I thought Viagra was actually developed with the intention of improving heart/vascular health? The sudden reversal of ED was an unintentional mega-billion dollar side effect.
It was. As I recall the researchers couldn't believe the folks in the study group were hoarding their medicine. Which was the tipoff that something else was going on. I would like to go back and read the original material on that if I can find it. My guess is that the subjects in the study group were taking it daily, but I don't know for sure.
Hi Mike - re Osmotic pressure and Kwashiorkor, I’m confused that you write “the second baby ends up with insufficient protein” - surely it is the first baby, that is the older sibling, that ends up with insufficient protein as it has to change from the protein in breast milk to eating "a bunch of plant mush” while it’s younger sibling, the “second baby”, is getting all the protein from the breast milk. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
As usual there is so much invaluable information this week. I follow Ivor Cummins so already knew about the legislation passed in France and am appalled by the implications. It makes it
possible that all practitioners of natural medicine will end up in prison. Given the last four years of mandates being imposed that ‘follow the science’ this would lead to a complete nightmare for those of us who follow a different science and refuse to accept the official narrative. By chance I had to present at my GP surgery yesterday for an HbA1C blood test. The nurse noticed that I was no longer taking a recommended drug for blood sugar. My reasoning was that in spite of taking this drug my blood sugar reading continued to climb and I concluded that the drug was partly responsible. I did mention Dr. David Unwin, who she had never heard of, and would have mentioned Dr. Michael Eades and others given the chance. She was concerned about a slightly inflamed toe and called in a doctor to look at it. The result was a prescription for anti biotics. I resisted the temptation to say I had no intention of taking them. The pharmacist went to great lengths to explain possible reactions but to keep taking them if they occurred. Once home I hoaked out a bottle of Echinacea and downed a handful and repeated this several times before bed. 24 hours later the inflammation is almost gone. Given my knowledge of herbal medicine I decided this for myself but should I have sought this information in France I might have ended up in prison. I have little doubt that this legislation is being driven by corporate vested interested and will be rolled out in every other country. 😰
https://x.com/ickonic/status/1747931322973098016?s=20 This is a link to a trailer for a documentary “IN THE SHADOW OF FLEXNER” which details the high jacking of medicine by corporate vested interested. I watched it behind a paywall but it may be available for free on other platforms. The trailer has many links that give insights into the extent of corruption and criminality involved in modern medicine. Little I was unaware of but well put together.
Then the beautiful flying jewels we call hummingbirds would die. Sure, to our delight, they hover and suck nectar (SUGAR!) to keep their super-high metabolism revving. But they also EAT mosquitos and other bugs for the PROTEIN that is necessary for their survival and reproduction! And as MUCH as I wish death to all mosquitos (I live in GA, and they looooooove me, dammit!) -- not at the cost o the hummies!!
p.s., ESPECIALLY immediate death too all of the Dollar-bill Gates' gene-modified flying poison delivery systems!!
You obviously enjoy hummingbirds more than I do. I would gladly sacrifice every one of them to get rid of mosquitos. But I'm not sure mosquitos are all hummingbirds eat. Hummingbirds are everywhere at our place in Montecito, and there is never a mosquito in sight. I've never been bitten there, or even seen one.
My sister in law learned the "wild animals are wild" lesson the hard way. All her life she had raised orphaned animals in the wild (she lived WAY out in the country.) One morning she went out to feed the menagerie, and she made the mistake of turning her back on the orphaned (but adult) buck deer she had raised lovingly from a baby. He attacked her from behind, broke her arm, cut her with his antlers in many places. If she had not had her phone with her to call my brother (some 40 miles away) or if the deer had had shorter antlers (because of their length, he kept hitting the ground with his antlers instead of her) she would not be alive today.
Suffice it to say my brother hit the two-way twisty country Farm-to-Market roads in South Texas at over 100 miles an hour, and still it took an eternity. Where they live there is no such thing as "call 911." She recovered, the buck was killed, and I believe she is far more cautious these days, having learned that horrific lesson.
