15 January 2025

 US healthcare seems to be the worst in the world considering its output compared to its input. It is hugely ineffective. America spends about double as much of its gross national product on healthcare as European countries, and yet the outcome is much poorer. Even wealthty Americans have a shorter life expectancy than Europeans.

 Donald Trump has nominated Marty Makary as commissioner of the FDA, Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health, and Robert F Kennedy, Jr., as Health Secretary. This gives some hope for an improvement in longevity and well-being of Americans. 

The USA also did very poorly during the COVID-19 pandemic because of its inherent problems in healthcare and because policies were not evidence-based. Moreover, leading figures lied and acted as Beijing’s useful idiots when they covered up the origin of the pandemic. 

Episode 13. Kennedy: A new time for America? 

Kennedy is controversial because of his views on vaccines, some of which go against the most reliable evidence we have. But he wants to tackle the widespread corruption at the FDA and to ban ads on TV. Professor emeritus Peter C Gøtzsche discusses with filmmaker Janus Bang what the positive consequences for this could be for the survival and well-being of Americans in case Kennedy gets approved by Congress. 

Episode 14. The Chinese-US joint cover up of the origin of COVID-19 

In October 2022, the Institute for Scientific Freedom and the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford held a two-day conference about the lack of scientific freedom. Professor emeritus Peter C Gøtzsche explained in a lecture what is likely the worst cover up in the history of medicine, for one of the worst catastrophes ever, of the origin of the virus, which was very likely man-made and escaped from a lab in Wuhan. What Peter said in his lecture has received additional support, and the lecture is therefore still highly relevant. 

Best wishes 

Peter C Gøtzsche
Professor emeritus and Director
Institute for Scientific Freedom
Copenhagen
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