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Explore topics like vaccine trials, post-pandemic public sentiment, cancer screening dilemmas, weight loss drugs, food systems, digital ID, antidepressants, pandemic profit motives, collapse in public trust, and paths to evidence-based reform, personal freedoms, and a healthier society.

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Mechanisms of Harm

Vaccine Misunderstanding…or Intentional Deception?

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With Covid-19 we were told that vaccination was our only way out of the pandemic, that natural immunity from prior infection was insufficient protection, and that the Covid vaccines were 95% effective. Except it wasn’t, because “95% effective” was based on obfuscation.

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The Rise and Fall of Scientific Journals and a Way Forward

The Rise and Fall of Scientific Journals and a Way Forward

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Scientific journals have had enormous positive impact on the development of science, but in some ways, they are now hampering rather than enhancing open scientific discourse. After reviewing the history and current problems with journals, a new academic publishing model is proposed.

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Bootleggers and Bureaucrats Agree on Global Health

Bootleggers and Bureaucrats Agree on Global Health

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Effective global health governance requires mechanisms that check virtue with evidence, constrain expansion with accountability, and remind bureaucracies that their legitimacy derives from results, not rhetoric. Institutions should serve the public good — not their own survival.

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A Call for Peer Re-Reviews of Articles on Covid Vaccines

A Call for Peer Re-Reviews of Articles on Covid Vaccines

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Matters got worse during the pandemic. Studies that praised the Covid vaccines were quickly certified “peer reviewed,” whereas critical, post-publication peer review was suppressed. As a result, we now have a historical collection of published poor science.

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