It is time for the FDA to implement a major revision in the approval of the Covid vaccine and the flu vaccine. It is not enough to show effectiveness against symptomatic infection by the test-negative design or by rising antibody titers.
Injected Vaccines, Mucosal Immunity, and Incoherent Estimates of Effectiveness Continue Reading
STAT published an account describing a meeting in which Beth Høeg presented evidence of young people who had died after Covid vaccination. According to STAT, her findings triggered pushback from career FDA regulators who feared the implications of acknowledging fatal cases.
A Reckoning Is Underway at the FDA Continue Reading
Mammography screening is harmful and general health checks are also harmful. Like breast screening, they detect many things that should not have been treated because they are either insignificant or will disappear again.
General Health Checks Are Harmful Continue Reading
There are important parallels between the fight for health freedom and the success that advocates of the Second Amendment have achieved. By learning from the success of 2A advocates, supporters of health freedom can change the culture and legal precedent.
Health Freedom: The Smoking Gun Continue Reading
There are moments in public health when the path forward is unusually clear, when the evidence aligns with behavior, and when policy has a genuine opportunity to reduce harm at scale. This should be one of those moments.
Marty Makary: The FDA’s Quiet Blockade on Safer Nicotine Continue Reading
There are many – too many – intellectual sources, contemporary as well as throughout the history of the world, from which I could draw to answer it in a very provisional manner, so I’ll have to be selective, but here goes.
What (and How) Should Our Students Be Taught Today? Continue Reading
Current guidelines (e.g., CDC as of 2025) de-emphasize cocooning as a primary strategy due to implementation challenges and limited evidence supporting standalone effectiveness. Maternal Tdap vaccination during pregnancy is now prioritized for direct antibody transfer to the infant.
Cocooning by Way of the Tdap Vaccine Continue Reading
I was not a close observer of the case, but the win seemed to hinge on documents obtained during discovery that revealed Monsanto knew a great deal about the injuries its product caused but deliberately hid those findings.
To Win at All Costs Continue Reading
You never let go. You never abandon your child, no matter what. You keep trying and loving them and that is what I see in the story we’re reading in the news about Nick Reiner’s parents. True love.
The Hardships That People Mask Continue Reading
Reform efforts have been met with frustration. The entire machinery is set up to resist the influence of a politically hostile takeover. For example, Moderna has been given the green light to further develop the technology for a flu shot.
What If the FDA Were Eliminated? Continue Reading
The Labour-led British government is attempting to hollow out an ancient pillar of English constitutionalism, trial by jury. Under their reforms, trial by jury would survive in England and Wales for certain types of crimes, but its use would be curtailed.
Jury Trials Are Vital to the Constitutional Order Continue Reading
War is likely to persist. Medicine, however, must remain steadfast, anchored in principles that transcend conflict, ideology, and time. It should not become a weapon but must remain a profession dedicated to the care of each individual, regardless of circumstance.
When War Teaches Medicine Continue Reading
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