Fighting Anti-Gun Bias in the Medical Literature

“Miguel Faria, MD, a neurosurgeon and Emeritus Editor of The Journal of The American Physicians and Surgeons, formerly the Medical Sentinel, and Associate Editor in Chief of Surgical Neurology International and its World Affairs Section, has written a two-part editorial on “America, Guns, and Freedom.”  [this is the first of the two parts.] These essays […]

American Academy of Pediatrics Still Living in the Past

By Timothy Wheeler, MD With the expected mainstream media promo, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has released the new edition of its firearm policy, “Firearm-Related Injuries Affecting the Pediatric Population.”  The usual media supporters of gun control didn’t disappoint.  Check this article from Reuters, which didn’t even bother with a perfunctory balancing response from […]

From Dr. Wheeler: Interviews, and the AMA

Last week I did a 20 minute interview with the author of this article (copied below) which appears in today’s issue of the Chicago-based American Medical News. You wouldn’t know that from reading the article, since the author clearly suppressed everything I told her and omitted any citation of my opposing view. The only hint […]

Gun Grabbing Doctors

Gun Grabbing Doctors:  An Old Public Health Threat Re-emerges One might think that, like smallpox, the threat of public health gun control advocacy had been eradicated.  After all, courageous behavioral scientists battled the scourge in the 1990s, using reasoned scientific arguments and solid data to show that gun owners are not a threat to the […]