Our guest is Steven Calvin, a maternal-fetal medicine physician who is currently serving on the US HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality (SACIM). Dr.Calvin has 40 years of experience in the field and is the founder and medical director of the Minnesota Birth Center. We have a wide-ranging conversation discussing trends in maternal mortality, COVID and pregnancy, and the role of midwives in the ecology of obstetric care.

GUEST:

Steven Calvin: Bio at the Charlotte Lozier Institute and Minnesota Birth Center

LINKS:

• Studnicki et al. Improving the metrics and data reporting for maternal mortality: A challenge to public health surveillance and effective prevention (published in OJPHI)
• Studnicki and Fisher. Recent increases in the US maternal mortality rates: Disentangling trends from measurement issues (published in Obstretrics & Gynecology)
• Ameya Kulkarni. Maternal Mortality: Separating Signal from Noise (published in The Health Care Blog)

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Our guest is Dr. Amy Doherty who was issued a restraining order from her former employer for allegedly violating a non-compete clause. She received the order a week after opening her new practice in an underserved area.

GUEST:

Amy Doherty: Practice website, FaceBook page, and personal blog

LINKS:

• "Divine Savior suit seeks to stop doctor from opening a Portage practice" (report in the Portage Daily Register)

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• Ep. 80 How to Rollback Bad Healthcare Laws (with Marcelo Hochman)
• Ep. 18 A Doctor Fights Against CON Laws (with Gajendra Sign)

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Our guest is Ian Miller, author of Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates, a detailed chronicle of 24 months of arbitrary, wholly inconsistent, and grossly unscientific mask mandates. 

GUEST:

Iam Miller: Twitter and Substack

LINKS:

• Anish Koka “The COVID Pandemic: Who Dunnit?” (from The Health Care Blog)

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• Ep. 187 That Bangladesh Mask Study! (with guest Ben Recht)
• Ep. 188 Jason Abaluck on the Bangladesh Mask Trial

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Our guest is Ali Mortazavi, CEO of eTherapeutics, a UK-based computational biology company focused on the development of RNA technology. He shares with us his perspective on mRNA vaccines and the application of RNA technology to medicine in general. 

GUEST:

Ali Mortazavi Twitter and company website

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Our guests are University of Chicago Professor Harold Pollack and Robert Graboyes, Senior Fellow at the Mercatus Center discussing the place of conservatives in public health.

GUESTS:

Harold Pollack: Twitter and Website

Robert Graboyes: Twitter and Website

LINKS:

• Harold Pollack: “Why Public Health Experts Aren’t Reaching Conservatives on Covid” (from Politico)
• Robert Graboyes: “Conservatives and Public Health: A Warm Welcome in a Cold Climate” (from Discourse Magazine)

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• Ep. 179. Political Conservatism: Cure to a Failed Health Care Liberalism? (with guest Shawn Whatley)

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David Cayley returns to the show to discuss the the social fractures and "divisions among friends" engendered by the pandemic response. Using the thought of Ivan Illich as a point of departure, we have a wide-ranging conversation on the myths and realities of the role of science in political life.

GUEST:

David Cayley Website

LINKS:

• David Cayley "Concerning Life"
• A conversation on Ivan Illich's Shadow Works (YouTube)

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• Ep. 150 David Cayley on Ivan Illich
• Ep. 159 Terence Kealey on the Myths of Public Funding of Science

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Our guest is Dr. Shamez Ladhani, a pediatric infectious disease specialist with a focus on vaccine-preventable diseases. He also holds a position of epidemiologist at Public Health England and has been among the first to obtain real life data on the effects of the pandemic on children and schools. He joins us to discuss his perspective on what a public health policy based on data, rather than perception and fear, should look like.

GUEST:

Shamez Ladhani: Twitter and ResearchGate profile

LINK:

Shamez Ladhani. "Children and COVID-19 in Schools" Perspective article in Science Magazine, November 2021

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Dr. Accad and Dr. Koka hash out their disagreements on the question of brain death.

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• Ep. 35 Why Brain Dead Isn’t Dead: An Introduction to “Shewmon’s Challenge.” with Alan Shewmon, MD
• Ep. 45 Brain Death at the Bedside with Fred Rincon, MD
• Ep. 145 Diagnosing Brain Death: Clinical and Legal Quagmires with Doyen Nguyen, MD, and Alan Shewmon, MD
• Ep. 196 Taking a Stand Against Brain Death with Paul Byrne, MD, and Christine Zainer, MD

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Our guests are Drs. Paul Byrne a pioneer neonatologist and Dr. Christine Zainer, an anesthesiologist from Wisconsin. Drs. Byrne and Zainer discuss their involvement in the care of patients with severe brain injury, particularly those given a diagnosis of "brain death."

GUEST:

Paul Byrne: Website

LINKS:

• "Dr. Paul Byrne: From preemies to end-of-life issues, one man has made a difference." (article from Celebrate Life magazine by Rob Sample)
• Doyen Nguyen: The New Definitions of Death for Organ Donation and Transplantation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis from the Perspective of Christian Ethics (Amazon link)
• Michael Potts, Paul Byrne, Richard Nigels Beyond Brain Death: The Case Against Brain-Based Criteria for Death (Springer)

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• Ep. 35 Why Brain Dead Isn't Dead: An Introduction to "Shewmon's Challenge." with Alan Shewmon, MD
• Ep. 45 Brain Death at the Bedside with Fred Rincon, MD
• Ep. 145 Diagnosing Brain Death: Clinical and Legal Quagmires with Doyen Nguyen, MD, and Alan Shewmon, MD

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