Levi is no stranger to weighing risk. A professor at MIT with deep experience in data analytics and risk-based decision-making, he had combed through five clinical trials of RSV monoclonals, including clesrovimab and its predecessor, nirsevimab.
Retsef Levi Explains His Vote against Routine RSV Monoclonal Use in Newborns Read Journal Article
On the eve before the US Senate reconvenes, a detailed secret trade-association memo plotting the removal of US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has leaked. It reads like a coup attempt against regulatory reform.
The Plot to Get RFK Read Journal Article
We’re not just living in fear—we’re teaching our children that fear is the price of participation in society. And a society built on fear isn’t a society at all. It’s a comfortable prison, one where the guards are ourselves.
The Coward’s Bargain Read Journal Article
Both scientists and the public are frustrated with the scientific enterprise. Change is needed, and this Perspective presents a blueprint for NIH reforms with the dual goal of ensuring scientific integrity and innovation.
A Blueprint for NIH Reform Read Journal Article
Sticking with tradition, health authorities, experts, and media are playing the ‘cases, cases, cases’ angle, as the latest variant “sweeps the nation” with what I calculate to be Australia’s twelfth Covid wave since the pandemic scare series kicked off.
New Covid Wave Scare Campaign: A Massive Flop Read Journal Article
No matter how much information about the abuses of powerful forces during the pandemic, no matter how much is learned about the deviant behavior of leadership and government agencies, the unvaccinated have yet to be vindicated.
Vindication for the Unvaccinated? Read Journal Article
Our research team undertook a structured, step-by-step evaluation of the empirical foundations of the “millions saved” narrative. We critically examined the hypothetical statistical models that produced this extraordinary figure, as well as multiple randomized controlled trials and large-scale observational studies.
Did Covid Vaccines Really Save Millions? Read Journal Article
There is no question that vaccine policy should be informed by experienced scientists. But there must be a line between advising on science and voting on the commercial fate of the very products tied to one’s funding.
Former Vaccine Committee Did Not Follow the Rules Read Journal Article
In February 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order prohibiting federal funding for educational institutions that mandate Covid-19 vaccines for in-person attendance. Medical schools reliant on federal funds may reconsider these pointless mandates, paeans to outdated orthodoxy.
Why Have Any Covid-19 Vaccines, 2025? Read Journal Article
This is more than a story about one woman’s personal decision. It is a story about institutional culture, regulatory failure, and the consequences of silence. Those who spoke up were punished. Those who stayed silent kept their jobs and reputations.
Top FDA Official Admits She Refused the Covid-19 Vaccine While Pregnant Read Journal Article
A ‘globally significant’ bank of biosamples from a study into the immune effects of Covid vaccines is set to be destroyed, two years after the award-winning research project was defunded by the Queensland Government.
‘Globally Significant’ Covid Vaccine Study Biobank to Be Destroyed Read Journal Article
I traveled to Connecticut to participate in a four-day writers’ retreat hosted by Jeffrey Tucker and the Brownstone Institute. It was amazing. Speakers presented on a topic or question for 15 minutes that was followed by a discussion for 15 minutes. Below are my remarks from the retreat.
Negative-Sum Game Run Amok Read Journal Article
