The New Face of Eugenics?

Mike Magee MD Few can possibly be surprised that, in the age of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, “Designer Babies” (among the billionaire tech crowd and their followers) are all the rage. Seven years ago, He Jiankui, a gene editing scientist from China, took three human embryos and used Crispr technology to design in immunity […]

What Is The Best Science Experiment Ever Done?

Mike Magee Allan Franklin PhD, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Colorado, cued up the question above in his acclaimed 2016 book “What Makes a Good Experiment.” He first addressed that question in a 1981 article in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. The general bias at the time was that […]

Resistance Meets Convergence – and Sorkin’s “1929”

Mike Magee This past weekend, over 7 million Americans joyfully and publicly flexed their democratic muscles in a dramatic push back on authoritarianism summed up in two words, “NO KINGS.” Resistance is slowly meeting convergence, as frustration is fueling activism to countermand ICE offenses, federal worker decapitations, soldiers invading our own cities, richy-rich getting […]

Does Action Lead To Hope, or Hope Lead To Action? Lessons from HIV and Beyond.

Mike Magee In this morning’s New York Times, David Leonhardt, editorial director of New York Times Opinion, interviews former Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg on the subject of Rebuilding America. Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, and their two children recently moved from South Bend, Indiana to Chasten’s home town in Traverse, Michigan. Extended family presence played […]

Nobel vs. RFK Jr: No Contest.

Mike Magee With the announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine last week, the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) took an understandable victory lap, stating: “This Nobel Prize demonstrates how immunology is central to medicine and human health. The ability to harness, modulate, or restrain immune responses holds promise across a vast […]

“If Men Were Angels . . .”

On “the problem of liberty and order in constitutional government.” The Federalist – 51st Paper (1788): “But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither internal or external controls on government would be necessary. […]

Are Teledoc Abortions on the 1st Amendment MAGA Hit List?

Mike Magee For those prepared to take a deep breath and relax in the aftermath of the MAGA induced assault on the First Amendment that whipsawed Disney leadership last week as they abandoned and then rescued Jimmy Kimmel, be advised reproductive health access is at the top of the list when it comes to MAGA […]

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