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
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
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
Both scientists and the public are frustrated with the scientific enterprise. Change is needed, and this Perspective presents a blueprint for NIH reforms with the dual goal of ensuring scientific integrity and innovation.
A Blueprint for NIH Reform Continue Reading
Sticking with tradition, health authorities, experts, and media are playing the ‘cases, cases, cases’ angle, as the latest variant “sweeps the nation” with what I calculate to be Australia’s twelfth Covid wave since the pandemic scare series kicked off.
New Covid Wave Scare Campaign: A Massive Flop Continue Reading
The Cochrane Collaboration publishes systematic reviews of healthcare interventions in the Cochrane Library. It was once a highly respected institution, but this has changed, and I shall tell a particularly grotesque story about Cochrane bureaucracy.
Cochrane on a Suicide Mission Continue Reading
In sum, public health professionals and healthcare providers in the US have been bought and paid for, and have become too willing to follow whatever shiny objects their professional organizations or paymasters place before them without question.
Public Health Professionals and Healthcare Providers vs. DHHS Continue Reading
This is more than a story about one woman’s personal decision. It is a story about institutional culture, regulatory failure, and the consequences of silence. Those who spoke up were punished. Those who stayed silent kept their jobs and reputations.
Top FDA Official Admits She Refused the Covid-19 Vaccine While Pregnant Continue Reading
A ‘globally significant’ bank of biosamples from a study into the immune effects of Covid vaccines is set to be destroyed, two years after the award-winning research project was defunded by the Queensland Government.
‘Globally Significant’ Covid Vaccine Study Biobank to Be Destroyed Continue Reading
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