The David Tatman Show

23/09/2025

🧠💊 A Lesson from the Past Worth Remembering 🧠💊

Once upon a time, doctors recommended giving children aspirin to treat fevers from things like the flu or chickenpox. Then, something terrifying started happening—perfectly healthy kids would suddenly develop brain swelling, liver failure, and many didn’t survive. The condition was called Reye’s Syndrome.

At first, the link between aspirin and Reye’s was controversial. The medical community was cautious. They said “correlation isn’t causation.” They wanted more data. And while they waited, kids kept getting sick.

It wasn’t until the Surgeon General issued warnings and labels were added to aspirin bottles that behavior changed—and almost overnight, Reye’s cases dropped dramatically.

Let that sink in: One simple warning saved countless lives.

Today, we’re having debates again—about what we put in our bodies, about medications and long-term effects, about what counts as “proven.” Whether it’s Tylenol, vaccines, or AI-generated medical advice, we should remember what history teaches us:

🔹 Waiting for perfect proof can cost lives.
🔹 Caution isn’t paranoia—it’s wisdom.
🔹 Public health isn’t about fear, it’s about responsibility.

Let’s not ignore the lessons of Reye’s Syndrome.

Sometimes, when enough warning signs flash, you don’t wait for the fire to spread—you pull the alarm.

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24/05/2024

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26/03/2024

Happy for those who benefit from this…sad for those who lost their jobs because of it.

Chains lay off workers and shave hours ahead of a state minimum-wage increase; California fast food workers will earn $20 an hour starting in April.

26/03/2024

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11/03/2024

Kiran is always first on the scene.

A woman shot in Tigerland Monday afternoon was rushed to a hospital but died of her injuries at the hospital.

28/02/2024

George Orwell (1903-1950) once wrote that "history stopped" in 1936.

Truth after that point was drowned out by state propaganda. It was a phenomenon that clearly terrified him.

"I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed.

I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened.

I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’.”

When I first read this quote, which comes from his 1943 essay “Looking back on the Spanish War,” I didn't have any idea what Orwell was talking about.

Today, I understand exactly what he was talking about.

And that terrifies me.

05/02/2024

Powerful stuff! Written and published in the 60s.

Paul Harvey was an American radio broadcaster. He originally broadcast this on April 3rd, 1965. We watched it this weekend as we learned about why God must b...

07/12/2023

Mental health issues continue to plague our country. People die as result of a lack of services. Can we afford aid to other countries and ignore our own domestic needs. Before people start blaming this on guns, let’s address mental health services. https://advocate-la.newsmemory.com/?publink=069ad33bc_134ae4b

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06/12/2023

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03/12/2023

Do you feel safer now. Leaders keep telling us how great it is? What do you think?

One person is dead, and several others are injured after a shooting at a trail ride Saturday night.