When I posted this article, I assumed Milhoan was just fired from the Maui hospital (as I knew he was based there and since I didn't have contacts there to ask, I just checked the island’s hospital director, saw he was not listed there and assumed that constituted proof he was fired). In reality, he had previously been forced to leave that position due to his COVID-19 related activity and this new firing was at a Texas hospital he sometimes worked at (presumably by periodically flying there). I apologize for the mistake.
12/12/25 Update: GOOD NEWS from Dr. Kimberly Milhoan (Dr. Kirk's wife)! We'd still like to know (for sure) the name of the system that initially fired him)
Un-fired. We are so grateful for the outpouring of support on behalf of my husband, Dr Kirk Milhoan. By Kimberly Milhoan, MD (12/12/25)
🗣️ A trusted colleague from Kirk’s institution reached out to Kirk during the day Thursday after hearing what happened, expressing his support and pledging intervention. I cannot tell you what that phone call meant to me. He is a man of integrity and has my gratitude. That was the just defense I had hoped for. He called back to invite Kirk to continue in his position when we were in the airport, about to leave Hong Kong. I am updating this status during a layover.
We are truly humbled by all who came to Kirk’s defense.
I am very happy to see that update that Kirk is un-fired in Texas. Texas is not Hawaii, which is a bit better for him and his patients in this instance. Poor Governor Josh Green MD in Hawaii looks like a haunted soul now, not a happy member of the State Senate, working in Big Island ERs, like in the good old days. He got sucked in to horrors he would never have chosen, I think...
The utilitarianism ideological control inherent with the vaccine childhood schedule that is legally propped up by HR5546 courtesy of the 99th Congress that was convinced that only through litigation immunity could the vaccine schedule be a public health success story. Success not through solid research, careful clinical trials, or close safety signal monitoring. Nope. Success measured only by the absence of causal lawsuits from the unavoidably unsafe vaccine manufacturing process that HR5546 enables to this day.
So in 2025, nearly 40yrs after HR5546 was codified; all vaccines... ALL OF THEM...still remain unavoidably unsafe; still enjoy litigation immunity; still kill and maim healthy children in order to save healthy children according to the utilitarianism ideology; and still control access to K-12 and College/University educational pursuits or even control adult's livelihoods (job opportunities) as was the case during the plandemic.
It will soon be the 40th anniversary of the unlawful and un-Constitutional HR5546 and nothing has changed other than the significant increase in the number of unavoidably unsafe vaccines.
There is no other unavoidably unsafe product designed for human use that is used as a means to control the life and livelihood ends of you and me.
Control is inherent in cults. The controlling Public Health utilitarianism ideology is fundamentally no different than the ideology of fanatic religious cults. Cannot question the doctrine. Must obey the mandates of the cult leaders. If you question the leaders you will be marginalized and/or targeted as an enemy of the cult.
It's not just control ...its about a profit-seeking Industry , which was started by John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil. in 1910...He promoted doctors joining the AMA, in order to, to prescribe his patented Petroleum-based drugs. He promised doctors higher Incomes by promoting his patented drugs...and Prestige from all the money they would make. The Medical Industry is all about promoting drugs and vaccines with its focus on its Bottom Line...not Health. Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, promoted a Medicine called Food...and a Healthy Lifestyle. Med School avoids teaching doctors about nutrition,, because it produced CURES ...and the Industry is focused entirely on its Bottom Line!
I think it’s much deeper than control. At this point, anyone following and learning about the real, and obviously undeniable dangers of vaccines should begin to our questioning whether there is palpable evil behind these powers and decisions.
It's a three prong approach: (1) Control of the narrative; (2) Control of an unhealthy, and now with the introduction of mRNA the physical ability to control mind and body population; and (3) Never ending profit from a captured commodity, humanity.
People who are aware must tell others who believe in vaccines the items in them.....Ask if they like having animal cells, animal viruses, carbolic acid, embalming fluid (formaldehyde), detergent, polysorbate80, SV-40 (matter used in labs creating cancer cells) and more injected into their bloodstreams by people who are in an industry making a fortune off of their lack of knowledge! Hosea:4:6 "My people prish from lack of knowledge."
Barbara, unfortunately many many people refuse to look at any alternative viewpoint, as AMD points out! I have this problem with my own very intelligent liberal son who has received every single Covid shot plus every booster. He is now experiencing health issues and won't even consider that it is the shots causing his issues!
Does your son know the items that are in these injections... aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde, carbolic acid, detergent, etc. I was totally appalled, when I found out what was in the vaccines, I had given my children. I had lost faith in the medical profession almost 50 years earlier, when i opened some health books...and saw two things, which my son's doctor had done...which contributed to my child's bad health. He told me how to feed the boy from the time I brought him home from the hospital and put him on a formula of corn syrup and evaporated milk...then many other bad foods. I was an ignorant young mother who knew nothing about nutrition. Then at 4-1/2, the doctor put him on tranquilizers, which would STUNT the GROWTH of his organs. After reading this information, I lost my faith in medical doctors...and almost 65 years ago now...started on a Journey to Wellness, which is the name of my newsletter barbaracharis.substack.com
You have really had quite the experience. Im so sorry. My son will not even talk to me regarding anything COVID. Now he is refusing to come to my home for Christmas because I am a Conservative who voted for Trump and my home "triggers" him! He will be staying with my daughter during the holidays when he comes out and we will be having our Christmas over there. She lives close to me. He definitely has TDS. Sigh! And he is 56 years old!
Sorry to hear about your experience with your son. vaccines damage the glands in the brain, which contribute to thinking, learning, emotional development and consciousness...the ability to discern, between right and wrong...our Connection to our Creator. Vaccines wipe out the mind. One of my brothers died, right after he got a shot; and another one of my brothers brags about all the boosters he has had...and refuses to read anything I have sent him. His doctor said that they were "Safe & Effective." He received many injections, when he went into service...and his mind was affected. He experienced a temperature of 109 degrees. He was never the same afterwards.
I have students like this. Again and again. "Just took another COVID shot" and "need to get to the doctor, my thyroid is out again," and "I've been so depressed, I just can't seem to get on top of it." and on and on.....
The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass - which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught - but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries. - Arthur Koestler
It's the professionals needing to control, i.e., protect their territory.
Without informed consent driven by primum non nocere there is no such thing as health care let alone medicine or public health.
You get what is the current US health system. Which is why those of us who preach informed consent and primum non nocere are decidedly personas non grata to the bigpharma-medico-industrial complex.
i guess it's pretty clear that POISON, which all the "vaccines" actually are, is unavoidably unsafe. the stunning thing is that they managed to convince most people (in the US at least) that these poisons are essential to life and health, to the point that they are clamoring to be poisoned!!
I think it’s much deeper than control. At this point, anyone following and learning about the real and obviously undeniable dangers of vaccines should start questioning whether there is palpable evil behind these powers and decisions. The agenda is much darker than greed or control.
