A Belmont Report

Author: barry.belmont

  • Why do they call it “news” if it’s the same story again and again?

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    Days before Neuralink – a company claiming to “develop[] ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers” – is set to give a “Progress update“, a special report by Erin Brodwin and Rebecca Robbins of STAT, indicates “years of internal conflict in which rushed timelines have clashed with the slow and incremental pace…

  • I support the LGBTQRS community

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    Encompassing both the “LGBTQ(IA,lmnop)+ community” – i.e., those who are hopefully happy with their sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc. – and the “QRS community” – i.e., those with a QRS-complex, i.e., those with a heartbeat, i.e., “those of us yet living” – the “LGBTQRS community” ought to suffice as a term to describe all of…

  • The Global Ventilator Race

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    An interview conducted by Jolyon Jenkins. Found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000j803. At 13:55 “I call up Dr. Barry Belmont, a specialist in medical devices at the University of Michigan. –There’s something of a gold rush going on, I suppose. People will go rushing for gold and fools will rush in with them. I think there’s very good…

  • A Peculiar Medical Condition

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    I highlight for those looking for it, another embodiment of the biomedical condition. From the recent public questioning of one of the final monarchies and his peculiar relationship with one known, convicted, and now dead billionaire sex offender. Explaining how he knows to be false an allegation against him of sexual misconduct with a minor,…

  • Another place to go when you’re gone

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    While our species has never lacked for places they imagine themselves after life (1), these days the options for where one physically goes when shuffled off the mortal coil come down to roughly “buried” or “burned” (2). Thanks to the collective efforts of The Urban Death Project (now “Recompose”), lawmakers in Washington, and quite a…

  • Death by a thousand clicks? Death to a thousand clicks!

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    The internet has not made everything better. While not a controversial opinion, it tends to bin one in with the Luddites and seems to keep the technocrats (those most needing to hear it) from hearing it. Very rarely in life is an app the answer. Rarely is it even an answer. Digitization does not mean progress.…

  • What you might not otherwise be told today

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    Of the now 471 confirmed cases of Ebola in the war torn Democratic Republic of Congo, 27 have been children under the age of one. Of those only half a dozen are still alive. Nine were less than one month old. It is thought that children under the age of 14 (fully one-quarter of the…