Cancer

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Eat What You Kill & The Militia and the Mole

This Longform story, Eat What You Kill, is astonishing and well worth your time. At the heart of it is a doctor growing rich by misdiagnosing patients, including one who died after receiving chemo for 11 years for stage 4 cancer despite never having cancer:

Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths.

You can read the full investigation on ProPublica: Eat What You Kill by J. David McSwane.

I'll point out that ProPublica is the best place for thorough journalism that I'm aware of. When I cancelled my subscriptions to The Guardian (due to anti-Trans bias) and The Atlantic (too expensive), I funnelled that money into a monthly donation to PP.

Another banger piece they published just this week was The Militia And the Mole by Joshua Kaplan:

A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover, climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell his family or friends.

He only told Joshua Kaplan at ProPublica.


New Annie Ernaux — On Cancer and Desire

The New Yorker has the latest piece by Nobel winner, Annie Ernaux. I've read just about everything she's written that's been put into English and this piece is on par with her best. If you like this, you will like her books and understand why she was awarded the Prize in 2022.

On Cancer and Desire — Images from a complicated year.

Want to know more? Here's Ernaux's Wikipedia entry.


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