Trump pummels Harvard in a policy prizefight; ADHD’s amphetamine empire exposed by the Times’ trembling 'truth-tellers'; and doctors miss dementia’s dart to the brain, blindfolded by dogma.
Our five children all went to private Christian college not propped up by taxpayer funds. These elite universities should have to compete on their own merits. I predict things will change for the better when we turn off the spigot.
Sadly, many on the left consider Christian colleges guilty of indoctrination. And I say Amen to that! Let them be indoctrinated with God’s Word! Both of our children went to Christian schools and they are Salt of the Earth people.
Their education wasn’t cheap, because it wasn’t funded by anyone but us and a couple of their own student loans. But it was worth it!
Yes of course they would consider Christian education indoctrination. But it is a choice. What they don't realize is that broad ideas are taught from a Christian world view. But that would be anathema to the left as well. We paid for their education and they paid half of it back. It took some of them a number of years but taught important lessons.
If you’re sending your kid to a Christian school you’ve got to expect that’s going to rub off on them, it’s not like they’re hiding they are Christian. So how can they accuse of indoctrination if they are willingly sending them to an obviously Christian school??
Yet they don’t think indoctrinating children and students to their world view is indoctrination. We all educate and guide our children to hold values important to us as important, as well. That is…if we raise our children. So many today let others raise their children.
I just took students in my class to our local senior citizens center. It is a wonderful nonprofit and they are faithful stewards providing great programs and services to seniors in our community, including meals on wheels. 60% of there budget comes from state and federal grants. In these types of well-ran nonprofit organizations, I would hate to see them lose their funding because of the misdeeds of others.
That’s the problem with government funding EVERYTHING; people begin to not only expect it but demand it. THIS is how we’ve gotten a humongously bloated federal government full of nameless agencies & why our taxes are so outrageous that a one-income family struggles.
In my youth moms stayed home raising their children & dad worked.
Exactly! routing money through the govt creates a separate bureaucracy that lives to perpetuate itself, not make the recipient organization efficient, effective, or useful to anyone but themselves.
The issue is not whether they need help, but who is to help them. There are plenty of social clubs, churches, civic organizations, and others who can do this, but they haven't because the government took it over like they take over everything else. Get the government out of it. Let private charities do this work.
As money is fungible, that endowment is bloated by federal grants. The government pays their bills instead of having to use the returns from legitimate endowments. Add up the total federal dollars given to Harvard over the years and see how much of the endowment is owed to the taxpayers.
Good read. My son is a PHD student at GT and my daughter got her
Masters at VT. I am very grateful for the GI bill and other benefits I had from military service to pay for their education. I can’t imagine them having to pay the outrageous tuition themselves.
As of 2024, their endowment was over $53 billion. Harvard uses federal money for roughly one third of their operating budget, and apparently there are self-imposed limits on how much endowment $$ can be used for operations.
Which raises some questions: 1) How much interest do they make off of their investments? 2) How about changing those restrictions? 3) What is the breakdown of their budget?
And I agree 1000% about having private schools emulate places like Hillsdale if they’re so concerned about federal money coming with strings attached. You take the king’s gold, you play by his rules.
democrats only platform to convince Americans to vote for them was Trump hatred - what will be their platform in '28 when he isn't on the ticket - more transgenderism? more illegals? more USAID? good luck with that
in general it is the very well indoct---- errr, educated who have done the most incredibly stupid things. the general public may be have out of ignorance and stupidity, and unless the indoctrinated fill them with fear and propagandised indoctrination in mass formation or other forms of group think, are far more likely to be compassionate with one another.
I'm suspicious that "administrators" and directors of the funds, charging annual administrative and board fees, perhaps at a rate of 1%, or $500,000,000, are very protective of that principal and interest.
My first thought is... they will still get money as long as they comply.... What university created/studied covid before it was sent to China? They do a lot of twisted experiments at universities in suspect for the government since they are "private."
Remember when Bill Clinton apologized for the US conducting horrid experiments on uninformed citizens? Were they done at universities? IDK
This is what I’ve been preaching for 40 years. Universities are bastions of Communist brainwashing, not education. Why do you think this country is filled with anarchists and transgender terrorists burning down “green cars” (an oxymoron in and of itself)? But hey, I’m just a dumb, unpapered hick. Whadoiknow?
I would not have said this several years ago, but my own children went to upper crust liberal arts schools (their choice…and they got “scholarships”) and I have seen the mental departure in them from the way they were raised in terms of politics and lifestyle. So I feel this is true. They definitely soaked in a different mindset and set aside truths of faith and ideals of conservatism. Very difficult to watch and keep the peace with them as adults.
I’m so sorry to hear that, Susan. I don’t have any kids of my own, but many of my friends have had the same experience as you, and worse. Kids becoming homosexual in college, then flip-flopping later, spending years in therapy and on antidepressants, or becoming downright hateful and belligerent to their parents for their moral and political views. The Amish and Mennonites aren’t perfect, but they do not allow their children to be educated in any public school or university, and the difference in the morality and mental health of their young people is dramatic.
I do believe that on the Amish. Sometimes I wish that I had done this type of schooling…however, we have a big God who knows all things. May He draw all children’s hearts back to Him and sanity be restored to academia. Gratefully, our kids are productive and honor us as parents…enjoying, still, family time when able. Only radical thing one of them did was march in the first “anti-Trump” rally in DC back in 2016, wearing the pink “p-ssy” hat she herself made. *sigh*
Yes, I sympathize with you, but I’m glad your children still honor their parents. Certainly, God can do all things, but He has also been very meticulous in explaining how we should live and the repercussions we will suffer by not obeying him. I can’t help but think he spends a lot of his time thinking, “I tried to tell ya,” lol.
The problem is, Christians have been coddled by their shepherds in the pulpit. You will often hear preachers say, “Be in the world, not of the world,” but then they never explain how NOT to be of the world.
The way to be “not of the world” is to refuse to participate in secular, pagan culture, and to live the way Jesus lived by obeying the Torah. First century Jews were not educated by Greeks or Romans, they were educated by their own parents and/or Jewish leaders. First century Jews did not associate with pagans. They didn’t attend pagan events, enjoy pagan entertainment, eat at pagan restaurants, etc. They were an extremely closed community, much like Orthodox Jews are today, because that’s what the Mosaic Law required of them.
Did Jesus associate with pagans? Occasionally, yes, but not without telling them they were sinners who needed to repent, stop sinning and obey God. The difference is, Jesus had the moral authority to engage with pagans. Modern Christians don’t, because we do just about everything the pagans do, and we do it the same way.
God told his people in Leviticus 18:3, “You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.” And then, of course, Corinthians is full of admonishments by Paul for Christians to not even associate with people who call themselves Believers yet engage in certain types of egregious sin.
Living in the world and doing the same things pagans do is exactly why Christians are disrespected and irrelevant in today’s culture. But maybe the evil that permeates the world now will finally force Christians to start obeying God’s Word again. May it be so. 🙏🏻
re: "Regular readers will recall that, for 25 years, Alzheimer’s research was stymied by a slavish, public health-enforced commitment to a single study and lone theory that has now been proven wrong."
Who is the real perp? I think we all know the answer to that question. It's fauci the human cockroach, who wielded billions of taxpayers dollars every year since 1986 to get the "studies" from rotten places like Harvard and "our" other ivy league "elite" colleges to support big pharma's disgusting, destructive "medication" of America for massive profit, from which that evil SOB also took his cut.
And to our GREAT POTUS, I say thank you for cutting 2 BILLION dollars of our money from Harvard's pockets. It's a good start.
Now, I want people in prison. Human Cockroach's first.
Someone, I believe on this substack called them “Poison Ivy League Schools” and I have been using the term since then. They are, indeed, poison Ivy……from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and they chose the evil…..the poison.
Lowly Scum (I laugh every time I see your name!), it's more complicated than just Fauci. He was the head of the NIAID (natl institute allergy & infectious dz), and he had a huge budget, but it's really Francis Collins at the NIH who is responsible for the Alzheimer's research debacle. BC university & govt medical research is funded by the NIH, no dissent is allowed for researchers who think a different direction should be taken. So the NIH/Collins believes there's ONE promising lane of research for ALZ and now here we are and there's NOT ONE drug that works. BC they were looking in the wrong direction & ignored dissent. Billions wasted on nothing. This is one of the many reasons that public health must be completely upended & cleaned out bc these people are the norm at FDA, CDC, NIH etc.
Since it’s most likely drugs or “vaccines” that are causing the Alzheimer’s surge, maybe we shouldn’t look to finding new drugs as the answer. We should be rooting out the pharmaceutical products that are causing the harm in the first place.
Oh, 100%. I seriously doubt there will ever be a drug that even helps dementia, much less cures it. I think it's something environmental, either a drug everyone takes (statins?) or some pesticide sprayed on crops and food......THIS is what they should have been looking for all along. But but but, then big Pharma doesn't gift them billions for research into DRUGS to solve the Alzheimers that Pharma likely caused! You can't make it up.
Naturopathic doctors understand that statin drugs CAUSE dementia. This is not "Rocket Science" Anyone can understand it: Statins reduce fat that neurological pathways use for insulation that keeps circuits from shorting out. Without fat for insulation, your brain is like your house wiring without insulation on the wires. The circuits short out, fuses blow and your house doesn't work any more. The same thing happens in your brain. The fat insulators need periodic replacement and when there is not enough fat to replace the insulators, the neurons short circuit. Then, you can't remember anything because the neurons can't connect because they are shunted to the wrong pathways because there are not enough insulators.
The solution is simple: Stop the statins and eat more fat. This doesn't affect Heart Disease. Fat in the arteries is a RESULT, not a cause. Stem call supplements help, also.
Arguing with my doctors about statins has sharpened my polemic skills, but they remain unconvinced. I finally just had to say, "No, I won't take them." The good news is that after years of talking to people about the covid death jabs, I am immune to scorn.
Wise information. I believe our President was just given a 'clean bill of health', except for elevated cholesterol, for which he takes medication. Perhaps he will be presented todays C&C and reconsider adding chemicals to his bloodstream.
I've been on statins (atorvastatin 20 mg) for 17 years, I'd like to stop taking them tomorrow, can I? What negative effects can I expect? What can I take instead? I had a 100% blocked Right Main Artery heart attack at age 50 opened with a stint. I had a 95% blocked Left Circumflex also opened with a stint 6 months later. Why the doc didn't open it at the same time? Cause you get paid more with two surgical events instead of one!!!
Anticholinergic drugs can contribute to brain health problems.
Even common use of Benadryl has been problematic as we age.
"The elderly are more sensitive to anticholinergic adverse effects, and people with dementia have a high risk of adverse cognitive and psychiatric effects from these drugs.3,4 Adverse effects attributed to anticholinergicsinclude
I will say that fauci and collins were definitely in cahoots - together, and with big Pharma and with others like the walking crime against humanity bill gates - and to the detriment of the American people's health, power and our wealth. I think we can "violently" agree that all of them need to face accountability for what they have done pre (all the way back to at least 1986), during, and post covid.
I think POTUS must assign several special prosecutors to go after the corrupt criminals at HHS, NIH, NIAID, DOJ, FBI, CIA and damn near every other alphabet agency who have all been complicit, one way or the other, with hurting the American people and our country. I do not think the people who are running the agencies now, good though they may be, can be expected to also, as you rightfully state, upend and clean out!
Maybe it was a gross generalization to you but fauci is as guilty as anyone in NIH and from what I've read, controlled collins instead of the other way around. If it was a gross generalization to call out "Big Pharma", criminals in "higher education" and others like criminal gates, then I will be fine with your generalization.
Yes, lets not forget the long line of congressional scumbags and "presidents" who CHOSE to PROVIDE OUR DOLLARS and to look the other way instead of doing over sight and accountability. Was it intentional? How could it be anything but intentional, just look at the fat bank accounts from pharma for people like Fauxcahontas, Commie Sanders, etc etc.
I’m not defending it mind you, but I believe Harvard gets funds for its professors and grad students to “study” things. Probably some of them actually are important. But $2.2 billion? Hard to believe.
Regarding the Endowments. There are strict rules on endowment funds. One may be set up to fund the debating society, one for the glee club, etc. and that’s ALL the money that fund can be used for. I’d like to see a breakdown by Fund type of their endowments. I’ll bet there’s plenty for research.
Before they get a penny, I would like to understand what text in the Constitution authorizes CONGRESS to 'grant' any money to a university/college to 'study' anything, much less provide funds to 'operate' a university/college.
Harvard gets $2billion of fed tax money per year. Their entire bloated staff earns about $2.6 billion per year according to Grok. We pay 77% of their compensation. They are essentially federal employees. DOGE should clean that department out!
Except like most "scientific" research these days. You only get the money if your research adheres to a specific political narrative. Fauci was famous for his dispersal of funds if it kept his AIDS and covid narratives alive and stifled all else.
Yes, I had a client project last year that included cataloging research grants for several research universities in my region - primarily focused on those that led to company formation, like SBIR/STTR but I can never resist the rabbit hole temptation. Way too many of these so-called research grants were little more than social engineering and junk science. LOTS of grants on transgender topics - "the effects of gender-affirming sex steroids on brain development in adolescents" "A mouse model to test the effects of gender affirming Hormone therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced immune responses" and on and on...
There's usually _some_ way to redirect funds given toward a particular thing, but it requires some pretty serious effort. (which is good - avoids corruption) I know that I was in a church one time talking about "designated giving" and how it could be changed to something else, but took multiple business meetings and votes with publication of that topic. (e.g., designated for an organ when no organ would ever be purchased or something similar)
I totally agree with you! After much research I fund a student political science scholarship to Hillsdale every year. Mainly because they do not accept federal money.
Parallel to this question is one with which I've struggled mightily. Government inarguably made college wildly more expensive with its endlessly subsidized tuition assistance. Mostly absent from the discussion, however, is why taxpayers should be on the hook for student loan forgiveness rather than the already taxpayer money sucking institutions that took near criminal advantage of this arrangement. Why?
It's how they have created an indoctrinated class they like to call "college educated" and who almost universally vote and act against the American people and our country. They are creating generation after generation of America last globalist marxists on OUR tax money.
I remember when going to an ivy league school was a mark of merit. Of course I'm going to back 50 (!) years now. Today's schools ARE a pathetic embarrassment. Remedial math at Harvard! Men on the women's swim team at UPenn! With the resources available today, education has the opportunity to be creative and individualized. And cheap! Time for some major changes in the "education" sector.
and, major racism! Three valedictorians in a row from my kid's high school did not get into any ivies. All were athletes and great people (I know, I coached all of them). but, they were white males. So they all went to our state school.
I don't get it, either. These universities have more than enough money to operate for decades without taxpayer funding. And the hypocrisy is so thick...the same people who gripe and complain about the wealthy among us see no problem with schools that already have billions of dollars at their fingertips charging hundreds of thousands in tuition.
Bingo. Mark Crispin Miller, arguably one of our best academics on the subject of propaganda, wrote this morning about a transgender woman and his role in establishing the transgender narrative. He even had his picture on the cover of Time Magazine. The analysis was good, BUT throughout his piece, Miller consistently called this man “she” and “her.” The Soviet’s response nailed even Miller.
I think he needed to keep it consistent for the reader. I didnt watch Orange is the New Black, but saw the hype around the show and I had no idea that was that was a man.
In using the incorrect pronouns, all Miller did was demonstrate how much influence the gender propaganda has on him. This had less to do with the reader’s ability to read than it does with Miller’s inability to comprehend the very propaganda he was seeking to expose.
He's also tripped up a lot about other stuff. I had to stop reading him when he fell for an obvious propaganda video and thought it was real. Physician, heal thyself, so to speak.
I wasn't aware of that incident. I have mostly stopped reading his emails about the Suddenly Deads. Most of those deaths might be the result of the kill shots, but he can't say for sure as he offers no proof. Suggesting a connection doesn't work for me. I know the shots are killing people and will probably keep on doing so for a long time, but if you're going to report on these deaths, you can't report on events the way CNN does which is to merely assert.
He simply provides info re: deaths happening. He makes no claims re: CAUSE. He leaves opinions and conclusions up to the reader. What's wrong with that?
Using the incorrect (forced speech) pronouns is absolutely caving on ones' own agency. Period. If the PTB can force you to use the wrong pronoun, or claim a man is a woman, they've won. This is textbook MKUltra/brainwashing. And this is what they've been doing to us since 9/11. And during Covid it was ramped up to the nth degree, combining that with the absurdity of the trans agenda.
I'm always taken aback by the numbers of people (both men and women) who continue referring to the Dylan Mulvaneys and Rachel Levines of the world as "she" and "her." If nothing else, it's insulting to the rest of us. And for some reason, people use those wrong pronouns only when they are talking about men who imagine themselves to be women but not for women who imagine themselves to be men. Why is that? Any thoughts?
They're following the Woke Jacobin Marxist diktats when they do that, and it's pretty telling. Either you support women, respect women, and understand how insulting to women this farce is, or you don't. And some willingly don't. I noticed the worst offenders are men on the left. It opened my eyes to what utter misogynists they are. For conservatives, especially Christians, it should register with them what an absolute abomination of nature and common sense it is to call a man a woman just because he's in drag and performs an embarrassing and insulting parody of womanhood. It's also worthy of note that these people believe they are being respectful! To whom? The folks commanding your speech, or women? Because you sure as hell aren't respecting women.