A good newsletter, based on my surprise at how quickly I finished it!
Mike - another gem - don't know how you do it! Re Pfizer and the viagra issue: since they seem, evidently, able still to charge outrageous prices for viagra, why would they give that up and go through the trouble of trials to get it out there as a heart disease drug when they're already making a fortune with Lipitor? At least I assume they are - they're certainly only in the drug business to make money. That said, why don't docs just prescribe it for heart disease anyway? At least, prescribe the generic for it? What I'd really like to know is how much the regular GP is followed and critiqued for the drugs he/she prescribes? Do doctors really get in trouble if, for instance, they don't prescribe statins to heart patients? And who causes the problems?
Can't say enough good things about Georgia Ede. Got the book - and will get to it when I finish Gary Taubes' latest. Another thing I don't know how you manage - reading as much as you do. Speed reading? Give us some hints! And don't forget to let us know about the snake video. I jumped nearly as high as she did.
A few:
these statin RTCs were completed.
RCTs were completed
why doesn’t Pfizer do these studies.
. . .do these studies?
as I looked it ip here
. . .looked it up here
harmful to those who at the lower rungs of financial life.
As always, thanks for ferreting out the typos. I'll jump on them.
I think Lipitor is already generic, so Pfizer needs a new big drug. Doctors can indeed right scripts for off label uses of a drug. I've done it countless times myself. The only time it ever became an issue was recently when enlightened docs began writing scripts for ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine for Covid. In fact, I think that's the first time in the history of the US that docs got taken to task for it. I wrote one for Ivermectin that the person tried to get filled at a CVS pharmacy. The pharmacist called me and told me he couldn't fill it if it were for Covid. I told him it was for rosacea, which this person did happen to have. I had to dig up the diagnostic code for rosacea before he would fill it.
I am a very fast reader, and I take every opportunity I have to read. The combo allows me to read a lot.
The Black Plague has interested me since I was a kid and had to read "Masque of the Red Death" by Poe in school. I have probably 20 or more books on it in my home. I once found a wonderful book titled "Rats, Lice, and History" by Hans Zinsser (you'd love this guy's style of writing!) in a local bookstore and was chatting with the clerk at the register about it. I bragged that I have the largest collection of books on the plague in the Oxford Hills. His eyes got really big and he said, "Wait, we had plague here in the Oxford Hills?" Too funny!
At the risk of attending jail in France, can we ask a real doctor what he thinks about 'white clots'. To the untrained eye they would appear to be the most grotesque destiny imaginable, to anyone. S'truth? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rAoqhTUU0g&t=2111s
I have seen photos and numerous discussions of these. I've been wanting to contact an embalmer myself to get some firsthand insight, but just haven't done it yet. But according to a number of videos I've watched, they are fairly common. The last thing I watched was this long video on Steve Kirsch's Substack: https://kirschsubstack.com/p/vsrf-live-embalmer-data-revealed My only issue with Kirsch is that he is consumed with the confirmation bias, so I would like to look a bit more into it myself for confirmation.
I'm finding all kinds of things to comment on this week.
The plague is also endemic in the Lake Tahoe region. Seems odd to consider the Sierra Nevada as part of the Southwest. But every few years there is a news story about somebody in the Tahoe area who contracted the plague, often from a pet cat. The problem is that even around Tahoe often the doctors don't know what the infection is in either the cat or in the person and it takes several days for a diagnosis, which can be days too late.
When I was living in Sacramento County years ago, our cat disappeared for several days. My dad finally found it sitting up in a tall tree. I believe the county fire department came out and rescued it. I don't know who else could have.
Evan Low is the State assemblyman (from Campbell) who is responsible for that horrible bill that muzzled doctors. Newsom did sign a bill later on that repealed it. I mention this because Low is running for Congress and people should be aware of what this jerk did before they consider voting for him.
Regarding the effectiveness of statins, a male friend of mine had a heart attack at the age of 51. They put him on statins and I don't know what else. He died from another heart attack within a year.
