The Drug Pricing Scramble
Trump’s executive order could put in motion a range of policy changes that will put consumers back in charge of the medical marketplace and begin to whittle away at the awesome power of the medical cartels.
Gender-Affirming Care for Minors under Fire
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.
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Elections in Canada, England, and Australia
In a rare confluence, Canada, Britain, and Australia held elections within a week of one another, although in Britain’s case, these were local elections in England. Yet England’s local elections may turn out to be the most consequential.
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Commentary on the WHO’s Draft Pandemic Agreement: Pointless Verbiage
The language continues to contradict previous WHO understanding and public health norms, promoting whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches rather than proportionate measures that minimize long-term harm, and ignores the basic policy requirement of considering any resource allocations against other competing priorities.
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Trump Issues Executive Order on Gain-of-Function Studies
This is an excellent start to taking the threat of lab-derived pandemics seriously. Obviously, we need a global ban and global enforcement. The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) could be strengthened to meet this need.
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Small Reforms to Improve the US Medical System
None of these eight reforms rub hard on ideological wounds. All are about respecting individual choice. They would amount to the first major steps toward creating parallel systems of experimentation, all within the framework of the existing system.
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Why California Matters
It’s never as easy as “blame” or “fault” or stringing up the bad guy, and then we can all go home. This is a policy and system problem, which is way bigger than any one individual in that system.
Making Sense of Trump’s Tariffs
Trump’s instinct may well be right that globalisation had shifted the trading balance to America’s net disadvantage, and the new equilibrium that settles after his rupture of the existing world trading order will reposition the US to recover lost ground.
RFK Junior Attacked for His Stance on Psychotropic Meds
True, Kennedy is not a psychiatrist. But as a lawyer who has spent decades exposing the failures of public health institutions, he understands where scrutiny is needed. Moreover, Kennedy is not issuing medical directives—he is demanding accountability.
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The People’s Property and Income in the Hands of Bureaucrats
The only way to bring public spending back in line with citizens’ interests and ensure it is not hijacked by pet projects is to introduce constitutional and structural reforms that anchor public finances more firmly in local communities and governments.
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Fake Contagions Make Real Survivors
Killing survivors, which is the current USDA policy, is certifiably insane. But it whips the nation into a fearful frenzy, ready to buy eggs from Turkey so we won’t starve to death. The conventional narrative reeks of anti-science and fraud.
A First Step Towards Autonomy in Medical Education
Last week a brief was delivered to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s Chief of Staff, urging inclusion of medical training schools in the implementation guidance for President Trump’s Executive Order, “Keeping Education Accessible and Ending Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools.”
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