Nailed it! The worst misogynists, racists, etc., are those who keep crowing about how they’re such great “allies” and fighting xyz. It allows them the perfect cover to hide behind. Doug Emhoff is a prime example. A user, abuser and despiser of women.
It’s not about being respectful at all, I agree. It’s purely manipulative. Preying on people’s desire to be (or even just be seen as) kind and welcoming.
The pronoun issue in written form can be difficult if you don’t want to alienate and insult readers, especially ones who are new to realizing the lie that’s at the center of this. You want them to keep reading.
So what’s the solution? Maybe just refer to them by last name (Levine/Muloney) and where that becomes awkward or difficult, use s/he?
It’s a non-issue in verbal communication. Most people try to ignore Trans and don’t initiate contact, but if necessary just refer to ‘you’.
I'm seeing that more and more conservative substack articles are being shoved to spam. (Yahoo mail and ATT email accounts administered by Yahoo mail). Even ones where I've repeatedly said it was NOT spam.
Recently I changed browsers, so I wasn't logged in when I opened Substack and I noticed Substack.com chose to show far more leftist articles and notes than right leaning when I was anonymous. Made me wonder.
I've noticed an uptick of disruptive people that sadly affiliate with the personalities of those on the left. My own observations are that substack was born of a time when conservative voices were being censored on other platforms and people found more trustworthy reporting than that found in the mainstream media. Some writers have found success and decent income via their substack channels, and media people on the left have noticed (likely some having been fired and looking for an income and retaining their following). Their followers are discovering there is some high quality content here, and are spreading out.
Some seem to be incapable of withholding vitriol against those they don't agree with, and it disrupts the cordial or collegial tone that is there. My best advice is to not respond whatsoever to people who are purposefully inflammatory. In egregious examples, report them.
I prefer the high quality reporting and custom interests that I wish to pursue found here instead of the propagandized pablum that's pushed out on mainstream media channels. I have a bumper sticker that says "Is that what your TV told you to think? @" (the "@" is a hypnotic swirl.)
I've also found some interesting writers to follow based on things found in the comment sections, and I'm grateful that they have shared this.
I'm grateful to those who promote and share knowledge that is informative and uplifting. I ignore and despise those who comment with hate and attempt to disrupt what's good. Those are miserable people and I pity them. While I will occasionally try to provide a positive or helpful response, I'll just ignore anybody who wants to lash out or be irrational in their comments.
Well, OK. True that IS available, forgot; that is how I started. For some reason I upgraded. Still have not connected my wife to it. For a couple years they were having all sorts of "connection" problems. Pretty much OK, nowadays. By the way, High there Jeff!
Thank you. I do have a proton mail account. I just choose to use an email account I've had for a long time for having substacks sent to because of other mailing lists and address books already in there, along with auto forwarding to another account. (though that sometimes gets hijacked as well with this conservative filtering)
Happened to me as well, I started going directly to Substack. They have since started again coming to my inbox but it makes little difference to me now that I am familiar with how to get to them myself
RSS feeds may be old-school, but I still think they're better than anything else. Feedly is free and I love it for aggregating pretty much everything I follow.
when i was a very serious young child, my mother used to tell me that the difference between the soviet union and the USA was that they had propaganda and we had a free press. cynical right out of the womb, i would say "aw mom, no, our press is just propaganda told by our side."
Sorry, in my experience, he just does this to ingratiate himself and gain credibility, especially with newbies here, so he can come back with nonsense about Ukraine later. I agree that it would be boring to agree all the time, but I find it more boring to read bad faith posts from commenters trying to sell propaganda who insult anyone in disagreement with them.
Defund National Socialist Propaganda Radio (NSPR)! and Government Broadcasting System (GBS) - there is nothing 'public' about their broadcasts, just like public schools are really 'government' schools. And 'government' transportation and not public transportation.
We need a taxpayer's class-action suit against the federal government for giving billion dollar grants to institutions that have billion dollar endowments. Talk about irresponsible management of funds!!!
Even if they didn’t already have big endowments, our tax dollars still should not be given to them. Our government has spread its tentacles into so many areas that is not its business.
every thing the governments supports that is not specifically in the constitution should only be supported via a "go fund me" program - stop wasting tax dollars on things most people don't support
Especially since all that money has to be first filtered through the bureaucratic middleman so less money is available to be given out than what was originally taken in taxes.
Seems to me that a class action lawsuit on behalf of the students who have been defrauded of their right to an education by the government schools should be a consideration as the government has not provided the service (an education) to their customers ( the students).
No child should be in school before eight. School should be half day. Only what cannot be taught at home should be taught by a tutor. Home work should be WORK at home chores required to keep the household clean, safe, and fed.
And the lack of nutritional food. Cereal is just sugar. If we would cut most of the sugar out of their diet, they would be able to focus better and would thrive. I did this with my kids… didn’t keep junk food in the house and they are in their mid 20s and they don’t keep it their homes now. Both are very good cooks.
You are so correct! My grandson’s 3rd grade teacher insisted he be put on drugs for ADHD. We refused, and after fighting with the school administration, they put him in a 4th grade math class - called “Math Monkeys”. Much to the surprise of the idiotic teacher, she said he improved 100% and was no longer a problem.
I actually started kindergarten a few weeks before my 5th birthday. I did fine. But I enjoyed sitting and reading and crafting. All kids are different and boys tend to be more active. I wonder how things were handled back in the one room schoolhouse days. Back then, they seemed to learn more and were in school for less time.
My son was a November baby. I held him back a year so he was the oldest and not the youngest in his class. He thrived and it didn’t hurt him at all… in fact, he is defending this thesis next month for a PHD in Bio-Medical Engineering. I believe because he was older at first and I didn’t feed my kids junk food that they thrived through school and is still making a difference in their lives.
Exactly. I was reading a story from the 1800's where a teacher had been given a cane to use on the adult students to maintain control. After using the cane, the 2 disruptors became his best students and lifelong friends.
I never went to kindergarten. About the worst part of that was when I started first grade I didn’t know what the alphabet was, but hey, I couldn’t wait to learn to read and I was the best reader all through grade school. I think it is sad that kids will be working all their lives and don’t even get to enjoy six years of playing and using their imagination before heading off to what essentially is a job called school.
I liked learning but not school. Mostly because of being with other kids who weren’t interested in learning and who were often mean-spirited and immature.
Amen. It's taken me years to appreciate how terrible the traditional school schedule is. If I had to do it all again, I would definitely homeschool and spend only 3 hours a day on actual study filling the remaining time with chores (or a job if of age), pursuing a hobby, learning basic, hands-on life skills and - here's an idea - recreating.
If I were designing a public school schedule, kids in grades K - 3 would spend as much time in recess as possible and I would schedule frequent, physical breaks (especially for boys). There really isn't that much material to be covered in these grades unless, of course, the goal is indoctrination (i.e. social engineering) v. education. The amount of time wasted in a traditional school day is incredible.
It's called UNSCHOOL and this is what we did and what I missed we paid for at local community college where they excelled in math, loved it and struggled to understand the hated for disipline and learning of the other students. Community college = middle school for older kids which if they had been trained in a loving home environment like back in the forties... Then we would be back in the forties. 🎉 We trained like back... My brother thinks we are Amish 🤣 we are not!
It's funny that many say... "But I learned and I had a great experience" but after getting out of it I realized how desperately dysfunctionally ppl become devoted to "their" school!!
My kids are all great readers but only the youngest read before nine and one didn't read until eleven and he has ADHD, dyslexia and high functioning autism and graduated college on the Presidents list in three honor societies. I woulda never guessed though I know they are all intelligent.
You can't create intelligence but you can encourage learning.
When I was in elementary school the kids got 3 recesses each day: one midmorning, what remained of the lunch period, and mid afternoon. I distinctly remember one child with what used to be called hyperactivity (years before the ADHD label became common). But, other than him, there were very few behavior problems. For years now in our local school district, the only recess students get is the few minutes left over after eating lunch. Behavior problems are overwhelming in most classrooms, taking huge chunks of educational time daily. Diagnoses of ADHD are common. Especially for the boys. Can't help but believe that more recess would be beneficial.
I think common sense was lost once teaching to the testing became the norm. There’s no recess during the testing so they don’t provide it during the teaching.
They no longer see kids, they only see themselves. They don’t acknowledge and nurture growing minds and bodies or see them as unique individuals with unique needs, instead they see themselves as an indoctrination tool that forces them all into the round hole. It’s all about them and their agendas, never about the actual kids.
As a former teacher, recess was so necessary and wiggle breaks were too. When the district said no recess, I did it anyways. Kids need gardens and hands on projects and the life skills that make life worthwhile!
Same here! My family was living in Wyoming during my elementary years and three times a day we would put all our cold weather gear on and go out to play. When my oldest was in public school they went down to lunch-only recess in second grade. Second grade!!! The school said they needed the extra time for instruction, yet he would come home with his backpack full of paper snowflakes because he got his work done quickly and had tons of free time. I started homeschooling him the next year.
My dad grew up on a farm. Rose just before dawn to feed animals, muck stalls, etc. Then went to school and came home for more chores. No hyperactivity then, they burned off the boyhood energy. To me boys are like working dog breeds (Border collies, Austrian sheep dogs, labs, etc) they need a job or they are unhappy and restless. Our move to handheld “entertainment “ seems to exacerbate this restlessness. Kids may balk at having chores but perhaps it will be beneficial in many ways if parents would parent instead of acquiescing to the whining.
Parents don’t want to parent these days, haven’t for at least 2 decades. Sticking the kid on computer games means the parent knows where the kid is at least and then the parent can sit around on their phone in peace. Or the parents stick the kids in constant after school activities so again, the parents stick doesn’t have to parent. It’s sad. Kids sit still in school all day then play on electronic devices or do more regimented activities after school and in weekends. I’m surprised we don’t see more suicide in young adults honestly.
Melissa - I had no idea that schools no longer have these three recesses?! I can’t imagine why, or whose idea that was. The purpose of recess is so obvious. I just don’t get the world any more. (I am 68)
All they care about is test results in elementary so they gave us less and less recess time over the years down to 15 min at a certain time and hope it isn't raining... I left teaching 2020 because I just couldn't wear a mask all day and smother a bunch kids too. Since the pay is so low we never depended on it so buhbye. I would not send my kids to public school now because it isn't what it used to be.
Agreed! But what a difference it would make to have UN-jabbed children but especially little boys. My heart weeps for the jab policies inflicted on more than a generation of little boys and girls.
Actually, many parents delay their boys start if they are near the birthdate to start school. They think it works as an advantage , mentally and physically.
My daughter has a Sep birthday. I held her back. No regrets. Even for a girl, I wanted her to be the oldest. There are too many mean girls. We went to private Christian school and homeschooled
Yep! Both our boys did not start school (kindergarten) until they turned 6 due to their summer birthdays and advice from the kindergarten teacher at the Christian school we sent them to. Definitely helped them socially but both boys were very smart so also a little bored at times. This triggered one female teacher (who disliked boys who could not sit still in class) and her favorite label was ADD/ADHD. Our boys were never tested nor were all that problematic and we told the teacher she was wrong and that we were not going to go down that path unless we had no other options. I would have homeschooled had it come to that point!
My children attended an elementary school with such STOOPID rules... they could NOT use the swings or play ball before school!!! Their playing field was attached to the public park, thus it appeared to have a huge grass field, however the children could NOT run on before class! STOOPID, STOOPID, STOOPID! If I'd been a teacher, I would have pleaded for my kids to run, swing, play for a good 20 minutes before bringing them into my classroom.... The ADHD issue would have been minimized...
I’ve noticed in recent years that whenever someone I know is defending their lack of organization, extreme procrastination, etc. - they now always throw out the excuse, “I have ADHD”; when, in my opinion, they’re simply lacking self-discipline.
As a high school special education teacher, this!! I sit in many IEP meetings where I think "you don't have a disability, you haven't learned self discipline and we're sitting here setting you up for further failure by placating it."
Yes! Two of my five children have 504 plans and I could get more of them if I wanted. One of my children had a 504 for what I could see was only social anxiety in grade 3 … the diagnosis shifted as the years went by and the school kept the 504 in place although my child outgrew her original troubles. I have not argued as this girl cycles through the problems and i appreciate the support from school. She is a junior so … seven years of cycling “disabilities”, currently anxiety/depression. In my day we just trudged along without a crowd of hovering adults discussing us and refining “plans”. This history of hers will culminate in extra time to take college entrance exams… I do not mind this little advantage for her but I see it for what it is.
Yes! This I definitely understand (and don't blame you for). I have many families say exactly that. The student definitely struggled and needed supports in elementary school but by the time they get to high school, they have learned and grown. Maybe parents so say they could let the services go but it's so hard to get been if needed, plus college. I appreciate their honesty and would probably be the save way with my child. What bothers me most she the parents who insist their child still needs every accommodations under the sun and the F for missing assignments are the schools fault.
Yes! A lot of parents wield clinical diagnosis to exempt their children from accountability. This can never be right. Moms who show up at the school to demand things because their kids missed classes, every excuse under the sun. My husband and I do our best to keep our expectations and standards high for our children in spite of their struggles and disabilities (if you can call them that? Anxiety and depression are not static, they come and go and can be largely managed with “strategies”. I resent setting them on the same level as a child in a wheelchair! I struggle with how we treat me Tal illness in general … therapy therapy therapy and pills to make the pain go away!
Thanks for your response. I have been diagnosed with Adult ADD. I don't take pharmaceuticals but use "neutraceuticals" (supplements and herbs) to help with the symptoms. The diagnosis helped make sense of so much in my life and why I was in the gifted program in junior high but struggled with Algebra and Geometry in high school. I used to think I was broken.
I'm a very disciplined person most of the time but I've had to create systems for myself in order to function in a "neuro normative" world. I color code spread sheets, have a "Now Where Did I Put That?" notebook by the front door to jot down where I put things so I don't waste time hunting for something I've moved. My sunglasses, keys, and earbuds are always put in the same place. People who have normal brains can't wrap their heads around why I'm so easily distracted or start something but have difficulty finishing. Like it has taken me 5 years to write my first book, but yesterday I finished the final chapter. I've ceased trying to explain to those who see people like me as lazy, crazy or stupid. I'm none of those. I have a special super power called hyperfocus, and when I engage it, I can accomplish more in a few hours than a normal person can in a day.
This is me. I have a hyper focused gift, but … I’m also hyper sensitive. I learned that we are the only country that criticizes those who are super sensitive and call it “oversensitive”, making it a big negative and degrading them as having an undesirable quality. Your sensitivity is suppressed. Yet other cultures in the world highly value those with the most hypersensitivity, to a reverent degree. They are nurtured, supported, lifted up, and sought after for the highest positions of respect. Only America makes it a negative. We have destroyed the giftedness among us and instead elevated the narcissists and conformists - who hate the gifted.
I was what used to be called ‘scatter brained’ yet my bosses called it the ability to multitask. I kept 14 people happy in my days as a secretary.
I raised 3 sons who were all called ADHD by their teachers. I adamantly refused to medicate them because I had 3 big brothers and knew what boys needed more than their teachers. Their teachers wanted sedate little automatrons, not rowdy boys. We all survived and my sons are successful happy adults.
I would love to know what neutraceuticals you use!
Here are some I've found helpful for ADHD but not super long lasting: Alpha GPC taken with Uridine, Huperzine A, Mucuna Pruriens extract with Ashwagandha.
Maybe this will help someone but I would love to know yours
Magnesium Threonate, High Omega-3 Salmon Oil gel caps, Ashwagandha (anti-anxiety). I also take Valerian, 10 MG Melatonin, and Calm (magnesium citrate) at night. Valerian helps with "racing thoughts" that can have a tendency to keep people with ADD awake.
I gave hyperzine, dried mucuna pruriens and ashwagunda to my severely troubled husband who had Lewy Body dementia and it helped him be calm and able to communicate and think again. He had been a super athletic exerciser so there were no early warning physical signs.
We used to call that marching to a different drum. Now we have to create diseases to sell drugs. Ask your doctor if "shortcomings syndrome" is right for you.
I used to tell my co-workers, messy desk, organized mind.😆 I always could find whatever someone was asking for on my desk and they’d always say, I have no idea how you did that. However, when a report was completed, it was always tidily put away in its folder, all the parts with tabs labeled and perfectly lined up. I have my OCD moments, too.
It's not procrastinating if you ever get it done or die first. 😑 Just because you like to jump in and do something you want to or are familiar with doesn't mean that you don't ever delay doing what you don't know or don't see a need for.
I think we have to peel the onion back 60-70 years because many of us, who heretofore have trusted our medical entities, have been jabbed up continually throughout our lives, including yearly flu shots & the “schedule” for older adults like shingles etc. ADHD is surely a result of the many stealth poisons.
LOL!!!! One of my grandchildren was a disruptive little shit at school. They advised my daughter to have him put on Ritalin. She said no, and took him off all food with artificial dyes. He was still a little shit, but he made it through and today he's an amazingly astute adult.
Smart and courageous mom! Please give her an extra hug the next time you see her from me! So proud of any young mom who will stand up for what she knows is best for her child.