MD and I lived in Incline Village on Lake Tahoe for over 20 years. Loved it. Somehow I never got the word about the plague, but we were bombarded by notices about it in Santa Fe.
I suspect the cat would have finally come down. I've never seen a cat skeleton in a tree.
I didn't know who it was who launched that bill. He's despicable. As is Newsom for signing it.
Mike, Pfizer had several patents on the use of Pyrazolopyrimidinone, aka Viagra, for treating heart disease. They issued earlier than the erectile dysfunction patent, which expired in 2020. The heart disease ones expired in 2011 and 2012.
Doctors do prescribe pyrazolopyrimidinones for heart disease.
Drugs are outrageously expensive for many reasons. Our patent system is one of them. I read the prosecution histories for these patents and they are complicated aka expensive. Likely spent $200k just on US atty fees pursuing the patent grants. Worldwide patents plus patent litigation and their legal bills easily are in the millions. Pfizer is a dream client for us patent attys!
Meanwhile, those patent laws worldwide mean that Americans subsidize the drug costs for everyone else. I used to work in Asia, and India did not enforce patents against pharmaceuticals, and China of course didn't either. We told clients good luck trying to get the patents at all. Canada and many other countries demand lower prices.
What we really need is a Berne Convention for patents. Berne makes copyrights enforceable over member states easily. No such thing for patents.
If our overlords were actually interested in making things better for us in terms of drug prices this sort of thing would be on the table, not just dragging up executives from pharma in front of Congress demanding lower prices.
Better still, we should just bypass all of these clowns and take care of our health. No fake food. We all can control what we put in our mouths.
Thanks for the props. I knew Viagra was useful in heart disease; I didn't know it had been patented for it. And, yes, the whole patent deal is a fiasco. We (here in the US) subsidize new drugs everywhere else in the world. Just like we spend money on NATO for their defense, we pay outrageous prices for new drugs, so they can be sold cheaply eslewhere.
I've had my own experiences with China in the book biz. When Protein Power was a year or two old, I got a call from our agent. She told us China had offered $1,300 for the Chinese rights to publish it. She told us not to negotiate, but to jump on it, because we would at least get the $1,300 (minus her rapacious fee). Usually, she said, China just rips it off.
Your agent was spot on. I am actually surprised anything was offered. I guess they wanted to be sure they could still use your cover and images. I have seen where they replace the cover with their own mockup and name random authors, sometimes chinese ones. Clearly, you and MD were deemed valuable enough they thought you were worth something.
Was her fee more or less than 40%? That's what contingency lawyers charge. I have a personal injury lawyer friend who has made millions charging 25% and his advertising is all about the 15% difference between him and the competition.
Showbiz is expensive. If you have a good agent, that was often the difference between a best seller and a dud, and many of my clients would grouse over the agent's outrageous fees. Now, I think the agent is optional. Self publishing for someone like you likely would be fine. You already have fans, a name, etc.
MD alone would be able to pull in her fan base.
Many people I know are waiting patiently for PP 2.0, me included.
Hmmm. You must be an agent. I used the word rapacious because that's what I call it whenever I discuss it with our agent. It has become a joke between us. And she reads The Arrow, so I was getting in a little dig just in case she reads the comments as well. I indeed know the advantages of a good agent, and I don't begrudge agents what they earn.
Lol, I am a patent atty. We love words and appreciate good writing. You are a thoughtful writer who chooses his words carefully. So many professional "writers" are producing dreadful stuff these days. The number of grammatical errors in today's published articles by so-called native English speakers approximate the abominable English in non-native English speaking countries. Patent law is the last bastion of grammar.
From what I see, with a good agent, the ROI in terms of the agent's fees is excellent. If you're sticking with her, rather than sticking it to her, she must be pretty good.
You deflected the question about PP 2.0. I didn't miss that. I sense...procrastination?
