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OMB "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance" Comment Period Closed, Now What?
Amid the evidence that people asking what the heck is going on inside the government can, and often does, lead to direct persecution of that individual inside the United States (we have fallen so far), and against the backdrop of a likely o...
URGENT Public Comment Deadline Today: The Proposed Rule Change That Will Permanently Damage US Science and Research
The Public Comment Period Is Now Closed
Thank you all for engaging and making your voices heard. An estimated 500,000 comments were submitted with >94% of them being against the implementation of this rule. If you missed the public commen...
The President's Friday Night Executive Order He Didn't Want You To See: Elimination of Recommendations for 6 Childhood Vaccines
Earlier this year (March 2026) a court ruled that RFK Jr’s firing of the entire 17 member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was likely illegal, rendering his newly appointed committee filled with vaccine-conspiracy theoris...
Hantavirus Outbreak Update
I expect more Andes family hantavirus cases in people who were passengers on the MV Hondius in coming days. How many more is difficult to say. As of today there are 11 cases. In the United States 41 people potentially exposed are back on US...
Makary's FDA Tenure is Over: Another Interim Head Appointed to The Top Of Critical US Agency
Marty Makary’s forced exit from the Food and Drug Administration is not just another personality drama in Washington; it is a symptom of a deeper, structural problem.
Under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. typically apolitical scientif...
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