AMD... I feel a great sense of love and gratitude toward you. This article has touched me deeply, by the sincerity and honesty I perceive as the driver of your whole existence. I recognize the same senses that you describe in your writing as core elements of my own life and it's meaning. It is puzzling to me that your essay appears here at the perfect time for me... when I needed it most. You see, I've been quite sad recently, and somewhat angry, with myself, having nearly died 23 days ago in a desert wash flash flood, yet having failed to convince three family members who are currently sick or dying, (all of them jabbed), to accept the realities of what the Covid 19 "pandemic" was, and how the health care system has for years been persistently operated on untruths, deception, and greed, resulting in their sickness and pending death. I am motivated by truth, as you are, and seek to make no errors in assertions. The future here for all on Earth today seems perfectly clear to me... it's not good for many... yet I cannot get through to my family. They simply cannot perceive what I see and argue, let alone weigh it for truth. I realize now, from your deep conveyance of understanding in this essay today, that the information I present to them is currently beyond their comprehension, and as it follows, beyond their interest. I am being filtered out as an unwanted anomaly, interfering with their desired, simple, worldview. An email from my younger brother a few hours ago said essentially the same thing as you have said. He was kind, correct, and asserted that I am loved, in spite of the barricades erected by others to keep me and my 'heresy' out of their comfort zone. I am grateful to you. I am bothered that anyone has dared to be so presumptuous as to be 'talking down' to you. I find myself wishing you had not experienced that behaviour. Your work is simply amazing, as is your work ethic. God bless you, and keep you, and let His light continue to shine upon you, and give you peace... And Merry Christmas.
i daren't mention it anymore. very sad, especially considering what will probably happen to their hoped-for offspring (if they are still healthy enough to bear them after all the recent vaxxing).
Yes. My son will not listen to anything I have to say about the reason he is now (after receiving every single COVID jab plus every booster) having major health issues! He dismisses me as a conspiracy theorist.
i know. after all the vaxxing, my stepson has started to get "pro-active" testing for numerous miscellaneous health problems, just in case. it doesn't help that his 38 yr old cousin died last year from an aggressive cancer, and that he is surely noticing lots of terrible health issues in his age cohort (43). also a friend's son (age 49) recently had colo-rectal cancer surgery. yikes.
"They cannot perceive" = beyond perception. YES. That's it. They can't even see what you see - so all the facts and figures in the world won't bring them around.
No wonder they call us conspiracy theorists - they can't perceive what we speak of.
Excellent overview of what I personally experience in terms of information overload, and what I also see in the people around me. Helpful suggestions. To some extent the ability to scan and discern is an innate talent, but it can be cultivated. I share your finding that alternative information sources can be skimmed now and move on quickly because there is so much overlap. That wasn't the case for me when I started really examining things as a result of the COVID misinformation beginning in 2020, but it is now. Thank you for elucidating all of this. Your work hits my confirmation bias, ha. As a former family physician and family practice educator, not to mention vice president of medical affairs, I had to have these skills to do my job years ago, but they certainly come in handy now as well. I greatly appreciate your work on DMSO as well, I have found it to be incredibly valuable personally, over the past year or so, whenever you began writing about it. I too love run-on sentences, so I vote for keeping on with that technique. Thank you again for all that you do.
Well Marsha, perhaps you and the MW Doc share that love for run-on sentences, but I am with the editors here. My very first English course(101) in college I figured would be a pushover. Boy, was I wrong. Professor Beattie offered my first essays failing grades, woke me up to "readable" authorship; I finished with a B. 1970.
MY suggestions, despite your filters being up now, surely:
-- be pithy to start with and edit as you write to simplify final edit and helping to prevent the need for "running on".
-- use semi-colons when you just can't STAND! to cut out that last too long, phrase.
-- use some short sentences to break up the monotony of words. Consider that thoughts you may instantly envision as one your audience struggles mightily. It is important to accept that being a doctor / subject matter expert and having significant grasp of the subject matter blinds you to the fog with which those having limited exposure suffer.
-- using acronyms is just crazy; spell it out.
I have a bet now here for both of you:
The next time you write finish one paragraph as above after previously writing the same ideas down using the run-on approach. Ask spouse to read them both and comment.
The BET: spouse will appreciate the pithy one but you will have spent twice the time to write it-- the downside.
A long-time investigative reporter who taught a journalism class at the University I attended, gave us a key piece of advice in investigative journalism when searching for a motive: Follow the money. I've never forgotten that advice -- it's certainly true with the medical-pharma industrial complex we face today. Power and control are factors also, but MONEY leads the way.
One thing that's very frustrating about Google now is that it selectively filters out information it doesn't want you to see and shows you sources from websites they choose from. It often shoves liberal discussion forums like Reddit and Quora, where users often use rude and snarky language directed at those they disagree with, very high up in the search results.
Furthermore, Wikipedia is usually the first result that is displayed when researching political topics, and as we all know, Wikipedia is extremely biased. Just a few examples of what you can find on there: they outright call Donald Trump "the worst president in American history" in the opening paragraph, refer to the slogan Make America Great Again as a "racist dog whistle", and confidently state without evidence that "Fox News knowingly publishes fake news and conspiracies".
I wrote about this in another comment, but I actually tried to write my own Wikipedia article about RFK Jr ("Make America Healthy Again") from a completely fair and neutral perspective. When I published it, the article was completely butchered and twisted into the current medical establishment narrative, and a top editor messaged me saying that I was "either an anti-vaccine liar or too stupid to be allowed internet access".
It makes me wonder, "who decides what appears on Google's search results and how high up it is placed?" My rant ties into the main theme of your article because someone out there is placing filters on information they don't want Google to show to the public, creating the illusion that everything that appears on Google is "all the best information that is available". I don't know if specific entities or political parties are paying Google to hide or censor undesirable content, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case. Wikipedia on the other hand is able to maintain its left-wing bias because it effectively established an information filter by banning any conservative or right-leaning news source to be cited on the website (see its Perennial Sources list), while allowing unreliable far-left sources to be used.
So, what can you do to enlighten yourself when information is so heavily censored? Always try to learn both sides of an issue and understand why people think the way they do. If you always use Wikipedia, try Grokipedia (but acknowledge its right-wing and pro-Elon Musk bias). In fact, always acknowledge the potential biases of a source and scrutinize it to see if there are any financial incentives. And finally, use information that cannot be censored by big tech: things you've experienced. My real-life experiences with serious vaccine injuries of people I'm close with shaped my views on the medical establishment and pharmaceutical industry. If you can bet with your life that you've experienced something like this in real life, never let anyone tell you it's in your head.
For the past 8+ years I have subscribed to news sources from both sides. It is fascinating to see how both sides interpret the same event. Sometimes it is truly a different worldview on what is important, but often you can see them repeating talking points they don't really understand. Very often the information they are presenting are so biased as to not really be true. For example they say a politician said X, then you go find and watch the actual interview and find that's not what they said at all. Often taken completely out of context.
Which really scares me about deep fakes. Because when you can't even trust the original videos to be true then you have no way to fact check things for yourself. You certainly can't use internet searches or AI which are biased.
Are you a user of Reddit? For most topics they are reasonable people with honest opinions, and not rude or snarky. Of course if you're searching for highly controversial topics on a newsgroup, what do you expect. But Reddit itself has plenty of people of both political persuasions, and is not inherently liberal.
As for Google and others, I find their lean is really "pro-establishment". You have to go past the first 10 pages of search results to get past the same reiterated talking points.
The main thing that always jumped out at me about Reddit was that everyone had the vibe of "low self esteem behaviors." I asked a few AI bots about this, and they essentially said this was accurate, but primarily for the "the most Reddit-y slice of Reddit," with I think is a good way to put it.
You're right that not everyone is rude or snarky on places like Reddit. I used to read Reddit a lot and I saw many, many instances of people being very toxic, especially on mainstream subreddits and even more when discussing political issues. However, when looking past negative subreddits and politics, you can find a lot of very interesting and insightful content that you can't really find anywhere else on the internet. Not everything about Reddit is bad, it just depends on how you use the site.
