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Behind the Choice for CDC Director
President Trump has nominated Susan Monarez for the Director of the CDC. This has sent shock waves through the MAHA community, as they were expecting a Covid-era celebrity to take up the reins.
The Blinders of Ideology
The path forward is for us to abandon the outdated dichotomies through which we formerly interpreted politics and the world and instead turn our attention to how to make the world more and more human and less and less inhuman.
Science Magazine Attacks the Journal of the Academy of Public Health
Days after the Journal of the Academy of Public Health’s official launch, Science Magazine criticised it in a news item. A scientist wrote that the fact that Science feared our new journal suggested that we were on the right track.
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The Post-Lockdown Disorientation in the Arts
Snow White opened with devastating reviews and empty theaters coast to coast. It’s fascinating to reflect on how this film got caught in the cultural crosshairs. To understand it, we need to return to 2020 and the lockdowns.
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FDA Finally Stops Amyl Nitrate “Poppers” but Still Permits Illicit Nitrous Oxide Sales
While the FDA has finally taken steps to close a regulatory loophole regarding “poppers” and amyl nitrate right before Trump’s FDA commissioner has taken office, they haven’t advanced regulatory action on illicit marketing, sales, and abuse of nitrous oxide.
LinkedIn and Soul-Sucking Corporate Pollyannaism
The discursive norms on LinkedIn are a convention, a social practice, a type of theater for the purposes of financial gain. The dialect is an artifice. Corporate Pollyannaism is unconcerned and often contemptuous of the truth.
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Victorian Government Loses Fight to Keep Covid Health Advice Hidden
In the news this week, the incredible lengths taken by the Victorian government to hide the health advice on which its extremist Covid policies were supposedly based. The Victorian Government should have no qualms about releasing its top-secret health advice.
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Academics Reveal That Water Is Transparent
When reading In Covid’s Wake, it becomes immediately clear that its authors, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee, have very little curiosity, never mind understanding, of the immense body of superb research produced outside the academy during the past five years.
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UK and US Vaping Policies Are Headed in Wrong Direction
My sample sizes are small. But if they are robust, they point to terrible outcomes for public health. Smoking is the real threat and any restriction on the vape market will probably lead to an increase in smoking.
UK and US Vaping Policies Are Headed in Wrong Direction Read Journal Article
Japan’s Never-Ending Germophobia
Both conservatives and left-leaning people in Japan usually fail to realize the damage being done here as a result of the Covid measures. However, Japanese Covid dissidents are still keeping up their heroic struggle to make the truth known.
Internal Emails Reveal Merck’s Negligence in Gardasil Safety Testing
A landmark lawsuit against Merck is underway, marking the company’s first jury trial over claims it misrepresented the safety of its profitable Gardasil HPV vaccine. Newly declassified documents have revealed troubling details about Merck’s failure to conduct key safety tests.
Internal Emails Reveal Merck’s Negligence in Gardasil Safety Testing Read Journal Article
Who Controls the Administrative State?
What can be done and how to get from here to there? Trump’s executive order on the Department of Education illustrates the point precisely. His administration is so uncertain of what it can control, even to urge minor reforms.