Pursuant to the order issued on March 16 in American Academy of Pediatrics et al. v. Kennedy et al., No. 1:25-cv-11916 (D. Mass.), the ACIP meeting previously scheduled for March 18-19 has been stayed until further notice. In light of this notice, I want to outline what should have been addressed at this […]
Consider the below statements. Do any of them resonate? Make you angry? Do some not even merit a response? I can’t tell you exactly how I would respond to a dude who defended Hitler, but I know what I wouldn’t do: stalk him on social media, contact his employer to try to […]
Vanity can make people do stupid things. Want to look better in a bathing suit? Great goal, now with a small potential wrinkle: the treatment your doctor prescribes might be so good you won’t see your fat anymore, because that treatment made you go blind. This latest dispatch from the […]
The sound I remember most from the early days of Covid-19 is not the alarms. It was the silence between them. Intensive care units became Covid wards. Monitors glowed in dark rooms while ventilators pushed air into failing lungs. Nurses, shrouded in protective gear, moved quietly. Families were absent—barred from […]
In my epidemiology coursework, many years ago, I was taught that the smallpox vaccine had eradicated that dreadful disease. It was common knowledge, so I did not question the claim. They did not tell me about favorable time trends in the natural course of other infectious diseases for which there was no […]
[The third author of this article is David Shuldman.] Two hundred and seventy-one. That is the number of serious cardiovascular events reported among adolescents in Israel’s national surveillance system in just a few weeks during mid-2021. This is the core finding of our study, published this week in the International Journal of […]
Iwant to begin with a reminder that often gets lost in public discussions: the Covid mRNA vaccines are genuinely novel medical products. Prior to the emergency authorizations in 2020, mRNA vaccine technology had never been deployed at scale in humans. Only two clinical trials, one from Pfizer-BioNTech and one from Moderna, […]
People are asking about the background to a major effort sponsored by Brownstone Institute and many partnering organizations. It is CovidJustice.org, a proposed Senate resolution on the entire epoch that condemns the bad science and coercion and pledges to do better next time. The petition has already attracted 20K signers in […]
“We are going to have fun,” writes Jeffrey Epstein on December 7, 2009. This phrase is his reply to an email by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Science Advisor (and Scientific Advisor to Bill Gates), Boris Nikolic, who is making a list of “rising stars,” many of them scientists, that they […]
Gardiner Harris’s new book No More Tears, the Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson is scarier than any horror movie you’ll see this year. Iimagine myself facing a skill-testing question, on a topic I know a lot about, prescription drugs: Which American pharmaceutical company holds the record for the most criminal and […]