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Sep 27, 2024 | 
issuesinsights.com | Henry Miller |Jon Entine
Recent Russian clandestine attempts to use “authentic” U.S. media and social media influencers to corrupt elections is hardly surprising, considering its commitment to “launder” propaganda and spread socially divisive messages. Moreover, they “are more sophisticated than in prior election cycles,” according to an official in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
issuesinsights.com | Henry Miller
Editor’s note: Earlier versions of this article were published by Issues & Insights and the American Council on Science and Health. Can we – should we – “celebrate” actions that killed approximately 200,000 people, mostly civilians, in 1945? It’s a complicated question. The Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 was one of the greatest scientific, technological, and logistical achievements in history.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
issuesinsights.com | Henry Miller
Editor’s note: “Dr. Miller reminds us that if Democratic Party leaders had heeded his message when this was published in September 2021, they would have had plenty of time to find a suitable replacement.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
issuesinsights.com | Andrew I. Fillat |Henry Miller
History frequently offers insight into present-day events. Far too often that perspective is ignored either because of a lack of knowledge, the mistaken belief that it has no relevance in today’s world, or discomfort over the challenge that that knowledge presents. The war in Gaza does have an historical precedent, albeit one on a far grander scale.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
issuesinsights.com | Andrew I. Fillat |Henry Miller
The concept of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has been in the ascendancy for nearly a decade. The movement is an outgrowth and expansion of affirmative action, whose intention was to proactively promote opportunity for racial and ethnic minorities that were perceived to be historically disadvantaged.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
acsh.org | Henry Miller
During my lifetime, there have been several seminal breakthroughs in medicine that greatly changed our ability to prevent or treat disease. Part 1, below, describes several of them. I have a good idea of what some of the next ones will be. Several of my personal, idiosyncratic predictions are discussed in Part 2, which will be published next week.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
issuesinsights.com | Henry Miller
The advances in medical practice since World War II have been stunning, and they continue apace. Part 1 discussed some of the existing ones. Part 2 anticipates some that I think are imminent. Antibiotics have been with us for more than a century, but the miracles of the modern antibiotic era are usually considered to date from the availability of highly purified penicillin in the 1940s.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
issuesinsights.com | Henry Miller
During my lifetime, there have been several seminal breakthroughs in medicine that greatly changed our ability to prevent or treat disease. Part 1, below, describes several of them. I have a good idea of what some of the next ones will be. Several of my personal, idiosyncratic predictions are discussed in Part 2, to be published next week. I can still recall the palpable excitement when at the age of 8, I joined scores of other kids to get the Salk polio vaccine shot.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
issuesinsights.com | Andrew I. Fillat |Henry Miller
Not that long ago, the mission of higher education was to educate by teaching students critical reasoning, the skills of open discourse, and a broad context of information to help them understand the world, our country’s values, and the economic and political environment in which we live. So much of that has seemingly been lost to the worship of opinions, biases, and political correctness. To reverse this trend, universities’ financial supporters must rethink their philanthropy.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
issuesinsights.com | Henry Miller
Texas’ political leaders recently have made some inconceivably irresponsible policy decisions. One will cause real public health damage to Texans, while the other simply reflects ignorance and will waste the state’s resources on a frivolous lawsuit. In November, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation that imposes a sweeping ban on COVID-19 vaccine mandates for all private businesses.
