Rise of the DemoQuacks: CNN’s Sanjay Gupta Expands Bad Medicine on All Fronts.

January 21, 2020
Updated December 20, 2020
ODP Staff

The popular San Francisco favorite, KSFO 560 AM’s morning show, has long brought levity to the daily navigation through congestion, potholes, human feces, homeless tents, syringes, crime, and road rage that collectively characterize a typical Bay Area commute. This high power station recruited all the sensible voices away from their old KGO 810 home and corralled them into what was then branded as “Conservative Talk.”

KGO never bothered to rebrand their leftovers as “Liberal Talk,” but a simple adjustment of the dial helped preserve some radio sanity for a large but less noisy segment of the greater Silicon Valley population that helps make California’s one of the world’s leading economies.

ABC Disney’s ownership of KSFO, however, still makes its mark as sensible talk radio receives routine interruptions of severely leftward bent hourly “news” announcements and at odd intervals leftist “experts” like CNN’s own Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s Chief Medical Consultant, chime in with wild misdirection under the brand of “healthier living.”

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Book Review: Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence

June 4, 2019
Updated July 8, 2020
ODP Staff

The incremental push to legalize marijuana might seem, on the surface, and particularly to Libertarians as a positive. Most have evolved to regard the “weed,” related plants and all of its derivatives as medicinal, healthful, and a superior way to “chill” than alcohol.

Alex Berenson embraced many if not all of the notions above, but ultimately found himself on a journey of discovery that brought him to unexpected and profound realizations. I had first heard Alex speak of his new book on Dr. Michael Savage’s program, and was rather surprised by his assertions that young users under 25 were vulnerable to serious long term health consequences including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.

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