The question is whether the public and policymakers will rush to embrace this familiar script, or whether they have become more capable of recognizing how it is used to expand the power of institutions in which public trust has eroded.
Return of the Next Pandemic Script Continue Reading
As this plays out, public health messaging becomes increasingly incoherent and detached from reality until several cases of hantavirus among tourists on a cruise ship, out of up to 100,000 expected this year, appear as an international crisis.
Hantavirus, the WHO, and the Conflicts in Weighing Mortality Continue Reading
After three years of negotiation under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Pandemic Agreement was adopted. In reality, the vote was a provisional outcome of an incomplete treaty which postponed decisions on a number of contentious articles.
Divided by Contagion: Health as Sovereign Responsibility Continue Reading
We have to find some way forward to determine objective truth, or the Golden Rule of Synformation will not only destroy “democracy” via AI-based epistemic capture, but it will also destroy human civilization.
Synformation: Epistemic Capture Meets AI Continue Reading
If public health wants to regain credibility, it must stop treating vaccination as a protected category exempt from normal ethical standards. Every medical decision begins with a conversation — and it seems ACIP is pointing back in that direction.
ACIP Attacked for Urging ‘Shared Decision-Making’ Continue Reading
For this system to ultimately take the place of the current peer-review system, universities would need to embrace it and figure out how to evaluate scholars’ productivity for the purposes of granting tenure and so forth.
Peer Review Is Broken—Here’s How to Fix It Continue Reading
The materials point to something more consequential: the use of an international emergency authorization pathway to shape regulatory decisions inside a sovereign state, advanced through overlapping professional networks, without the organization assuming the legal responsibilities borne by national regulators.
The WHO Is Building a Supranational Vaccine Authorization Mechanism Continue Reading
It is time for the FDA to implement a major revision in the approval of the Covid vaccine and the flu vaccine. It is not enough to show effectiveness against symptomatic infection by the test-negative design or by rising antibody titers.
Injected Vaccines, Mucosal Immunity, and Incoherent Estimates of Effectiveness Continue Reading
STAT published an account describing a meeting in which Beth Høeg presented evidence of young people who had died after Covid vaccination. According to STAT, her findings triggered pushback from career FDA regulators who feared the implications of acknowledging fatal cases.
A Reckoning Is Underway at the FDA Continue Reading
There are important parallels between the fight for health freedom and the success that advocates of the Second Amendment have achieved. By learning from the success of 2A advocates, supporters of health freedom can change the culture and legal precedent.
Health Freedom: The Smoking Gun Continue Reading
There are moments in public health when the path forward is unusually clear, when the evidence aligns with behavior, and when policy has a genuine opportunity to reduce harm at scale. This should be one of those moments.
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Current guidelines (e.g., CDC as of 2025) de-emphasize cocooning as a primary strategy due to implementation challenges and limited evidence supporting standalone effectiveness. Maternal Tdap vaccination during pregnancy is now prioritized for direct antibody transfer to the infant.
Cocooning by Way of the Tdap Vaccine Continue Reading
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