Pubmed now has problems with searching. Same key words before and during plandemic do not produce the same publication listing. You can still replicate the prior listing but it takes alot more guesswork with the search words
And that's why so many people have *half-baked* opinions! ;-)
Which reminds me of one thing not yet mentioned for dealing with one-sided arguments:
Using humor can sometimes reset the mind of someone who isn't listening to you. (It works as long as they don't feel like they are the target of the humor.)
Another strategy is to find some point they made where you can agree with them, and repeat it back to them... to show that you are listening. It's interesting how often people will not only relax, but adopt the same approach.
I'll turn 70 next week and while I've never been good at going to doctors, Covid has made me terrified. I'm in pretty good health, mow several acres in the summer, walk every day and other than normal aches and stiffness, feel pretty good, but when I do see a doctor I'm always pushed to take a statin or something for my osteoporosis. I rarely get colds or flu so unless I'm sporting a bloody stump, I refuse to see a doc anymore. I find most doctors so behind current science as if they are completely unable to learn anything new and discussing anything controversial (which is anything other than what they were taught in med school) just brings contempt from them. They don't even learn from the experience of treating their own patients with harms that were caused. I might die of something stupid that could have been prevented with some care, but I guess I'll take my chances from here on out.
One of my grandfather's was a coal miner. I remember as a child hearing him cough through the night due to black lung. When at age 94 my uncle found it necessary to call for an EMT, he told the EMT that my grandfather had never been to a doctor and it would be the first time he ever received any type of medical care. The EMT responded "It's probably why he has lived so long".
First, best wishes on your birthday. Second, we agree you should avoid doctors. Keep your immune system healthy, learn basic first aid so you can treat the small stuff (DMSO, chlorine dioxide, ivermectin, etc.), sleep well, eat well, exercise, get some sun, avoid "vaccines," and avoid medications that are "new and improved."
Also, consider independent health and medical resources. We've put together a few to help folks here: https://tinyurl.com/wbw9376k
We are witnessing the “mass psychosis” of modern man. “Debate” isn’t a thing anymore, either you agree or deserve to die is the attitude of the majority. Much like a Muslim…
More proof that mankind is DEVOLVING and “evolution” is clearly a lie.
One look at historical architecture or music is clear evidence.
Mankind has become so dependent on modern convenience, grocery stores, technology, push of a button everything, etc, that even survival is slim in the event of a prolonged period without them.
Doesn’t the law of entropy (second law of thermodynamics) confirm this…
Doctors are not practicing medicine. Drugs and vaccines are NOT medicines. They are practicing controlled poisonings and toxic chemical disruptions upon humans. Your brain dead doctor can never prove that his toxic vaccines, drugs and mRNA poisons provide one smidgen of health or curing of any illness or disease.
I was told by a Autism clinician with decades of experience of experience at a univeristy level clinic. that the reason the autism rate has increased to 1 in 36 is totally due to the fact that the rate is calculated based on the number of IEPs with that diagnosis. And of course that has skyrocketed because it was not calculated like that before. Also the DSM 5 criteria have combined many developmental and behavioral diagnoses together and made it easier to give the diagnosis. Also parents need a diagnosis for insurance purposes. Straight faced, this accounts for the rise. End of story.
AMD - That was the best "burn" on Amanda. Or did I completely misinterpret your reply? Have you written about the Autism epidemic? Would like to see your analysis or theory on this subject.
I think you misinterpreted her reply. The line "Straight faced, this accounts for the rise." indicates she thought the Autism doctor was being very closeminded.
Yes, he began his presentation with this explanation about the rising incidence of autism. It felt as though he knew he needed to give an explanation to all of us in early intervention so we could breath a sigh of relief and stop thinking about the elephant in the room. I think it’s more than closed mindedness , it’s Stockholm syndrome and willful blindness The stakes are too high in these communities to ask reasonable questions about all possible causes or contributing factors.
Very interesting. I guess due to my background and training, plus a lifetime of research to diagnose and cure myself from illnesses which were never properly diagnosed or accepted, I am one of the 10%. I just learned very early on that nothing is as simple as it seems, that most things we take as fact are based on shaky foundations (poor actual research for example), and that nothing is ever black and white. Every topic I ever delved into learning about, I found was based on sham hypotheses and poor evidence. (The Turtles All the Way Down phenomena, or just propaganda.) Thus I always know that my beliefs about what is true are just based on what I happen to have learned so far, and subject to change at any time. (My opinions do change constantly and never line up neatly with any "group' of people.)
I think I was also lucky that my early trauma and medical issues led me to meditation early in life. Learning to observe your mind's own lies is very useful to being able to see through all lies. Also useful, in a spiritual sense, is learning to see through all stories to find the actual truth of what is.
You said we could: "Teach people to focus on grasping the timeless essence of those teachings by allowing their minds to expand enough to see the nuances within those texts." But it goes well beyond that for religion. Those texts were never designed to be absolute; they are stories meant to be pointers to that which cannot be put into words. There is only one reason why religions encourage their followers to believe the stories rather than look for the ultimate truths of life, and that is so they can maintain power.
A good look at the Book of Acts in the New Testament reveals countless examples encouraging readers to seek out the voice & presence of the Holy Spirit, to find & follow the will of God in overturning this present world system.
Nothing has ever been more of a threat to human power structures.
Yes . Meditation has helped me tremendously . I learned to ask universe for help and help is provided . There truly are no such things as coincidences . They are synchronicities . I had two dogs with vaccine related issues and cancer , then worked with several people whose children were vaccine injured . I think universe was tapping me on the shoulder , so to speak . It helps to have been educated in a system that cultivates critical thinking skills also . Modern medical education unfortunately emphasizes conformity ( best practice guidelines ) and memorization . One has to realize that you cant save the world . I dont proselytize anti-vax views . People have to do their own research . I gently point certain issues out .
Same. I adopted a dog, gave it vaccines, and it soon got cancer at the injection spot. Somehow that is known and accepted as happening fairly often in the vet world.
Then 10 years later I got cancer from the Covid vax. I didn't want it but I succumbed to peer pressure. But at least I didn't get the 2nd dose because I'd probably be dead.
My family was just completely torn apart by this very issue. It began 5 years ago and finally came to a head this week. I was accused of being delusional because of things I believed then when I first woke up fully to what has really been going on in the country & the world. Many of these conspiracy theories have been proven to be true. Many turned out to be absurd. But the CIA knows that people who are traumatized are at their most vulnerable and they exploit it. Am I embarrassed about some of the things I believed & told others? Absolutely. Does it mean I was delusional or in a cult? Absolutely not. A lot of this is coming to a head now because my parents are both dying. My mom showed signs of dementia within months of the jab. She is now in the end stage. Midwestern Doc had shared my story a few yrs ago. My dad has prostate cancer which has likely metastasized (rare for prostate cancer). They want me to reconcile with my brother who abusively attacked me publicly 5 yrs ago. I stopped talking to him at that point & my aunt as well after she said DJT should be sh0t. I won't reconcile because I've never received an apology. I was told I'd never be getting one & was blamed for destroying the family. My brother chose to dig in and make the situation even worse by launching a full on attack this week. All because I held some false beliefs, as well as belief in things that are absolutely true that they don't want to accept & of course I support President Trump. This I believe is the crux of the matter. I could go on ad nauseum about my family's false beliefs. This week has been a nightmare & this article couldn't have come at a better time. Thank you! It brought some healing.