When my son was in 3rd grade at a private Christian school, his teacher had 5 boys of her own. One of the other 3rd grade teachers was constantly taking recess time away for bad behavior. My son’s teacher was giving her class extra recess time. I told her one day that you can tell which teachers have the most boys of their own and I thanked her.
I’m sure one of my Dad’s contemporaries had ADHD. I remember him as a guy who could see a problem, figure out how to remedy it, and GET IT DONE! it was fun to help and watch the process.
That was my kid! "Disruptive" funny little unvaccinated guy. Went to pick him up one day. Found him sitting in a cubicle, in a corner of the room. His teacher had separated him from the rest of the children...
This was 2nd grade. (I was so mad at his fat unpleasant teacher who had terrible breath and a mustache.)
So she aka "someone" wanted to have him "tested". I flatly refused.
I feared that if the label they wanted to place on him "fit"? Drugs would be suggested next. (Me: Hard NO.)
I was a class clown. When I got everyone laughing, I kept a straight face. I was a teacher. Teachers are conditioned to be authoritarian. There is the rub
Not many options. I was a single working parent with no vehicle. His very small school had 1 class for each Grade.
I chose that tiny school because it was only 2 blocks from home Joanie, and I also worked not far from where we lived so yeah. I walked him to school, walked to work, and he was in after school care until I picked him up and we walked home.
I did the best that I could for my boy without any financial assistance from the other half of his gene pool.
We moved from The City to a small town where most of my family lives the following year.
For stability.
(Fyi: That teacher? Received a strong piece of my mind. As did the school principal. She lightened up on my son after that.)
"Too bad" you shoot people before knowing all the facts Joanie.
I got thrown out of class so many times in 3rd grade that the Principal just put a chair in his office and said " when you're thrown out just come here and sit down"
They also gave me a Rorschach Test (circa 5th grade) . I had a fun time telling them that I was sure that they were hoping I would see something gruesome happening to my mother . 🙂
note: I have corrected my spelling of Principal ....... and have now punished myself by writing it 100 times on the wall .
Yes! Or a normal boy. My experience has been it is the schools who push these drugs. When I asked to have my son in a study hall with a teacher he could ask for help on homework if he had a question, the answer I was given was drugs and an IEP. Seriously? So I asked his doctor to give him a “diagnosis” of ADHD, just to get him into the study hall and access to math help. The doctor said, but he doesn’t have that…this is dumb. Yes, it is. I recall a time when kids were sent to the learning center when they needed extra help. I don’t believe any medical diagnosis was required, they just were below proficient in a subject. But that came with a STIGMA. New can’t have that.
It was ADD. Then ADHA. First kids, then pop culture, (i.e. the 2000s band Ritalin Kids), then adults… Adult ADHA. Progression! Pharma marketing at its finest.
I was teaching in a junior high in the early 80’s and one boy was taking something for ADHD. He was a handful to put it mildly. Once he got in a fight in my art classroom. Great, just great.
I had 28 kids in an elective class, five were ‘resource’ room kids. Kids move around in an art class.
In the resource room there were only 5-7 kids total and the teacher had an aid, and I had 5 in my class?
The good news, only one in the whole school at that time took drugs, bad news is today, how many kids? I can’t imagine.
My daughter was called out in kindergarten for being too antsy. I simply told the teacher I would change her diet. But yes, they were recommending Ritalin to kindergartners back in the early 80’s. I told her she could have been an inch shorter If I hadn’t dodged that bullet!
And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and touch some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the doorway of his house until morning. And Yahweh will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.
— Exodus 12:22-23
Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, also was sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
And what an object lesson with the Passover. The family took the lamb into their homes for a week and cared for the lamb and at the end of the week, they had to slaughter the lamb which on the first Passover was a sign for the Angel of Death to "pass over" their home. Sacrifice hurts. Sacrifice costs.
2 Samuel 24:18 However, the king (David) said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. 25 David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” said.
YES!! And, therefore, no government should giving a single cent to any private university. There - problem solved!
And on top of the funding by taxpayers, universities charge enormous percentages for “indirects” on grants meant for scientific research. Harvard charges somewhere around 69%, Pitt charges 50%. All that money goes to the administration. What a waste.
Exactly! If you are receiving government (*taxpayer) money, how are you then considered "private"?? The twisting of words by these totalitarians can only bring me back to 2+2=5, and I believe it.
* edit: it isn't the government's money, it is the taxpayer's money
100%. I cannot find in the Constitution where it authorizes Congress to fund universities... they just make it up to fit the agenda and to fleece the taxpayer.
Regarding Alzheimer's, my wife is deep into its throes so I follow research. It is interesting that President Trump is on ezetimibe for cholesterol. Ezetimibe is a cheap ($10/mo) generic medication but only about 5% of patients treated for high cholesterol are on it. What is interesting is that this cheap generic was recently found to decrease dementia risk by more than 7 fold (UAMS, Aging Biol 2024: https://doi.org/10.59368/agingbio.20240028). I think Trump's doc understands it potential.
The thing about cholesterol is that our brain is made up of the stuff. I question whether taking meds to reduce it is part of the problem with brain diseases. I'm not a doctor, I don't play one on tv, it's just my thoughts.
It’s actually been stated that our dedication to continually lowering cholesterol IS contributing to dementia since our brain needs it and actually makes MORE as we age. I’m hoping the Great Cholesterol Con gets blown to smithereens with the Vax Hoax. A great book, by the way, The Great Cholesterol Con. Easy to understand and written by a cardiologist.
It's more complicated. Ezetimibe decreases the LDL (bad cholesterol) not the good HDL cholesterol but that is not its proposed mechanism of action in dementia. Rather, the mechanism of action seems to be in unlinking or preventing a bond between two proteins that when linked, are associated with increased risk of dementia. It's a complicated study to digest for the layman.
It’s actually been stated that our dedication to continually lowering cholesterol IS contributing to dementia since our brain needs it and actually makes MORE as we age. I’m hoping the Great Cholesterol Con gets blown to smithereens with the Vax Hoax. A great book, by the way, The Great Cholesterol Con. Easy to understand and written by a cardiologist.
I agree … all the medical stuff I choose to read is anti cholesterol meds for the very reason that your brain requires a lot of cholesterol regularly to function properly! I did take statins briefly and once I gathered enough info, I weaned myself off the med and have no regrets!
I could not get my doctor to RX Ezetimibe unless I agreed to try statin first (I have tried and get muscle aches). So I refused to do anything. Makes me mad because wouldn't Ezetimibe be better than nothing? I also have dementia in my family. Thanks for posting this.
I was nervous at first~but “desperate times call for desperate measures.” I wanted Ivermectin. I’ve ordered many times from alldaychemist since 2021 and always been a clear & professional experience. They take credit cards now too, whereas they didn’t a few years ago.
To top it off she gave my husband ezetimibe, no problem. That was the final straw. She just accepted his word that he didn't tolerate statins. OK I see you lady.
Have you seen any of the YouTube videos of Dr. Aseem Malhotra. Leading cardiologist from UK. He states that statins are basically useless. Very interesting individual, he lost his practice because of going against the clot shot
Yes I have. Not that he claims this per se, but I'm not convinced by the 'cholesterol is actually good for you' arguments either. My Dad died suddenly from a massive stroke (before covid) and that's not something I'd like to duplicate. I had a cardiac scan a few years ago and had minimal plaque so that's a good thing I guess. But I'm genuinely stumped on what to do about my apparently genetically-high cholesterol. Realistically, I'm not going to go solely plant-based with my diet. Red Rice yeast extract is my next strategy, and then I'm going to push harder for Ezetimibe.
Most of our parents ate a lot of seed oils. Avoid seed oils. Eat avocados. Use olive and avocado oil as well as beef tallow. Natural fats are necessary for the body to work properly.
There are a lot more studies showing the benefits of cholesterol in healing blood vessels and helping brain function. They just don't make the medical journals because "statins".
There is also a "bad" cholesterol - that's valid. But if you're on a "real foods" diet, chances are that your bad cholesterol is pretty low to start.
Also - if you look at the "good" cholesterol range over the years, it's been steadily dropping as statins are more prescribed. I'm sure there's a reason for that, but I can't quite figure out what it could be.... </s>
From this article: "The cholesterol theory of heart disease is very simplistic. It is like saying that duct tape wrapped around a damaged water hose is the cause of the hose damage. More likely, the tape - and the cholesterol - are the result of the damage, not the cause.
In fact, two scientists, Brown and Goldstein, won a Nobel Prize in 1985 for their research into this theory. Cholesterol plaques are often there to protect a damaged artery. After all, a clogged artery is far preferable to a ruptured one. Elevated cholesterol is associated with heart disease, but may not be its cause.
WHAT CAUSES HEART DISEASE?
If cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, what are the causes? Many factors may contribute to cardiovascular disease. A properly performed hair mineral analysis can help identify a number of them. Here are some of the major factors suspected in cardiovascular disease:
1. Dr. Leslie Klevay and others showed that copper deficiency is associated with atherosclerosis. Copper is required for connective tissue synthesis.
2. Zinc deficiency reduces the flexibility of the arteries and causes hardening. It may also cause inflammation of the arterial walls.
3. Magnesium and taurine deficiencies may contribute to high blood pressure and other heart problems.
4. Cadmium toxicity is associated with hardening of the arteries.
5. Elevated homocysteine levels are a factor in heart disease. Homocysteine is an amino acid. Its level can be reduced by increasing the intake of vitamin B6 and folic acid.
6. According to Rath and Pauling’s unified theory of heart disease, the causes are deficiencies of vitamin C and lysine. These are required for collagen synthesis. This theory asserts that high levels of lipoprotein-A, part of LDL cholesterol, is responsible for arterial damage.
7. Other vitamins and minerals are involved. Chromium supplements, for instance, have been shown to lower cholesterol levels. Chromium, manganese and B-complex vitamins may reduce stress by enhancing carbohydrate metabolism.
8. Low thyroid activity is associated with heart disease. Hypothyroidism may have numerous causes, including nutritional deficiencies and toxic metal poisoning.
9. Inflammation and infections are now known to be important in cardiovascular disease. These can include seemingly unrelated locations of infection such as dental infections. These can spread toxins that affect every organ.
10. High blood pressure from any cause is a factor.
11. Smoking, diabetes, obesity, coffee-drinking and a sedentary lifestyle are risk factors.
12. Oxidant damage from refined vegetable oils and other oxidant exposure contributes to vascular disease. This factor may explain why populations that consume more animal fats often have less heart disease. (Animal fats are not as subject to oxidant damage). A hundred years ago in America, people ate far more animal fat and there was far less heart disease.
13. Artificially-hydrogenated fats often contain trans-fatty acids and are found in margarine, dressings, fried foods and many processed foods, may contribute to heart disease.
14. Chlorinated and fluoridated drinking water, and residues of ionic detergents may be a very important factor in heart disease.
15. Drinking homogenized milk may be harmful for the arteries.
16. Adelle Davis in Let’s Get Well noted that “animals and human volunteers that are fed sugar instead of unrefined carbohydrates develop high cholesterol levels”. Unrefined carbohydrates include whole grains.
I tried that; she refused. Made me so angry I fired her (I didn't tell her that though, of course). It wasn't like I was asking for a narcotic. It was honestly bizarre. Made me question her judgment overall.
As a redheaded child of a redheaded mother & father (No stepchild here! 😉) I watched my father's mother and two out of three other sisters slide into dementia; and now my dad's sister just passed very quickly with dementia, in her early 80's--but she had all the Jabs even though she was taking HCQ for arthritis. I begged my aunt & uncle to try ivermectin and sent them several Substacks that discussed alternative treatments. But NO, their Doctor said nothing could be done.
So I decided to start self-medicating with Dr Ardis's EDTA & Foreign Protein Cleanse. As the unJabbed wife of a twice-jabbed, once boosted Navy Veteran who got double his share of shots before he was discharged (back in '69) I have no illusions that I qualify as a "Pureblood". It's time to DETOX!!!
Interesting for sure! i read an article today that talks about using nicotine patches as a shield against altzheimers—-another low cost, minimal-side-effects potential solution to a staggering disease. being studied, hoping RFK, Jr will take note.
Very thorough study including its well-researched mechanism of action (blocking a protein bond associated with dementia). It should be getting lots of attention including more observational studies using other health databases. This study used a massive database of 950,00 adults, so robust in its size. Trouble is, it will generate no income for a drug company due to it being a well-established generic.
You have the link to the study. Ask Grok to comment on it and to find deficiencies in the logic applied in the study. In short, we just need more observational studies (look at big health databases and see if the findings hold up; if they do, then send more research dollars to underscore the mechanism of action.
The study you referenced, published in Aging Biology (Volume 2, 20240028, DOI: 10.59368/agingbio.20240028), appears to be related to research on ezetimibe and its potential effects on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Since I don’t have direct access to the full text of the study beyond the abstract and related information, I’ll evaluate potential issues based on the available data, standard scientific scrutiny, and common pitfalls in similar studies. Here are some possible problems or limitations with the study, critically assessed:
Observational Study Design and Causation:
The study likely relies on observational data (e.g., retrospective cohort analysis), as it mentions a sevenfold reduction in ADRD risk in the general population and eightfold among heart disease patients. Observational studies cannot establish causation, only correlation. Confounding factors—such as lifestyle, socioeconomic status, or other medications—may influence the observed outcomes but might not be fully controlled for. For example, patients on ezetimibe may differ systematically from those who aren’t (e.g., better healthcare access), skewing results.
Selection Bias:
The population studied (e.g., those prescribed ezetimibe) may not represent the broader population. If the study used data from specific healthcare systems or registries, it could exclude underrepresented groups or those without access to such medications, limiting generalizability. Additionally, heart disease patients, who showed an eightfold risk reduction, may have unique characteristics (e.g., higher baseline inflammation) that amplify ezetimibe’s apparent effect, which may not apply universally.
Mechanistic Claims vs. Evidence:
The study suggests ezetimibe reduces protein aggregation, a hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases, based on in silico and preclinical models. However, translating these findings to humans is uncertain. The leap from model systems (e.g., mice or computational simulations) to clinical outcomes risks overstatement if human data only show correlations, not direct evidence of aggregate reduction in the brain. Without biomarkers (e.g., amyloid or tau levels in patients), the mechanistic link remains speculative.
Statistical Power and Effect Size:
A seven- or eightfold reduction in ADRD risk is an unusually large effect size for a single drug, especially one not originally designed for neurological outcomes. Such dramatic results raise red flags about statistical artifacts, like small sample sizes, overfitting, or selective reporting. If the study didn’t adjust for multiple comparisons or used a lenient p-value threshold, the findings might be less robust than claimed. Without access to the full methods, it’s unclear how they handled these risks.
Control Group Comparability:
The study compares ADRD and heart disease patients to age-matched controls, but the abstract doesn’t clarify how controls were selected. If controls weren’t matched for key variables (e.g., cardiovascular risk, genetic predispositions like APOE alleles), differences in aggregate levels or ADRD risk might reflect these mismatches rather than ezetimibe’s effects. Poorly defined controls can exaggerate or mask true effects.
Publication Bias and Novelty:
The study’s focus on an FDA-approved cholesterol drug (ezetimibe) repurposed for ADRD aligns with a trendy narrative in aging research: finding new uses for existing drugs. This can lead to publication bias, where positive or surprising results are more likely to be published than null findings. The claim of a massive risk reduction might be overstated to garner attention, especially in a competitive field like Alzheimer’s research.
Lack of Long-Term Data:
ADRD develops over decades, but ezetimibe’s use in patients might span shorter periods (e.g., years). If the study relied on relatively short-term follow-up, it may overestimate ezetimibe’s protective effects, as longer-term outcomes could differ. For instance, reduced aggregates in the short term might not translate to sustained cognitive benefits.
Conflict of Interest:
While not explicitly stated, many studies on drug repurposing involve ties to pharmaceutical companies or funding sources with vested interests. If the authors received support from ezetimibe’s manufacturer or related entities, this could bias the study’s design or interpretation. Transparency about conflicts is critical but not always fully disclosed in abstracts.
Overreliance on Preclinical Models:
The study cites in silico and preclinical models to support ezetimibe’s anti-aggregation effects. These models often oversimplify human biology—mice don’t develop Alzheimer’s like humans do, and computational models can miss real-world complexities. If the human data are less robust than the preclinical claims, the study’s conclusions might be overstated.
External Validity:
The findings may not apply to diverse populations. For example, if the study was conducted in a specific demographic (e.g., predominantly Western, older adults), genetic, dietary, or environmental differences elsewhere could alter ezetimibe’s effects. ADRD risk factors like APOE alleles also vary by ethnicity, which the study might not fully address.
Caveats
Since I can’t read the full paper, some of these critiques are based on common issues in similar research and the abstract’s framing. The study might address some concerns (e.g., with robust statistical methods or clear control matching) in the full text. Conversely, other issues—like missing data or unaddressed confounders—might only emerge upon closer inspection.
If you’d like, I can dig deeper into related studies or check for critiques of this paper on platforms like PubPeer or X, assuming such discussions exist. Alternatively, if you have specific aspects of the study (e.g., methods, results) you’re curious about, I can tailor my analysis further. What do you think?
