Drug makers are scrambling to navigate an ‘existential threat’ to a once-celebrated technology. By Elie Dolgin, Nature 641, 580-582 (2025) The day after Donald Trump moved back into the White House in […]
The New York Times finally comes clean about Covid
It only took the newspaper five years to acknowledge what people had said since the beginning In June 2021, Jon Stewart appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and ridiculed people that dismissed […]
NIH Infectious Disease Researcher Calls for End of Dangerous Virus Studies
“I admired Fauci in his earlier career because I thought he was a strong leader with a vision for global research. But I can’t say that anymore.” Today’s guest essay […]
Critic of drug industry and COVID-19 measures to lead FDA vaccine program
By MATTHEW PERRONE. AP WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Vinay Prasad, a prominent critic of the pharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration, has been named to oversee the agency’s program […]
NIH Funded Research on Avian Flu Years Before COVID
By Sandy Fitzgerald, Newsmax The National Institutes of Health was funding gain-of-function research to mutate the avian flu at least 10 years before the COVID-19 pandemic began, Sen. Rand Paul said Tuesday […]
Conversation with FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary.
In our wide-ranging Q&A, Dr. Makary outlines his vision, addresses low morale, asserts his independence, explains his stance on Novavax, and says “no” to an agency reorganization. Jeremy Faust, MD […]
Veteran NIH Infectious Disease Researcher Calls For End Of Dangerous Virus Studies
Via The DisInformation Chronicle, As a decades-long NIH insider, I wasn’t surprised to see Dr. Tony Fauci go toe-to-toe with President Trump in his first term. After all, this is a […]
Our politics failed us during Covid
How would you characterize the debate we had in this country about our response to Covid? There are lots of stories to tell about the Covid pandemic, but most of them, if […]
FDA scrutiny of Novavax COVID-19 vaccine sparks uncertainty about other shots
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s effort to impose new requirements on Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine — the nation’s only traditional protein-based option for the coronavirus — is sowing uncertainty about updates to other […]
Biden FDA Knew About COVID Vaccine Stroke Risk And Kept Americans In The Dark
Senate investigators spent months reviewing roughly 2,000 pages of federal records. What they found is damning. FDA and CDC officials under the Biden administration identified a significant stroke risk tied to […]