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“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

Book Review of Vandals at the Gates of Medicine: Historic Perspectives on the Battle Over Health Care Reform. Reviewed by Jane H. Ingraham
A Physician’s Diagnosis Here is an unusual book; half is a history of Western civilization and half a powerful exhortation against government control of the

The Data Bank in Big Brother’s Scheme of Things
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their Government, they will find that their Government has taken charge of them. Independence

On Environmentalism, Radicalism Prevails
…The last chance for a future that makes ecological sense…We thought that the one-month deadline for the writing [of this Manifesto] was impossible, that we

“Assault Weapons” Revisited — An Analysis of the AMA Report by Edgar A. Suter, MD
Abstract — The AMA Council on Scientific Affairs did not conduct a rigorous scientific evaluation before supporting a ban on assault weapons. The Council appears

Guns in the Medical Literature — A Failure of Peer Review by Edgar A. Suter, MD
Abstract — Errors of fact, design, and interpretation abound in the medical literature on guns and violence. The peer review process has failed to prevent

AIDS and Medical Correctness
Many Americans, even physicians, are unaware that the National Research Council, which is an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, proclaimed in February 1993