And that is why we need a check of other large patient databases (US Veteran Affairs Patient Database (VAPD), United Kingdome Biobank, Chinese National Health Insurance Database, Swedish National Patient Register, among other) for the same phenomenon. This can be done quickly. If it holds true, then shovel research dollars into the mechanism of action and prospective studies.
Just learned of the study a couple of months ago so I do not yet know but there is obviously lots of space between prevention and cure. I personally believe that as the hippocampus shrinks, for example, there is no regaining that loss of important brain tissue. It is also a long decline for most and looking back on my wife's changes, it's easy to write off early symptoms as "just aging". We need inexpensive and safe prevention. As for those blaming it all on diet, my grandfather and father (both lived through the depression), died with Alzheimer's disease.
Thanks so much for the info! I will pass this info on so that family on statins might ask their doctor about ezetimibe instead. One has early just aging symptoms.
Thanks for the info Dr. Matt. I’m taking ezetimibe, and your post made me smile. My dad was on it. He died at 88 from COPD, but he was sharp as a tack.
Quite honestly, I do not understand why ANY college or university receives federal funding. Is that not why they charge tuition? If they cannot survive without government (Taxpayer) largesse, they should go out of business.
My son was very social in elementary school and he was (still is) also smart. So in second or third grade he’d help others do their work. The teacher came to us and suggested that we put him on Ritalin to calm him down, I guess that was the euphemism for drug him to a stupor.
I said no way in hell. If he’s interacting too much with his neighbors, move his desk away from the others so he can’t see what they’re doing on their papers. They did and problem, if it really was one, solved.
My children are all adults now, but I homeschooled them all and started a homeschooling support group for area homeschoolers. Lots of them homeschooled because their kids, mostly boys, were required to take Ritalin to be in school. I remember one mom telling me that her son (10 or 12) had terrible nightmares on the drug and almost became suicidal. She brought him home to learn and it made a world of difference. She said that sometimes he was "swinging off the chandeliers" but it was better than the alternative. As this article states, it's more a case of a child's learning style not fitting with the environment than some immutable medical condition: https://dnyuz.com/2025/04/13/have-we-been-thinking-about-a-d-h-d-all-wrong/
It's called being a boy vs a girl. Wired differently, and the exuberance and sometimes hyperactive nature of boys was the excuse to drug them into a stupor. Good for you
Because God forbid a child do the work the teacher is supposed to be doing. Teacher probably felt threatened. SMH. Good for you for not caving to the suggestion.
I’ve shared this story before but I was a city day camp director at 19 and we had a six year old boy who was behaviorally challenging (he was just high energy and highly intelligent and often got ahead of the the other kids or reacted before thinking). His behavior kept getting him in trouble (not with me exactly, but with the counselors) until we had to speak to his mom a few times. She promptly put him on meds. He came back as a shell of his former self. He went from super social to couldn’t play with the other kids anymore. He brought legos to camp and sat in a daze all day playing alone with his legos. At nineteen, with no kids of my own…I was horrified. He needed to be home with his mom and be outdoors and have healthy stimulation from family, friends and nature. But he got drugs that chemically lobotomized him.
I’m so thankful to be homeschooling my five incredible sons - and letting them develop in all their diverse personalities, while helping them learn self-control,hone their skills, and build character. And they play outside for hours every day.
The ADHD diagnosis needs to be reviewed.
Get kids out of government schools, back with their families and cultivated communities, off screens and back outside.
When will we ever get back to seeing the rules of age in children again?
When I was young, it was understood and taken for granted that boys settled down at a later age than girls. It is just the way God designed us!
The drumbeat to drug our boys to make them calmer like the girls has done great damage. I fought them for 2 years but eventually lost when my son failed to calm down. I regret that I finally allowed the Ritalin.
He died 3 years ago from a drug overdose. I don’t know whether the Ritalin started him on his drug and alcohol abuse or if it was hereditary as I and his mother are in long time recovery from substance abuse. I will probably never know I speak out regularly on the issue with the hope that I can save others from the same fate.
It's heartbreaking to think a person's potential and happiness and all they were meant to achieve in life was destroyed by quackery and money-loving POS so-called experts. I'm so sorry.
So sorry for your loss! Having worked in addictions, I saw a lot of men who were prescribed ADHD meds in their childhood, but surprisingly studies were never done to look for a causal relationship!
So very sorry for your loss. Sadly, your story is not an uncommon one, as we’ve heard Ritalin described as a gateway drug. God be with you both in your continued recovery.
My grandson has adhd. He is now age 22 and studying for his masters degree at Cambridge. He was given Ritalin when he was in grammar school to slow him down. It was sad to watch an active boy go flat. He has now taken himself off any meds, plays rugby, weightlifts at the gym and rows for Cambridge’s B team (of his college). He is a great young man and has interned with an aerospace co and offered a full time job once he finishes his masters. I fall under the childhood vaxxes are responsible for autism heading. I am willing to listen to other arguments, but at age 74, it is what I witnessed. It is difficult to deny what one sees.
One wonders too, are these boys who they put on ADHD meds just not active enough? Are they in sports? Do they run and play outside when they are home? We never sat around and were always doing things and were ready for bed or listening when at school. We had better diets though too. Rarely any junk food…
Me too, because I was one of them. Both BP and cholesterol reducing poisons. BP normal and cholesterol 'normal' back four plus years ago. Out of curiosity, I should get a new blood panel, just to see what they are currently.
Yes. Completely safe to stop this one cold Turkey. I have heard that unless your cholesterol is over 450 there is no concern about “high” as a matter of fact they continue to lower the level to put more people on it.
I am not a doctor, but I just gradually stopped taking them while my doc was actually working to get me off of both meds. I stopped a year before I got my most current results (Jan 2021) that both were in the 'normal' range, so when he said that I could stop, I had already on my own stopped them. I still take Niacin for the 'good' cholesterol, but that is just a B vitamin anyway.
My husband took a statin for 10 years after his widowmaker, at which point his short-term memory and cognitive functioning were so bad that I was ready to put him in a home. After an MRA and an MRI the neurologist said his brain was fine and that the statins were causing brain fog, which I believe is the term for statin induced dementia. Anyhow, he stopped the statins 9 years ago, has had no new heart issues and most of his brain function returned. Knowing how cholesterol is essential for synapses in the brain, I can’t believe doctors prescribe this med like candy. By the way, the gene that metabolizes the various statins my husband was on, have reduced enzyme function, meaning the med was most likely not being fully metabolized. And for the medical people that are confused why fertility rates are down, they might look at statins as the cause since cholesterol is needed to make testosterone and estrogen as well as other hormones like cortisol. Doctors need to familiarize themselves with medical research and pharmacogenomics and quit relying on the standards of care list of medications for various diagnoses.
I was talked into getting on statins about 7-8 years ago, and stayed on them for 4 years. I regret getting on them, even though I had no noticeable side effects.
Does anyone know if statins can be damaging, even if only on them for a few years? My memory isn’t as good as it once was, but then again, I am 68.
We _really_ need Congress to do away with Federal withholding. You want people to really get ticked off ... have them write that check out of their own account instead of having it kept back little by little every paycheck. :)
I set aside money & wrote the lump sum check rather than withhold. Guess what? They charge a “penalty” fee to do so, and it increased $100 each year for mine. So I was forced to have it withheld to avoid paying the government pirates even more😡 They want my money sitting in their accounts not mine.
WHY do filthy rich Ivy League universities - which charge huge fees & horde vast endowments - get ANY taxpayer dollars?!
It’s ABSURD. STOP IT!
Its kinda like NGOs.
If an NGO can't survive because the government funding spigot was turned off...well...then...it was never a non-government organization.
Just replace individual freedom of thought...and you have our universities.
Our five children all went to private Christian college not propped up by taxpayer funds. These elite universities should have to compete on their own merits. I predict things will change for the better when we turn off the spigot.
Sadly, many on the left consider Christian colleges guilty of indoctrination. And I say Amen to that! Let them be indoctrinated with God’s Word! Both of our children went to Christian schools and they are Salt of the Earth people.
Their education wasn’t cheap, because it wasn’t funded by anyone but us and a couple of their own student loans. But it was worth it!
Yes of course they would consider Christian education indoctrination. But it is a choice. What they don't realize is that broad ideas are taught from a Christian world view. But that would be anathema to the left as well. We paid for their education and they paid half of it back. It took some of them a number of years but taught important lessons.
Be wary, some 'religious' institutions are becoming worldly compromised, apostate I think the Bible calls it.
The devil works in all spheres that allow him.
as if Ivy League universities don't indoctrinate their students?
If you’re sending your kid to a Christian school you’ve got to expect that’s going to rub off on them, it’s not like they’re hiding they are Christian. So how can they accuse of indoctrination if they are willingly sending them to an obviously Christian school??
Thanks for stating the obvious!
Yet they don’t think indoctrinating children and students to their world view is indoctrination. We all educate and guide our children to hold values important to us as important, as well. That is…if we raise our children. So many today let others raise their children.
Freebird, who funded your kid's student loans?
Same
Private will not indoctrinate my children
Bravo Nancy! Compete on their own merits. At this point, they would not know where to begin. Indocrination Station.
^^This^^
This statement is profound in it’s simplicity.
I just took students in my class to our local senior citizens center. It is a wonderful nonprofit and they are faithful stewards providing great programs and services to seniors in our community, including meals on wheels. 60% of there budget comes from state and federal grants. In these types of well-ran nonprofit organizations, I would hate to see them lose their funding because of the misdeeds of others.
That’s the problem with government funding EVERYTHING; people begin to not only expect it but demand it. THIS is how we’ve gotten a humongously bloated federal government full of nameless agencies & why our taxes are so outrageous that a one-income family struggles.
In my youth moms stayed home raising their children & dad worked.
He earned a living wage.
America’s middle class was the envy of the world.
Can worthwhile programs like this be supported financially by the public, without routing the money through the government?
Exactly! routing money through the govt creates a separate bureaucracy that lives to perpetuate itself, not make the recipient organization efficient, effective, or useful to anyone but themselves.
The issue is not whether they need help, but who is to help them. There are plenty of social clubs, churches, civic organizations, and others who can do this, but they haven't because the government took it over like they take over everything else. Get the government out of it. Let private charities do this work.
Harvard is committing economic suicide to stand on its Communist principles. I’m OK with that.
Their endowment is $50 billion. Maybe they can afford to lose a few billion and try to wait for a more sympathetic administration.
As money is fungible, that endowment is bloated by federal grants. The government pays their bills instead of having to use the returns from legitimate endowments. Add up the total federal dollars given to Harvard over the years and see how much of the endowment is owed to the taxpayers.
TY for that number.
$53.2 Billion via Grok this AM.
Matt Taibbi went through several of the big university endowments.
https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/the-angst-of-the-well-endowed?r=41nl8&utm_medium=ios
Good read. My son is a PHD student at GT and my daughter got her
Masters at VT. I am very grateful for the GI bill and other benefits I had from military service to pay for their education. I can’t imagine them having to pay the outrageous tuition themselves.
Georgia Tech? My daughter is getting her MS is Structural Engineering there now.
Ugh
As of 2024, their endowment was over $53 billion. Harvard uses federal money for roughly one third of their operating budget, and apparently there are self-imposed limits on how much endowment $$ can be used for operations.
Which raises some questions: 1) How much interest do they make off of their investments? 2) How about changing those restrictions? 3) What is the breakdown of their budget?
And I agree 1000% about having private schools emulate places like Hillsdale if they’re so concerned about federal money coming with strings attached. You take the king’s gold, you play by his rules.
And that may be exactly why Harvard is front and center. Let's not forget them selling nanotechnology to the Chinese:
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related
Just incredible!
Watch Tucker with Curt Walden. The puzzle is coming together.
Just watched. Thank you!
The thanks we get
Go for it and sit back and watch these institutions implode!!! Self righteous hypocrite s!
might be a really long wait - particularly if Bernie & AOC are the new standard bearers for the democrat aka socialists party
As much as I want to agree with this statement...NEVER underestimate the stupidity of the general public!
democrats only platform to convince Americans to vote for them was Trump hatred - what will be their platform in '28 when he isn't on the ticket - more transgenderism? more illegals? more USAID? good luck with that
Is the right influencer demanded these “progressives” to stick a fork in their eye all day, it would be done. No hesitation.
They’re zombies….
Indeed. Especially when they are under the influence of the Transnational captured MSM.
in general it is the very well indoct---- errr, educated who have done the most incredibly stupid things. the general public may be have out of ignorance and stupidity, and unless the indoctrinated fill them with fear and propagandised indoctrination in mass formation or other forms of group think, are far more likely to be compassionate with one another.
Exactly - and how big IS their endowment? They can USE IT. They do NOT deserve ANY federal taxpayer money,
And the fact that there is no tax charged them. What a grift!
Next take away their tax free status. Make them pay taxes like any other corp
I believe in Trump’s first term, he imposed a 1% tax on income generated by the endowment.
Estimating a 5% return on the $53bn endowment would give ~$265mm in revenue. 1% tax on that is ~$2.65mm.
They could probably do everything on the investment income that endowment generates. But I don’t know endowment tax or investment rules.
I'm suspicious that "administrators" and directors of the funds, charging annual administrative and board fees, perhaps at a rate of 1%, or $500,000,000, are very protective of that principal and interest.
So many others are skimming off the top. I get it.
They are, basically, Hedge Funds. I don't know the tax requirements on those funds. Yale has, like, 45 Hedge Funds operating out of their endowments.
I didn't know that. Interesting. What will happen to them when the stock market collapses?
Thanks.
My first thought is... they will still get money as long as they comply.... What university created/studied covid before it was sent to China? They do a lot of twisted experiments at universities in suspect for the government since they are "private."
Remember when Bill Clinton apologized for the US conducting horrid experiments on uninformed citizens? Were they done at universities? IDK
Possibly the ones that were done on orphans
Many experiments were done on the helpless in orphanages, giant mental institutions, and jails... They didn't help the people. They used them.
Just started watching this movie and I think it will be interesting.
True Story - Stanford Prison Experiment (Movie - 2015)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/99lrKU3EvBIh/
$2.5 “billion”
Besides, isn't Harvard confusing indoctrination with education?
This is what I’ve been preaching for 40 years. Universities are bastions of Communist brainwashing, not education. Why do you think this country is filled with anarchists and transgender terrorists burning down “green cars” (an oxymoron in and of itself)? But hey, I’m just a dumb, unpapered hick. Whadoiknow?
I would not have said this several years ago, but my own children went to upper crust liberal arts schools (their choice…and they got “scholarships”) and I have seen the mental departure in them from the way they were raised in terms of politics and lifestyle. So I feel this is true. They definitely soaked in a different mindset and set aside truths of faith and ideals of conservatism. Very difficult to watch and keep the peace with them as adults.
I’m so sorry to hear that, Susan. I don’t have any kids of my own, but many of my friends have had the same experience as you, and worse. Kids becoming homosexual in college, then flip-flopping later, spending years in therapy and on antidepressants, or becoming downright hateful and belligerent to their parents for their moral and political views. The Amish and Mennonites aren’t perfect, but they do not allow their children to be educated in any public school or university, and the difference in the morality and mental health of their young people is dramatic.
I do believe that on the Amish. Sometimes I wish that I had done this type of schooling…however, we have a big God who knows all things. May He draw all children’s hearts back to Him and sanity be restored to academia. Gratefully, our kids are productive and honor us as parents…enjoying, still, family time when able. Only radical thing one of them did was march in the first “anti-Trump” rally in DC back in 2016, wearing the pink “p-ssy” hat she herself made. *sigh*
Yes, I sympathize with you, but I’m glad your children still honor their parents. Certainly, God can do all things, but He has also been very meticulous in explaining how we should live and the repercussions we will suffer by not obeying him. I can’t help but think he spends a lot of his time thinking, “I tried to tell ya,” lol.
The problem is, Christians have been coddled by their shepherds in the pulpit. You will often hear preachers say, “Be in the world, not of the world,” but then they never explain how NOT to be of the world.
The way to be “not of the world” is to refuse to participate in secular, pagan culture, and to live the way Jesus lived by obeying the Torah. First century Jews were not educated by Greeks or Romans, they were educated by their own parents and/or Jewish leaders. First century Jews did not associate with pagans. They didn’t attend pagan events, enjoy pagan entertainment, eat at pagan restaurants, etc. They were an extremely closed community, much like Orthodox Jews are today, because that’s what the Mosaic Law required of them.
Did Jesus associate with pagans? Occasionally, yes, but not without telling them they were sinners who needed to repent, stop sinning and obey God. The difference is, Jesus had the moral authority to engage with pagans. Modern Christians don’t, because we do just about everything the pagans do, and we do it the same way.
God told his people in Leviticus 18:3, “You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.” And then, of course, Corinthians is full of admonishments by Paul for Christians to not even associate with people who call themselves Believers yet engage in certain types of egregious sin.
Living in the world and doing the same things pagans do is exactly why Christians are disrespected and irrelevant in today’s culture. But maybe the evil that permeates the world now will finally force Christians to start obeying God’s Word again. May it be so. 🙏🏻
LOL! Exactly, they ALWAYS do!
re: "Regular readers will recall that, for 25 years, Alzheimer’s research was stymied by a slavish, public health-enforced commitment to a single study and lone theory that has now been proven wrong."
