A lot of people probably think I work in a pretty mundane, ordinary, unexciting sector of health care. I check eyes and vision in a routine fashion. I prescribe glasses often. I do diagnose and treat eye diseases, but that …
The True Costs of Pandemic Prevention and Response
At the end of May 2024, the World Health Assembly will vote on whether to adopt two legally binding World Health Organization (WHO) instruments: a new Pandemic Agreement and amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHRs). These policies have been …
The WHO’s Proposed Pandemic Agreements Worsen Public Health
Much has been written on the current proposals putting the World Health Organization (WHO) front and center of future pandemic responses. With billions of dollars in careers, salaries, and research funding on the table, it is difficult for many to …
Legal Context Behind the Bioweapon Hypothesis
In a previous article, I laid out the legal framework for issuing Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for medical products. EUA was the type of authorization granted to Covid mRNA vaccines, along with hundreds of other medical products used during the declared Covid …
WHO Pandemic Agreement April Draft: Additional Concerns
The World Health Organization (WHO) negotiating body of the draft Pandemic Agreement to be voted on in late May produced yet another draft. As the previous text was dealt with in detail in a recent article, it seems relevant to …
Medical Elites’ Disgrace Over Ivermectin
In the wake of the FDA settling a lawsuit brought against it for wantonly and aggressively smearing ivermectin, the agency has deleted its postings. That’s good, but we shouldn’t forget how egregiously it mischaracterized the drug, ignored copious evidence in …
Congress’ Unscientific Spillover
When I started studying pathogen spillover in 2017, I thought it would be a great way to do ecology and study pathogens without having to worry about the politics of medicine. My Princeton PhD studying “Quantitative and Computational Biology”, focused …
Urgent Pandemic Messaging of WHO, World Bank, and G20 is Inconsistent with Their Evidence Base
When international agencies make claims of an “existential threat” to humanity and advocate for urgent action from countries, it should be a safe assumption that they are consistent with their own data. However, a review of the data and evidentiary …
History Repeats Itself: Early Treatment
Before properly starting this article, I’ll recall a phrase that almost everyone knows: “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as a farce.” The author is the German philosopher Karl Marx. It’s common for people to use variants of this …
Crush the Flu d’État
As a practicing physician, I have had numerous conversations over the years with people caught in dysfunctional relationships. While it is often best to refrain from “telling” such persons the “right” course of action, one notable exception is when the …
Of Cancers, Cures, and LNPs
Billions of dollars spent every year
Searching for a cure for cancer
Why not spend that money instead
To wipe out pollution that causes the cancer
Through DNA analysis
We may one day conquer disease
A “perfect” baby every time…
Methadone Maintenance Ignited America’s Opioid Crisis
History Repeated: Forgotten Lessons of Narcotic Substitution
In the shadow of the Netflix series Painkiller, combined with OxyContin documentaries—and the plague of fentanyl overdoses—lies an obscured chapter of America’s opioid epidemic: the 1965 “invention” of “Methadone Maintenance Treatment” (MMT) at …
Why did Germany lockdown without cause?
Originally published in Daily Sceptic
The recent publication of thousands of pages of minutes of the COVID-19 “crisis team” of Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has caused a buzz in social and even some traditional media, since they appear to …
WHO Amendments Revisited
We received a private email from an experienced statistician who, after reading our post and the WHO International Health Regulations draft amendments being discussed now, offered his help and explained why. His message seems to embody the feelings of many …
The Black Hole of Public Broadcasting
When I lived in North Jersey, I sometimes listened to WFMU, a free-form indie radio station, unaffiliated with NPR. FMU prided itself on the offbeat music it played and on the quirky personalities of its DJs, who were all unpaid. …