Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Women are more likely to survive a heart attack if they are accompanied to the hospital by a man
One for the feminists. At the risk of enraging feminists, I might point out that a woman with a man by her might actually be healthier and thus require less attention. Why would a woman with a man in her life be healthier? I am afraid good looks and good health are correlated. Work it out from there. Life isn't fair
It is a sad thing to admit – and no doubt what we’re about to say will be a shock to many – but as cardiologists with decades of experience, our advice to women is this: if you think you’re having a heart attack, take a man with you to the hospital. It may just save your life.
Research shows that women’s symptoms are often not taken seriously by emergency medics, but if there’s a man around to advocate the patient is less likely to be dismissed.
Even in our brilliant NHS, which has some of the most cutting-edge treatment available in the world, evidence shows women are much more likely to die from heart problems than men. We are 50 per cent more likely to be wrongly diagnosed – which can be fatal – and less likely to be treated promptly.
Women are 34 per cent less likely than men to get an angiogram – a type of X-ray used to diagnose a heart attack – within 72 hours of their symptoms starting. We’re also three per cent less likely to receive timely procedures using drugs or stents to restore blood flow. In fact, the British Heart Foundation (BHF) calculates that 8,243 women’s lives were lost in England and Wales between 2002 and 2013 because they didn’t receive the same standard of care as men.
The outcomes for women having heart operations – such as valve replacements and transplants – are also worse, largely because the procedures were developed for, and trialled on, men. Even after being discharged from hospital after successful treatment, women are less likely to be given the drugs recommended to prevent further heart attacks.
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MEGHAN MCCAIN: Mr. President - when will you realize that your nepo-baby scumbag son doesn't deserve to be an honored guest at the People's White House? You're spitting in the faces of Americans who pay taxes and earn an honest living
I couldn't have put it better myself
America's disgraced First Son was once again thrust into the center of White House festivities on Thursday night, dressed in a flashy tuxedo and hobnobbing with the most powerful people in the world at a state dinner in honor of India's prime minister.
In attendance were celebrities, powerful politicians, global leaders and – most pertinently – Attorney General Merrick Garland, who leads the Justice Department that just handed Hunter no more than a pathetic slap on the wrist for tax and gun crimes.
That's right, buried amid tragic news about the Titanic Five, it emerged that – following an arduous five-year investigation – the President's only surviving son cut a deal with prosecutors.
If he pleads guilty to two misdemeanors for 'failure to pay taxes,' as well as, lying on a firearm transaction record, he'll likely avoid jail time.
This is a man who appears to have concealed millions in income through tax dodging.
Who proudly brandished a gun on camera, as he snorted and smoked all manner of drugs alongside a coterie of prostitutes.
Whose lover - his dead brother Beau's widow – dumped his weapon in a grocery store trash can across from a school in 2018, only for the Secret Service to swoop in and seemingly launch a cover-up.
Top legal experts have since slammed the sweetheart deal as an aberration of justice.
So, you'll forgive me for saying it how it is: we're dealing with an elitist scumbag, the ultimate product of nepotism.
Yet according to our president, Hunter's a good boy worthy of representing the United States.
Enough! Hunter doesn't deserve the privilege.
Of course, I know what's going to be said: Hunter is an addict, and his father is protecting him as any parent would.
'I'm very proud of my son,' Joe repeatedly mumbles like a broken record. Would he please shut up with that nonsense! No one buys it.
What makes me truly sick to my stomach is that his father – our President and the leader of the free world – doesn't express one ounce of shame for his son's behavior.
This 53-year-old man won't even apparently allow his own daughter, Navy Roberts, the right to take his last name, for God's sake.
President Biden and the First Lady refuse to even acknowledge the four-year-old child, the offspring of a relationship - that Hunter claims he can't remember - with a former Washington DC exotic dancer.
This week, Hunter won a fight in court to slash his monthly child support payments to Navy's mother. The cruelty from the First Family is hard to fathom.
We have also now learned that Hunter was allegedly tossed out of a LA-based sex club, where members pay as much as $75,000 to join. 'Hunter was a member of SNCTM and I cancelled his membership after 1 party because he's a scumbag,' wrote the orgy club's founder in a since deleted post.
But, for Hunter – it's always bygones. Until this time.
We now have very good reason to believe Hunter's latest follies involve something far worse.