Who is the real perp? I think we all know the answer to that question. It's fauci the human cockroach, who wielded billions of taxpayers dollars every year since 1986 to get the "studies" from rotten places like Harvard and "our" other ivy league "elite" colleges to support big pharma's disgusting, destructive "medication" of America for massive profit, from which that evil SOB also took his cut.
And to our GREAT POTUS, I say thank you for cutting 2 BILLION dollars of our money from Harvard's pockets. It's a good start.
Now, I want people in prison. Human Cockroach's first.
Someone, I believe on this substack called them “Poison Ivy League Schools” and I have been using the term since then. They are, indeed, poison Ivy……from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and they chose the evil…..the poison.
Lowly Scum (I laugh every time I see your name!), it's more complicated than just Fauci. He was the head of the NIAID (natl institute allergy & infectious dz), and he had a huge budget, but it's really Francis Collins at the NIH who is responsible for the Alzheimer's research debacle. BC university & govt medical research is funded by the NIH, no dissent is allowed for researchers who think a different direction should be taken. So the NIH/Collins believes there's ONE promising lane of research for ALZ and now here we are and there's NOT ONE drug that works. BC they were looking in the wrong direction & ignored dissent. Billions wasted on nothing. This is one of the many reasons that public health must be completely upended & cleaned out bc these people are the norm at FDA, CDC, NIH etc.
Since it’s most likely drugs or “vaccines” that are causing the Alzheimer’s surge, maybe we shouldn’t look to finding new drugs as the answer. We should be rooting out the pharmaceutical products that are causing the harm in the first place.
Oh, 100%. I seriously doubt there will ever be a drug that even helps dementia, much less cures it. I think it's something environmental, either a drug everyone takes (statins?) or some pesticide sprayed on crops and food......THIS is what they should have been looking for all along. But but but, then big Pharma doesn't gift them billions for research into DRUGS to solve the Alzheimers that Pharma likely caused! You can't make it up.
Naturopathic doctors understand that statin drugs CAUSE dementia. This is not "Rocket Science" Anyone can understand it: Statins reduce fat that neurological pathways use for insulation that keeps circuits from shorting out. Without fat for insulation, your brain is like your house wiring without insulation on the wires. The circuits short out, fuses blow and your house doesn't work any more. The same thing happens in your brain. The fat insulators need periodic replacement and when there is not enough fat to replace the insulators, the neurons short circuit. Then, you can't remember anything because the neurons can't connect because they are shunted to the wrong pathways because there are not enough insulators.
The solution is simple: Stop the statins and eat more fat. This doesn't affect Heart Disease. Fat in the arteries is a RESULT, not a cause. Stem call supplements help, also.
Arguing with my doctors about statins has sharpened my polemic skills, but they remain unconvinced. I finally just had to say, "No, I won't take them." The good news is that after years of talking to people about the covid death jabs, I am immune to scorn.
Wise information. I believe our President was just given a 'clean bill of health', except for elevated cholesterol, for which he takes medication. Perhaps he will be presented todays C&C and reconsider adding chemicals to his bloodstream.
I've been on statins (atorvastatin 20 mg) for 17 years, I'd like to stop taking them tomorrow, can I? What negative effects can I expect? What can I take instead? I had a 100% blocked Right Main Artery heart attack at age 50 opened with a stint. I had a 95% blocked Left Circumflex also opened with a stint 6 months later. Why the doc didn't open it at the same time? Cause you get paid more with two surgical events instead of one!!!
Sir Jeff, then...skinny people, lacking fat, can't think well?
Maybe, as a general proposition, drugs don't cure anything.
THIS!!
Anticholinergic drugs can contribute to brain health problems.
Even common use of Benadryl has been problematic as we age.
"The elderly are more sensitive to anticholinergic adverse effects, and people with dementia have a high risk of adverse cognitive and psychiatric effects from these drugs.3,4 Adverse effects attributed to anticholinergicsinclude
sedation, confusion, delirium, constipation, urinary retention, dry mouth,
dry eyes, blurred vision, photophobia, tachycardia, decreased sweating,
increased body temperature, falls, and others. 5 Some evidence suggests
that anticholinergics contribute to behavioral disturbances and psychosisin
dementia."
Here is a list of drugs to be wary of:
https://www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu/media/SOP/medmanagementumarylandedu/AnticholPocketCard.pdf
I will say that fauci and collins were definitely in cahoots - together, and with big Pharma and with others like the walking crime against humanity bill gates - and to the detriment of the American people's health, power and our wealth. I think we can "violently" agree that all of them need to face accountability for what they have done pre (all the way back to at least 1986), during, and post covid.
I think POTUS must assign several special prosecutors to go after the corrupt criminals at HHS, NIH, NIAID, DOJ, FBI, CIA and damn near every other alphabet agency who have all been complicit, one way or the other, with hurting the American people and our country. I do not think the people who are running the agencies now, good though they may be, can be expected to also, as you rightfully state, upend and clean out!
Yes, all in cahoots!
Alice, thanks for the clarification. Yes indeed, it truly is more complicated than the gross generalizations imply.
Maybe it was a gross generalization to you but fauci is as guilty as anyone in NIH and from what I've read, controlled collins instead of the other way around. If it was a gross generalization to call out "Big Pharma", criminals in "higher education" and others like criminal gates, then I will be fine with your generalization.
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Yes, lets not forget the long line of congressional scumbags and "presidents" who CHOSE to PROVIDE OUR DOLLARS and to look the other way instead of doing over sight and accountability. Was it intentional? How could it be anything but intentional, just look at the fat bank accounts from pharma for people like Fauxcahontas, Commie Sanders, etc etc.
There isn't enough room in the reply space to name those that need to be aggressively prosecuted and jailed.
^^THIS^^. Nailed it Dan
cockroaches have more integrity.
I’m not defending it mind you, but I believe Harvard gets funds for its professors and grad students to “study” things. Probably some of them actually are important. But $2.2 billion? Hard to believe.
Regarding the Endowments. There are strict rules on endowment funds. One may be set up to fund the debating society, one for the glee club, etc. and that’s ALL the money that fund can be used for. I’d like to see a breakdown by Fund type of their endowments. I’ll bet there’s plenty for research.
Before they get a penny, I would like to understand what text in the Constitution authorizes CONGRESS to 'grant' any money to a university/college to 'study' anything, much less provide funds to 'operate' a university/college.
Harvard gets $2billion of fed tax money per year. Their entire bloated staff earns about $2.6 billion per year according to Grok. We pay 77% of their compensation. They are essentially federal employees. DOGE should clean that department out!
Completely!!
Except like most "scientific" research these days. You only get the money if your research adheres to a specific political narrative. Fauci was famous for his dispersal of funds if it kept his AIDS and covid narratives alive and stifled all else.
Yes, I had a client project last year that included cataloging research grants for several research universities in my region - primarily focused on those that led to company formation, like SBIR/STTR but I can never resist the rabbit hole temptation. Way too many of these so-called research grants were little more than social engineering and junk science. LOTS of grants on transgender topics - "the effects of gender-affirming sex steroids on brain development in adolescents" "A mouse model to test the effects of gender affirming Hormone therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced immune responses" and on and on...
'Run death is near'
Uhhhh, Run death is HERE!
Round the jabber's up!
I am a retired scientist and yes that is true
Absolutely.
And any “research” waffling on about “anthropomorphic “ climate change got generous grants. It was ALL political with the Dems.
Study things= deep state.
Ok then. Time to change the rules for how the endowment is used.
There's usually _some_ way to redirect funds given toward a particular thing, but it requires some pretty serious effort. (which is good - avoids corruption) I know that I was in a church one time talking about "designated giving" and how it could be changed to something else, but took multiple business meetings and votes with publication of that topic. (e.g., designated for an organ when no organ would ever be purchased or something similar)
Yes and stipulations from those who give the money that the university may only use the interest made on the money.
Let them study what common sense, integrity, morals and education mean.
Hillsdale College figured it out 180 years ago. Don’t accept Federal money and the Federals can’t tell you what to do.
I have long said the same thing about churches’ 501(c)3 status.
Good point Flat. At least the giver has a choice whether to drop a coin in the basket at church.
I totally agree with you! After much research I fund a student political science scholarship to Hillsdale every year. Mainly because they do not accept federal money.
Hillsdale is the model college for what every other should be, and especially the poison "Ivy League" schools of criminals.
Grove City college in PA is the same way.
Love this school.
Accept billionaire's money and let them tell you what to do.
Parallel to this question is one with which I've struggled mightily. Government inarguably made college wildly more expensive with its endlessly subsidized tuition assistance. Mostly absent from the discussion, however, is why taxpayers should be on the hook for student loan forgiveness rather than the already taxpayer money sucking institutions that took near criminal advantage of this arrangement. Why?
It's how they have created an indoctrinated class they like to call "college educated" and who almost universally vote and act against the American people and our country. They are creating generation after generation of America last globalist marxists on OUR tax money.
This is such a good, if depressing, comment. It is exactly right.
Agreed ☹️
Ivy League = embarrassment to USA
I remember when going to an ivy league school was a mark of merit. Of course I'm going to back 50 (!) years now. Today's schools ARE a pathetic embarrassment. Remedial math at Harvard! Men on the women's swim team at UPenn! With the resources available today, education has the opportunity to be creative and individualized. And cheap! Time for some major changes in the "education" sector.
and, major racism! Three valedictorians in a row from my kid's high school did not get into any ivies. All were athletes and great people (I know, I coached all of them). but, they were white males. So they all went to our state school.
Poison Ivy League
And yet, it opens doors to cushy jobs. The boy's club. Give the secret handshake, mention your Ivy league school and you're in.
Like the old adage: "It's not what you know, it's who you know."
Exactly.
"Steal a little and they'll put you in jail, steal a lot and they'll make you king."
Bob Dylan
Until the guillotine gets erected in the middle of Revolution Square!
And that money should be taxed!
Don't forget all that Qatari money.
I don't get it, either. These universities have more than enough money to operate for decades without taxpayer funding. And the hypocrisy is so thick...the same people who gripe and complain about the wealthy among us see no problem with schools that already have billions of dollars at their fingertips charging hundreds of thousands in tuition.
Stop it yesterday!
because they're BETTER THAN those unwashed State Schools that do
A Soviet and American professor find themselves sitting next to each other on a flight.
American: "Why are you coming to the US?"
Soviet: "To study American propaganda techniques."
American: "What propaganda?"
Soviet: "Exactly."
There you go, there's the state of affairs at our universities these days.
Bingo. Mark Crispin Miller, arguably one of our best academics on the subject of propaganda, wrote this morning about a transgender woman and his role in establishing the transgender narrative. He even had his picture on the cover of Time Magazine. The analysis was good, BUT throughout his piece, Miller consistently called this man “she” and “her.” The Soviet’s response nailed even Miller.
I think he needed to keep it consistent for the reader. I didnt watch Orange is the New Black, but saw the hype around the show and I had no idea that was that was a man.
In using the incorrect pronouns, all Miller did was demonstrate how much influence the gender propaganda has on him. This had less to do with the reader’s ability to read than it does with Miller’s inability to comprehend the very propaganda he was seeking to expose.
He's also tripped up a lot about other stuff. I had to stop reading him when he fell for an obvious propaganda video and thought it was real. Physician, heal thyself, so to speak.
I wasn't aware of that incident. I have mostly stopped reading his emails about the Suddenly Deads. Most of those deaths might be the result of the kill shots, but he can't say for sure as he offers no proof. Suggesting a connection doesn't work for me. I know the shots are killing people and will probably keep on doing so for a long time, but if you're going to report on these deaths, you can't report on events the way CNN does which is to merely assert.
Agree completely. He lost me awhile back, with the obsessing over deaths with no proven connection.
He simply provides info re: deaths happening. He makes no claims re: CAUSE. He leaves opinions and conclusions up to the reader. What's wrong with that?
No.
Using the incorrect (forced speech) pronouns is absolutely caving on ones' own agency. Period. If the PTB can force you to use the wrong pronoun, or claim a man is a woman, they've won. This is textbook MKUltra/brainwashing. And this is what they've been doing to us since 9/11. And during Covid it was ramped up to the nth degree, combining that with the absurdity of the trans agenda.
I'm always taken aback by the numbers of people (both men and women) who continue referring to the Dylan Mulvaneys and Rachel Levines of the world as "she" and "her." If nothing else, it's insulting to the rest of us. And for some reason, people use those wrong pronouns only when they are talking about men who imagine themselves to be women but not for women who imagine themselves to be men. Why is that? Any thoughts?
They're following the Woke Jacobin Marxist diktats when they do that, and it's pretty telling. Either you support women, respect women, and understand how insulting to women this farce is, or you don't. And some willingly don't. I noticed the worst offenders are men on the left. It opened my eyes to what utter misogynists they are. For conservatives, especially Christians, it should register with them what an absolute abomination of nature and common sense it is to call a man a woman just because he's in drag and performs an embarrassing and insulting parody of womanhood. It's also worthy of note that these people believe they are being respectful! To whom? The folks commanding your speech, or women? Because you sure as hell aren't respecting women.
Nailed it! The worst misogynists, racists, etc., are those who keep crowing about how they’re such great “allies” and fighting xyz. It allows them the perfect cover to hide behind. Doug Emhoff is a prime example. A user, abuser and despiser of women.
It’s not about being respectful at all, I agree. It’s purely manipulative. Preying on people’s desire to be (or even just be seen as) kind and welcoming.
The pronoun issue in written form can be difficult if you don’t want to alienate and insult readers, especially ones who are new to realizing the lie that’s at the center of this. You want them to keep reading.
So what’s the solution? Maybe just refer to them by last name (Levine/Muloney) and where that becomes awkward or difficult, use s/he?
It’s a non-issue in verbal communication. Most people try to ignore Trans and don’t initiate contact, but if necessary just refer to ‘you’.
Classic joke. Satire has become reality. Columbia just appointed a new president who used to be a CNN propagandist: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/claire-shipman-columbia-president
Yep. And married to former Obama press secretary Jay Carney, right?
Hey, buddy. I'm not sure what's going on, but I haven't got your last two stack postings in my inbox.
I'll see if I can figure it out.
I'm seeing that more and more conservative substack articles are being shoved to spam. (Yahoo mail and ATT email accounts administered by Yahoo mail). Even ones where I've repeatedly said it was NOT spam.
Right?!
In addition to that, just for giggles, type in "climate change skepticism " in you search engine.
Every single link is about being anti-science or "denier"
They try to get you by every angle.
I use presearch.com. It's a bit better.
Hey. Thx, Justin.
I'll check it out
Recently I changed browsers, so I wasn't logged in when I opened Substack and I noticed Substack.com chose to show far more leftist articles and notes than right leaning when I was anonymous. Made me wonder.
I've noticed an uptick of disruptive people that sadly affiliate with the personalities of those on the left. My own observations are that substack was born of a time when conservative voices were being censored on other platforms and people found more trustworthy reporting than that found in the mainstream media. Some writers have found success and decent income via their substack channels, and media people on the left have noticed (likely some having been fired and looking for an income and retaining their following). Their followers are discovering there is some high quality content here, and are spreading out.
Some seem to be incapable of withholding vitriol against those they don't agree with, and it disrupts the cordial or collegial tone that is there. My best advice is to not respond whatsoever to people who are purposefully inflammatory. In egregious examples, report them.
I prefer the high quality reporting and custom interests that I wish to pursue found here instead of the propagandized pablum that's pushed out on mainstream media channels. I have a bumper sticker that says "Is that what your TV told you to think? @" (the "@" is a hypnotic swirl.)
I've also found some interesting writers to follow based on things found in the comment sections, and I'm grateful that they have shared this.
I'm grateful to those who promote and share knowledge that is informative and uplifting. I ignore and despise those who comment with hate and attempt to disrupt what's good. Those are miserable people and I pity them. While I will occasionally try to provide a positive or helpful response, I'll just ignore anybody who wants to lash out or be irrational in their comments.
I TRY to do that.
consider proton mail. You have to pay $5/mo but it is high security, no DEI or other pre-screens.
I get protonmail for free.
Well, OK. True that IS available, forgot; that is how I started. For some reason I upgraded. Still have not connected my wife to it. For a couple years they were having all sorts of "connection" problems. Pretty much OK, nowadays. By the way, High there Jeff!
Thank you. I do have a proton mail account. I just choose to use an email account I've had for a long time for having substacks sent to because of other mailing lists and address books already in there, along with auto forwarding to another account. (though that sometimes gets hijacked as well with this conservative filtering)
Ha! Yep, I do something similar with gmail & Yahoo! mail. . .
send stuff their way that is non-critical if "attacked" or compromised.
Happened to me as well, I started going directly to Substack. They have since started again coming to my inbox but it makes little difference to me now that I am familiar with how to get to them myself
Ryan, that happened to me a few weeks back and took several days to figure out that I had somehow become unsubscribed.
RSS feeds may be old-school, but I still think they're better than anything else. Feedly is free and I love it for aggregating pretty much everything I follow.
Indeed, the lost art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.
Yup. That's the point.
Good one!
when i was a very serious young child, my mother used to tell me that the difference between the soviet union and the USA was that they had propaganda and we had a free press. cynical right out of the womb, i would say "aw mom, no, our press is just propaganda told by our side."
Wise beyond your years!