That is awful. I’ve stopped sharing my beliefs about Covid with almost everyone. It’s the only way I can retain relationships and not destroy what’s left of them. My wife and 2 older teenaged kids are the only unjabbed in our two large families. There may be a few I’m unaware of. In Canada the insane, coercive drive to jab everyone (and their dogs!) was in hyperdrive for almost 3 years. So, all my dear, trusting, but nice relatives did the ‘right’ thing to save humanity and like any good Canadian lined up for the jabs to do their part. It’s been very difficult for me to navigate these past 5 years and I’ve grown harder and have had to stop caring for their health and their knowledge of the truth as I can’t deal with the lies and unbelief and nasty behaviour. My job was used as a brutal threat to take the jabs. I survived by the Grace of God and my pastors sensible suggestion that helped me avoid from being defacto fired. Thanks be to God my family doctor finally helped me out at the moment of truth and at the last moment. Sadly he got jabbed to keep his job and he was the last one in his office as he didn’t want to. Ironic!!! I never want to go through the stress from every corner, coming after me and my family and threatening financial ruin relentlessly unless I submitted for the greater good!!!!! I will NEVER get an apology from anyone and no one takes any responsibility if they were wrong or I was right. It has made me very angry and my trust in any form of authority is destroyed. At least my eyes have been pried open and many assumptions I lived by have been nuked aside and revealed to be terrifying false. My life came very close to be ruined. It will take me years to regain peace and harmony. Substacks like AMD’s have been a lifeline to me. I’m not nuts and I’m not alone. Thanks be to God for the truth, as best we know it. I also realize that I’ve been wrong or held to things by faith that could be verified with a little work and thus found wanting. Like vaccines for instance. What a naive fool I was my whole life. Here’s hoping the truth will set us free indeed. Thanks for a long, but thought provoking article. I sometimes skip long articles in Substack as I have limited time, but this one was worth the read. Don’t stop now Doctor! PS - I love the DMSO & Chlorine Dioxide information too!
We're so sorry for your pain and family situation. We hear (and have experienced) stories like yours over and over, which doesn't diminish the suffering, but should help you know you're not alone and that many empathize with you.
I second the comment here by Big E. A group of us have walked this path the last 5 years and had the fortune of being awake at the wheel while others snoozed their way off the road. Give comfort and peace to your dying mom and dad by sharing what time yoiu have with them.
This is a really tough situation. If this were me . . .
something to consider:
-- Don't apologize, but if the situation arises in which you can write down both things you can admit were naive' ideas but also those you know have vindicated your beliefs list them out-- either wrong or proven correct.
-- Perhaps one of them will see how you, like them, struggled with discernment. However, rather than speaking out in hubris, you efforts were meant to help. Possibly this small foray may pierce the armor.
-- Leave it at that and go one with life as best you can.
Ran into the RAS concept back when I drove a school bus. I had a number of autistic kids, and their behavior problems, so I did a lot of reading on why. One theory was that autism came with heightened or exaggerated RAS reaction to everything, and that it was a throwback to the survival instincts. That theory also speculated it came along with a certain more primitive gene set but that smacked of eugenics My opinion on how eugenics works out is best illustrated by what happened to purebred dogs over the years. Filtering this RAS idea into my reaction to an autistic kid did seem to help navigate whatever was going down at that moment. On a different topic, teaching vocational mechanics in a federal job training program, I had to write a lot of the course work to the specification of no more than five words in a sentence and five letters in a word. Given the abysmal reading skills of most US kids and adults that's valid, depending on who your audience is. At the same time, I too think the longer sentences are best to get across nuanced or complex subjects. The sad thing/crime is that the educational system has failed so thoroughly to teach reading ability. Some say this was deliberate to ensure the "one simple idea" the Doc here mentions is the only way ideas can get processed. John Taylor Gatto is a good read on the malfeasance of education. A lot of his writing is available for free online: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A"JOHN+TAYLOR+GATTO"
This article reminded me of a skill I had in debugging computer programs. When I debugged a program I would form a hypothesis of what went wrong, and had to be willing to discard the hypothesis no matter how much work went into its formation if there was one inconvenient fact. Sometimes I'd stare at a number thinking the computer program could not have possibly produced that number. But, then, it did, and I'd force myself to go back to square one, trying to form a new hypothesis.
ha! You describe the reason I realized early to stick to engineering that does NOT require coding!
Endless loops, crazy output, and my own limited patience taught me humility to some extent! I let the electrical engineers and professional programmers "handle" it. . .
Hi AMD. Another wonderful article in your oeuvre. It is always a simultaneously enjoyable and unsettling moment when one of our filters is shed and we suddenly see a broader perspective on a topic.
I'd like to bring to your attention some progress on one topic you mentioned: Mould Toxicity, aka mould-related illness, sometimes known as CIRS or DMHS. The NIH now recognises several more health effects from mould exposure above and beyond asthma and allergy:
The key additions (that were added around April 2025) are:
* Cognitive issues — Extended exposure to mold has been linked to short-term memory loss, lightheadedness, dizziness, blurred vision, ringing in the ears, and loss of cognitive functions, also known as “brain fog.”
* Immune effects — Long-term exposure to inhaled mycotoxins may promote inflammation and immune system changes.
* Mental health issues — Studies have associated prolonged mold exposure with increased levels or depression, anxiety, and stress in both children and adults.
This doesn't yet capture the full range of what mould-related illness can cause, but it's worth noting that the study the NIH links to on cognitive issues highlights one of the core mechanisms that mainstream medicine had not understood: innate immune activation/dysfunction. Hence, with recognition of one of the fundamental mechanisms at play here, we'll hopefully see greater recognition and acceptance of the many multisystem, multi-symptom health effects from mould exposure in the coming years.
I could be wrong, but I believe this is the first time a major health agency has truly recognised some of these extra-respiratory, non-atopic effects.
Do you know for sure this was a MAHA initiative? As it happened so early with no fanfare, I had wondered if it were just a routine update that happened to occur early in this new administration's term.
Do not know for sure. However there has been a massive degree of resistance on acknowledging the mold issue because of the massive liability involved in having to clean up all the moldy buildings around the USA, so I am doubtful it would have happened without MAHA people pushing it along.
When I posted this article, I assumed Milhoan was just fired from the Maui hospital (as I knew he was based there and since I didn't have contacts there to ask, I just checked the island’s hospital director, saw he was not listed there and assumed that constituted proof he was fired). In reality, he had previously been forced to leave that position due to his COVID-19 related activity and this new firing was at a Texas hospital he sometimes worked at (presumably by periodically flying there). I apologize for the mistake.
12/12/25 Update: GOOD NEWS from Dr. Kimberly Milhoan (Dr. Kirk's wife)! We'd still like to know (for sure) the name of the system that initially fired him)
Un-fired. We are so grateful for the outpouring of support on behalf of my husband, Dr Kirk Milhoan. By Kimberly Milhoan, MD (12/12/25)
https://kimberlymilhoanmd.substack.com/p/un-fired
Kimberly Milhoan Quote:
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🗣️ A trusted colleague from Kirk’s institution reached out to Kirk during the day Thursday after hearing what happened, expressing his support and pledging intervention. I cannot tell you what that phone call meant to me. He is a man of integrity and has my gratitude. That was the just defense I had hoped for. He called back to invite Kirk to continue in his position when we were in the airport, about to leave Hong Kong. I am updating this status during a layover.
We are truly humbled by all who came to Kirk’s defense.
I am very happy to see that update that Kirk is un-fired in Texas. Texas is not Hawaii, which is a bit better for him and his patients in this instance. Poor Governor Josh Green MD in Hawaii looks like a haunted soul now, not a happy member of the State Senate, working in Big Island ERs, like in the good old days. He got sucked in to horrors he would never have chosen, I think...
The vaccine issue is about control.
Not science.
Not medicine.
