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Public Health

In-depth, ongoing analysis of public health, social policy, and public policy, exploring their wide-ranging impacts on economics, open dialogue, freedom of speech, personal liberties, and everyday social life.

Our articles critically examine government interventions, pandemic responses, mandates, medical narratives, and their effects on society. From COVID policies and vaccine debates to broader issues like cancer warnings, mental health treatments, food systems, and human rights.

Francis Collins Accidentally Reveals His Own Incompetence

Francis Collins Accidentally Reveals His Own Incompetence

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Collins also acknowledged that the public health profession, the profession he was effectively leading during the most important crisis of its modern existence, paid “zero” attention to what the ensuing trade-offs would be from the immense restrictions imposed on the public.

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Mechanisms of Harm

Vaccine Misunderstanding…or Intentional Deception?

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With Covid-19 we were told that vaccination was our only way out of the pandemic, that natural immunity from prior infection was insufficient protection, and that the Covid vaccines were 95% effective. Except it wasn’t, because “95% effective” was based on obfuscation.

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Bootleggers and Bureaucrats Agree on Global Health

Bootleggers and Bureaucrats Agree on Global Health

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Effective global health governance requires mechanisms that check virtue with evidence, constrain expansion with accountability, and remind bureaucracies that their legitimacy derives from results, not rhetoric. Institutions should serve the public good — not their own survival.

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