No wonder you didn't fall for the scamdemic crap
Why we were funding Harvard to begin with is beyond me.
Defund PBS and NPR!
I am forced to give you a "like" on that.
Grudgingly, indeed!! LOL
Oh, come on Dave. Be gracious :) How boring would life be if we all agreed on everything all the time. Cheers mate!
Lol, you know my comment was tongue in cheek as well. Let's get Two N's to the top of the comments!
Uhmmmm……no
LOL!!!!
Is this the first time Jeff has "liked" one of his comments?
Ha! I'm laughing.
When you break it down we probably have more in common, dare I say 95% or greater, than we do in difference.
Oh no, we can't have that! That'll be the second time, first time was when I was rejoicing over the covid mandate being dropped.
Sorry, in my experience, he just does this to ingratiate himself and gain credibility, especially with newbies here, so he can come back with nonsense about Ukraine later. I agree that it would be boring to agree all the time, but I find it more boring to read bad faith posts from commenters trying to sell propaganda who insult anyone in disagreement with them.
I honestly don't care one bit.
I get enough hate here to the point one guy wanted me to off myself and another was calling all over Eucom trying to dox me.
I am very conservative to the point if I was in a blind lineup with Trump 99% of C&C would pick me over Trump.
Tons of stuff the gov currently funds which they shouldn't. Medicaid, Medicare, and SS being 3 of them and those suck up 300b each month.
lol. Me too!
Whodathunkit???
Not me, against my principles 😛
Let’s cut gov
Spending by 60%. Tons of stuff that shouldn’t exist.
The thing is Dave we likely agree on more than we disagree. I'll throw out it's probably in the 95% range, give or take a few.
It's the 5% that gets amplified to the 9th degree.
Looked last eve; think H's endowment is ~$50B.
You have to be kidding me! Insanity.
Oh this stuff really pisses me off.
Sorry for language. Just can't think of any other way to put it.
Yep. They don’t need any gov funding.
Defund National Socialist Propaganda Radio (NSPR)! and Government Broadcasting System (GBS) - there is nothing 'public' about their broadcasts, just like public schools are really 'government' schools. And 'government' transportation and not public transportation.
How about funding trade schools?
Like.
Why? Very simple - to control.
But no one has had the courage to do it!!! Until now, maybe.
It's why I'm against public schools and I'm happy Trump is going to drastically cut the DoE.
I think PBS and NPR offer quality programming that is worth supporting.
However, they need to be compelled to provide more balanced perspectives
and less obvious bias.
Their treatment of RFK Jr. drives me insane.
They can't utter his name without prefacing it with 'anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist'.
They should put the man on the air and let him speak for himself.
Let him debate their 'experts' like Paul Offit.
Yesterday I had to turn the radio off when they were interviewing Peter Marks
about the 'Measles Outbreak' and the MMR vax. Nothing he said was true.
If the programming is worth supporting, then let people who enjoy it support it 🤷♀️ There is no reason to force all taxpayers to fund them.
It should be privately funded by donations and they can play whatever they want.
We need a taxpayer's class-action suit against the federal government for giving billion dollar grants to institutions that have billion dollar endowments. Talk about irresponsible management of funds!!!
My question is: if Harvard U is a private university presumably self reliant ($50B endowment), then why would they need government money at all?
Because it is an indoctrination camp, and if the government gives it money, then the government can tell it how to indoctrinate.
The tax payer money is funneled to them as “grants”. So gobmint talking heads can cite “Harvard study proves clot shot is safe and effective”.
That begs an answer.
Harvard does a lot of studies for the fed gov including the DOD…
To control them
I can only assume it's a status symbol.
Even if they didn’t already have big endowments, our tax dollars still should not be given to them. Our government has spread its tentacles into so many areas that is not its business.
every thing the governments supports that is not specifically in the constitution should only be supported via a "go fund me" program - stop wasting tax dollars on things most people don't support
Especially since all that money has to be first filtered through the bureaucratic middleman so less money is available to be given out than what was originally taken in taxes.
Most funding is unconstitutional
Seems to me that a class action lawsuit on behalf of the students who have been defrauded of their right to an education by the government schools should be a consideration as the government has not provided the service (an education) to their customers ( the students).
Yea I want a refund! Talk about reparations. Why don’t we start demanding these types of reparations?!
Suing yourself never really works out well, I agree with your premise and trust DOGE is working on this.
Sue Congress for voting on appropriations to the dens of indoctrination.
Get Federal Government out of ALL education. Period.
A ☕ &🦠 Good Morning to all.
ADHD: in my day there was no such thing - you were just a little SOB. 🤣 !
Old School 🏫.
Boys should start school later, six or seven, not five years old. And bring back recess! ⚾️🏀🏈🏐
No child should be in school before eight. School should be half day. Only what cannot be taught at home should be taught by a tutor. Home work should be WORK at home chores required to keep the household clean, safe, and fed.
Absolutely! What is typically diagnosed as hyperactivity is usually more accurately diagnosed as boredom.
And the lack of nutritional food. Cereal is just sugar. If we would cut most of the sugar out of their diet, they would be able to focus better and would thrive. I did this with my kids… didn’t keep junk food in the house and they are in their mid 20s and they don’t keep it their homes now. Both are very good cooks.
And the lack of quality sleep.
Bring back the midday nap!
You are so correct! My grandson’s 3rd grade teacher insisted he be put on drugs for ADHD. We refused, and after fighting with the school administration, they put him in a 4th grade math class - called “Math Monkeys”. Much to the surprise of the idiotic teacher, she said he improved 100% and was no longer a problem.
I actually started kindergarten a few weeks before my 5th birthday. I did fine. But I enjoyed sitting and reading and crafting. All kids are different and boys tend to be more active. I wonder how things were handled back in the one room schoolhouse days. Back then, they seemed to learn more and were in school for less time.
My son was a November baby. I held him back a year so he was the oldest and not the youngest in his class. He thrived and it didn’t hurt him at all… in fact, he is defending this thesis next month for a PHD in Bio-Medical Engineering. I believe because he was older at first and I didn’t feed my kids junk food that they thrived through school and is still making a difference in their lives.
My guess is the love and supervision and parenting that you poured into your son made a huge difference. 😉
Discipline and respect for elders. Both learned from home and in school. Two things that are missing now.
Exactly. I was reading a story from the 1800's where a teacher had been given a cane to use on the adult students to maintain control. After using the cane, the 2 disruptors became his best students and lifelong friends.
Also, ALOT of work to do on the farm or in the house.
I never went to kindergarten. About the worst part of that was when I started first grade I didn’t know what the alphabet was, but hey, I couldn’t wait to learn to read and I was the best reader all through grade school. I think it is sad that kids will be working all their lives and don’t even get to enjoy six years of playing and using their imagination before heading off to what essentially is a job called school.
I thoroughly enjoyed school and I did have plenty of time for imagination both in school and at home.
I liked learning but not school. Mostly because of being with other kids who weren’t interested in learning and who were often mean-spirited and immature.
And you might have enjoyed staying home and playing just as much…
Plus, kids were more physically active in and out of school.
Amen. It's taken me years to appreciate how terrible the traditional school schedule is. If I had to do it all again, I would definitely homeschool and spend only 3 hours a day on actual study filling the remaining time with chores (or a job if of age), pursuing a hobby, learning basic, hands-on life skills and - here's an idea - recreating.
If I were designing a public school schedule, kids in grades K - 3 would spend as much time in recess as possible and I would schedule frequent, physical breaks (especially for boys). There really isn't that much material to be covered in these grades unless, of course, the goal is indoctrination (i.e. social engineering) v. education. The amount of time wasted in a traditional school day is incredible.
It's called UNSCHOOL and this is what we did and what I missed we paid for at local community college where they excelled in math, loved it and struggled to understand the hated for disipline and learning of the other students. Community college = middle school for older kids which if they had been trained in a loving home environment like back in the forties... Then we would be back in the forties. 🎉 We trained like back... My brother thinks we are Amish 🤣 we are not!
No child should be thrown into the public sewer system AT ALL.
It's funny that many say... "But I learned and I had a great experience" but after getting out of it I realized how desperately dysfunctionally ppl become devoted to "their" school!!
Can you see what's WRONG with that pronoun!!?
Thanks for listening.
I wouldn’t do to a dog what the school system does to a kid.
I’ve read that many of the countries that have good results in education tend to start school later and don’t push reading as early as we do.
My kids are all great readers but only the youngest read before nine and one didn't read until eleven and he has ADHD, dyslexia and high functioning autism and graduated college on the Presidents list in three honor societies. I woulda never guessed though I know they are all intelligent.
You can't create intelligence but you can encourage learning.
When I was in elementary school the kids got 3 recesses each day: one midmorning, what remained of the lunch period, and mid afternoon. I distinctly remember one child with what used to be called hyperactivity (years before the ADHD label became common). But, other than him, there were very few behavior problems. For years now in our local school district, the only recess students get is the few minutes left over after eating lunch. Behavior problems are overwhelming in most classrooms, taking huge chunks of educational time daily. Diagnoses of ADHD are common. Especially for the boys. Can't help but believe that more recess would be beneficial.
I think common sense was lost once teaching to the testing became the norm. There’s no recess during the testing so they don’t provide it during the teaching.
They no longer see kids, they only see themselves. They don’t acknowledge and nurture growing minds and bodies or see them as unique individuals with unique needs, instead they see themselves as an indoctrination tool that forces them all into the round hole. It’s all about them and their agendas, never about the actual kids.
BINGO!!!!
As a former teacher, recess was so necessary and wiggle breaks were too. When the district said no recess, I did it anyways. Kids need gardens and hands on projects and the life skills that make life worthwhile!
Same here! My family was living in Wyoming during my elementary years and three times a day we would put all our cold weather gear on and go out to play. When my oldest was in public school they went down to lunch-only recess in second grade. Second grade!!! The school said they needed the extra time for instruction, yet he would come home with his backpack full of paper snowflakes because he got his work done quickly and had tons of free time. I started homeschooling him the next year.
BACK PACK! BIG RED FLAG! SEE ALL THOSE KIDS WHO'S BONES ARE SHIPPED TO BE GROWING UP LOADED DOWN WITH A WEIGHT HALF THEY'RE OWN SIZE!! IT'S WICKED!!
I'm sorry. I just lost my mind.
My dad grew up on a farm. Rose just before dawn to feed animals, muck stalls, etc. Then went to school and came home for more chores. No hyperactivity then, they burned off the boyhood energy. To me boys are like working dog breeds (Border collies, Austrian sheep dogs, labs, etc) they need a job or they are unhappy and restless. Our move to handheld “entertainment “ seems to exacerbate this restlessness. Kids may balk at having chores but perhaps it will be beneficial in many ways if parents would parent instead of acquiescing to the whining.
Ooh I like the comparison to working dog breeds, that makes a lot of sense!
My youngest son is like a Jack Russell terrier :)
Parents don’t want to parent these days, haven’t for at least 2 decades. Sticking the kid on computer games means the parent knows where the kid is at least and then the parent can sit around on their phone in peace. Or the parents stick the kids in constant after school activities so again, the parents stick doesn’t have to parent. It’s sad. Kids sit still in school all day then play on electronic devices or do more regimented activities after school and in weekends. I’m surprised we don’t see more suicide in young adults honestly.
You nailed it! My husband was a farm kid …. Milking cows 2x a day and all the rest!
Melissa - I had no idea that schools no longer have these three recesses?! I can’t imagine why, or whose idea that was. The purpose of recess is so obvious. I just don’t get the world any more. (I am 68)
Cathleen M … it’s not you or your age … it’s the craziness of the world right now! 😁
All they care about is test results in elementary so they gave us less and less recess time over the years down to 15 min at a certain time and hope it isn't raining... I left teaching 2020 because I just couldn't wear a mask all day and smother a bunch kids too. Since the pay is so low we never depended on it so buhbye. I would not send my kids to public school now because it isn't what it used to be.
Agreed! But what a difference it would make to have UN-jabbed children but especially little boys. My heart weeps for the jab policies inflicted on more than a generation of little boys and girls.
Actually, many parents delay their boys start if they are near the birthdate to start school. They think it works as an advantage , mentally and physically.
Malcolm Gladwell, in his book "Outliers, The Story of Success" has a good discussion on the value of kids being the oldest ones in their grades.
My daughter has a Sep birthday. I held her back. No regrets. Even for a girl, I wanted her to be the oldest. There are too many mean girls. We went to private Christian school and homeschooled
Yep! Both our boys did not start school (kindergarten) until they turned 6 due to their summer birthdays and advice from the kindergarten teacher at the Christian school we sent them to. Definitely helped them socially but both boys were very smart so also a little bored at times. This triggered one female teacher (who disliked boys who could not sit still in class) and her favorite label was ADD/ADHD. Our boys were never tested nor were all that problematic and we told the teacher she was wrong and that we were not going to go down that path unless we had no other options. I would have homeschooled had it come to that point!
Actually they delay because of sports. They also "hold" them back a year
It worked with my son. He is getting his PHD next month.
Multiple studies have been done and many teachers have self studied that a minimum 10 minute break is needed every hour. For adults, too.
My brother repeated 2nd grade. It was good for him.
Oh, goodness. Even if you BEG for a repeat year, many school districts will not permit it because it reflects badly on them.
This was a long time ago, but still think my mom had to do a little convincing. (Early 60’s). I’ll ask her, I’m curious.
And discipline in the classroom … yep I’m from a time long ago! 😄
My children attended an elementary school with such STOOPID rules... they could NOT use the swings or play ball before school!!! Their playing field was attached to the public park, thus it appeared to have a huge grass field, however the children could NOT run on before class! STOOPID, STOOPID, STOOPID! If I'd been a teacher, I would have pleaded for my kids to run, swing, play for a good 20 minutes before bringing them into my classroom.... The ADHD issue would have been minimized...
I’ve noticed in recent years that whenever someone I know is defending their lack of organization, extreme procrastination, etc. - they now always throw out the excuse, “I have ADHD”; when, in my opinion, they’re simply lacking self-discipline.
As a high school special education teacher, this!! I sit in many IEP meetings where I think "you don't have a disability, you haven't learned self discipline and we're sitting here setting you up for further failure by placating it."
Alyssa, too bad you can’t say it out loud! It’s what they need to hear.
There's a few of us who tread lightly but try to say that in professional ways. It's greatly depends on the family and others teachers involved.
I say that out loud. Drugs aren’t needed. There are so many tools these days.
Yes! Two of my five children have 504 plans and I could get more of them if I wanted. One of my children had a 504 for what I could see was only social anxiety in grade 3 … the diagnosis shifted as the years went by and the school kept the 504 in place although my child outgrew her original troubles. I have not argued as this girl cycles through the problems and i appreciate the support from school. She is a junior so … seven years of cycling “disabilities”, currently anxiety/depression. In my day we just trudged along without a crowd of hovering adults discussing us and refining “plans”. This history of hers will culminate in extra time to take college entrance exams… I do not mind this little advantage for her but I see it for what it is.
Yes! This I definitely understand (and don't blame you for). I have many families say exactly that. The student definitely struggled and needed supports in elementary school but by the time they get to high school, they have learned and grown. Maybe parents so say they could let the services go but it's so hard to get been if needed, plus college. I appreciate their honesty and would probably be the save way with my child. What bothers me most she the parents who insist their child still needs every accommodations under the sun and the F for missing assignments are the schools fault.
Yes! A lot of parents wield clinical diagnosis to exempt their children from accountability. This can never be right. Moms who show up at the school to demand things because their kids missed classes, every excuse under the sun. My husband and I do our best to keep our expectations and standards high for our children in spite of their struggles and disabilities (if you can call them that? Anxiety and depression are not static, they come and go and can be largely managed with “strategies”. I resent setting them on the same level as a child in a wheelchair! I struggle with how we treat me Tal illness in general … therapy therapy therapy and pills to make the pain go away!
Yes, thank you for your opinion. I'm one of those ppl and I think that ppl who are well organized are simply boring.
I hope you have the opportunity to have a good friend who struggles to be organized and they will also overlook your shortcomings without judging.
Thanks for your response. I have been diagnosed with Adult ADD. I don't take pharmaceuticals but use "neutraceuticals" (supplements and herbs) to help with the symptoms. The diagnosis helped make sense of so much in my life and why I was in the gifted program in junior high but struggled with Algebra and Geometry in high school. I used to think I was broken.
I'm a very disciplined person most of the time but I've had to create systems for myself in order to function in a "neuro normative" world. I color code spread sheets, have a "Now Where Did I Put That?" notebook by the front door to jot down where I put things so I don't waste time hunting for something I've moved. My sunglasses, keys, and earbuds are always put in the same place. People who have normal brains can't wrap their heads around why I'm so easily distracted or start something but have difficulty finishing. Like it has taken me 5 years to write my first book, but yesterday I finished the final chapter. I've ceased trying to explain to those who see people like me as lazy, crazy or stupid. I'm none of those. I have a special super power called hyperfocus, and when I engage it, I can accomplish more in a few hours than a normal person can in a day.
