Despite mounting calls from physicians, researchers, and public health advocates to withdraw COVID-19 vaccines from the market entirely, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has once again moved in the opposite direction. Late last week, the agency approved a new Moderna COVID-19 vaccine without requiring the company to conduct pre-licensure clinical trials comparing the […]
Public Health
Trump Bans Foreign Gain-of-Function Research, Pauses U.S. Experiments
President Donald Trump on May 5 issued a formal directive pausing all federal funding for dangerous gain-of-function (GoF) research involving enhanced pathogens of pandemic potential, particularly in adversarial nations such as China and Iran. In an Executive Order called “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research,” Trump said GoF research on biological agents has […]
Big Pharma Booted From Advisory Committees By New FDA Commissioner
The Make America Healthy Again movement has proven to be more than just a campaign talking point for President Donald Trump as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implements sweeping changes right out of the gate to address agency capture. In sweeping and long-overdue reform, the FDA announced Thursday that it will remove pharmaceutical […]
Five Years Later: What Lockdowns Left Behind
We are just at about the 5-year anniversary of lockdowns. In the Bay Area, where I lived at the time that Covid took over the hysterical media’s every utterance, lockdowns went into effect on March 16, 2020. The official line now is that lockdowns in California and the Bay Area continued until mid-May. The reality […]
Country Star Says Private Dinner With President Trump Prompted Shift in COVID Vaccine Messaging
Country music star John Rich recently revealed that a private dinner conversation with President Donald Trump may have influenced Trump’s decision to stop promoting COVID-19 vaccines. The discussion, which Rich described as candid, direct and respectful, sheds new light on the President’s evolving rhetoric surrounding one of the most controversial public health measures in history. […]