Fauci, NIAID Helped Fund Army Experiment With Aerosolized Ebola
Newly released records from a U.S. Senate investigation show that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) paid for and helped plan U.S. Army research in which vaccinated nonhuman primates were exposed to aerosolized Ebola virus.1 The work took place while Anthony Fauci, MD directed the agency, a post he held for 38 […]
Nomination of Susan Monarez for CDC Director Advances to Full Senate
(photo courtesy ARPA-H) On July 9, 2025, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) voted 12 to 11 to advance the nomination of Susan Monarez to be director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Monarez, who holds a doctorate degree in microbiology and immunology and has been serving […]
U.S. Shuts Down Risky Novel Animal Virus Research Program
The U.S. government has shut down a research program that searches for new animal viruses in Asia, Africa and Latin America that have the potential to infect humans and cause a pandemic. The $125 million dollar research program called Discovery and Exploration of Emerging Pathogens- Viral Zoonoses (DEEP VZN) focused on the study of novel […]
Pandemic Leaders Were Biodefense Puppets and Profiteers
Scandalous incompetence. Profound stupidity. Astounding errors. This is how many analysts—including Dr. Vinay Prasad, Dr. Scott Atlas, and popular Substack commentator eugyppius—explain how leading public health experts could prescribe so many terrible pandemic response policies. And it’s true: the so-called experts certainly have made themselves look foolish over the last three years: Public health leaders like Rochelle Walensky and Anthony […]
Hippocratic vs. Technocratic Medicine
Opinion | Many of our technocrats seem undeterred by the failure of public health policies and associated new technologies to mitigate the COVID pandemic. Consider, for example, Pfizer’s and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines. How successful was this technology in its first large-scale trial run in humans? A useful metric to cut through a lot of statistical noise […]