Not public health.
Control.
The utilitarianism ideological control inherent with the vaccine childhood schedule that is legally propped up by HR5546 courtesy of the 99th Congress that was convinced that only through litigation immunity could the vaccine schedule be a public health success story. Success not through solid research, careful clinical trials, or close safety signal monitoring. Nope. Success measured only by the absence of causal lawsuits from the unavoidably unsafe vaccine manufacturing process that HR5546 enables to this day.
So in 2025, nearly 40yrs after HR5546 was codified; all vaccines... ALL OF THEM...still remain unavoidably unsafe; still enjoy litigation immunity; still kill and maim healthy children in order to save healthy children according to the utilitarianism ideology; and still control access to K-12 and College/University educational pursuits or even control adult's livelihoods (job opportunities) as was the case during the plandemic.
It will soon be the 40th anniversary of the unlawful and un-Constitutional HR5546 and nothing has changed other than the significant increase in the number of unavoidably unsafe vaccines.
There is no other unavoidably unsafe product designed for human use that is used as a means to control the life and livelihood ends of you and me.
Control is inherent in cults. The controlling Public Health utilitarianism ideology is fundamentally no different than the ideology of fanatic religious cults. Cannot question the doctrine. Must obey the mandates of the cult leaders. If you question the leaders you will be marginalized and/or targeted as an enemy of the cult.
Control.
It's not just control ...its about a profit-seeking Industry , which was started by John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil. in 1910...He promoted doctors joining the AMA, in order to, to prescribe his patented Petroleum-based drugs. He promised doctors higher Incomes by promoting his patented drugs...and Prestige from all the money they would make. The Medical Industry is all about promoting drugs and vaccines with its focus on its Bottom Line...not Health. Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, promoted a Medicine called Food...and a Healthy Lifestyle. Med School avoids teaching doctors about nutrition,, because it produced CURES ...and the Industry is focused entirely on its Bottom Line!
Control the AMA = control the agenda = make $
I think it’s much deeper than control. At this point, anyone following and learning about the real, and obviously undeniable dangers of vaccines should begin to our questioning whether there is palpable evil behind these powers and decisions.
It's a three prong approach: (1) Control of the narrative; (2) Control of an unhealthy, and now with the introduction of mRNA the physical ability to control mind and body population; and (3) Never ending profit from a captured commodity, humanity.
Hear hear. Vaccines/Viroligy are model/simulation based based with no proof of efficacy at all. Follow the money.
People who are aware must tell others who believe in vaccines the items in them.....Ask if they like having animal cells, animal viruses, carbolic acid, embalming fluid (formaldehyde), detergent, polysorbate80, SV-40 (matter used in labs creating cancer cells) and more injected into their bloodstreams by people who are in an industry making a fortune off of their lack of knowledge! Hosea:4:6 "My people prish from lack of knowledge."
Barbara, unfortunately many many people refuse to look at any alternative viewpoint, as AMD points out! I have this problem with my own very intelligent liberal son who has received every single Covid shot plus every booster. He is now experiencing health issues and won't even consider that it is the shots causing his issues!
Does your son know the items that are in these injections... aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde, carbolic acid, detergent, etc. I was totally appalled, when I found out what was in the vaccines, I had given my children. I had lost faith in the medical profession almost 50 years earlier, when i opened some health books...and saw two things, which my son's doctor had done...which contributed to my child's bad health. He told me how to feed the boy from the time I brought him home from the hospital and put him on a formula of corn syrup and evaporated milk...then many other bad foods. I was an ignorant young mother who knew nothing about nutrition. Then at 4-1/2, the doctor put him on tranquilizers, which would STUNT the GROWTH of his organs. After reading this information, I lost my faith in medical doctors...and almost 65 years ago now...started on a Journey to Wellness, which is the name of my newsletter barbaracharis.substack.com
You have really had quite the experience. Im so sorry. My son will not even talk to me regarding anything COVID. Now he is refusing to come to my home for Christmas because I am a Conservative who voted for Trump and my home "triggers" him! He will be staying with my daughter during the holidays when he comes out and we will be having our Christmas over there. She lives close to me. He definitely has TDS. Sigh! And he is 56 years old!
Sorry to hear about your experience with your son. vaccines damage the glands in the brain, which contribute to thinking, learning, emotional development and consciousness...the ability to discern, between right and wrong...our Connection to our Creator. Vaccines wipe out the mind. One of my brothers died, right after he got a shot; and another one of my brothers brags about all the boosters he has had...and refuses to read anything I have sent him. His doctor said that they were "Safe & Effective." He received many injections, when he went into service...and his mind was affected. He experienced a temperature of 109 degrees. He was never the same afterwards.
I have students like this. Again and again. "Just took another COVID shot" and "need to get to the doctor, my thyroid is out again," and "I've been so depressed, I just can't seem to get on top of it." and on and on.....
"Control" in the sense of what Koestler wrote:
The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass - which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught - but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries. - Arthur Koestler
It's the professionals needing to control, i.e., protect their territory.
i wish that Primum non nocere (first, do no harm) was still a tenet in health care.
Without informed consent driven by primum non nocere there is no such thing as health care let alone medicine or public health.
You get what is the current US health system. Which is why those of us who preach informed consent and primum non nocere are decidedly personas non grata to the bigpharma-medico-industrial complex.
it ain't just about the US. I'm reading Bobby, Jr's Fauci book.
Singapore. Gibraltar. Israel. UK. All of these fell before the mRNA god.
i guess it's pretty clear that POISON, which all the "vaccines" actually are, is unavoidably unsafe. the stunning thing is that they managed to convince most people (in the US at least) that these poisons are essential to life and health, to the point that they are clamoring to be poisoned!!
I think it’s much deeper than control. At this point, anyone following and learning about the real and obviously undeniable dangers of vaccines should start questioning whether there is palpable evil behind these powers and decisions. The agenda is much darker than greed or control.
You summed it up in 6 words. Thank you.
It is control and money, but the two go hand in hand.
AMD... I feel a great sense of love and gratitude toward you. This article has touched me deeply, by the sincerity and honesty I perceive as the driver of your whole existence. I recognize the same senses that you describe in your writing as core elements of my own life and it's meaning. It is puzzling to me that your essay appears here at the perfect time for me... when I needed it most. You see, I've been quite sad recently, and somewhat angry, with myself, having nearly died 23 days ago in a desert wash flash flood, yet having failed to convince three family members who are currently sick or dying, (all of them jabbed), to accept the realities of what the Covid 19 "pandemic" was, and how the health care system has for years been persistently operated on untruths, deception, and greed, resulting in their sickness and pending death. I am motivated by truth, as you are, and seek to make no errors in assertions. The future here for all on Earth today seems perfectly clear to me... it's not good for many... yet I cannot get through to my family. They simply cannot perceive what I see and argue, let alone weigh it for truth. I realize now, from your deep conveyance of understanding in this essay today, that the information I present to them is currently beyond their comprehension, and as it follows, beyond their interest. I am being filtered out as an unwanted anomaly, interfering with their desired, simple, worldview. An email from my younger brother a few hours ago said essentially the same thing as you have said. He was kind, correct, and asserted that I am loved, in spite of the barricades erected by others to keep me and my 'heresy' out of their comfort zone. I am grateful to you. I am bothered that anyone has dared to be so presumptuous as to be 'talking down' to you. I find myself wishing you had not experienced that behaviour. Your work is simply amazing, as is your work ethic. God bless you, and keep you, and let His light continue to shine upon you, and give you peace... And Merry Christmas.
