All posts by Jonathan Howard

Dr. Jonathan Howard is a neurologist and psychiatrist who has been interested in vaccines since long before COVID-19. He is the author of "We Want Them Infected: How the failed quest for herd immunity led doctors to embrace the anti-vaccine movement and blinded Americans to the threat of COVID."

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  • Dr. Jonathan Howard is a neurologist and psychiatrist who has been interested in vaccines since long before COVID-19. He is the author of "We Want Them Infected: How the failed quest for herd immunity led doctors to embrace the anti-vaccine movement and blinded Americans to the threat of COVID."

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Science Based Satire: The Forces I Enabled Are Attacking Science Just Like They Said They Would. Here’s Why Left Leaning Public Health Experts are to Blame.

No one could have foreseen these attacks on science and medicine. There were no warnings, and no one sounded the alarm bell.

/ July 19, 2025
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As Diseases Spread and Trust in the FDA Crumbles, Its Leaders Are Obsessed with an MRI Abnormality in 1 in 61,500 Males Ages 12-24

Our medical establishment told people to "Stop Trusting the Public Health Establishment". Now, almost no one trusts our medical establishment.

/ July 18, 2025
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The Opinion Class: Practicing Focused Protection From Reality

A class of sheltered COVID pundits are eager to conjure an alternate history where we let the virus spread in 2020 and everything turned out just fine.

/ July 13, 2025
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Go Ahead, Make the Case That Science, Free Speech, and the FDA Are Thriving Under Drs. Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad

Unlike Drs. Adam Cifu and John Mandrola, I do not constantly boast of my "nuance" or claim to be a master of "clinical appraisal." They have so much to teach me.

/ July 10, 2025
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Dr. Vinay Prasad: Bodily Autonomy Applies to Raw Milk, Not Vaccines

This is what it looks like when disinformation doctors pretend to value data and science to further their true objective, MAHA politics.

/ July 4, 2025
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Tried to Summon a Social Media Mob to Bully and Silence a Dissident Scientist, but the Mob Had Other Ideas

The mob doesn't trust the medical establishment, and today Dr. Bhattacharya is the medical establishment.

/ June 28, 2025
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As Trust in our Medical Establishment Justifiably Collapses, They Are Making Cheerful Propaganda Podcasts From Their Safe Spaces

Some of us believe in civil debate and discussion, even though Drs. Vinay Prasad, Marty Makary, and Jay Bhattacharya do not.

/ June 27, 2025
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Go Ahead, Make the Case that Science, Free Speech, and the NIH are Thriving Under Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Many smart people reassured us that Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was both qualified to run the NIH and motivated to make it a better place. They should make the case they were right.

/ June 20, 2025
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Dr. Vinay Prasad is Repeatedly Undermining RCTs. Why?

It's quite the journey from "RCT or STFU" to "we will always have a place for controlled clinical studies."

/ June 10, 2025
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