This is me. I have a hyper focused gift, but … I’m also hyper sensitive. I learned that we are the only country that criticizes those who are super sensitive and call it “oversensitive”, making it a big negative and degrading them as having an undesirable quality. Your sensitivity is suppressed. Yet other cultures in the world highly value those with the most hypersensitivity, to a reverent degree. They are nurtured, supported, lifted up, and sought after for the highest positions of respect. Only America makes it a negative. We have destroyed the giftedness among us and instead elevated the narcissists and conformists - who hate the gifted.
I was what used to be called ‘scatter brained’ yet my bosses called it the ability to multitask. I kept 14 people happy in my days as a secretary.
I raised 3 sons who were all called ADHD by their teachers. I adamantly refused to medicate them because I had 3 big brothers and knew what boys needed more than their teachers. Their teachers wanted sedate little automatrons, not rowdy boys. We all survived and my sons are successful happy adults.
I would love to know what neutraceuticals you use!
Here are some I've found helpful for ADHD but not super long lasting: Alpha GPC taken with Uridine, Huperzine A, Mucuna Pruriens extract with Ashwagandha.
Maybe this will help someone but I would love to know yours
Magnesium Threonate, High Omega-3 Salmon Oil gel caps, Ashwagandha (anti-anxiety). I also take Valerian, 10 MG Melatonin, and Calm (magnesium citrate) at night. Valerian helps with "racing thoughts" that can have a tendency to keep people with ADD awake.
Magnesium Glycinate I take at night. Relaxes muscles & body. Plus 10mg of melatonin.
Also take Ashwagandha morn & night.
Have used Alpha GPC but not sure I could tell any difference. (For sharpness)
Thanks! Do you have a brand of high omega 3 salmon oil you recommend?
Have you tried St. John’s wart? Curious if you noticed improvement.
I gave hyperzine, dried mucuna pruriens and ashwagunda to my severely troubled husband who had Lewy Body dementia and it helped him be calm and able to communicate and think again. He had been a super athletic exerciser so there were no early warning physical signs.
😞 I'm sorry for that trial for you. You were obviously a grand wife. Thanks for sharing.
This is me. I do so much better and get so much more done with a regimented life.
These days I don’t have the luxury and it feels like chaos to not have consistency. & structure. 😵💫
We used to call that marching to a different drum. Now we have to create diseases to sell drugs. Ask your doctor if "shortcomings syndrome" is right for you.
Being hyper organized can also be a curse 🤣. aka perfectionism. We all have our quirks.
I used to tell my co-workers, messy desk, organized mind.😆 I always could find whatever someone was asking for on my desk and they’d always say, I have no idea how you did that. However, when a report was completed, it was always tidily put away in its folder, all the parts with tabs labeled and perfectly lined up. I have my OCD moments, too.
I’m very organized and have an entry hall sign that explains “Organized people are just too lazy to look for things” 🤣
I’m very organized and have an entry hall sign that explains “Organized people are just too lazy to look for things” 🤣🤦♀️
I hope you did notice she said EXTREME procrastination.
It's not procrastinating if you ever get it done or die first. 😑 Just because you like to jump in and do something you want to or are familiar with doesn't mean that you don't ever delay doing what you don't know or don't see a need for.
I think we have to peel the onion back 60-70 years because many of us, who heretofore have trusted our medical entities, have been jabbed up continually throughout our lives, including yearly flu shots & the “schedule” for older adults like shingles etc. ADHD is surely a result of the many stealth poisons.
I agree, I think it’s likely a mix of not learning self discipline and the interventions kids have been subjected to 😕
Perfectly said!
I agree, almost everyone seems to have ADHD or anxiety or something nowadays 😕
Everyone has COVID anxiety in some way! I didn't even get shot and most of my family didn't but still...
I use that excuse all the time
On target 🎯 !
Do you also tell depressed people to cheer up?
Stacy - of course not. I’ve suffered from depression myself. My point was that ADHD is overused as an excuse for many things in recent years.
I think you are correct that it is overused but also think it is a real issue for some people. Likely a combination of environmental factors to blame.
LOL!!!! One of my grandchildren was a disruptive little shit at school. They advised my daughter to have him put on Ritalin. She said no, and took him off all food with artificial dyes. He was still a little shit, but he made it through and today he's an amazingly astute adult.
Smart and courageous mom! Please give her an extra hug the next time you see her from me! So proud of any young mom who will stand up for what she knows is best for her child.
Thank you, MM, I will tell her.
Probably a very intelligent person too
God bless your daughter and grandson and YOU for parenting her to be that mom. Kudos to all of you!
Are you saying that removing the artificial dyes didn't change anything but he made it through or that it did help?
I’m of an age when if the boys couldn’t sit still in class the nuns sent them outside to run a few laps. It worked better than drugs!
Get out that extra God-given energy.
When my son was in 3rd grade at a private Christian school, his teacher had 5 boys of her own. One of the other 3rd grade teachers was constantly taking recess time away for bad behavior. My son’s teacher was giving her class extra recess time. I told her one day that you can tell which teachers have the most boys of their own and I thanked her.
“If a child known for his sense of humor seems ‘less funny’ on medication, it could be that the medication is properly inhibiting them.”
We can't have kids developing or expanding a sense of humor! They'll never grow into the Democratic party at that rate. Drug 'em.
I’m sure one of my Dad’s contemporaries had ADHD. I remember him as a guy who could see a problem, figure out how to remedy it, and GET IT DONE! it was fun to help and watch the process.
👍 get er done
I used to buy Ritalin from hyperactive kids in the 70s as a teenager, since it acted like speed on me.
Agreed. If you were good at multi tasking you became a successful entrepreneur.
True! One of my Brothers dealt with that.
No drugs, just a handful. Actually all 6 were.
Class clowns get no repect.
That was my kid! "Disruptive" funny little unvaccinated guy. Went to pick him up one day. Found him sitting in a cubicle, in a corner of the room. His teacher had separated him from the rest of the children...
This was 2nd grade. (I was so mad at his fat unpleasant teacher who had terrible breath and a mustache.)
So she aka "someone" wanted to have him "tested". I flatly refused.
I feared that if the label they wanted to place on him "fit"? Drugs would be suggested next. (Me: Hard NO.)
He'd also carry that label his entire life.
He grew out of "it"...
I was a class clown. When I got everyone laughing, I kept a straight face. I was a teacher. Teachers are conditioned to be authoritarian. There is the rub
Learning can be fun. Not taught to teachers.
I had 2 great teachers. Those were enjoyable years.
Thanks Joseph.
Too bad you let him remain in that monster's class.
Not many options. I was a single working parent with no vehicle. His very small school had 1 class for each Grade.
I chose that tiny school because it was only 2 blocks from home Joanie, and I also worked not far from where we lived so yeah. I walked him to school, walked to work, and he was in after school care until I picked him up and we walked home.
I did the best that I could for my boy without any financial assistance from the other half of his gene pool.
We moved from The City to a small town where most of my family lives the following year.
For stability.
(Fyi: That teacher? Received a strong piece of my mind. As did the school principal. She lightened up on my son after that.)
"Too bad" you shoot people before knowing all the facts Joanie.
Bet you're a hoot in real life too... 😉
You did well. Ignore that comment. Sounds like the teacher.
Lol!
I think I know Joanie from previous comments. She complains about her husband a lot... 😉
I got thrown out of class so many times in 3rd grade that the Principal just put a chair in his office and said " when you're thrown out just come here and sit down"
They also gave me a Rorschach Test (circa 5th grade) . I had a fun time telling them that I was sure that they were hoping I would see something gruesome happening to my mother . 🙂
note: I have corrected my spelling of Principal ....... and have now punished myself by writing it 100 times on the wall .
Good principal.
Yes! Or a normal boy. My experience has been it is the schools who push these drugs. When I asked to have my son in a study hall with a teacher he could ask for help on homework if he had a question, the answer I was given was drugs and an IEP. Seriously? So I asked his doctor to give him a “diagnosis” of ADHD, just to get him into the study hall and access to math help. The doctor said, but he doesn’t have that…this is dumb. Yes, it is. I recall a time when kids were sent to the learning center when they needed extra help. I don’t believe any medical diagnosis was required, they just were below proficient in a subject. But that came with a STIGMA. New can’t have that.
Very harmful to kids and stunts development
Yeah, that’s why we said no to the drugs. Homework help, good; drugs, bad.
Big money in Special Ed. They need to find victims for the number of Special Ed. teachers
Eliminating the Dept of Ed is a good thing.
Pretty sure I would have "had" it.
It was ADD. Then ADHA. First kids, then pop culture, (i.e. the 2000s band Ritalin Kids), then adults… Adult ADHA. Progression! Pharma marketing at its finest.
Imagine how it is for kids now with phones 😣
Yup. Incorrigible brat.
The norm. We somehow turned out ok🙂
I was teaching in a junior high in the early 80’s and one boy was taking something for ADHD. He was a handful to put it mildly. Once he got in a fight in my art classroom. Great, just great.
I had 28 kids in an elective class, five were ‘resource’ room kids. Kids move around in an art class.
In the resource room there were only 5-7 kids total and the teacher had an aid, and I had 5 in my class?
The good news, only one in the whole school at that time took drugs, bad news is today, how many kids? I can’t imagine.
My daughter was called out in kindergarten for being too antsy. I simply told the teacher I would change her diet. But yes, they were recommending Ritalin to kindergartners back in the early 80’s. I told her she could have been an inch shorter If I hadn’t dodged that bullet!
And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and touch some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the doorway of his house until morning. And Yahweh will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.
— Exodus 12:22-23
Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, also was sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
— 1 Corinthians 5:7-8
(LSB)
This week just leaves me in tears😢but then I remember Sunday is coming.✝️💟
You have connected these two verses wonderfully.
And what an object lesson with the Passover. The family took the lamb into their homes for a week and cared for the lamb and at the end of the week, they had to slaughter the lamb which on the first Passover was a sign for the Angel of Death to "pass over" their home. Sacrifice hurts. Sacrifice costs.
2 Samuel 24:18 However, the king (David) said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. 25 David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
"And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin"
Follow the science.
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” said.
YES!! And, therefore, no government should giving a single cent to any private university. There - problem solved!
Don't give them money and tax the earnings of the $50B in their endowment fund.
"Private universities" shouldn't receive public funding, period.
Hillsdale and Grove City do not and are still thriving.
Thankfully, there are a lot of staffers working in Washington from Hillsdale.
So I’ve heard! It’s a great college. Kat Timpf is a graduate.
It's insane. Especially very expensive ones. How can this be justified at all?
And on top of the funding by taxpayers, universities charge enormous percentages for “indirects” on grants meant for scientific research. Harvard charges somewhere around 69%, Pitt charges 50%. All that money goes to the administration. What a waste.
Exactly! If you are receiving government (*taxpayer) money, how are you then considered "private"?? The twisting of words by these totalitarians can only bring me back to 2+2=5, and I believe it.
* edit: it isn't the government's money, it is the taxpayer's money
Possibly they only get federal money and not state also. No university should be getting any of the taxpayers money.
100%. I cannot find in the Constitution where it authorizes Congress to fund universities... they just make it up to fit the agenda and to fleece the taxpayer.
Exactly.
Regarding Alzheimer's, my wife is deep into its throes so I follow research. It is interesting that President Trump is on ezetimibe for cholesterol. Ezetimibe is a cheap ($10/mo) generic medication but only about 5% of patients treated for high cholesterol are on it. What is interesting is that this cheap generic was recently found to decrease dementia risk by more than 7 fold (UAMS, Aging Biol 2024: https://doi.org/10.59368/agingbio.20240028). I think Trump's doc understands it potential.
The thing about cholesterol is that our brain is made up of the stuff. I question whether taking meds to reduce it is part of the problem with brain diseases. I'm not a doctor, I don't play one on tv, it's just my thoughts.
It’s actually been stated that our dedication to continually lowering cholesterol IS contributing to dementia since our brain needs it and actually makes MORE as we age. I’m hoping the Great Cholesterol Con gets blown to smithereens with the Vax Hoax. A great book, by the way, The Great Cholesterol Con. Easy to understand and written by a cardiologist.
It's more complicated. Ezetimibe decreases the LDL (bad cholesterol) not the good HDL cholesterol but that is not its proposed mechanism of action in dementia. Rather, the mechanism of action seems to be in unlinking or preventing a bond between two proteins that when linked, are associated with increased risk of dementia. It's a complicated study to digest for the layman.
It’s actually been stated that our dedication to continually lowering cholesterol IS contributing to dementia since our brain needs it and actually makes MORE as we age. I’m hoping the Great Cholesterol Con gets blown to smithereens with the Vax Hoax. A great book, by the way, The Great Cholesterol Con. Easy to understand and written by a cardiologist.
I agree … all the medical stuff I choose to read is anti cholesterol meds for the very reason that your brain requires a lot of cholesterol regularly to function properly! I did take statins briefly and once I gathered enough info, I weaned myself off the med and have no regrets!
I could not get my doctor to RX Ezetimibe unless I agreed to try statin first (I have tried and get muscle aches). So I refused to do anything. Makes me mad because wouldn't Ezetimibe be better than nothing? I also have dementia in my family. Thanks for posting this.
It seems that alldaychemist.com has it:
https://www.alldaychemist.com/ezedoc-10mg.html
As for dosing, I would do whatever research you deem appropriate.
They were my go-to for . . . off-label meds during "the pestilence."
Ironic that I was more comfortable giving my bank info to a website in India than listening to "doctors," but I never had a problem with them.
I was nervous at first~but “desperate times call for desperate measures.” I wanted Ivermectin. I’ve ordered many times from alldaychemist since 2021 and always been a clear & professional experience. They take credit cards now too, whereas they didn’t a few years ago.
Have heard of this site but was nervous about the payment situation.
I’ve used this site for years. Never had a problem with payment.
Me, too
Ironic, that I was more nervous about the jibby-jab.
Never had a problem with them regarding identity theft, but as they say, “your mileage may vary.”
"Try" the statin first. (Don't take them...)
See? Not helpful. How about Ezetimibe?
(I don't know how the medical system works though. I'm on zero drugs at age 67, probably because I’ve never had a doctor. 😉)
To top it off she gave my husband ezetimibe, no problem. That was the final straw. She just accepted his word that he didn't tolerate statins. OK I see you lady.
Have you seen any of the YouTube videos of Dr. Aseem Malhotra. Leading cardiologist from UK. He states that statins are basically useless. Very interesting individual, he lost his practice because of going against the clot shot
Yes I have. Not that he claims this per se, but I'm not convinced by the 'cholesterol is actually good for you' arguments either. My Dad died suddenly from a massive stroke (before covid) and that's not something I'd like to duplicate. I had a cardiac scan a few years ago and had minimal plaque so that's a good thing I guess. But I'm genuinely stumped on what to do about my apparently genetically-high cholesterol. Realistically, I'm not going to go solely plant-based with my diet. Red Rice yeast extract is my next strategy, and then I'm going to push harder for Ezetimibe.
Most of our parents ate a lot of seed oils. Avoid seed oils. Eat avocados. Use olive and avocado oil as well as beef tallow. Natural fats are necessary for the body to work properly.
And butter
There are a lot more studies showing the benefits of cholesterol in healing blood vessels and helping brain function. They just don't make the medical journals because "statins".
There is also a "bad" cholesterol - that's valid. But if you're on a "real foods" diet, chances are that your bad cholesterol is pretty low to start.
Also - if you look at the "good" cholesterol range over the years, it's been steadily dropping as statins are more prescribed. I'm sure there's a reason for that, but I can't quite figure out what it could be.... </s>
https://drlwilson.com/Articles/CHOLESTEROL.htm
From this article: "The cholesterol theory of heart disease is very simplistic. It is like saying that duct tape wrapped around a damaged water hose is the cause of the hose damage. More likely, the tape - and the cholesterol - are the result of the damage, not the cause.
In fact, two scientists, Brown and Goldstein, won a Nobel Prize in 1985 for their research into this theory. Cholesterol plaques are often there to protect a damaged artery. After all, a clogged artery is far preferable to a ruptured one. Elevated cholesterol is associated with heart disease, but may not be its cause.
WHAT CAUSES HEART DISEASE?
If cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, what are the causes? Many factors may contribute to cardiovascular disease. A properly performed hair mineral analysis can help identify a number of them. Here are some of the major factors suspected in cardiovascular disease:
1. Dr. Leslie Klevay and others showed that copper deficiency is associated with atherosclerosis. Copper is required for connective tissue synthesis.
2. Zinc deficiency reduces the flexibility of the arteries and causes hardening. It may also cause inflammation of the arterial walls.
3. Magnesium and taurine deficiencies may contribute to high blood pressure and other heart problems.
4. Cadmium toxicity is associated with hardening of the arteries.
5. Elevated homocysteine levels are a factor in heart disease. Homocysteine is an amino acid. Its level can be reduced by increasing the intake of vitamin B6 and folic acid.
6. According to Rath and Pauling’s unified theory of heart disease, the causes are deficiencies of vitamin C and lysine. These are required for collagen synthesis. This theory asserts that high levels of lipoprotein-A, part of LDL cholesterol, is responsible for arterial damage.
7. Other vitamins and minerals are involved. Chromium supplements, for instance, have been shown to lower cholesterol levels. Chromium, manganese and B-complex vitamins may reduce stress by enhancing carbohydrate metabolism.
8. Low thyroid activity is associated with heart disease. Hypothyroidism may have numerous causes, including nutritional deficiencies and toxic metal poisoning.
