America Out Loud PULSE

The midterms are about more than choosing leaders

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Robin Armstrong – As a physician, I think first about healthcare. A decision made in Washington can reach a hospital room in Texas, shaping what patients can afford and how doctors care for them. During COVID, many Americans learned how quickly emergency rules could change daily life. Families faced school closures, workplace requirements, and painful...

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Getting back to play: The neuroconnection

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Angelina Farella – Play and its importance have been downplayed over the decades. Public schools stop recess in 5th grade, losing sight of the fact that not every child will participate in sports. Physical education rarely incorporates obstacle courses, full-body exercises like windmills, knee touches, or hopscotch movements. Rainy days are often...

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Fear, diagnosis, and the erosion of human agency

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Theodore Dalrymple examines how fear of illness, expanding diagnoses, and institutional incentives reshape the way people understand themselves. He questions weak medical claims and psychological labels that turn ordinary struggles into disorders, arguing that sound judgment and personal responsibility remain essential to healthy human agency...

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Lou Perez and the audience for Luigi

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Comedian Lou Perez considers how audiences turn violence into a cause at Luigi: The Musical and in reactions to Lindsay Clancy. His conversation examines health insurance grievances, costly care, opioid treatment, and the limits of sympathy when public anger obscures the people harmed by violence...

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Allison Inquiry on the vaccine injured, with Jim Thorp, MD

America Out Loud PULSE with Malcolm Out Loud and Dr. Jim Thorp – What made the inquiry so powerful was not rhetoric, but testimony. Doctors, researchers, and injured Canadians described a pattern that should never have been hidden in the first place. Families were split apart. Workers were punished. Parents were pressured. Pregnant women were told to trust products that were pushed with too...

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Remembering Rusty

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Robin Armstrong – Rusty’s memory reminds his family that love thrives in simple acts of kindness, loyalty, and presence. His loss brings grief, but his legacy offers enduring lessons in patience, forgiveness, and gratitude, inspiring families and communities to value connection and show greater compassion toward one another...

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Gender issues in the autistic child

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Angelina Farella – Autism and gender diversity intersect in ways that raise questions for parents. Understanding each child’s individual experience encourages thoughtful support. Open communication, careful assessment, and informed guidance help families navigate identity, puberty, and emotional needs while ensuring children feel heard, respected, supported, and consistently loved...

The treatment that never lets the patient leave

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Opioid maintenance treatment raises questions about how medicine defines recovery. Regulatory pressure, medical education, and financial incentives favor continued enrollment, while pathways toward ending treatment receive less attention. The debate centers on whether success means retaining patients indefinitely or helping them pursue independence from treatment...

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Against the lockdown consensus: Jay Bhattacharya on censorship and scientific dissent

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – The critic has administrative authority, budgets, personnel, grant policy, and the constraints that come with governing. His old claims can be read beside his present stewardship. The argument of 2023 was that institutions must tolerate correction. The question after 2025 is whether an institution can be corrected from the chair at its head...

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RFK Jr., measles and the battle over public health, Q&A #209

America Out Loud PULSE with Malcolm Out Loud and Dr. Stephanie Coxon – Can you give me a summary of the COVID-19 vax mechanism that is causing harm? Do you think stem cell injections in this type of situation could be a problem? Is there a possibility that shedding from the close encounter with her husband could be the cause of her Alzheimer’s?

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What Charlie Kirk’s death revealed about America

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Robin Armstrong – His death should have called us toward unity and reflection. Instead, too many on the left responded with gloating, conspiracy, and contempt. That reaction reveals a deeper sickness. When politics becomes so poisonous that an opponent’s murder is treated as a cause for celebration, the republic is in danger. Yet there is another lesson here...

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When doctors stop asking why: The crisis in American medicine

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Angelina Farella – The real scandal in American medicine is not only cost. It is the steady loss of curiosity. Patients with complex symptoms are often treated like checklists instead of human beings. If the first round of labs is “normal,” the search stops. If the problem is not obvious, the answer becomes dismissal. People are left to carry the burden of being told...

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John Tamny on debt, innovation, oil and Bitcoin

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – John Tamny challenges conventional economics with contrarian views on national debt, taxation, innovation, oil, and Bitcoin. He argues that markets reveal what political narratives miss while exploring entrepreneurial risk, stable currency, and California’s appeal. His perspective raises questions about how societies finance discovery and growth...

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Edward Dutton and the ‘borderline’ women who shaped history

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Edward Dutton examines whether borderline personality traits help shape the creativity, influence, and turbulent relationships of prominent women. His book connects historical biographies with psychological theories while raising questions about retrospective diagnosis, cultural incentives, and the complex relationship between mental illness, genius, and public power...

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Crisis of confidence! Measles. Vaccines. Statins. Q&A #208

America Out Loud PULSE with Malcolm Out Loud and Dr. Angie Farella – They watched institutions defend mandates with a certainty that later looked more like arrogance than science. That memory still lives in the public mind, and it should. The same pattern is now being repeated with measles, flu, COVID, cholesterol, and every other health issue that can be turned into a talking point...

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Dallas Midterm Convention puts Republicans’ future in focus

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Robin Armstrong – We'll preview the upcoming historic Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas. President Donald J Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Cabinet leaders, and many more will be present in Dallas, showcasing Republican achievements and contrasting Republicans’ vision for America with the Democratic Socialists’ dark vision for our great Nation...

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Transgender medicine and the “coalition of the fringes”

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Wilfred Reilly examines transgender medicine, biological sex, testosterone use, gender-affirming care, women’s sports, and political coalition-building. He argues that medical transition, identity-based policy, and addiction reform reveal broader conflicts between ideology, physical reality, incentives, and the practical standards people apply within families and wider society...

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Retsef Levi was early, not wrong on COVID vaccines

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – MIT professor Retsef Levi challenges COVID-19 vaccine policy, citing safety signals, cardiac risks, shifting efficacy claims, censorship, and the need for individualized medical judgment. His warnings gain institutional recognition as health authorities reconsider universal recommendations and questions of patient autonomy, uncertainty, and trust persist today...

Exposing the geoengineering cartel, Q&A #207

America Out Loud PULSE with Malcolm Out Loud and Dr. Clayton J. Baker – Malcolm is right to call this a cartel. The same playbook that normalized gain-of-function research, hidden partnerships, and manufactured public consent is now visible in another arena. Power operates best when it stays out of sight, gaslights the public, and wraps itself in the language of science, safety, and...

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Race, class, politics: Manufactured divisions weakening America

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Robin Armstrong – America is in a crisis of culture. Who do people say that we are? What do people think we believe in? We are a great Nation, founded on principles of faith and freedom. When we all unify around these principles, our Nation will come together, and we can launch into our next 250 years...

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