We Could, We Should, We Must
The lesson wasn’t “trust your gut.” It was that the distance between a fringe academic exercise and a thing that happens to half a million people is shorter than it is comfortable to admit.
From Baric’s Blueprint to SV40 and Back Again
This work exemplifies dual-use (civilian + military) research of concern: the very same tools developed for pandemic preparedness and biodefense can be readily applied to engineer viruses with enhanced pathogenicity, transmissibility, or immune evasion.
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Ebola in DRC: The Reality and the Media Hype
We are to believe, according to some public health voices and media, that the Ebola outbreak in Ituri in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a threat to us all. It is a story full of obvious flaws.
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The Spindle-Proofing Business
There is a whole lot of seemingly coordinated panic right now around AI. I’ve written extensively about the legitimate, existential dangers we do need to address in technology. But my spidey sense tells me this current fever pitch isn’t that.
What Lessons Can We Learn from Wendell Berry?
The biosecurity State, which is too content to hover over an unhealthy population, thrives on abstraction and fear of the bodies that populate it. Berry’s counter is concrete and affectionate. Love a place…even when everything conspires to make it unlovable.
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Food Labeling Should Not Be This Hard
Even more absurd though is the fact that this is happening in an era in which so much focus is placed on food freedom and so much attention is given to the relationship between what we eat and chronic disease.
The Cocooning Racket Needs to End
That the CDC even now would push out such propaganda with no basis in science is an outrage because it divides families, spreads lies, and robs people of the joy of observing new life.
A Hall of Mirrors of the Healthy Vaccinee Effect
All studies that use observational data to infer vaccine effectiveness and/or safety likely suffer from major distortions due to HVE. All claims about Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness and safety based on observational data are, therefore, probably misleading and should be revised.
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Medicine Has Forgotten How to Touch the Patient
If someday a patient can pass through an entire medical encounter without being truly examined, we should ask ourselves: have we created the most technologically advanced medicine in history, while simultaneously forgetting how to practice medicine?
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Why I Don’t Trust Legacy Media
Such explosive charges—a CIA coverup, Fauci’s complicity, and the misguided approval of Covid vaccines—should have ignited a media inferno, instead we got a cold frost. No front-page headline from the New York Times, no angry Washington Post editorial.
Inside the Safety Record Behind Israel’s Early Myocarditis Warning to Global Health Authorities
Israel, the “world’s laboratory” of the vaccination campaign, sounded the warning by the end of February 2021. The CDC and EMA were warned. Pfizer received the detailed reports. More than five years later, the record is finally public.
Dear Colleagues: A Documentary History
I received a note saying the department would be having a celebration of my career. I wrote that I was out of the country and would not be back on the date they proposed. They said that the celebration would go on without me.