On Thursday, the Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee released new testimony from whistleblower Gary Shapley, a 14-year veteran of IRS and another anonymous agency source. It is potentially damning.
Shapley was tapped to oversee Hunter's IRS probe. He previously alleged that the Justice Department's Tax Division and the Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office 'provided preferential treatment' toward Hunter and intentionally 'slow-walked' the investigation, which took a whopping 5 years to complete.
The first question is: why so long?
According to Shapley, the snail's pace allowed the statute of limitations on several potential charges to expire, purportedly allowing Hunter to skate on his failure to pay $400,000 in taxes on income from 2014 and 2015.
Now, Shapley's newly-released testimony alleges government investigators were blocked from pursuing a search warrant of Joe Biden's guest house, where Hunter once lived, and they were obstructed from pursuing leads that led to Hunter's adult children.
The allegations go on and on, but maybe the most shocking evidence, if true, is a WhatsApp message that Shapley says the government obtained showing Hunter seeming telling a powerful Chinese businessman and Communist Party official to pay up, or else he'll tell daddy.
'I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,' Hunter Biden reportedly wrote to Henry Zhao.
'I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.'
As of Friday, Hunter's lawyer wasn't denying the message's authenticity.
'Any verifiable words or actions of my client in the midst of a horrible addiction are solely his own and have no connection to anyone in his family,' attorney Christopher Clark said in a statement on Friday.
Here we go again. Nothing Hunter did or said during his addiction can be taken seriously, according to his defenders.
Yes, they can.
Joe has long claimed that he wasn't aware of Hunter's overseas dealings. He has said that he was oblivious to the fact that Hunter was raking in millions from a shady Ukrainian energy firm, called Burisma.
But now, the Biden administration appears to be hedging on that. 'As we have said many times before, the President was not in business with his son,' the White House said Friday.
Notice the subtle switch here?
No longer are they claiming that President Biden was unaware of Hunter's behavior. Now they're saying that father and son weren't 'in business' together.
At what point should any of this give the American media pause? At what point will they refuse to accept President Biden's claim that he's simply 'proud' of his son?
Keep in mind, Hunter is still trading on his family name.
He's selling artwork to anonymous buyers for hundreds of thousands of dollars. And we all know the only reason that he can command those prices is because his dad is president.
But there's Hunter - slapping backs at the White House, sitting a few tables away from the attorney general, jetting off to Ireland on an official trip with pops, and showing up at numerous White House events.
A White House state dinner is not a family BBQ - it is a reflection of our nation. And Thursday night's image screamed: in America, as long as you're rich and powerful, anything goes.
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Politicized Science Can Be Dangerous to Your Health
The Lancet was once a leading British medical journal. It was sober and medically exacting. It was so respected that it was often cited to settle controversial issues in the field of medicine.
Today, it is a shell of its former self, shot through with leftist political ideology. A recent editorial called out the UK Home Secretary for her “appalling and shocking“ comments.
Was it about a drop in research funding or disputed medical opinions or something else of direct relevance to medicine? No, the Secretary opined that new migrants to the UK possessed “values which are at odds with our country“ and brought “heightened levels of criminality“.
Some might dispute such statements and some not, but how is this discussion pertinent for a medical journal? Richard Horton, the editor, went on to call for “war“ on the other side of the ideological divide.
Horton and The Lancet are hardly alone in degrading medicine by politicizing it. Science and scientists are in reputational decline because, well, they deserve to be.
Physicians were once respected for their integrity. They could be stodgy and paternalistic sometimes, but they couldn’t be influenced or bought.
Now the medical doctors have morphed from being dedicated stewards of their patients’ health to “medical providers”, as government payers describe them. Most owe their professional loyalty to a hospital-based system that operates pretty much like any other business, with the bottom line always in view.
Meanwhile, on issues ranging from Covid to climate science to transgenderism we are urged to follow “the Science” as if Science were the collective pronouncements of the big shots rather than a process for rolling back the limits of knowledge. “The Science” is often determined by hacks who are especially successful at scoring research grants because they supply the answers our grant making elites want to hear.
Politicized science can lead to some bizarre and harmful conclusions. There is now a movement against randomized controlled trials (RCTs) because they didn’t produce the approved answer to the question of whether face masks prevent infection.
Scientific American stated “decades of engineering and occupational science” show they worked. So there. No silly trials needed to confirm what everyone knows anyway.
