In the show Apple Cider Vinegar, the writers create a binary: the good and all-knowing doctors vs the charlatan nutrition gurus. The gap is so wide between the two approaches that the reader is left thinking that in cancer, as in all things medical, doctors always have your best interest in mind and if they thought you should change your diet they'll tell you. Doctors are not trained in nutrition and are taught to view your body through numerical measurements that, if abnormal, can be "fixed" with drugs or procedures. We will talk about why diet is so important and why doctors fear talking about it.

Whether it is in attacking Kennedy, or in refusing to acknowledge what is dysfunctional about Medicare, Democrats use us vs them binary thinking to defend the medical system. By finding easy targets that seem inane, or by inventing those targets by twisting the truth, the defenders of our horrific medical system prop themselves up by posing as the reasonable ones. David Frum in the Atlantic did just that in his piece "Why the COVID deniers won." The very title presents a binary: we are the COVID accepters, those are the COVID deniers. What is a COVID denier? To Frum, its anyone who disputed the gospel of Anthony Fauci or who questioned the need to take an experimental vaccine. Frum defines science as listening to the "experts." In fact, the science he uses in his article is absolutely absurd and unsubstantiated, and the experts he points to are the very people who lied to us, bullied us, censored us, profited from COVID, and turned their back on scientific discourse. He admits, for instance, that closing schools was a mistake, but at the same time discredits the many scientists who from the start said just that. He notes that COVID was not dangerous to the young, but labels anyone as anti-scientific and dangerous--even those very young people--who didn't want to take the COVID vaccine or who denies that COVID was a severe universal threat. He presents no nuance about the vaccine, never brings up that government databases have shown it to be the most dangerous vaccine in history, and that not a single study has demonstrated that it had or has any public health benefit. His notion of science--do what my self-selected experts say and censor everyone else--and his "facts" about COVID--all of which have been debunked--push him down a road that props up the very people who stood in the way of a scientific and humanistic path through COVID, leading us to the worst outcomes in the world. That's COVID denialism: questioning bad science, dangerous mandates, poor policies, and censorship? As we will see in this and the next podcast, by erasing the common-sense middle ground, and by positing every medical issue as an us vs them binary, the system stays afloat, even as it continues to harm those who it tricks into submission.

We all believe that cholesterol is so bad that we better measure it regularly and lower it by drugs. Just ask your cardiologist: Got to get that LDL cholesterol below 70 or catastrophe will ensue! But as we explain, this is a myth that germinated back in the 1950's and has been perpetuated and normalized over time. Virtually all doctors believe in this myth and preach it to you. The facts are far different. Measuring and lowering cholesterol does not help prevent heart attacks or allow you to live a day longer; in fact, it is both deceptive and dangerous. And going on a low-fat died is medically insane and causes significant inflammation in the body that actually promotes diabetes and heart attacks. This podcast will take you through the history and science and help you to protect yourself from this prevailing myth and become smarter than your doctor.