Georgia was a delight. And I tried to ask questions no one had asked her before (which apparently I did) I'd also asked chat GPT what it would ask. I read some out and Georgia groaned (this was off air as I thought she'd laugh) As for finding time for you, I'll work around what ever day and time you can spare. My calendar is geared up for you picking well in advance. I'd be honoured. I told Georgia my 'dream team' of guests were her, Amber O'Hearn, Paul Mason and You. This is how we discovered that we both subscribed to your substack. Anyway here's the link to book in https://calendly.com/optimalcoach/interview
I enjoyed your reply, especially the cave painting reference as this really 'bugs' vegans. I don't wish to add to your workload and I'm happy with your broad brush gut feeling answer. If you want to see the study it is here https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/4/1207
Thanks very much for the article. I found it both informative and annoying. It confirmed what I had expected--insects are rich in minerals. Since we eat the exoskeletons insects, but don't eat the bones of meat, that makes sense. Other interesting findings as well. I'll probably write about in a future edition of The Arrow.
Morning Doc - True - but that's what "free speech" all about - in order to truly appreciate the "good" ideas we have to be exposed to (and in effect "inoculated" by) the bad ones - all of them. The French legislation is a perfect example - seeing that bit of totalitarian "sleight-of-hand" we can be alert to any similar efforts that may appear in our own bailiwick.
I thought Viagra was actually developed with the intention of improving heart/vascular health? The sudden reversal of ED was an unintentional mega-billion dollar side effect.
It was. As I recall the researchers couldn't believe the folks in the study group were hoarding their medicine. Which was the tipoff that something else was going on. I would like to go back and read the original material on that if I can find it. My guess is that the subjects in the study group were taking it daily, but I don't know for sure.
No they weren't… they were taking it nightly. 😆
Yes, absolutely.
Hi Mike - re Osmotic pressure and Kwashiorkor, I’m confused that you write “the second baby ends up with insufficient protein” - surely it is the first baby, that is the older sibling, that ends up with insufficient protein as it has to change from the protein in breast milk to eating "a bunch of plant mush” while it’s younger sibling, the “second baby”, is getting all the protein from the breast milk. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Good catch. Can't believe my beloved proof reader missed that one. Can't believe I wrote it in the first place. Thanks for the heads up.
As usual there is so much invaluable information this week. I follow Ivor Cummins so already knew about the legislation passed in France and am appalled by the implications. It makes it
possible that all practitioners of natural medicine will end up in prison. Given the last four years of mandates being imposed that ‘follow the science’ this would lead to a complete nightmare for those of us who follow a different science and refuse to accept the official narrative. By chance I had to present at my GP surgery yesterday for an HbA1C blood test. The nurse noticed that I was no longer taking a recommended drug for blood sugar. My reasoning was that in spite of taking this drug my blood sugar reading continued to climb and I concluded that the drug was partly responsible. I did mention Dr. David Unwin, who she had never heard of, and would have mentioned Dr. Michael Eades and others given the chance. She was concerned about a slightly inflamed toe and called in a doctor to look at it. The result was a prescription for anti biotics. I resisted the temptation to say I had no intention of taking them. The pharmacist went to great lengths to explain possible reactions but to keep taking them if they occurred. Once home I hoaked out a bottle of Echinacea and downed a handful and repeated this several times before bed. 24 hours later the inflammation is almost gone. Given my knowledge of herbal medicine I decided this for myself but should I have sought this information in France I might have ended up in prison. I have little doubt that this legislation is being driven by corporate vested interested and will be rolled out in every other country. 😰
I share your worries that it will spread. I'll do everything in my power to fight it.
https://x.com/ickonic/status/1747931322973098016?s=20 This is a link to a trailer for a documentary “IN THE SHADOW OF FLEXNER” which details the high jacking of medicine by corporate vested interested. I watched it behind a paywall but it may be available for free on other platforms. The trailer has many links that give insights into the extent of corruption and criminality involved in modern medicine. Little I was unaware of but well put together.
I watched the trailer. Looks interesting. I'll see if I can find the whole thing.