Out of curiosity since that happened, are the back of your knees sore or your breath a lot more shallow than before?
David Kukkee— thank you for this. I would say much the same.
Thank you, AMD, your writings are a blessing.
yup, same for me. Family will NOT discuss it.
One feels helpless.
i daren't mention it anymore. very sad, especially considering what will probably happen to their hoped-for offspring (if they are still healthy enough to bear them after all the recent vaxxing).
Yes. My son will not listen to anything I have to say about the reason he is now (after receiving every single COVID jab plus every booster) having major health issues! He dismisses me as a conspiracy theorist.
i know. after all the vaxxing, my stepson has started to get "pro-active" testing for numerous miscellaneous health problems, just in case. it doesn't help that his 38 yr old cousin died last year from an aggressive cancer, and that he is surely noticing lots of terrible health issues in his age cohort (43). also a friend's son (age 49) recently had colo-rectal cancer surgery. yikes.
Ive known a number of friends who have been in cancer remission, and since the jab, now have a turbo relapse! This is criminal.
so he gets proactive, and submits to even more medical "treatment," opening the gates for further iatrogenesis.
i know. horrible. maybe we should just refer to mds and their allies as iatrogenescists.
"They cannot perceive" = beyond perception. YES. That's it. They can't even see what you see - so all the facts and figures in the world won't bring them around.
No wonder they call us conspiracy theorists - they can't perceive what we speak of.
Excellent overview of what I personally experience in terms of information overload, and what I also see in the people around me. Helpful suggestions. To some extent the ability to scan and discern is an innate talent, but it can be cultivated. I share your finding that alternative information sources can be skimmed now and move on quickly because there is so much overlap. That wasn't the case for me when I started really examining things as a result of the COVID misinformation beginning in 2020, but it is now. Thank you for elucidating all of this. Your work hits my confirmation bias, ha. As a former family physician and family practice educator, not to mention vice president of medical affairs, I had to have these skills to do my job years ago, but they certainly come in handy now as well. I greatly appreciate your work on DMSO as well, I have found it to be incredibly valuable personally, over the past year or so, whenever you began writing about it. I too love run-on sentences, so I vote for keeping on with that technique. Thank you again for all that you do.
Well Marsha, perhaps you and the MW Doc share that love for run-on sentences, but I am with the editors here. My very first English course(101) in college I figured would be a pushover. Boy, was I wrong. Professor Beattie offered my first essays failing grades, woke me up to "readable" authorship; I finished with a B. 1970.
MY suggestions, despite your filters being up now, surely:
-- be pithy to start with and edit as you write to simplify final edit and helping to prevent the need for "running on".
-- use semi-colons when you just can't STAND! to cut out that last too long, phrase.
-- use some short sentences to break up the monotony of words. Consider that thoughts you may instantly envision as one your audience struggles mightily. It is important to accept that being a doctor / subject matter expert and having significant grasp of the subject matter blinds you to the fog with which those having limited exposure suffer.
-- using acronyms is just crazy; spell it out.
I have a bet now here for both of you:
The next time you write finish one paragraph as above after previously writing the same ideas down using the run-on approach. Ask spouse to read them both and comment.
The BET: spouse will appreciate the pithy one but you will have spent twice the time to write it-- the downside.
right on old red. reminiscent of the old saying about how long it takes to write with brevity.
like packing for a back-packing trip: eliminate all non-essentials. (takes a lot longer than just throwing everything in the car you might need).
a lot more people will actually read it, and send it on to others.
yep, experience in the BWCA has taught me that once in the bag that extra weight will bite on the shoulder blades as the trail gets longer!
This does not apply to food or rain gear though.
Point well taken, @pretty-red old guy 😉
Oh that was delightful! But I also have a love for long sentences. Sigh. A habit hard to break!
I have always found following the money to be a useful asset when listening to "experts".
And the love of money to distort their thinking and/or compromise integrity
(First Timothy 6:10).
A long-time investigative reporter who taught a journalism class at the University I attended, gave us a key piece of advice in investigative journalism when searching for a motive: Follow the money. I've never forgotten that advice -- it's certainly true with the medical-pharma industrial complex we face today. Power and control are factors also, but MONEY leads the way.
I have requested in my Trust that the phrase "Always, follow the money" be inserted on my gravestone. It is the answer to most unanswerable questions.
One thing that's very frustrating about Google now is that it selectively filters out information it doesn't want you to see and shows you sources from websites they choose from. It often shoves liberal discussion forums like Reddit and Quora, where users often use rude and snarky language directed at those they disagree with, very high up in the search results.
Furthermore, Wikipedia is usually the first result that is displayed when researching political topics, and as we all know, Wikipedia is extremely biased. Just a few examples of what you can find on there: they outright call Donald Trump "the worst president in American history" in the opening paragraph, refer to the slogan Make America Great Again as a "racist dog whistle", and confidently state without evidence that "Fox News knowingly publishes fake news and conspiracies".
I wrote about this in another comment, but I actually tried to write my own Wikipedia article about RFK Jr ("Make America Healthy Again") from a completely fair and neutral perspective. When I published it, the article was completely butchered and twisted into the current medical establishment narrative, and a top editor messaged me saying that I was "either an anti-vaccine liar or too stupid to be allowed internet access".
It makes me wonder, "who decides what appears on Google's search results and how high up it is placed?" My rant ties into the main theme of your article because someone out there is placing filters on information they don't want Google to show to the public, creating the illusion that everything that appears on Google is "all the best information that is available". I don't know if specific entities or political parties are paying Google to hide or censor undesirable content, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case. Wikipedia on the other hand is able to maintain its left-wing bias because it effectively established an information filter by banning any conservative or right-leaning news source to be cited on the website (see its Perennial Sources list), while allowing unreliable far-left sources to be used.
So, what can you do to enlighten yourself when information is so heavily censored? Always try to learn both sides of an issue and understand why people think the way they do. If you always use Wikipedia, try Grokipedia (but acknowledge its right-wing and pro-Elon Musk bias). In fact, always acknowledge the potential biases of a source and scrutinize it to see if there are any financial incentives. And finally, use information that cannot be censored by big tech: things you've experienced. My real-life experiences with serious vaccine injuries of people I'm close with shaped my views on the medical establishment and pharmaceutical industry. If you can bet with your life that you've experienced something like this in real life, never let anyone tell you it's in your head.
For the past 8+ years I have subscribed to news sources from both sides. It is fascinating to see how both sides interpret the same event. Sometimes it is truly a different worldview on what is important, but often you can see them repeating talking points they don't really understand. Very often the information they are presenting are so biased as to not really be true. For example they say a politician said X, then you go find and watch the actual interview and find that's not what they said at all. Often taken completely out of context.
Which really scares me about deep fakes. Because when you can't even trust the original videos to be true then you have no way to fact check things for yourself. You certainly can't use internet searches or AI which are biased.
Apparently some in the world are claiming a certain skill at creating whatever form of reality they need:
https://youtu.be/4PzZ8WOonWo
Are you a user of Reddit? For most topics they are reasonable people with honest opinions, and not rude or snarky. Of course if you're searching for highly controversial topics on a newsgroup, what do you expect. But Reddit itself has plenty of people of both political persuasions, and is not inherently liberal.
As for Google and others, I find their lean is really "pro-establishment". You have to go past the first 10 pages of search results to get past the same reiterated talking points.
The main thing that always jumped out at me about Reddit was that everyone had the vibe of "low self esteem behaviors." I asked a few AI bots about this, and they essentially said this was accurate, but primarily for the "the most Reddit-y slice of Reddit," with I think is a good way to put it.
