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Correcting the NY Times ACIP Reporting on Vaccine Injury; A point-by-point breakdown of one of the most poorly written NY Times articles

Updated 8:53 AM EDT, Mon March 16, 2026

Seeing Sunday’s NY Times headline titled Confidential Report Calls for Sweeping Changes to Track Covid Vaccine Harms, a reflexive question flashed in the minds of even the most staunch defenders of legacy vaccine policy – Is the NY Times about to dismiss the Covid vaccine injured? For those who don’t care to read the outlet’s…Continue reading Correcting the NY Times ACIP Reporting on Vaccine Injury; A point-by-point breakdown of one of the most poorly written NY Times articles

NOW: United Airlines Faces Massive Religious Discrimination Class Action Lawsuit Over COVID Shot Mandates

Updated 5:34 AM EDT, Thu March 12, 2026

A federal appeals court just cleared the way for a mass religious discrimination lawsuit against United Airlines, making it one of the largest such cases in history due to the number of plaintiffs involved, along with its potential scope. The case centers on the airline’s 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate and how it handled employees seeking…Continue reading NOW: United Airlines Faces Massive Religious Discrimination Class Action Lawsuit Over COVID Shot Mandates

HCQIA: The Federal Law Allowing Hospitals to Target Good Physicians and How to Reform It

Updated 4:15 AM EST, Fri December 12, 2025

By now, much of the public knows, or should know, not to step foot into a hospital without a trusted loved one or a patient advocate by their side. Many have heard the horror stories of hospitals holding people against their will, attempting to take children from parents for not consenting to treatments, or physicians…Continue reading HCQIA: The Federal Law Allowing Hospitals to Target Good Physicians and How to Reform It

SHOULD THE FDA RUSH PFIZER’S COVID VACCINE EUA FOR KIDS?

By Jefferey Jaxen Today is the last day for public comment on the U.S. Food and Administration’s (FDA) upcoming Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting scheduled for October 26th. On the docket will be discussion on recommending an Emergency Use Authorization for Pfizer BioNTech mRNA COVID 19 vaccine for children 5-11 years of…Continue reading SHOULD THE FDA RUSH PFIZER’S COVID VACCINE EUA FOR KIDS?

Updated 3:26 PM EDT, Mon October 25, 2021

America’s ‘Sanjay Gupta Moment’ and the Denial of Early Covid Treatments

By Jefferey Jaxen The year was 1999. Merck’s new drug Vioxx had just been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). At the time, Vioxx was part of a relatively new class of painkiller drugs, but there were early warnings it likely caused an increased risk of heart attacks. A cross section of doctors…Continue reading America’s ‘Sanjay Gupta Moment’ and the Denial of Early Covid Treatments

Updated 6:09 AM EDT, Tue October 19, 2021

The Cult of the Vaccine

“The jab” is just the latest story to be reported as mantra By Matt Taibbi Yesterday, I ran a story that had nothing to do with vaccines, about the seeming delay of the development of a drug called molnupiravir (see the above segment with the gracious hosts of The Hill: Rising for more). In the time it took to…Continue reading The Cult of the Vaccine

Updated 4:38 PM EDT, Fri October 8, 2021

Vaccine mandates: a new form of ‘institutional segregation’

By PETER DOSHI and ADITI BHARGAVA Increasingly, vaccination is no longer a matter of choice. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of workplaces and schools are instituting COVID-19 vaccine mandates, with more expected following formal FDA licensure of the vaccines. But mandating people and their children who have consciously chosen not to get vaccinated — a group that tends to be younger, less educated, Republican,…Continue reading Vaccine mandates: a new form of ‘institutional segregation’

Updated 8:50 AM EDT, Fri September 24, 2021

Stabilizing the Code: mRNA, the immune system and cancer

In life and in science, changes have consequences. With hindsight, the bad ones are easy to see, some may argue. But when we examine the natural consequences of changes in the arena of Covid vaccine science, one might be forgiven for asking: surely someone must have cautioned against doing that? Of course it behoves us to state here,…Continue reading Stabilizing the Code: mRNA, the immune system and cancer

Updated 6:47 AM EDT, Tue September 14, 2021

COVID-19 Vaccinations in US Military: An Unlawful Order

By Travis Reinold Is it ethical to sacrifice one innocent person for the greater good? Or, to borrow a line from A Few Good Men, is it ethical to order the “code red?” The philosophies of “Do No Harm” and “The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number” predate Hippocrates and other Greek philosophers. In fact,…Continue reading COVID-19 Vaccinations in US Military: An Unlawful Order

Updated 10:00 AM EDT, Wed August 25, 2021