We agree that the international community should continue to support less-resourced members. However, we disagree that this should consist of perpetual and increasing payments to centralized agencies such as GFATM, GAVI, and the Pandemic Fund, or donor bureaucracies like USAID.
Rethinking US Global Health Funding: Welcome, and Long Overdue Continue Reading
While chipping away at disease by disease with commodities like vaccines has proven lucrative to the health bureaucracy, it is not building the capacity and independence that offers a way out. Downsizing Gavi provides an opportunity to turn rhetoric into reality.
Defunding Gavi: An Important Step Toward Decolonization? Continue Reading
Those who uphold a vision of a reunion of nature and civilization are right to be vigilant against the techno-totalitarian potential of medical technology like wearables. But let’s not allow our vigilance to be hijacked by forces seeking to neutralize our movement.
Kennedy and Medical Wearables: A Clarification Continue Reading
Why do organizations and companies die while cities seem to live on? Why did the Western Roman Empire end in 476 A.D while the Eastern counterpart lasted for almost another 1,000 years?
Why Organizations Die While Cities Live Forever Continue Reading
Sure, Zohran Mamdani, surprise winner of the Dem primary for New York City mayor, is an ultra-left-wing wackadoo. But it occurs to us that this veritable assault on sanity deserves a more profound rebuke than the one the Donald fired off.
Zohran Mamdani—Bastard Son Of 33 Liberty Street Continue Reading
Levi is no stranger to weighing risk. A professor at MIT with deep experience in data analytics and risk-based decision-making, he had combed through five clinical trials of RSV monoclonals, including clesrovimab and its predecessor, nirsevimab.
Retsef Levi Explains His Vote against Routine RSV Monoclonal Use in Newborns Continue Reading
On the eve before the US Senate reconvenes, a detailed secret trade-association memo plotting the removal of US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has leaked. It reads like a coup attempt against regulatory reform.
The Plot to Get RFK Continue Reading
The person most associated with civil disobedience is Mahatma Gandhi. In effect, he instrumentalised, operationalised, and weaponised Thoreau’s concept of civil disobedience (1849), turning it into an effective technique for peaceful mass mobilisation against a powerful opponent to win independence.
“Jail Bharo!”—Channelling Our Inner Gandhi Continue Reading
Indeed, these concepts, at least as they are typically employed by “progressives,” could be described, without exaggeration, as a species of slavespeak. By this, I simply mean that they are used disingenuously, to rationalise political oppression and slavery.
A Translation Guide to Progressive Slavespeak Continue Reading
Anyone whose life has been touched by emotional, mental, and addiction struggles, particularly of the type that psychiatry has labels and medications for, and maybe of the type that proves ‘treatment resistant,’ will find comfort and insight in this book.
Surviving Psychiatry Continue Reading
We’re not just living in fear—we’re teaching our children that fear is the price of participation in society. And a society built on fear isn’t a society at all. It’s a comfortable prison, one where the guards are ourselves.
The Coward’s Bargain Continue Reading
The FDA has approved hundreds of drugs without proof they work—and in some cases, despite evidence they cause harm. That’s the finding of a blistering two-year investigation by medical journalists Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee, published by The Lever.
FDA Exposed: Hundreds of Drugs Approved without Proof They Work Continue Reading
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