Commentary “Attempting to control mucosal respiratory viruses with systemically administered non-replicating vaccines has thus far been largely unsuccessful.” ~ Dr. Anthony Fauci (former director of NIAID), 2023, commenting on vaccines for COVID-19. The journal Cell Host & Microbe recently published one of the more important papers of the COVID era; “Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenza viruses, and…

Commentary Never forget that the New York Times kicked off disease panic in the United States in late February 2020, about a month after China had locked down Wuhan and violated its citizens’ rights to associate on a massive scale. Two weeks earlier, the World Health Organization sponsored a Western junket that was attended by…

A principle of infectious diseases is “antimicrobial stewardship” which involves choosing the right antibiotic for the right patient and never over-prescribing or blanket covering patients who don’t need treatment. Another principle is “narrowing the spectrum” of a drug once the organism is identified by culture or other methods. These fundamental approaches to the use of…

The following excerpt from my book, “The New Abnormal,” was published on The Stream last week, reprinted here with permission (yes, I gave permission to Regnery, the book publisher, which gave permission to The Stream, which gave permission back to me to print this excerpt—intellectual property!). Enjoy… Hippocratic Versus Technocratic Medicine Many of our technocrats seem undeterred by…

Commentary The idea that Bill Gates is somehow the driving force behind the WHO’s vaccine-centric COVID-19 response is very widespread—at least on Twitter. But this notion recently received some unexpected support from a mainstream media source: Politico, the online news service that was started in D.C. in the naughts, launched a Brussels-based European edition in partnership…

Commentary Medical ethics is about protecting society from medical malfeasance and the self-interest of the humans whom we trust to manage health. It is therefore disturbing when prominent people, in a prominent journal, tear up the concept of medical ethics and human rights norms. It is worse when they ignore broad swathes of evidence, and…

Commentary Public health relies on trust. Advertising relies on twisting the truth, even deceiving people, to persuade them to buy a product they may not need. Trust is maintained by telling the truth, giving others accurate information and sound advice. If inclined, you can change direction, trading on trust that you have built in order…

According to a new study that just came out of Israel, researchers found a correlation between the number of emergency heart-related issues in young people with the rollout of the mass vaccination program.  Meanwhile, in Rhode Island, a state senator has just introduced a new piece of legislation that says that residents of the state…

Commentary Tennis star Novak Djokovic famously (or, depending on your perspective, infamously) refused to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as a condition for entering Australia to play in the Australian Open. Djokovic’s refusal prompted National Review’s Kevin Williamson and Charles Cooke to engage each other in an online debate over the merits of government-mandated Covid vaccination. Williamson finds such mandates to…

Commentary This is part 3 in a series on unreported Covid truths. Read part 1 and part 2. As a truth-seeking journalist, I have been covering under-reported stories—whether its about rising minority success, the deadly consequences of under-resourced police departments, and revolutionary psychedelic therapies—since the start of my career in 2019. Consciously or not, my mission has become to spotlight injustices,…