Making Sense of Medical Science (MSMS)

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Steve Clark, PhD is a retired university professor with a PhD in immunology and a past Special Fellow of the Leukemia Society of America. Clark has published dozens of papers based on his research and holds two drug patents. He taught medical and graduate students about cancer biology and genetics, and about research ethics. He also directed an NIH-funded PhD Graduate Program and chaired several executive-level faculty committees. Clark served on the University Chancellor’s Speaker’s Bureau. While retired, Clark has been blogging on the COVID pandemic, which is the subject of his next book.

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  • COVID: Don’t Touch My Junk

    Well, we now know that the organs of the male reproductive system, including the prostate, testicles, and penis actually can be infected by the COVID virus an, thus, have their functions compromised. This can result in erectile dysfunction, decreased testosterone, and reduced sperm levels in 60-75% of infected patients…

  • Is Intentional COVID Vax Disinformation Criminal?

    The Kaiser Family Foundation found that between June 2021 and March 2022, 234,000 deaths could have been prevented with COVID vaccinations. Vaccine disinformation that convinces people to avoid being immunized against the virus that causes COVID, undoubtedly caused many of these deaths.

  • The Long Haul, Part 3: Long Neurological COVID

    Researchers have pretty well cataloged the unusual range of long COVID’s neurological symptoms and now are at the very early stages of understanding their causes and how to treat the problems.