"if we killed every mosquito on earth"
Then the beautiful flying jewels we call hummingbirds would die. Sure, to our delight, they hover and suck nectar (SUGAR!) to keep their super-high metabolism revving. But they also EAT mosquitos and other bugs for the PROTEIN that is necessary for their survival and reproduction! And as MUCH as I wish death to all mosquitos (I live in GA, and they looooooove me, dammit!) -- not at the cost o the hummies!!
p.s., ESPECIALLY immediate death too all of the Dollar-bill Gates' gene-modified flying poison delivery systems!!
You obviously enjoy hummingbirds more than I do. I would gladly sacrifice every one of them to get rid of mosquitos. But I'm not sure mosquitos are all hummingbirds eat. Hummingbirds are everywhere at our place in Montecito, and there is never a mosquito in sight. I've never been bitten there, or even seen one.
Tee hee hee! Lots of hummies and no mosquitos... hmmmm. Cause and effect?
Maybe an observational study needed? {wink}
My sister in law learned the "wild animals are wild" lesson the hard way. All her life she had raised orphaned animals in the wild (she lived WAY out in the country.) One morning she went out to feed the menagerie, and she made the mistake of turning her back on the orphaned (but adult) buck deer she had raised lovingly from a baby. He attacked her from behind, broke her arm, cut her with his antlers in many places. If she had not had her phone with her to call my brother (some 40 miles away) or if the deer had had shorter antlers (because of their length, he kept hitting the ground with his antlers instead of her) she would not be alive today.
Suffice it to say my brother hit the two-way twisty country Farm-to-Market roads in South Texas at over 100 miles an hour, and still it took an eternity. Where they live there is no such thing as "call 911." She recovered, the buck was killed, and I believe she is far more cautious these days, having learned that horrific lesson.
A good newsletter, based on my surprise at how quickly I finished it!
I hope the buck made for a delicious venison stew.
Knowing their fondness for venison, I'd imagine it did! They are not believers in wasting good food.
Mike - another gem - don't know how you do it! Re Pfizer and the viagra issue: since they seem, evidently, able still to charge outrageous prices for viagra, why would they give that up and go through the trouble of trials to get it out there as a heart disease drug when they're already making a fortune with Lipitor? At least I assume they are - they're certainly only in the drug business to make money. That said, why don't docs just prescribe it for heart disease anyway? At least, prescribe the generic for it? What I'd really like to know is how much the regular GP is followed and critiqued for the drugs he/she prescribes? Do doctors really get in trouble if, for instance, they don't prescribe statins to heart patients? And who causes the problems?
Can't say enough good things about Georgia Ede. Got the book - and will get to it when I finish Gary Taubes' latest. Another thing I don't know how you manage - reading as much as you do. Speed reading? Give us some hints! And don't forget to let us know about the snake video. I jumped nearly as high as she did.
A few:
these statin RTCs were completed.
RCTs were completed
why doesn’t Pfizer do these studies.
. . .do these studies?
as I looked it ip here
. . .looked it up here
harmful to those who at the lower rungs of financial life.
. . to those who are at the lower rungs . . .
As always, thanks for ferreting out the typos. I'll jump on them.
I think Lipitor is already generic, so Pfizer needs a new big drug. Doctors can indeed right scripts for off label uses of a drug. I've done it countless times myself. The only time it ever became an issue was recently when enlightened docs began writing scripts for ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine for Covid. In fact, I think that's the first time in the history of the US that docs got taken to task for it. I wrote one for Ivermectin that the person tried to get filled at a CVS pharmacy. The pharmacist called me and told me he couldn't fill it if it were for Covid. I told him it was for rosacea, which this person did happen to have. I had to dig up the diagnostic code for rosacea before he would fill it.
I am a very fast reader, and I take every opportunity I have to read. The combo allows me to read a lot.
Enjoyed the Edies book and liked her science, which makes it hard to refute.
Have ordered Trouble.
I recently rearranged my schedule so I have an hour to read in the morning before I go to work.
Scheduling time is the best way to ensure getting plenty of reading done.
