Synformation: Epistemic Capture Meets AI
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.
ACIP Attacked for Urging ‘Shared Decision-Making’
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.
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Peer Review Is Broken—Here’s How to Fix It
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.
The WHO Is Building a Supranational Vaccine Authorization Mechanism
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.
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Injected Vaccines, Mucosal Immunity, and Incoherent Estimates of Effectiveness
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.
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A Reckoning Is Underway at the FDA
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.
Health Freedom: The Smoking Gun
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.
Marty Makary: The FDA’s Quiet Blockade on Safer Nicotine
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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Cocooning by Way of the Tdap Vaccine
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.
What If the FDA Were Eliminated?
Reform efforts have been met with frustration. The entire machinery is set up to resist the influence of a politically hostile takeover. For example, Moderna has been given the green light to further develop the technology for a flu shot.
Crunch Time for the WHO
The polarised debate on the World Health Organization (WHO) has been based more on mud-slinging and all-or-nothing dogma than scientific evidence and empirical data. However, with trust plummeting in public health, change is needed.
Suicide Should Not Be a Government Service
The core and constant concept: at the request of an eligible individual, the government administers death either by euthanasia through a lethal injection delivered by a clinician or by assisted suicide through self-administered medication that is facilitated by a clinician.