Articles

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

The assassination of John F. Kennedy and conspiracy theories — A review of Vincent Bugliosi’s book, Reclaiming History
If Gerald Posner’s book, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (1993), convinced me that Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK and acted alone,

Is Our Health Care System “Broken”? by David C. Stolinsky, MD
I am reproducing the table on cancer survival rates throughout the world in its original form, rather than formatting it to fit the page better.

The historical meaning of political conservatism by Miguel A. Faria, MD
“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’ “— William F. Buckley, Jr. In the context of my article on this

Women, Guns, and the Medical Literature — A Raging Debate
It is becoming abundantly clear that the mainstream liberal media and the entrenched political medical establishment support draconian gun control measures that would ultimately lead

Primitive cranial surgery — Scythian trepanations (500-300 B.C.)
Letter to the EditorWorld Neurosurgery Dear Editor, I found the article by Dr. James T. Goodrich on early Scythian trepanations succinct and interesting.[3] There are,

The Enlightenment — A triumph of classical not modern liberalism!
In a recent op-ed titled, “The ‘Enlightenment’ keeps on winning,” James A. Haught, an editor emeritus of a West Virginia newspaper, asserts in his latest