Re the “new law” in France, a friend who lives in France sent me this from the Daily Sceptic: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/16/no-new-french-law-does-not-criminalise-opposition-to-mrna-vaccines-but-its-troubling-enough/ The "new law" is bad but not as bad as has been claimed.
That's a little reassuring, but not much.
Yes, that's what I thought. I suppose we'll have to wait and see how it pans out.
The Black Plague has interested me since I was a kid and had to read "Masque of the Red Death" by Poe in school. I have probably 20 or more books on it in my home. I once found a wonderful book titled "Rats, Lice, and History" by Hans Zinsser (you'd love this guy's style of writing!) in a local bookstore and was chatting with the clerk at the register about it. I bragged that I have the largest collection of books on the plague in the Oxford Hills. His eyes got really big and he said, "Wait, we had plague here in the Oxford Hills?" Too funny!
I read Zinsser's book years ago. It's now packed away with the rest of my library.
At the risk of attending jail in France, can we ask a real doctor what he thinks about 'white clots'. To the untrained eye they would appear to be the most grotesque destiny imaginable, to anyone. S'truth? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rAoqhTUU0g&t=2111s
I have seen photos and numerous discussions of these. I've been wanting to contact an embalmer myself to get some firsthand insight, but just haven't done it yet. But according to a number of videos I've watched, they are fairly common. The last thing I watched was this long video on Steve Kirsch's Substack: https://kirschsubstack.com/p/vsrf-live-embalmer-data-revealed My only issue with Kirsch is that he is consumed with the confirmation bias, so I would like to look a bit more into it myself for confirmation.
I'm finding all kinds of things to comment on this week.
The plague is also endemic in the Lake Tahoe region. Seems odd to consider the Sierra Nevada as part of the Southwest. But every few years there is a news story about somebody in the Tahoe area who contracted the plague, often from a pet cat. The problem is that even around Tahoe often the doctors don't know what the infection is in either the cat or in the person and it takes several days for a diagnosis, which can be days too late.
When I was living in Sacramento County years ago, our cat disappeared for several days. My dad finally found it sitting up in a tall tree. I believe the county fire department came out and rescued it. I don't know who else could have.
Evan Low is the State assemblyman (from Campbell) who is responsible for that horrible bill that muzzled doctors. Newsom did sign a bill later on that repealed it. I mention this because Low is running for Congress and people should be aware of what this jerk did before they consider voting for him.
Regarding the effectiveness of statins, a male friend of mine had a heart attack at the age of 51. They put him on statins and I don't know what else. He died from another heart attack within a year.
MD and I lived in Incline Village on Lake Tahoe for over 20 years. Loved it. Somehow I never got the word about the plague, but we were bombarded by notices about it in Santa Fe.
I suspect the cat would have finally come down. I've never seen a cat skeleton in a tree.
I didn't know who it was who launched that bill. He's despicable. As is Newsom for signing it.
Mike, Pfizer had several patents on the use of Pyrazolopyrimidinone, aka Viagra, for treating heart disease. They issued earlier than the erectile dysfunction patent, which expired in 2020. The heart disease ones expired in 2011 and 2012.
Doctors do prescribe pyrazolopyrimidinones for heart disease.
Drugs are outrageously expensive for many reasons. Our patent system is one of them. I read the prosecution histories for these patents and they are complicated aka expensive. Likely spent $200k just on US atty fees pursuing the patent grants. Worldwide patents plus patent litigation and their legal bills easily are in the millions. Pfizer is a dream client for us patent attys!
Meanwhile, those patent laws worldwide mean that Americans subsidize the drug costs for everyone else. I used to work in Asia, and India did not enforce patents against pharmaceuticals, and China of course didn't either. We told clients good luck trying to get the patents at all. Canada and many other countries demand lower prices.
What we really need is a Berne Convention for patents. Berne makes copyrights enforceable over member states easily. No such thing for patents.
If our overlords were actually interested in making things better for us in terms of drug prices this sort of thing would be on the table, not just dragging up executives from pharma in front of Congress demanding lower prices.
