The New York Times ran an article about efforts to pass medical freedom legislation in states across the nation. The article mischaracterized not only what health freedom advocates like myself seek, but also portrayed medical freedom as unpopular with the electorate.
The Deceptions of the Press and the Why of the Poll Continue Reading
A leaked report prepared for the Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices (ACIP) finds that many people with long-term illness after Covid-19 vaccination have gone largely unrecognised by the medical system meant to monitor vaccine safety.
The real lesson of the pandemic is not about a virus. It is about the courage required to defend the integrity of medicine itself. Physicians must remain free to question, to debate, and to innovate in the service of their patients.
What Covid Policy Did to Doctors Who Refused to Stay Silent Continue Reading
Each year, as our primary means of sewage disposal, millions of tons of toxic sewage sludge, labeled as “biosolids,” are spread as agricultural fertilizer across our nation’s farmland, where rural Americans call home.
The Sludging of Rural America Continue Reading
President Donald Trump’s executive order invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950 to ensure US glyphosate production and availability is neither necessary nor helpful. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s endorsement of the order has created a firestorm in that health-interested base.
Who Needs Glyphosate? Continue Reading
Instead of trying to understand the grievances of their base, the major parties join the elites’ contempt in condescendingly dismissing populist parties as grievance vehicles, holding fast to the belief that their voters will have nowhere else to go.
Is the UK Still a Liberal Democracy? Continue Reading
If policymakers focus on separating normative functions from emergency authority, designing time-bound compacts instead of permanent command structures, and tying funding to measurable outcomes, global health cooperation can be rebuilt without recreating the structural distortions that weakened it.
How to Build a Post-WHO Global Health Architecture Continue Reading
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a referendum for October 19. Albertans will get to say if they want to leave Canada. But Canadian federalists can relax. The Alberta premier is one of them. The referendum is the fix to defeat Alberta independence.
The Fix Is in to Defeat Alberta Independence Continue Reading
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network reports that illicit e-cigarettes are being used as part of trade-based money-laundering schemes linked to fentanyl trafficking. Illegal vaping products are no longer just a regulatory nuisance or a youth-use talking point.
FinCEN’s Warning—and the Predictable Failure of Prohibition Continue Reading
We won’t be fine, here in New York, if our rights are restricted again so that we are absolutely physically helpless against any attack that may come — perhaps from the Mayor, or the donors who put this Mayor into office.
A “Blizzard” Gives Mayor Zohran Mamdani Pretext for a “Climate Lockdown” Continue Reading
So far, EU digital affairs spokesman Thomas Reigner has just said, “On the latest censorship allegations. Pure nonsense. Completely unfounded.” Is Reigner suggesting that a U.S. House Judiciary Committee fabricated emails and notes of meetings between EU officials and digital platform managers?
Republican House Judiciary Committee Report Documents Political Censorship in EU Continue Reading
There was a time when the aspirations of Alma Ata drove public health. If the nations of the G20 seek a more stable world, returning its public health approach to evidence and reality could be a step forward.
Closing the Deal: The Misinforming of the G20 on Pandemics Continue Reading
