ROMAN BYSTRIANYK: preventable harm in healthcare settings is a public health crisis.

We’re taught to trust the system. When we walk into a hospital, we believe we’re in safe hands. That’s the story we tell ourselves.
But for nearly half a century, a parallel literature has been documenting a darker truth: medical care itself is a leading cause of death in… pic.twitter.com/pzGMEnTTrL

— Roman Bystrianyk (@RBystrianyk) July 22, 2026

We’re taught to trust the system. When we walk into a hospital, we believe we’re in safe hands. That’s the story we tell ourselves.

But for nearly half a century, a parallel literature has been documenting a darker truth: medical care itself is a leading cause of death in America.

It began in 1974, when the Journal of the American Medical Association warned of tens of thousands of annual drug-induced deaths. It continued through the Institute of Medicine’s landmark 1999 report, To Err Is Human, which found that medical errors kill more people than car accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. It culminated in a 2016 British Medical Journal study concluding that medical error is the third leading cause of death—behind only heart disease and cancer.

The estimates vary—from 44,000 to over 400,000 deaths annually—but the conclusion is consistent across all of them: preventable harm in healthcare settings is a public health crisis.

So why isn’t this on the CDC’s official ranking? Because death certificates aren’t designed to capture iatrogenic harm. They record the immediate biological event—cardiac arrest, sepsis, respiratory failure—but not the medication error, the hospital-acquired infection, or the unnecessary surgery that caused it.

The system is blind to its own failures. And that blindness costs lives.

Read the full investigation here:  "The Hidden Toll of Modern Medicine," Roman Bystrianyk, Substack, April 13, 2026.  

CASEY KROL: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England: 1,730 mosques. SA, Saudi Arabia: 0 churches.

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— Zarathustra🇾🇪 (@mattantZ) July 22, 2026

SAMA HOOLE: Their hearts physically shrank by 17%. Metabolic rate collapsed by around forty. They could not keep warm, layering clothes indoors while their lips and nails went blue. Hair came out. Ankles and faces swelled while the rest of them wasted. Some managed one bowel movement a week.

Thirty-six healthy young men were deliberately starved in a Minnesota laboratory for six months, and I want you to hold off on the number until the end, because you will not believe how many calories it took.

The brochure went to the conscientious objector camps in 1944. Will… pic.twitter.com/6nzIXMTbKe

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) July 23, 2026

Thirty-six healthy young men were deliberately starved in a Minnesota laboratory for six months, and I want you to hold off on the number until the end, because you will not believe how many calories it took. The brochure went to the conscientious objector camps in 1944. Will you starve so that others may be fed. Four hundred said yes. Thirty-six were chosen as the most robust of them, in body and mind. The door shut on 19 November 1944 under Ancel Keys and stayed shut for thirteen months. Twelve weeks of baseline first. Healthy, sociable, energetic men. Then Keys began. The bodies went first. A quarter of their weight gone. Fat down seventy per cent, muscle down forty. Resting pulse from fifty-five to thirty-five. Their hearts physically shrank by seventeen per cent. Metabolic rate collapsed by around forty. They could not keep warm, layering clothes indoors while their lips and nails went blue. Hair came out. Ankles and faces swelled while the rest of them wasted. Some managed one bowel movement a week. Then the minds went, and that is what the study is remembered for. They read cookery books for pleasure. Collected recipes they had no means of cooking. Studied menus like scripture. Cut one small portion into smaller and smaller pieces to make it last, watered it down, hid it. Hoarded kitchen implements they could not use. Sex stopped mattering. So did their friends, their politics and their faith, which in a room full of religious objectors is not a small thing. They looked at other people and saw fat where there was none. Sam Legg, subject twenty, amputated three of his own fingers. Now. What would you guess reduces the most screened, most resilient young men in America to that? Six hundred calories? Eight? They were eating 1,621 calories a day, falling to 1,514. Two meals, no dinner. Potatoes, turnips, cabbage, macaroni, dark bread. Fifty-one grams of protein, 286 of carbohydrate, thirty of fat. Low fat, low protein, mostly starch, with a twenty-two mile walk each week. That is not a famine ration. That is a slimming club target. That is the number in the app. That is the recommended plate, at a deficit, and it is what a great many women are eating this afternoon while being told they are simply not trying hard enough. And it does not stop when the diet stops. Two thousand a day was not enough to bring those men back. Keys put recovery at four thousand a day for months. Turned loose, they ate up to eleven thousand, wept, binged, vomited and reported they were still hungry. The weight came back as fat, on the abdomen. Some never ate normally again. Every one of those responses is now filed under personal failure. Keys published it in 1950. Nobody has contradicted it since.

ROTHMUS: Because the Church was the last independent power still commanding loyalty outside Party control. Marxist atheism treated it as a rival that had to be broken, . . .

Lenin waited until Russians were eating human flesh and corpses lined the roads before ordering the Church destroyed.

In March 1922, with millions already dead from famine, the Bolsheviks seized Orthodox gold, silver, and sacred vessels under the banner of feeding the starving.… pic.twitter.com/HrNzs8twOh

— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) July 23, 2026

Lenin waited until Russians were eating human flesh and corpses lined the roads before ordering the Church destroyed. In March 1922, with millions already dead from famine, the Bolsheviks seized Orthodox gold, silver, and sacred vessels under the banner of feeding the starving. Patriarch Tikhon offered voluntary aid but refused to surrender consecrated items. When parishioners in Shuya defended their cathedral, Red forces opened fire and killed several. 4 days later Lenin sent a top secret letter to the Politburo and turned the crisis into a kill order. He said the famine was the perfect window. Peasants were too broken to resist, so strike now with “the most frenzied and ruthless energy.” Arrest dozens of priests, stage lightning trials, and shoot “the very largest number of the most influential” so the rest remember for decades. Because the Church was the last independent power still commanding loyalty outside Party control. Marxist atheism treated it as a rival that had to be broken, and the famine gave them the cover and the timing. They framed defense of the altar as sabotage of the starving, then executed clergy for it.

The Bolsheviks effectively turned mass starvation into a weapon against the only force left between the State and total control of the Russian soul. 

DR. ALAN GOLDHAMER: Many of the companies that are controlling the ultra-processed foods are the same companies involved with the pharmaceutical industries.

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— Jessica Rose 🤙 (@JesslovesMJK) July 22, 2026

Dr. Alan Goldhamer.  Many of the companies that are controlling the ultra-processed foods are the same companies involved with the pharmaceutical industries. 

Dr. Thomas Seyfried.  And they control the politicians too.  Cancer can't be "cured" because it's not a genetic disease; it's a metabolic disease, and can only be managed.