Despite the fact that Trump’s just-announced funding freeze could negatively impact PEPFAR, I don’t believe for a second that he is going to let this program, and the people it serves, languish.
Connect the Dots: Trump, Public Health, and the Third World Continue Reading
A conspiracy is simply two or more people or organizations working in tandem to perpetrate a nefarious crime or fraud…or conceal or cover up activities that, if exposed, would harm certain people and organizations.
It is time to reveal to the public the political interference that supported the Facebook takedowns. If Facebook wants to make amends, it needs to revisit its past mistakes and assess the impact its mistaken policy had during the pandemic.
As both physicians and citizens, we must wean ourselves from the false idol of centralized planning, utilitarianism, socialism, a nanny state bureaucracy, and a conflicted medical elite that seeks to optimize equality of outcomes.
Western “Public Health”: A Socialist Vanguard Continue Reading
Like Napoleon’s troops, the legions of cognitive warriors from the myriad government-financed, non-governmental organizations are sure they have arrived at the end of history when it comes to understanding what it means to live a free and dignified life.
Peter Bauer pointed out that foreign aid is the means by which poor people in rich countries are forced to give money to rich people in poor countries. How else are the families of African dictators to maintain their mansions?
The state can only expand into the vacuum left by weakened men and disconnected women. Those who recognize this pattern face a simple choice: remain comfortable spectators in our own decline, or reclaim the authentic virtues that make us human.
On December 6, 2024, a federal judge ordered the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to release documents related to the emergency use authorisation of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. These documents had been hidden from public view.
FDA Misled the Judiciary about Pfizer’s Vaccine Documents Continue Reading
USAID has been an integral part of this problem. We can hope that those tasked with sorting out the mess this institution created have the wisdom and compassion to rapidly sift the wheat from the chaff and minimize further harm.
The attempt to codify the concept that individualism is a threat to health into international law, through the draft Pandemic Agreement, should alarm us all. Those advocating this change should reflect on why we have designated the individual as primary.
Individualism: The Basis of Public Health or Its Nemesis? Continue Reading
Many other places are likely still enforcing these mandates. I am against pointless oppression. Well, at least pointless from a public health perspective—but very useful for generating demand for the big pharmaceutical corporations that manufacture these vaccines.
Unless the U.S. can streamline its biodefense system and balance security with diplomacy, we will continue to play a costly game of catch-up—spending billions only to be left in a precarious position when the next true biothreat materializes.
ASPR and BARDA: Bureaucratic Dysfunction in Biodefense Continue Reading
