One of the points I offer in this blog and elsewhere is to be skeptical to assume that something is true because we think it should be. We’ve been brainwashed to believe that obesity is a killer, despite research performed this year concluding that a little more weight may add years to your life. Many argue that an assault weapons ban will save lives despite the absence of social science research that supports this. Fewer guns should save lives, right? When skeptics like me point to Chicago which boasts extremely strict gun control legislation while being a murder theme park, we are given excuses to reject the data that contradicts gun control dogma. Isn’t the term assault weapon itself unfairly charged and loaded? I have supported medical education reform advocating that medical residents and interns should not be worked to exhaustion and yet be expected to administer high quality and compassionate care to ill patients. I had believed that somnambulating medical interns wer
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