The Truth About Guns

If Only We Could Get ‘Doctors Without Partisans’ to Look at Gun-Related Deaths in America

November 4, 2018 by TTAG Contributor

By MarkPA The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine conducted a workshop in Washington DC (and on-line) on October 17-18, 2018, titled “Health Systems Interventions to Prevent Firearm Injuries and Death”. The workshop was sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and the American Hospital Association. This work, by healthcare systems, could be extremely encouraging. They bring to the … Read more

When Public Health Officials Lie in the Service of Gun Control

September 6, 2018 by TTAG Contributor

By MarkPA While waiting in my doctor’s office I chanced to pick up the November 2017 edition of Smithsonian magazine. As a quasi-governmental entity, this journal speaks with more than a modicum of authority. John M. Barry, the author of “Journal of the Plague Year” writes of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50 … Read more

The Epidemiological Fallacy of Gun Control

May 31, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

By MarkPA Humans are injured and die from gun-shot wounds; and so, doctors lay claim to gun-control as a “public-health” issue. If this were true then it would follow that warfare is likewise a public-health issue about which doctors – and epidemiologists – have special expertise to contribute. Here at DRGO, we reject this assumption. … Read more

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