Our Medical Establishment Supports Viral Mandates

If I am unable to access a vaccine in the future and get a nasty case of COVID, I'll know where to point the finger and so will millions of others.

/ May 23, 2025
Book cover of "Everything Is Tuberculosis" by John Green, featuring a yellow background with a large colored drop and the subtitle "The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection.

Book Review: Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green

The history of tuberculosis is the history of mankind.

/ May 22, 2025
A newborn baby lies on a hospital bed with arms raised, wearing a white knit hat and connected to medical tubes and sensors. The baby is covered with a blanket, and part of a colorful caterpillar design is visible nearby.

Personalized CRISPR Gene Editing Therapy

While the medical world is melting down from the absolute apocalypse that is RFK Jr., it’s good to celebrate that (at least for now) medical progress continues to march on. Recently published in the NEJM is a case report of a breakthrough that we may look back on as a milestone in medicine. Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare...

/ May 21, 2025

1799

“Give me your E. coli, your polio, your huddled Tuberculosis yearning to kill free.” Statue of Liberty, 2025 Originally I was not going to write a post this month. As this goes live, I am in Adelaide on a trip down under. When I was young, aka in my 50s, I would try and write a blog entry while traveling. It is...

/ May 20, 2025
James Lyons-Weiler

Attacking vaccines through the misunderstanding of medical ethics

Since becoming HHS Secretary, RFK Jr. has been deceptively weaponizing principles of evidence-based medicine against vaccines. Will weaponizing research ethics be next? It might if the ideas of one of his advisors, James Lyons-Weiler, are any indication.

/ May 19, 2025
A man in a suit, labeled as "Secretary KENNEDY," speaks passionately into a microphone at a hearing. He sits between two men in suits, with an audience, cameras, and microphones visible in the background.

Senator Hassan Sets Secretary Kennedy Straight

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's reckless insistence on undermining confidence in vaccines and reckless elevation of the wholly unqualified David Geier to a potentially influential role at HHS

/ May 18, 2025
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I Am Calling on Dr. Vinay Prasad, the Medical Establishment, to Break His Silence on Vaccines as Measles And Pertussis Spread Under His Watch

For a brief period in 2022, Dr. Vinay Prasad faked a concern about routine vaccines to infect unvaccinated children with COVID.

/ May 17, 2025
A serious-looking man in a suit stands outdoors, gazing ahead, with bold white text at the bottom that reads, "LET THEM FIGHT.

Doctors Who Rose to Power Bashing the Medical Establishment Are Now the Medical Establishment. Good Luck With That.

"Almost all crank movements will eventually devolve to sectarian strife... It’s the only upside of watching these idiots is knowing this fate." Dr. Mark Hoofnagle

/ May 16, 2025
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Brainspotting is Classic Pseudoscience

Have you heard of brainspotting? It’s been around since 2003 when it was invented out of whole cloth (not “discovered”) by psychotherapist David Grand. It seems to be gaining in popularity recently, so it is worth the SBM treatment. Here is how proponents describe the alleged phenomenon: “Brainspotting makes use of this natural phenomenon through its use of relevant eye positions. This...

/ May 14, 2025
National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Lysenkoism 2.0 and the dismantling of the NIH

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "make America healthy again" is basically Lysenko 2.0. It's come to the NIH and is destroying the crown jewel of US biomedical research with ideology and cronyism.

/ May 12, 2025