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Vaccines

Vaccines articles deliver critical analysis and commentary on policy, safety, efficacy, mandates, and their effects on public health, personal liberty, child development, and social life — questioning official narratives and institutional claims.

We cover major issues like COVID-19 vaccine mandates, mRNA risks, vaccine injury reporting, childhood immunization schedules, ACIP decisions, liability protection, informed consent failures, and calls for evidence-based reform and voluntary choice.

Inside the Safety Record Behind Israel’s Early Myocarditis Warning to Global Health Authorities

Inside the Safety Record Behind Israel’s Early Myocarditis Warning to Global Health Authorities

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Israel, the “world’s laboratory” of the vaccination campaign, sounded the warning by the end of February 2021. The CDC and EMA were warned. Pfizer received the detailed reports. More than five years later, the record is finally public.

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The PREP Act: Unchecked Power, Zero Accountability, and a Path Forward

The PREP Act: Unchecked Power, Zero Accountability, and a Path Forward

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Restoring accountability isn’t anti-vaccine or anti-healthcare—it’s pro-responsibility, pro-federalism, and pro-individual rights. It’s insisting that in America, no one operates above the law forever, and that emergency powers return to normal limits when emergencies end.

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Was My Paper on Flu Vaccine Studies a “Hot Potato” for Editors?

Was My Paper on Flu Vaccine Studies a “Hot Potato” for Editors?

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Over the years, authors have shared a similar analytical strategy: Early respiratory events were considered differently from later respiratory events (on the assumption that no effect is expected until immunity is built up). “Early” has typically been within two weeks post-vaccination.

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Rethinking Polio

Rethinking Polio

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The prevailing understanding of poliovirus pathogenesis posits that the virus, following intestinal infection, gains access to the central nervous system through viremia and subsequent crossing of the blood-brain barrier. However, this model fails to explain several features of the historical polio epidemic.

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What's Happening with the MMR Vaccine?

What’s Happening with the MMR Vaccine?

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CDC Principal Deputy Director Ralph  Abraham argued that “framing measles as an American policy failure is inaccurate and misleading,” asserting that resources including vaccines and therapeutics have been surged nationwide and that the current measles situation reflects broader global trends.

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