If MAHA is to become more than just a populist uprising, it is important to take the time to examine and develop public support for the boundaries between the proper role of government and the sovereign rights of the individual.
The Regulatory Question for the MAHA-MAGA Populists Continue Reading
Reality engineering requires three components: institutional power to create the narrative, social pressure to enforce it, and the deliberate persecution of anyone who challenges either. The Covid era revealed how performative activism serves as this machinery’s most potent enforcement mechanism.
How Performative Activism Enabled Mass Persecution Continue Reading
President Trump has nominated Susan Monarez for the Director of the CDC. This has sent shock waves through the MAHA community, as they were expecting a Covid-era celebrity to take up the reins.
Days after the Journal of the Academy of Public Health’s official launch, Science Magazine criticised it in a news item. A scientist wrote that the fact that Science feared our new journal suggested that we were on the right track.
Science Magazine Attacks the Journal of the Academy of Public Health Continue Reading
While the FDA has finally taken steps to close a regulatory loophole regarding “poppers” and amyl nitrate right before Trump’s FDA commissioner has taken office, they haven’t advanced regulatory action on illicit marketing, sales, and abuse of nitrous oxide.
In the news this week, the incredible lengths taken by the Victorian government to hide the health advice on which its extremist Covid policies were supposedly based. The Victorian Government should have no qualms about releasing its top-secret health advice.
Victorian Government Loses Fight to Keep Covid Health Advice Hidden Continue Reading
My sample sizes are small. But if they are robust, they point to terrible outcomes for public health. Smoking is the real threat and any restriction on the vape market will probably lead to an increase in smoking.
UK and US Vaping Policies Are Headed in Wrong Direction Continue Reading
A landmark lawsuit against Merck is underway, marking the company’s first jury trial over claims it misrepresented the safety of its profitable Gardasil HPV vaccine. Newly declassified documents have revealed troubling details about Merck’s failure to conduct key safety tests.
Internal Emails Reveal Merck’s Negligence in Gardasil Safety Testing Continue Reading
The USDA seems to have found it more expeditious to simply approve cruel methods of slaughter, rather than reconsider whether its plan for dealing with Bird flu might not be sensible.
The Bird Flu Program and the Normalization of Animal Genocide Continue Reading
If the “Make America Healthy Again” movement is to succeed, it must be willing to look the data in the face and not flinch from the conclusions. It must examine long-standing assumptions and reconsider established public health policies.
Deconstructing HHS: Influenza Vaccine Propaganda Continue Reading
The WHO does important work that saves lives. The question is whether the WHO is the best agency to do this work, and whether it can stop the rot to do maximum good without causing collateral damage in train.
US Withdrawal from the WHO Shines Spotlight on Need for Reform Continue Reading
For Christakis, China’s drop in cases was “astonishing.” But beneath the awe, a question lingers for us: What was the real “virus” China was fighting—and why didn’t we, in the supposedly free West, push back harder on the narrative?
The China Covid Narrative: What We Missed in 2020 Continue Reading
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