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NIH Director Details Crackdown on Fees Monopoly Publishers Charge

NIH Director Details Crackdown on Fees Monopoly Publishers Charge

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In an exclusive interview with The DisInformation Chronicle, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya explains his latest policy to control monopoly science publishers now raking in hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers.

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Rethinking US Global Health Funding: Welcome, and Long Overdue

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We agree that the international community should continue to support less-resourced members. However, we disagree that this should consist of perpetual and increasing payments to centralized agencies such as GFATM, GAVI, and the Pandemic Fund, or donor bureaucracies like USAID.

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Retsef Levi Explains His Vote against Routine RSV Monoclonal Use in Newborns

Retsef Levi Explains His Vote against Routine RSV Monoclonal Use in Newborns

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Levi is no stranger to weighing risk. A professor at MIT with deep experience in data analytics and risk-based decision-making, he had combed through five clinical trials of RSV monoclonals, including clesrovimab and its predecessor, nirsevimab.

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Did Covid Vaccines Really Save Millions?

Did Covid Vaccines Really Save Millions?

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Our research team undertook a structured, step-by-step evaluation of the empirical foundations of the “millions saved” narrative. We critically examined the hypothetical statistical models that produced this extraordinary figure, as well as multiple randomized controlled trials and large-scale observational studies.

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