Servicemen and women deserve better than to be used as a captive market for a “high-tech snake oil scam”. True tactical advantage comes from ensuring that the safety of our troops is never sacrificed for a bureaucrat’s misguided “High-T” fantasy.
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When historians look back at this era of medicine, I hope they will be able to say that physicians had the wisdom to preserve the one innovation that never needed improving: the simple act of one human caring for another.
The institutional response was a failure. And still, Fauci and the rest maintain that they know how to do their job. That is the message of Fauci’s hearing. An incompetent bureaucracy, granted power by the state, with little accountability for their actions.
Every citizen needs to read these diaries. I’ve likely missed many important details herein. Even in the next century, there will be people talking about their two terrible years in childhood, forced to wear a mask and then jabbed with gene therapy.
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Should women’s health be approached on the basis of women’s biological differences from men or on the basis of assuming that biology informs every aspect of women’s health? Should the federal government address health care at all?
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Senator Rand Paul released the full diaries of Anthony Fauci, the former head of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the leading voice of the Covid response during the most critical time in US history in the 21st century.
Perhaps the greatest measure of clinical maturity is not the confidence to prescribe, but the confidence to refrain. The highest expression of medical judgment is not knowing which medication to choose. It is recognizing, with knowledge, when no medication is necessary.
It’s hard to generalize, but when reversals are based on better quality evidence, we should presume they’re in the public interest. However, when they are based on manufacturers pushing for a new market and other invested agencies, can we be sure?
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The report ultimately lands on a clear position: that governments should take responsibility for public health decisions—how risks are assessed, how trade-offs are weighed, and how responses are chosen.
The White House is finalizing Trump’s plan to deal with dangerous gain-of-function virus research as laid out in a May 2025 executive order. The new policy will take a risk-based approached to determine whether a pathogen study will be funded.
Forty years ago I watched a hospital disappear. What emerged from its ruins was not simply the physician I would become. It was the understanding that fear is inevitable and the greatest privilege in medicine has never been avoiding catastrophe.
The experience gave me the opportunity to reflect on what reforms I would like to see at the CDC as it faces a pivot point in the history of public health. Here are six themes that I see as most urgent.
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