want, these massive companies won’t be stopped
$175 built a faceless YouTube channel that made $2,948 in 23 days.
He never filmed a thing.
AI wrote the script. AI made the voice. AI built the visuals. He just hit upload.
Channel started May 4th. 1 video. May 5th. Video 2. By day 3, 400 views a day. Within a week, tens of thousands.
May 18th. Monetized. The money switched on.
7 videos total. Cost to make them: $175. Return so far: $2,948.
The top one has 743,000 views and paid $1,386 and most of those views landed before the channel was monetized. Free traffic he never got a check for.
Once the money turned on, it never dropped below $50 a day.
This wasn't luck. He's done it 4 times.
9 days on one channel. 15 on another. 28 on a third. A dead one revived in 13.
The rule under all of it: ghost niches.
Every coach says find a winner and copy it. Copy the script. Copy the thumbnail. Copy the idea.
That's dead now. YouTube runs its own AI. It knows when you reworded someone's script.
So he goes where no one's looking.
$175 in. $2,948 out. Zero face on camera.
When Dr. Mark Brody sent a cautionary email to his patients urging them to wait for better vaccine data before getting the COVID shots, Rhode Island suspended his license. When forced to choose between renouncing his medical opinion or failing a board-imposed ethics course, he surrendered his license voluntarily, now practicing integrative medicine without prescriptions.
Dr Brody is one of six plaintiffs suing seven medical boards for violating the free speech of physicians whose medical opinions differ from other physicians.
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.
The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.