The shift may prove to be one of the most consequential public health developments of the decade, and it suggests that something significant is moving behind the scenes in the federal agencies that once seemed immovable.
CDC Quietly Rewrites Its Vaccine–Autism Guidance Read Journal Article
This study does not show that community masking reduces the healthcare burden of diseases associated with respiratory illnesses, which was the justification for mandating face masks during the pandemic. Hand hygiene is likely to be more effective.
Does New Study on Masks Show That They Work? Read Journal Article
Autism has long been the untouchable subject in American politics. For decades, federal agencies tiptoed around it, steering research toward genetics while avoiding controversial environmental or pharmaceutical questions. That ended when President Donald Trump tore through the taboo.
Trump Blows Open Autism Debate Read Journal Article
If we can’t test claims, challenge data, or ask uncomfortable questions without fear of retribution, then we no longer have science — we have marketing. The weaponisation of science ends only when truth becomes more valuable than profit.
The Weaponisation of Science Read Journal Article
A vaccine manufacturer launched defamation proceedings against researchers who published a study that reported adverse events in people following Covid-19 vaccination. The manufacturer sued the editor of the journal that published the study and demanded that the article be retracted.
Journal Pressured to Retract Study on Covid-19 Vaccine Harms Read Journal Article
In 2017, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Under the MOU, the two entities agreed to share information to “facilitate the development of innovative products, including medical countermeasures,” such as diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics to combat disease transmission during a pandemic.
The FDA’s Ties to the Gates Foundation Read Journal Article
Encouraging people to diagnose their own depression and buy medication without a prescription – medication which has an unfavourable benefit:harm profile in most people and is difficult to stop taking – is a very bad idea.
Antidepressants for Everyone Read Journal Article
The HHS report is more than a policy review—it is a warning. It reveals that thousands of children have been placed on a path of irreversible medicalisation without the safeguards expected in any other area of healthcare.
Gender-Affirming Care for Minors under Fire Read Journal Article
This unexpected move is said to be the final nail in the coffin for the bill that intended to grant the media watchdog unprecedented regulatory powers to oversee digital content and determine what is ‘misinformation.’
Australia’s Misinformation Bill Is Dead…for Now Read Journal Article
What the hearing revealed was not Kennedy’s weakness but the desperation of his critics — senators clinging to captured institutions, hurling insults and posturing for the cameras. For all the talk of “science,” what unfolded was politics at its dirtiest.
Savages in the Senate: Kennedy Ambushed in a Game of Dirty Politics Read Journal Article