You're right that not everyone is rude or snarky on places like Reddit. I used to read Reddit a lot and I saw many, many instances of people being very toxic, especially on mainstream subreddits and even more when discussing political issues. However, when looking past negative subreddits and politics, you can find a lot of very interesting and insightful content that you can't really find anywhere else on the internet. Not everything about Reddit is bad, it just depends on how you use the site.
Anything controversial , I always lean first to Luxxle.com search engine.
Pubmed now has problems with searching. Same key words before and during plandemic do not produce the same publication listing. You can still replicate the prior listing but it takes alot more guesswork with the search words
There are always two sides to every pancake. Unfortunately, many choose to only acknowledge one side.
And that's why so many people have *half-baked* opinions! ;-)
Which reminds me of one thing not yet mentioned for dealing with one-sided arguments:
Using humor can sometimes reset the mind of someone who isn't listening to you. (It works as long as they don't feel like they are the target of the humor.)
Another strategy is to find some point they made where you can agree with them, and repeat it back to them... to show that you are listening. It's interesting how often people will not only relax, but adopt the same approach.
I'll turn 70 next week and while I've never been good at going to doctors, Covid has made me terrified. I'm in pretty good health, mow several acres in the summer, walk every day and other than normal aches and stiffness, feel pretty good, but when I do see a doctor I'm always pushed to take a statin or something for my osteoporosis. I rarely get colds or flu so unless I'm sporting a bloody stump, I refuse to see a doc anymore. I find most doctors so behind current science as if they are completely unable to learn anything new and discussing anything controversial (which is anything other than what they were taught in med school) just brings contempt from them. They don't even learn from the experience of treating their own patients with harms that were caused. I might die of something stupid that could have been prevented with some care, but I guess I'll take my chances from here on out.
One of my grandfather's was a coal miner. I remember as a child hearing him cough through the night due to black lung. When at age 94 my uncle found it necessary to call for an EMT, he told the EMT that my grandfather had never been to a doctor and it would be the first time he ever received any type of medical care. The EMT responded "It's probably why he has lived so long".
Straight from the horses mouth!
Absolutely brilliant and of course, true!
We are bombarded constantly by anti-life substances, we certainly don't need more courtesy the NHS et al.
First, best wishes on your birthday. Second, we agree you should avoid doctors. Keep your immune system healthy, learn basic first aid so you can treat the small stuff (DMSO, chlorine dioxide, ivermectin, etc.), sleep well, eat well, exercise, get some sun, avoid "vaccines," and avoid medications that are "new and improved."
Also, consider independent health and medical resources. We've put together a few to help folks here: https://tinyurl.com/wbw9376k
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Thank you, Big E! I saved this list for future reference
We are witnessing the “mass psychosis” of modern man. “Debate” isn’t a thing anymore, either you agree or deserve to die is the attitude of the majority. Much like a Muslim…
More proof that mankind is DEVOLVING and “evolution” is clearly a lie.
One look at historical architecture or music is clear evidence.
Mankind has become so dependent on modern convenience, grocery stores, technology, push of a button everything, etc, that even survival is slim in the event of a prolonged period without them.
Doesn’t the law of entropy (second law of thermodynamics) confirm this…
You read my mind.
Doctors are not practicing medicine. Drugs and vaccines are NOT medicines. They are practicing controlled poisonings and toxic chemical disruptions upon humans. Your brain dead doctor can never prove that his toxic vaccines, drugs and mRNA poisons provide one smidgen of health or curing of any illness or disease.
We the People owe A Midwestern Doctor an un-payable debt.
May God bless and prosper your righteous mission.
Please, please, please PRESS ON.
I was told by a Autism clinician with decades of experience of experience at a univeristy level clinic. that the reason the autism rate has increased to 1 in 36 is totally due to the fact that the rate is calculated based on the number of IEPs with that diagnosis. And of course that has skyrocketed because it was not calculated like that before. Also the DSM 5 criteria have combined many developmental and behavioral diagnoses together and made it easier to give the diagnosis. Also parents need a diagnosis for insurance purposes. Straight faced, this accounts for the rise. End of story.
Hopefully this article explains why people prefer comfortable lies they don't need to think through hard questions on.
AMD - That was the best "burn" on Amanda. Or did I completely misinterpret your reply? Have you written about the Autism epidemic? Would like to see your analysis or theory on this subject.
I think you misinterpreted her reply. The line "Straight faced, this accounts for the rise." indicates she thought the Autism doctor was being very closeminded.
Yes, he began his presentation with this explanation about the rising incidence of autism. It felt as though he knew he needed to give an explanation to all of us in early intervention so we could breath a sigh of relief and stop thinking about the elephant in the room. I think it’s more than closed mindedness , it’s Stockholm syndrome and willful blindness The stakes are too high in these communities to ask reasonable questions about all possible causes or contributing factors.
Thank you both for the clarification!
Not to mention that school funding is based categorically on the "level" of disability; autism being one of the higher....
That's pretty much the standard answer the medical profession has been giving for years.
Very interesting. I guess due to my background and training, plus a lifetime of research to diagnose and cure myself from illnesses which were never properly diagnosed or accepted, I am one of the 10%. I just learned very early on that nothing is as simple as it seems, that most things we take as fact are based on shaky foundations (poor actual research for example), and that nothing is ever black and white. Every topic I ever delved into learning about, I found was based on sham hypotheses and poor evidence. (The Turtles All the Way Down phenomena, or just propaganda.) Thus I always know that my beliefs about what is true are just based on what I happen to have learned so far, and subject to change at any time. (My opinions do change constantly and never line up neatly with any "group' of people.)
I think I was also lucky that my early trauma and medical issues led me to meditation early in life. Learning to observe your mind's own lies is very useful to being able to see through all lies. Also useful, in a spiritual sense, is learning to see through all stories to find the actual truth of what is.
You said we could: "Teach people to focus on grasping the timeless essence of those teachings by allowing their minds to expand enough to see the nuances within those texts." But it goes well beyond that for religion. Those texts were never designed to be absolute; they are stories meant to be pointers to that which cannot be put into words. There is only one reason why religions encourage their followers to believe the stories rather than look for the ultimate truths of life, and that is so they can maintain power.
A good look at the Book of Acts in the New Testament reveals countless examples encouraging readers to seek out the voice & presence of the Holy Spirit, to find & follow the will of God in overturning this present world system.
Nothing has ever been more of a threat to human power structures.
Yes . Meditation has helped me tremendously . I learned to ask universe for help and help is provided . There truly are no such things as coincidences . They are synchronicities . I had two dogs with vaccine related issues and cancer , then worked with several people whose children were vaccine injured . I think universe was tapping me on the shoulder , so to speak . It helps to have been educated in a system that cultivates critical thinking skills also . Modern medical education unfortunately emphasizes conformity ( best practice guidelines ) and memorization . One has to realize that you cant save the world . I dont proselytize anti-vax views . People have to do their own research . I gently point certain issues out .
Same. I adopted a dog, gave it vaccines, and it soon got cancer at the injection spot. Somehow that is known and accepted as happening fairly often in the vet world.
Then 10 years later I got cancer from the Covid vax. I didn't want it but I succumbed to peer pressure. But at least I didn't get the 2nd dose because I'd probably be dead.
