July 21, 2026, post.  I was born into a family of mostly women.  I always have the problem of inattention (undiagnosed ADHD?).  But my grandma and Amah (nanny) were always there for me when I was a preteenager.   They gave me a lot of leeway, like whenever I was sent out to a nearby grocery store (less than 150 yards from our garden) to get something, I often got distracted on my way and  forgot what I was supposed to get.  I had to go home to ask.  Which happened quite often, but I was never reprimanded.  They also let me alone building little gadgets, painting, or just in deep thought that most people consider daydreaming

Can you imagine if I were born in a country like ours now with all these synthetic drugs but clueless and incompetent yes-men in charge?   They would drug me to try to make me do better in school; but the final aim would be to please and enrich their boss by selling more drugs?

Regardless, when I got older, my older sister protected me from school bullies; and later my younger sister helped me in other ways.  Then in college in Taiwan, because of my slowness in transferring what I hear onto paper, I could not take notes.   A couple of women classmates noticed my struggle. They lent me their notes to copy, otherwise I wouldn’t be here today, because I would flunk too many subjects I didn’t like.

So, I always have a lot of respect for women.   Without them, I would not have done what needed to be done to get my BS, MS, and PhD degrees and later build a reputation in my diversified fields.  When I was building my career and companies, I hired competent female  assistants as well.   Realizing my handicaps, they took over the tedious menial work, at their insistence, so that I could concentrate on writing, planning, and traveling. 

I believe women are the ones who will eventually resolve our country’s poor health.  We have arrived at this condition because of two things:

1. We have ignored the inherently toxic nature of synthetic drugs, hence their toxic impurities as well.  This property creates side effects and new diseases that require more new drugs to treat, leading to the perpetual vicious cycle (VC).  
2. This VC is used by greedy businessmen who (unlike women with mother instinct) have no compassion for others and turn this VC into a perpetuating high-income business. 

This VC does not benefit anyone else other than the makers of toxic drugs and their interdependent associates (insurance agents, investors, pushers, crooked politicians, etc.).  Most people, including those involved in the money-raking aspect of the VC don’t realize its ugly side.  If they do, I still think many of the greedy men will continue to get involved in it. 

In my next post, I’ll repeat how the VC was created decades ago which has caused fellow Americans such poor health.  Yet most of my technical (scientific) colleagues seem to ignore it or are unaware of it.  By now, this vicious cycle as I have described should be searchable online, or in my last book published in 2018, My Life & Rollercoaster Career (CreateSpace/Amazon, 548 pages).