Now, Levi is no longer just a dissenter. He has been appointed chair of the CDC’s new Covid-19 vaccine working group, and with its Terms of Reference, the scale of his task has come into sharp focus.
ACIP Launches Sweeping Covid-19 Vaccine Review Under Retsef Levi Continue Reading
If an advisory committee rebuilt under promises of independence can be steered by incomplete presentations, the issue goes beyond one antibody. At stake is whether ACIP can live up to its role as a truly independent arbiter of risks and benefits.
What ACIP Wasn’t Shown Continue Reading
I’m working on a story that will try to debunk a nonsensical and specious claim made by the Alabama Education Association that “sixty-five” Alabama educators died from Covid in the first 18 months of the pandemic.
In Six Years, Have Any Healthy Alabama Students Died from Covid? Continue Reading
Health now means medicine. When you go to the doctor, do they ask you how much water you drink and the amount of sunlight you absorb every day, or do they ask you what pills you are popping?
Is Modern Medicine a Sham? Continue Reading
While male health seemed to bounce back, mortality and disabilities in women continue to rise above earlier trends and are not expected to solve themselves soon. This might cause a fundamental change in the dynamics of the gender mortality gap.
A Hidden Post-Pandemic Decline of Female Health Continue Reading
Failure to create ICD-10 codes for PCVS would be to ignore the reality of the syndrome, leaving the sick to face the grim consequences of inaction – left adrift in a medical system unwilling to acknowledge our existence and desperate need for treatment.
The Creation of New ICD-10 Codes for Post-Covid Vaccine Syndrome Continue Reading
According to a recent article in the BBC, some person at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology was given 10 million dollars by the Wellcome Trust to start making new designer DNA. Because our DNA is such a crapshoot.
New Designer DNA by the Wellcome Trust Continue Reading
Welcome to the SSRI marriage apocalypse: a phenomenon so widespread that entire online communities have formed to support its casualties. Spouses gathering in digital refugee camps, comparing notes about partners who transformed into unrecognizable strangers after starting antidepressants.
Your Spouse Started Antidepressants and Became a Stranger Continue Reading
The era of corporate EBM is over, and the future of medicine is decentralized, N-of-1, non-corporate, non-government, person-to-person, direct primary care, based on the totality of evidence, decency, life experience, dialogue, and personal values.
Seven Philosophical Criticisms of Evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence Hierarchies Continue Reading
Germophobia isn’t generally considered a condition all by itself. Not all people with OCD are germophobes, but it’s much safer to say that most, if not all, germophobes are further along the OCD spectrum than most.
What Makes a Germophobe? Continue Reading
For years, I have trained residents and students to perform brain death exams. I’ve overseen transplants. I’ve supported grieving families and celebrated recipients. But I’ve also seen the slow erosion of principle under pressure. It’s time to draw a line.
The Moral Cost of Modern Transplant Medicine Continue Reading
The Ninth Circuit has abdicated its power and authority to hold public servants accountable. When the courts cannot be relied upon to hold public servants accountable, who can? And where does that leave us?
The Ninth Circuit Rules—Court-Sanctioned Authoritarianism? Continue Reading
