At the turn of the century, America held unchallengeable sway in the world, its economy the strongest and most dynamic, its military the most powerful, its globe-spanning alliances unrivalled, and its global leadership uncontested. The year 2001 seemed to be the pivot on which everything began heading south, with 9/11 […]
There was a time when debates about determinism and free will belonged to philosophy departments and late-night dorm room conversations. They were enjoyable precisely because they seemed harmless. Whatever the answer, life went on. Courts judged, doctors decided, teachers taught, and politicians were still—at least nominally—held responsible for their actions. […]
The Washington Post recently published a detailed investigation showing that childhood vaccination rates across the United States are falling sharply, particularly for measles. Fewer counties now meet the 95 percent coverage level commonly associated with herd immunity, and millions of children attend schools in communities below that threshold. On the basics, it’s true […]
Afew months after the horrendous slaughter of World War I had been unleashed by the “guns of August 1914,” soldiers along the Western Front famously broke into spontaneous truces of Christmas celebration, song, and even exchange of gifts. For a brief moment they wondered why they were juxtaposed in lethal combat along […]
(For the purposes of this essay, we will focus on fatal outcomes of multiple simultaneous injections, although nonfatal harms from this practice are also real and even more common.) The Fourth Big Lie of Vaccinology – declaring multiple simultaneous injections to be safe – is a reckless and sometimes deadly […]
Introduction In the past, medical judgment was underpinned by three fundamental pillars: honest observation, open debate, and the humility to acknowledge our limitations in knowledge. While these principles still thrive in the day-to-day interactions within clinics and ICU corridors, they have been increasingly overshadowed online by a chaotic environment that […]
Among the many incredible revelations over the past five years is the extent of the power of the pharmaceutical companies. Through advertising, they have been able to shape media content. That in turn has affected digital content companies, which responded from 2020 onward by taking down posts that questioned the […]
To some readers it may seem like a rhetorical question to ask whether the narrative of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984), first published in Britain in 1949, has somehow left its pages and settled, like an ominous miasma, over the contours of social reality. Yet, closer inspection – which means […]
As discussed in the introductory essay in this series, standard doctrine surrounding vaccines – pertaining to clinical trials, licensing, marketing, and vaccination schedules – is largely a pseudoscientific façade, constructed on a shaky foundation of falsehoods. In this series, we examine each of the five Big Lies propping up vaccinology, […]
In December 2024, Congress did something unusual: it introduced a bill that openly acknowledges tobacco harm reduction. The POUCH Act of 2024, sponsored by Rep. Jack Bergman (R-MI) and co-sponsored by Rep. Don Davis (D-NC), aims to prevent states and cities from banning or restricting FDA–authorized lower-risk products, including modern nicotine pouches […]