Health
Patrick Soon-Shiong on Cancer, Viruses, and Politics
This is a summary of an interview of Patrick Soon-Shiong, concerning cancer, various COVID treatments, and politics.
Feb 1, 2026
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Josh Mitteldorf
Aging & evolutionary biology
Josh Mitteldorf is best known for promoting the theory that aging is not “wearing out” but rather an evolved program that limits lifespan. The surprising fact that our bodies are genetically programmed to age and to die offers an enormous opportunity for medical intervention. He began blogging about aging on this site in 2012. His guidance for a long life is at AgingAdvice.org. His two books on aging are available at Amazon and elsewhere.
Mitteldorf’s PhD is in astrophysics. Since about 2020, he has taken up a new challenge as curator and critic of science on the fringe, writing about promising science that the science establishment has unjustly neglected.
In other areas of life, Mitteldorf’s two daughters were among the first girls to be adopted from China in the 1980s. He has taught a weekly yoga class for fifty years. He is an avid amateur musician, playing piano in chamber groups, French horn in community orchestras. Follow his other writing at mitteldorf.substack.com, and listen to his poetry on YouTube.
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Health
Bacteria against Cancer
A research team from the Japan Advanced Institute published a research paper this month describing an innovative and promising approach to cancer treatment.
Dec 29, 2025
Physics
The Big Bang — a good theory while it worked
Since 1964, the Big Bang has been the context for interpreting all of astronomy.
Dec 12, 2025
Health
Bioweapons are an Abomination (and that includes “biodefense”)
Some of the greatest health problems in America are traceable to our 80-year-old bioweapons research program.
Dec 12, 2025
Health
Dean Radin: The Science of Magic (book review)
The Science of Magic, by Dean Radin, forthcoming October 21 from Random House / Harmony This is Dean Radin’s fifth book about parapsychology.
Oct 15, 2025
Health
Review of Anti-Aging Drugs
Since 2017, the DrugAge database has been a resource cataloguing longevity studies for many substances fed to animals in lab experiments.
Aug 17, 2025
Health
What “Theories of Everything” all miss
Robust experimental results from more than a century of research in parapsychology are incompatible with the laws of physics as we understand them.
Aug 13, 2025
Health
Inverting the Hard Problem, part one
How does the brain create consciousness? Thirty years ago, David Chalmers called this the Hard Problem, and the name has stuck.
Aug 13, 2025
Health
Inverting the Hard Problem, part two
In 1898, William James was engaged by Harvard to lecture on the subject of “human immortality”. He devoted the lecture to the hypothesis that the brain does…
Aug 13, 2025
Health
What we might learn from mitochondria
About a billion years ago, there was a high-powered bacterium — we’ll call her Mitey — who was skilled at redox chemistry.
Aug 13, 2025
Health
Plato told us that TRUE = BEAUTIFUL
You are to be forgiven if you don’t see the difference between a “beautiful theory” and an “ugly theory”.
Aug 13, 2025
Health
Is the “lab leak hypothesis” another cover-up?
Very early in the pandemic, the infamous “Proximate origins” paper was published in Nature Medicine, using nonsensical reasoning to “prove” that COVID could not have come from a lab.
Aug 13, 2025