9. Inflammation and infections are now known to be important in cardiovascular disease. These can include seemingly unrelated locations of infection such as dental infections. These can spread toxins that affect every organ.
10. High blood pressure from any cause is a factor.
11. Smoking, diabetes, obesity, coffee-drinking and a sedentary lifestyle are risk factors.
12. Oxidant damage from refined vegetable oils and other oxidant exposure contributes to vascular disease. This factor may explain why populations that consume more animal fats often have less heart disease. (Animal fats are not as subject to oxidant damage). A hundred years ago in America, people ate far more animal fat and there was far less heart disease.
13. Artificially-hydrogenated fats often contain trans-fatty acids and are found in margarine, dressings, fried foods and many processed foods, may contribute to heart disease.
14. Chlorinated and fluoridated drinking water, and residues of ionic detergents may be a very important factor in heart disease.
15. Drinking homogenized milk may be harmful for the arteries.
16. Adelle Davis in Let’s Get Well noted that “animals and human volunteers that are fed sugar instead of unrefined carbohydrates develop high cholesterol levels”. Unrefined carbohydrates include whole grains.
George … yes and loved watching him and felt he was very reliable!
Have your doc write a script for a statin and ezetimibe (both cheap as hell) and you decide which you will take.
I tried that; she refused. Made me so angry I fired her (I didn't tell her that though, of course). It wasn't like I was asking for a narcotic. It was honestly bizarre. Made me question her judgment overall.
Follow the money.
As a redheaded child of a redheaded mother & father (No stepchild here! 😉) I watched my father's mother and two out of three other sisters slide into dementia; and now my dad's sister just passed very quickly with dementia, in her early 80's--but she had all the Jabs even though she was taking HCQ for arthritis. I begged my aunt & uncle to try ivermectin and sent them several Substacks that discussed alternative treatments. But NO, their Doctor said nothing could be done.
So I decided to start self-medicating with Dr Ardis's EDTA & Foreign Protein Cleanse. As the unJabbed wife of a twice-jabbed, once boosted Navy Veteran who got double his share of shots before he was discharged (back in '69) I have no illusions that I qualify as a "Pureblood". It's time to DETOX!!!
Interesting for sure! i read an article today that talks about using nicotine patches as a shield against altzheimers—-another low cost, minimal-side-effects potential solution to a staggering disease. being studied, hoping RFK, Jr will take note.
Interesting. Do you trust that study?
Very thorough study including its well-researched mechanism of action (blocking a protein bond associated with dementia). It should be getting lots of attention including more observational studies using other health databases. This study used a massive database of 950,00 adults, so robust in its size. Trouble is, it will generate no income for a drug company due to it being a well-established generic.
Same with ivermectin possible helping with cancer. No money in that either for big Pharma.
You have the link to the study. Ask Grok to comment on it and to find deficiencies in the logic applied in the study. In short, we just need more observational studies (look at big health databases and see if the findings hold up; if they do, then send more research dollars to underscore the mechanism of action.
FROM GROK
The study you referenced, published in Aging Biology (Volume 2, 20240028, DOI: 10.59368/agingbio.20240028), appears to be related to research on ezetimibe and its potential effects on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Since I don’t have direct access to the full text of the study beyond the abstract and related information, I’ll evaluate potential issues based on the available data, standard scientific scrutiny, and common pitfalls in similar studies. Here are some possible problems or limitations with the study, critically assessed:
Observational Study Design and Causation:
The study likely relies on observational data (e.g., retrospective cohort analysis), as it mentions a sevenfold reduction in ADRD risk in the general population and eightfold among heart disease patients. Observational studies cannot establish causation, only correlation. Confounding factors—such as lifestyle, socioeconomic status, or other medications—may influence the observed outcomes but might not be fully controlled for. For example, patients on ezetimibe may differ systematically from those who aren’t (e.g., better healthcare access), skewing results.
Selection Bias:
The population studied (e.g., those prescribed ezetimibe) may not represent the broader population. If the study used data from specific healthcare systems or registries, it could exclude underrepresented groups or those without access to such medications, limiting generalizability. Additionally, heart disease patients, who showed an eightfold risk reduction, may have unique characteristics (e.g., higher baseline inflammation) that amplify ezetimibe’s apparent effect, which may not apply universally.
Mechanistic Claims vs. Evidence:
The study suggests ezetimibe reduces protein aggregation, a hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases, based on in silico and preclinical models. However, translating these findings to humans is uncertain. The leap from model systems (e.g., mice or computational simulations) to clinical outcomes risks overstatement if human data only show correlations, not direct evidence of aggregate reduction in the brain. Without biomarkers (e.g., amyloid or tau levels in patients), the mechanistic link remains speculative.
Statistical Power and Effect Size:
A seven- or eightfold reduction in ADRD risk is an unusually large effect size for a single drug, especially one not originally designed for neurological outcomes. Such dramatic results raise red flags about statistical artifacts, like small sample sizes, overfitting, or selective reporting. If the study didn’t adjust for multiple comparisons or used a lenient p-value threshold, the findings might be less robust than claimed. Without access to the full methods, it’s unclear how they handled these risks.
Control Group Comparability:
The study compares ADRD and heart disease patients to age-matched controls, but the abstract doesn’t clarify how controls were selected. If controls weren’t matched for key variables (e.g., cardiovascular risk, genetic predispositions like APOE alleles), differences in aggregate levels or ADRD risk might reflect these mismatches rather than ezetimibe’s effects. Poorly defined controls can exaggerate or mask true effects.
Publication Bias and Novelty:
The study’s focus on an FDA-approved cholesterol drug (ezetimibe) repurposed for ADRD aligns with a trendy narrative in aging research: finding new uses for existing drugs. This can lead to publication bias, where positive or surprising results are more likely to be published than null findings. The claim of a massive risk reduction might be overstated to garner attention, especially in a competitive field like Alzheimer’s research.
Lack of Long-Term Data:
ADRD develops over decades, but ezetimibe’s use in patients might span shorter periods (e.g., years). If the study relied on relatively short-term follow-up, it may overestimate ezetimibe’s protective effects, as longer-term outcomes could differ. For instance, reduced aggregates in the short term might not translate to sustained cognitive benefits.
Conflict of Interest:
While not explicitly stated, many studies on drug repurposing involve ties to pharmaceutical companies or funding sources with vested interests. If the authors received support from ezetimibe’s manufacturer or related entities, this could bias the study’s design or interpretation. Transparency about conflicts is critical but not always fully disclosed in abstracts.
Overreliance on Preclinical Models:
The study cites in silico and preclinical models to support ezetimibe’s anti-aggregation effects. These models often oversimplify human biology—mice don’t develop Alzheimer’s like humans do, and computational models can miss real-world complexities. If the human data are less robust than the preclinical claims, the study’s conclusions might be overstated.
External Validity:
The findings may not apply to diverse populations. For example, if the study was conducted in a specific demographic (e.g., predominantly Western, older adults), genetic, dietary, or environmental differences elsewhere could alter ezetimibe’s effects. ADRD risk factors like APOE alleles also vary by ethnicity, which the study might not fully address.
Caveats
Since I can’t read the full paper, some of these critiques are based on common issues in similar research and the abstract’s framing. The study might address some concerns (e.g., with robust statistical methods or clear control matching) in the full text. Conversely, other issues—like missing data or unaddressed confounders—might only emerge upon closer inspection.
If you’d like, I can dig deeper into related studies or check for critiques of this paper on platforms like PubPeer or X, assuming such discussions exist. Alternatively, if you have specific aspects of the study (e.g., methods, results) you’re curious about, I can tailor my analysis further. What do you think?
And that is why we need a check of other large patient databases (US Veteran Affairs Patient Database (VAPD), United Kingdome Biobank, Chinese National Health Insurance Database, Swedish National Patient Register, among other) for the same phenomenon. This can be done quickly. If it holds true, then shovel research dollars into the mechanism of action and prospective studies.
Great to see, thank you.
Very interesting. Have you seen positive signs of it reversing any dementia symptoms or is it just prevention?
Just learned of the study a couple of months ago so I do not yet know but there is obviously lots of space between prevention and cure. I personally believe that as the hippocampus shrinks, for example, there is no regaining that loss of important brain tissue. It is also a long decline for most and looking back on my wife's changes, it's easy to write off early symptoms as "just aging". We need inexpensive and safe prevention. As for those blaming it all on diet, my grandfather and father (both lived through the depression), died with Alzheimer's disease.
Thanks so much for the info! I will pass this info on so that family on statins might ask their doctor about ezetimibe instead. One has early just aging symptoms.
Thanks for the info Dr. Matt. I’m taking ezetimibe, and your post made me smile. My dad was on it. He died at 88 from COPD, but he was sharp as a tack.
Quite honestly, I do not understand why ANY college or university receives federal funding. Is that not why they charge tuition? If they cannot survive without government (Taxpayer) largesse, they should go out of business.
Hear, hear!
My son was very social in elementary school and he was (still is) also smart. So in second or third grade he’d help others do their work. The teacher came to us and suggested that we put him on Ritalin to calm him down, I guess that was the euphemism for drug him to a stupor.
I said no way in hell. If he’s interacting too much with his neighbors, move his desk away from the others so he can’t see what they’re doing on their papers. They did and problem, if it really was one, solved.
My children are all adults now, but I homeschooled them all and started a homeschooling support group for area homeschoolers. Lots of them homeschooled because their kids, mostly boys, were required to take Ritalin to be in school. I remember one mom telling me that her son (10 or 12) had terrible nightmares on the drug and almost became suicidal. She brought him home to learn and it made a world of difference. She said that sometimes he was "swinging off the chandeliers" but it was better than the alternative. As this article states, it's more a case of a child's learning style not fitting with the environment than some immutable medical condition: https://dnyuz.com/2025/04/13/have-we-been-thinking-about-a-d-h-d-all-wrong/
It's called being a boy vs a girl. Wired differently, and the exuberance and sometimes hyperactive nature of boys was the excuse to drug them into a stupor. Good for you
Because God forbid a child do the work the teacher is supposed to be doing. Teacher probably felt threatened. SMH. Good for you for not caving to the suggestion.
"Your son is making me look bad. Give him drugs."
Bingo…
I’ve shared this story before but I was a city day camp director at 19 and we had a six year old boy who was behaviorally challenging (he was just high energy and highly intelligent and often got ahead of the the other kids or reacted before thinking). His behavior kept getting him in trouble (not with me exactly, but with the counselors) until we had to speak to his mom a few times. She promptly put him on meds. He came back as a shell of his former self. He went from super social to couldn’t play with the other kids anymore. He brought legos to camp and sat in a daze all day playing alone with his legos. At nineteen, with no kids of my own…I was horrified. He needed to be home with his mom and be outdoors and have healthy stimulation from family, friends and nature. But he got drugs that chemically lobotomized him.
I’m so thankful to be homeschooling my five incredible sons - and letting them develop in all their diverse personalities, while helping them learn self-control,hone their skills, and build character. And they play outside for hours every day.
The ADHD diagnosis needs to be reviewed.
Get kids out of government schools, back with their families and cultivated communities, off screens and back outside.
That's an incredibly sad story. My heart goes out to the young man whose life was irretrievably altered.
When will we ever get back to seeing the rules of age in children again?
When I was young, it was understood and taken for granted that boys settled down at a later age than girls. It is just the way God designed us!
The drumbeat to drug our boys to make them calmer like the girls has done great damage. I fought them for 2 years but eventually lost when my son failed to calm down. I regret that I finally allowed the Ritalin.
He died 3 years ago from a drug overdose. I don’t know whether the Ritalin started him on his drug and alcohol abuse or if it was hereditary as I and his mother are in long time recovery from substance abuse. I will probably never know I speak out regularly on the issue with the hope that I can save others from the same fate.
My condolences
Thank you, have a great and blessed day!
I am so sorry for your loss. I pray that you and your family know the comfort and healing of Christ victory over sin and dearh
Thank you, have a great and blessed day!
It's heartbreaking to think a person's potential and happiness and all they were meant to achieve in life was destroyed by quackery and money-loving POS so-called experts. I'm so sorry.
Thank you, hopefully MAHA will change things.
Have a great and blessed day!
So sorry for your loss! Having worked in addictions, I saw a lot of men who were prescribed ADHD meds in their childhood, but surprisingly studies were never done to look for a causal relationship!
Hopefully, RFK Jr will put the pieces together!
Have a great and blessed day!
Andrew, I am so so sorry for your loss of your son.
Thank you for speaking out now and helping other parents facing these battles now.
Thank you!
There’s a saying in the recovery community, “In order to keep it , you have to give it away.” My wife and I live by that and help anyone who needs it.
Have a great and blessed day!
I am so sorry Andrew. May your son rest in the peace of Christ. My condolences.
Thank you for your kind words, have a great and blessed day!
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So sorry for your loss. You are being a blessing to someone by sharing your story of loss and of being overcomers. Blessings to your family.
Thanks, we certainly try our best.
Have a great and blessed day!
❤️🙏
So sorry for your loss.
Thanks for your kind words. Have a blessed day!
So very sorry for your loss. Sadly, your story is not an uncommon one, as we’ve heard Ritalin described as a gateway drug. God be with you both in your continued recovery.
Thank you for your kind words, may you have a great and blessed day.
My grandson has adhd. He is now age 22 and studying for his masters degree at Cambridge. He was given Ritalin when he was in grammar school to slow him down. It was sad to watch an active boy go flat. He has now taken himself off any meds, plays rugby, weightlifts at the gym and rows for Cambridge’s B team (of his college). He is a great young man and has interned with an aerospace co and offered a full time job once he finishes his masters. I fall under the childhood vaxxes are responsible for autism heading. I am willing to listen to other arguments, but at age 74, it is what I witnessed. It is difficult to deny what one sees.
One wonders too, are these boys who they put on ADHD meds just not active enough? Are they in sports? Do they run and play outside when they are home? We never sat around and were always doing things and were ready for bed or listening when at school. We had better diets though too. Rarely any junk food…
I've posted this elsewhere about dementia...are researchers looking at the wrong 'cause"...
Would be interesting to find out the role of Cholesterol (myelin sheath) and how that interacts/reacts whatever with amyloid.
OH look at this
1) We know that Cholesterol is needed to support the myelin sheath.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15793579/
And damage to the Myelin sheath is higher in those with dementia.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06120-6
IS IT TIME TO start looking at how bad LOWERING cholesterol is and how it contributes to dementia?
I have gotten several people Off statins the last few years
* not a doctor
Me too, because I was one of them. Both BP and cholesterol reducing poisons. BP normal and cholesterol 'normal' back four plus years ago. Out of curiosity, I should get a new blood panel, just to see what they are currently.
If someone is on statins, is it ok to stop cold turkey?
Yes. Completely safe to stop this one cold Turkey. I have heard that unless your cholesterol is over 450 there is no concern about “high” as a matter of fact they continue to lower the level to put more people on it.
After talking about the latest research regarding the ineffectiveness of statins my doctor agreed that I no longer needed to take them. Done that day
I am not a doctor, but I just gradually stopped taking them while my doc was actually working to get me off of both meds. I stopped a year before I got my most current results (Jan 2021) that both were in the 'normal' range, so when he said that I could stop, I had already on my own stopped them. I still take Niacin for the 'good' cholesterol, but that is just a B vitamin anyway.
My husband took a statin for 10 years after his widowmaker, at which point his short-term memory and cognitive functioning were so bad that I was ready to put him in a home. After an MRA and an MRI the neurologist said his brain was fine and that the statins were causing brain fog, which I believe is the term for statin induced dementia. Anyhow, he stopped the statins 9 years ago, has had no new heart issues and most of his brain function returned. Knowing how cholesterol is essential for synapses in the brain, I can’t believe doctors prescribe this med like candy. By the way, the gene that metabolizes the various statins my husband was on, have reduced enzyme function, meaning the med was most likely not being fully metabolized. And for the medical people that are confused why fertility rates are down, they might look at statins as the cause since cholesterol is needed to make testosterone and estrogen as well as other hormones like cortisol. Doctors need to familiarize themselves with medical research and pharmacogenomics and quit relying on the standards of care list of medications for various diagnoses.
Dr Naomi Wolf did a piece a couple years ago on how the vax was degrading the myelin sheath and causing all kinds of brain problems.
When I heard lipid nanoparticles I realized it would cross blood brain barrier
Yeah prion disease too probably
I have been saying the same thing!!
I was talked into getting on statins about 7-8 years ago, and stayed on them for 4 years. I regret getting on them, even though I had no noticeable side effects.
Does anyone know if statins can be damaging, even if only on them for a few years? My memory isn’t as good as it once was, but then again, I am 68.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/cholesterol/new-findings-on-statin-memory-loss-link
I hope “Tax Day” becomes a footnote in history.
We need to get Congress to move tax day from April 15 to April 1.
We _really_ need Congress to do away with Federal withholding. You want people to really get ticked off ... have them write that check out of their own account instead of having it kept back little by little every paycheck. :)
I set aside money & wrote the lump sum check rather than withhold. Guess what? They charge a “penalty” fee to do so, and it increased $100 each year for mine. So I was forced to have it withheld to avoid paying the government pirates even more😡 They want my money sitting in their accounts not mine.
🤯 that is maddening!