But RCTs are the only way to determine whether a premise is factual. They are the basis of the scientific method, which lifted us out of millennia of ignorance and produced the marvels of modern medicine. Exposing well regarded but ineffective practices are precisely why they are needed.
While real scientists encourage debate and discovery, pseudoscientists silence those who dissent from the status quo. For example, scientific journals demanded the retraction of research producing evidence that transgenderism can be a social contagion.
Dr. Lisa Littman of Brown University coined the term “rapid onset gender dysphoria“ after her research revealed that although sufferers from the malady are customarily entered into transitioning protocols including hormones and surgery, they often present for treatment in clusters of young women who together discovered their supposedly mistaken gender identity. Dr. Littman’s research was retracted by Brown soon after it was published, due to the outrage of the medical mob.
Yet other researchers like Abigail Shrier and institutions like the UK’s Tavistockstock Center noted the same phenomenon. Springer Nature, a journal noted for its scientific soundness, was set to publish a review of 1655 possible cases of rapid onset gender dysphoria but reversed course, deciding to retract it due to the suspiciously flimsy objection that “written informed consent” was possibly lacking in the study. Intellectual tyranny defeated open debate again.
We need a respected, honest scientific community more than ever. We need them to make more scientific advances, to train future scientists and to protect us from the befouling influence of politics on science. The antics of Dr. Fauci and others, bending the truth to seek political favor, did lasting damage to the reputation of the scientific community.
Climate science too has been hopelessly compromised by politics and the biased grant-making process. One of the results is an epidemic of existential depression among young Americans who believe their lives will end in devastation because of excessive carbon emissions (still wrong, no matter how many times it’s been predicted). It’s a shame.
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Giorgia Meloni Torches UN's LGBT Agenda, Instead Introduces Policy That Christians Will Celebrate
As the globalist LGBT agenda continues its aggressive campaign to gradually erode religious liberty in the West, Christians might finally have found a champion in one European leader.
That leader is Italy’s conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who, according to Breitbart, recently torched the United Nations for advancing aggressive LGBT causes.
Earlier this week, Victor Madrigal-Borloz addressed the UN Human Rights Council saying that in situations where religious freedom conflicts with LGBT rights, then religious liberty must yield, saying that religious beliefs that come into conflict with the LGBT agenda are “beyond the scope of the right freedom of religion or belief.”
(Madrigal-Borloz is the UN’s “independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity.”)
In essence, the United Nations is saying that the LGBT agenda is more important than the freedom of Christians to practice their religion, a very disturbing statement by any measure..
Fortunately for Christians, Giorgia Meloni is having none of it, and has called out the UN for this blatant threat to religious liberty.
“Religious freedom is not a second-class right,” she said. “It is not a freedom that comes after others or can even be set aside for the benefit of new, so-called freedoms or rights.”
Meloni reiterated: “Religious liberty is a natural right and precedes every juridical formulation because it is written in the heart of man.”
Since her election victory in September of 2022, Giorgia Meloni has become a firebrand for international conservatism and a symbol of hope for many as they try to beat back the leftist globalist agenda.
Meloni made conservative values a cornerstone of her election campaign, and since then she has made good on her promises, showing herself to be someone who is truly willing to fight for Christian values.
One of her main priorities is to stand firm against the LGBT agenda. Perhaps the biggest way she has done this, according to Politico, is by pushing back against the use of surrogacy, or “renting the womb” for same-sex couples to have children.
Meanwhile, instead of going along with the UN’s anti-Christian agenda, Meloni is taking the exact opposite approach by showing a genuine concern for Christians around the world who are persecuted for their faith.
During the same speech in which she decried the UN, she also pledged that the Italian government would give more than ten million Euros in support of persecuted Christians around the world.
In short, Christians not only in the West but around the world finally have a major political leader who is fighting for them.
While other Western nations ignore the plight of persecuted Christians and engage in sinister acts on behalf of the LGBT lobby that threaten religious freedom, Meloni is taking steps to uphold the rights of Christians in Italy.
Meloni almost seems to be trying to turn Italy into Europe’s version of Florida. Like Gov. Ron DeSantis, she has taken real steps to stop the march of the woke agenda and keep the Italian people free.
The West needs more leaders like Meloni, who are willing to stand up for Christian values in the face of attacks from the LGBT movement.
This may be yet another sign that the tide in the culture war is finally shifting.
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