My family was just completely torn apart by this very issue. It began 5 years ago and finally came to a head this week. I was accused of being delusional because of things I believed then when I first woke up fully to what has really been going on in the country & the world. Many of these conspiracy theories have been proven to be true. Many turned out to be absurd. But the CIA knows that people who are traumatized are at their most vulnerable and they exploit it. Am I embarrassed about some of the things I believed & told others? Absolutely. Does it mean I was delusional or in a cult? Absolutely not. A lot of this is coming to a head now because my parents are both dying. My mom showed signs of dementia within months of the jab. She is now in the end stage. Midwestern Doc had shared my story a few yrs ago. My dad has prostate cancer which has likely metastasized (rare for prostate cancer). They want me to reconcile with my brother who abusively attacked me publicly 5 yrs ago. I stopped talking to him at that point & my aunt as well after she said DJT should be sh0t. I won't reconcile because I've never received an apology. I was told I'd never be getting one & was blamed for destroying the family. My brother chose to dig in and make the situation even worse by launching a full on attack this week. All because I held some false beliefs, as well as belief in things that are absolutely true that they don't want to accept & of course I support President Trump. This I believe is the crux of the matter. I could go on ad nauseum about my family's false beliefs. This week has been a nightmare & this article couldn't have come at a better time. Thank you! It brought some healing.
That is awful. I’ve stopped sharing my beliefs about Covid with almost everyone. It’s the only way I can retain relationships and not destroy what’s left of them. My wife and 2 older teenaged kids are the only unjabbed in our two large families. There may be a few I’m unaware of. In Canada the insane, coercive drive to jab everyone (and their dogs!) was in hyperdrive for almost 3 years. So, all my dear, trusting, but nice relatives did the ‘right’ thing to save humanity and like any good Canadian lined up for the jabs to do their part. It’s been very difficult for me to navigate these past 5 years and I’ve grown harder and have had to stop caring for their health and their knowledge of the truth as I can’t deal with the lies and unbelief and nasty behaviour. My job was used as a brutal threat to take the jabs. I survived by the Grace of God and my pastors sensible suggestion that helped me avoid from being defacto fired. Thanks be to God my family doctor finally helped me out at the moment of truth and at the last moment. Sadly he got jabbed to keep his job and he was the last one in his office as he didn’t want to. Ironic!!! I never want to go through the stress from every corner, coming after me and my family and threatening financial ruin relentlessly unless I submitted for the greater good!!!!! I will NEVER get an apology from anyone and no one takes any responsibility if they were wrong or I was right. It has made me very angry and my trust in any form of authority is destroyed. At least my eyes have been pried open and many assumptions I lived by have been nuked aside and revealed to be terrifying false. My life came very close to be ruined. It will take me years to regain peace and harmony. Substacks like AMD’s have been a lifeline to me. I’m not nuts and I’m not alone. Thanks be to God for the truth, as best we know it. I also realize that I’ve been wrong or held to things by faith that could be verified with a little work and thus found wanting. Like vaccines for instance. What a naive fool I was my whole life. Here’s hoping the truth will set us free indeed. Thanks for a long, but thought provoking article. I sometimes skip long articles in Substack as I have limited time, but this one was worth the read. Don’t stop now Doctor! PS - I love the DMSO & Chlorine Dioxide information too!
We're so sorry for your pain and family situation. We hear (and have experienced) stories like yours over and over, which doesn't diminish the suffering, but should help you know you're not alone and that many empathize with you.
Feel better, J.J. von Pepe
I second the comment here by Big E. A group of us have walked this path the last 5 years and had the fortune of being awake at the wheel while others snoozed their way off the road. Give comfort and peace to your dying mom and dad by sharing what time yoiu have with them.
This is a really tough situation. If this were me . . .
something to consider:
-- Don't apologize, but if the situation arises in which you can write down both things you can admit were naive' ideas but also those you know have vindicated your beliefs list them out-- either wrong or proven correct.
-- Perhaps one of them will see how you, like them, struggled with discernment. However, rather than speaking out in hubris, you efforts were meant to help. Possibly this small foray may pierce the armor.
-- Leave it at that and go one with life as best you can.
Ran into the RAS concept back when I drove a school bus. I had a number of autistic kids, and their behavior problems, so I did a lot of reading on why. One theory was that autism came with heightened or exaggerated RAS reaction to everything, and that it was a throwback to the survival instincts. That theory also speculated it came along with a certain more primitive gene set but that smacked of eugenics My opinion on how eugenics works out is best illustrated by what happened to purebred dogs over the years. Filtering this RAS idea into my reaction to an autistic kid did seem to help navigate whatever was going down at that moment. On a different topic, teaching vocational mechanics in a federal job training program, I had to write a lot of the course work to the specification of no more than five words in a sentence and five letters in a word. Given the abysmal reading skills of most US kids and adults that's valid, depending on who your audience is. At the same time, I too think the longer sentences are best to get across nuanced or complex subjects. The sad thing/crime is that the educational system has failed so thoroughly to teach reading ability. Some say this was deliberate to ensure the "one simple idea" the Doc here mentions is the only way ideas can get processed. John Taylor Gatto is a good read on the malfeasance of education. A lot of his writing is available for free online: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A"JOHN+TAYLOR+GATTO"
The advent of texting has helped to promote and insure short sentences and the lack of comprehending more than five word sentences.
Amen to that.
This article reminded me of a skill I had in debugging computer programs. When I debugged a program I would form a hypothesis of what went wrong, and had to be willing to discard the hypothesis no matter how much work went into its formation if there was one inconvenient fact. Sometimes I'd stare at a number thinking the computer program could not have possibly produced that number. But, then, it did, and I'd force myself to go back to square one, trying to form a new hypothesis.
ha! You describe the reason I realized early to stick to engineering that does NOT require coding!
Endless loops, crazy output, and my own limited patience taught me humility to some extent! I let the electrical engineers and professional programmers "handle" it. . .
Hi AMD. Another wonderful article in your oeuvre. It is always a simultaneously enjoyable and unsettling moment when one of our filters is shed and we suddenly see a broader perspective on a topic.
I'd like to bring to your attention some progress on one topic you mentioned: Mould Toxicity, aka mould-related illness, sometimes known as CIRS or DMHS. The NIH now recognises several more health effects from mould exposure above and beyond asthma and allergy:
https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/mold
The key additions (that were added around April 2025) are:
* Cognitive issues — Extended exposure to mold has been linked to short-term memory loss, lightheadedness, dizziness, blurred vision, ringing in the ears, and loss of cognitive functions, also known as “brain fog.”
* Immune effects — Long-term exposure to inhaled mycotoxins may promote inflammation and immune system changes.
* Mental health issues — Studies have associated prolonged mold exposure with increased levels or depression, anxiety, and stress in both children and adults.
This doesn't yet capture the full range of what mould-related illness can cause, but it's worth noting that the study the NIH links to on cognitive issues highlights one of the core mechanisms that mainstream medicine had not understood: innate immune activation/dysfunction. Hence, with recognition of one of the fundamental mechanisms at play here, we'll hopefully see greater recognition and acceptance of the many multisystem, multi-symptom health effects from mould exposure in the coming years.
I could be wrong, but I believe this is the first time a major health agency has truly recognised some of these extra-respiratory, non-atopic effects.
MAHA is doing a lot of stuff but very few people are noticing or appreciating it.
Do you know for sure this was a MAHA initiative? As it happened so early with no fanfare, I had wondered if it were just a routine update that happened to occur early in this new administration's term.
Do not know for sure. However there has been a massive degree of resistance on acknowledging the mold issue because of the massive liability involved in having to clean up all the moldy buildings around the USA, so I am doubtful it would have happened without MAHA people pushing it along.
It's why most homeowner's insurance policies exclude mold as a covered claim. They are well aware of the illnesses caused by mold.
Did not know that; thank you for sharing.