Yes, it feels like a deal with the devil. But taking the broader view, unlike the past decade of pharma supremacy, this time the devil didn’t write the contract. Trump did.
Strategy over Optics: Trump’s Most Favored Nation Status on Drug Prices Continue Reading
The overall intent of the US global health strategy seems good – it just reads as if not all their writers and strategists are on board with it. If it is to work, a more cohesive approach will be needed.
A Step Forward but Still in the Mud: The New United States Global Health Strategy Continue Reading
The CDC has claimed that influenza vaccines reduce hospitalisations and mortality even though the randomised trials did not find this. The CDC did not provide a single comment that its claims were based on deeply flawed case-control studies.
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.
No more taboo zones. No more gaslighting. No more performative genetics while incidence climbs. An uncompromising, relentless search for causes, mechanisms, and treatments—backed by labels, grants, and coverage—finally begins.
United States Announces Revolutionary Reform in Autism Research and Treatment Continue Reading
We can argue about just how much democracy is desirable in a republic where the rights of the individual are supposed to stand paramount to the whims of the demos, but all of us can agree on a basic issue.
Whatever the underlying issues, it is time everyone stopped pretending the Covid response was anything but a mess, or that we did not know it would be. There is still a place for truth.
The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake – It Was Just Wrong Continue Reading
May all your carrots grow long and straight. May tomato blossom end rot affect your Monsanto neighbor’s tomatoes. May the coyotes be struck blind at your pasture chickens. May all of your culinary experiments be delectably palatable.
Pfizer’s reply to President Trump’s very reasonable call for transparency of data regarding their latest edition of their modified-mRNA Covid injections is nothing less than an insult to the intelligence of every reader, including the President himself.
5 Reasons Pfizer’s Reply to President Trump Is Complete Rubbish Continue Reading
Dr. Redfield should be commended for speaking with more candor, but I wish he had made these points or shared these views four years ago. If he had, the origin narrative might have been starkly different.
Former CDC Director Believes in ‘Early Spread’ Continue Reading
The CDC’s failures during the Covid-19 pandemic were not just bureaucratic errors. Unless we act now, the next public health crisis will expose an even weaker, more distrusted CDC — one that Americans may simply ignore from the outset.
I changed my doctoral thesis topic to “The Political Economy of Autism” and spent the next four years reading and analyzing nearly everything that has been written on autism prevalence, causation, and cost.
Toby Rogers’ Statement to the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Continue Reading
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