The language continues to contradict previous WHO understanding and public health norms, promoting whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches rather than proportionate measures that minimize long-term harm, and ignores the basic policy requirement of considering any resource allocations against other competing priorities.
Commentary on the WHO’s Draft Pandemic Agreement: Pointless Verbiage Read Journal Article
This is an excellent start to taking the threat of lab-derived pandemics seriously. Obviously, we need a global ban and global enforcement. The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) could be strengthened to meet this need.
Trump Issues Executive Order on Gain-of-Function Studies Read Journal Article
None of these eight reforms rub hard on ideological wounds. All are about respecting individual choice. They would amount to the first major steps toward creating parallel systems of experimentation, all within the framework of the existing system.
Small Reforms to Improve the US Medical System Read Journal Article
It’s never as easy as “blame” or “fault” or stringing up the bad guy, and then we can all go home. This is a policy and system problem, which is way bigger than any one individual in that system.
Trump’s instinct may well be right that globalisation had shifted the trading balance to America’s net disadvantage, and the new equilibrium that settles after his rupture of the existing world trading order will reposition the US to recover lost ground.
True, Kennedy is not a psychiatrist. But as a lawyer who has spent decades exposing the failures of public health institutions, he understands where scrutiny is needed. Moreover, Kennedy is not issuing medical directives—he is demanding accountability.
RFK Junior Attacked for His Stance on Psychotropic Meds Read Journal Article
The only way to bring public spending back in line with citizens’ interests and ensure it is not hijacked by pet projects is to introduce constitutional and structural reforms that anchor public finances more firmly in local communities and governments.
The People’s Property and Income in the Hands of Bureaucrats Read Journal Article
Killing survivors, which is the current USDA policy, is certifiably insane. But it whips the nation into a fearful frenzy, ready to buy eggs from Turkey so we won’t starve to death. The conventional narrative reeks of anti-science and fraud.
Last week a brief was delivered to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s Chief of Staff, urging inclusion of medical training schools in the implementation guidance for President Trump’s Executive Order, “Keeping Education Accessible and Ending Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools.”
A First Step Towards Autonomy in Medical Education Read Journal Article
If we want to restore trust in vaccination, we must move beyond the binary thinking of “pro-vaccine” versus “anti-vaccine”. Acknowledging the complexity of vaccines is the only way to ensure that public health policies serve the best interests of all.
If the US dollar would become the new gold, other countries could hold it as collateral. Those other countries had a secret weapon: low production costs for manufacturing, backed by wages for labor that were a fraction of the US.
In a spectacular feat of reality-denying partisanship, the political left has convinced itself that they’ve somehow admitted wrongdoing on their extremist Covid policies. Nothing, absolutely nothing, could be further from the truth.