Better still, we should just bypass all of these clowns and take care of our health. No fake food. We all can control what we put in our mouths.
Great post this week.
Thanks for the props. I knew Viagra was useful in heart disease; I didn't know it had been patented for it. And, yes, the whole patent deal is a fiasco. We (here in the US) subsidize new drugs everywhere else in the world. Just like we spend money on NATO for their defense, we pay outrageous prices for new drugs, so they can be sold cheaply eslewhere.
I've had my own experiences with China in the book biz. When Protein Power was a year or two old, I got a call from our agent. She told us China had offered $1,300 for the Chinese rights to publish it. She told us not to negotiate, but to jump on it, because we would at least get the $1,300 (minus her rapacious fee). Usually, she said, China just rips it off.
Your agent was spot on. I am actually surprised anything was offered. I guess they wanted to be sure they could still use your cover and images. I have seen where they replace the cover with their own mockup and name random authors, sometimes chinese ones. Clearly, you and MD were deemed valuable enough they thought you were worth something.
Our agent was surprised, too.
Rapacious, there is a $100 word.
Was her fee more or less than 40%? That's what contingency lawyers charge. I have a personal injury lawyer friend who has made millions charging 25% and his advertising is all about the 15% difference between him and the competition.
Showbiz is expensive. If you have a good agent, that was often the difference between a best seller and a dud, and many of my clients would grouse over the agent's outrageous fees. Now, I think the agent is optional. Self publishing for someone like you likely would be fine. You already have fans, a name, etc.
MD alone would be able to pull in her fan base.
Many people I know are waiting patiently for PP 2.0, me included.
Hmmm. You must be an agent. I used the word rapacious because that's what I call it whenever I discuss it with our agent. It has become a joke between us. And she reads The Arrow, so I was getting in a little dig just in case she reads the comments as well. I indeed know the advantages of a good agent, and I don't begrudge agents what they earn.
Lol, I am a patent atty. We love words and appreciate good writing. You are a thoughtful writer who chooses his words carefully. So many professional "writers" are producing dreadful stuff these days. The number of grammatical errors in today's published articles by so-called native English speakers approximate the abominable English in non-native English speaking countries. Patent law is the last bastion of grammar.
From what I see, with a good agent, the ROI in terms of the agent's fees is excellent. If you're sticking with her, rather than sticking it to her, she must be pretty good.
You deflected the question about PP 2.0. I didn't miss that. I sense...procrastination?
Georgia was a delight. And I tried to ask questions no one had asked her before (which apparently I did) I'd also asked chat GPT what it would ask. I read some out and Georgia groaned (this was off air as I thought she'd laugh) As for finding time for you, I'll work around what ever day and time you can spare. My calendar is geared up for you picking well in advance. I'd be honoured. I told Georgia my 'dream team' of guests were her, Amber O'Hearn, Paul Mason and You. This is how we discovered that we both subscribed to your substack. Anyway here's the link to book in https://calendly.com/optimalcoach/interview
At least I'm in good company. I'm headed back to Montecito next week. Let me see what awaits me there schedule-wise, and I'll come up with a time.
I enjoyed your reply, especially the cave painting reference as this really 'bugs' vegans. I don't wish to add to your workload and I'm happy with your broad brush gut feeling answer. If you want to see the study it is here https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/4/1207
Thanks very much for the article. I found it both informative and annoying. It confirmed what I had expected--insects are rich in minerals. Since we eat the exoskeletons insects, but don't eat the bones of meat, that makes sense. Other interesting findings as well. I'll probably write about in a future edition of The Arrow.
Morning Doc - True - but that's what "free speech" all about - in order to truly appreciate the "good" ideas we have to be exposed to (and in effect "inoculated" by) the bad ones - all of them. The French legislation is a perfect example - seeing that bit of totalitarian "sleight-of-hand" we can be alert to any similar efforts that may appear in our own bailiwick.
Or our fearless leaders could say, Hey, the Frogs went for it. Maybe the US will, too.