Time to Retire Slurs
My Uncle Don had a different name for everyone. I had no idea where he came up with all these labels. They were often colorful, and clearly he thought they were funny. Except nobody was really laughing. To him, someone from South Asia was a Paki, an aboriginal person was, obviously, an Indian; a guy […]
Splitting Up the Combination Vaccines
President Trump announced on Sept. 18, 2026 that his administration plans to recommend that certain childhood vaccines be split up into separate shots. The policy proposal is apparently a follow-up to an Executive Order the President signed on Aug. 10 that calls for recommending the number of diseases for which children should be vaccinated be […]
The Herd Immunity Fallacy
During the pandemic and in the wake of recent measles outbreaks, many have pointed to the concept of “herd immunity” as a key reason to get vaccinated. This cartoon highlights how herd immunity is sometimes oversimplified or misapplied in discussions about vaccination. What Is Herd Immunity? When you think of a herd, you probably think […]
FDA’s Botched Review of Moderna’s Flu mRNA Vaccine
When the FDA licensed Moderna’s new mRNA flu vaccine [earlier this month], legacy media coverage focused almost exclusively on efficacy. The pivotal trial reported that the vaccine was “26.6% more effective” than a conventional flu vaccine at preventing protocol-defined influenza-like illness. What received far less scrutiny was a much more serious problem in the trial […]
Anatomy of Total Failure
What America saw in the Senate hearing of Anthony Fauci on [July 29, 2026] is the end state of the toxic paternalism of an incompetent bureaucracy. The numerous discrepancies between Fauci’s diary entries and his public pronouncements over the Covid-19 pandemic were not just self-protection coverup of his earlier disastrous decisions. They reflect the standard model […]
Who is Really in Charge of Public Health?
A 200-page policy report argues that global public health is no longer being driven by the needs of countries, but by financial incentives. At the center of that argument is Professor Ramesh Thakur—a former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and principal writer of Kofi Annan’s UN reform report. He spent years inside the system […]