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Too many studies break no ground by confirming ideas that seem obvious. Now science is supposed to work by carefully examining possibilities and demonstrating whether what is hypothesized is or isn’t actually true. Unfortunately, not all studies are science. Let’s look at one published June 8 in Pediatrics, “Violence From Weapons Affects One in Four […]
The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) has published what it calls a fact sheet about “gun violence” among youth. DRGO has been informed that the Arizona Association of School Psychologists has submitted this flawed publication to the Arizona legislature in support of enacting firearm policy. DRGO’s Advisory Board member Glen Otero, PhD has analyzed […]
Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO) is a nationwide network of physicians, health professionals and others who support the safe and lawful use of firearms. The group was conceived in late 1993 by former director Timothy Wheeler, MD, a now retired southern California surgeon. By then organized medicine groups such as the American Medical Association […]
After following the politics of the public health gun prohibition movement for over two decades, I have no illusions about which side most media outlets are on. As recently as January 15 it was necessary to dissect in this blog a grossly misreported Washington Post story on Congress’s 1996 defunding of gun control advocacy at […]
Timothy Wheeler, MD is the Founder and former director of Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, a project of the Second Amendment Foundation. Visit our YouTube channel for all content. Dr. Wheeler on Cam & Co. speaking about his article comparing deaths from medical errors to deaths from firearms. He points to the hypocrisy of associations such as […]
Boundary Violation: Gun Politics in the Doctor’s Office Imagine this scenario: you visit your doctor for back pain. Your doctor asks if you have firearms in your home. Then he announces that your family would be better off (especially your children) if you had no guns at all in your house. You leave the doctor’s […]
Tim Wheeler, MD, a since retired southern California surgeon, launched DRGO in 1994 and served as its Director through 2016. Now a nationwide network, DRGO unites physicians and other health professionals who support the safe and lawful use of firearms. This is an index of Dr. Wheeler’s articles published in various media outlets. Miami Herald […]
Taxpayers’ money should not be used to fund anti-gun research. A powerful tactic of the public health gun prohibition movement has been to publish research papers in academic journals to lend credibility to their policy recommendations. Such “advocacy research”—not really valid research at all—was often funded through federal grants from agencies like the Centers for […]