Thank you, Dr. Michel Accad, for tweeting the article about the problems with the polio vaccine in Africa. My concern over the positioning of Vaxxers vs. Antivaxxers is that there are anomalies with vaccines, some serious. The discussion is almost always centered around autism. Can we put aside the shaming and simply look at some…
Jim Cox has written and maintained the Midwest Book Review since before I was publishing books in the early 1990s. He, like many of us our age, has seen the print industry change remarkably with the influx of online conversations where most anything goes because writers don’t have to look their victims in the eyes…
I wrote this review of Allucquere Rosanne Stone’s book many years ago when it was first published. As I struggle with the adversarial nature of discourse today, wondering how we could have travelled down this road so far without becoming aware of the dangers of our thinking, I am reminded of those who saw the…
On April 5, 2020, Hamza Davis interviewed Dr. Lindemann in a podcast about his course, “How to Avoid Losing Your Life in Childbirth.” The course is now available, along with Dr. Lindemann’s interview of the family of the quadruplets he delivered 21 years ago. How often do you get to see adult quadruplets talk about…
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any developed country, but few people know this. Until 1996, maternal death rates were gradually declining. But in 1996 that decline ended and the rate started to spiral. Americans today are 50% more likely to die in the period surrounding childbirth than their own mothers…
