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Pennsylvania Officials Turned Two(?) Measles-Positive Deaths into Hype While Proposed Expansion of Court-Restricted Public-Health Powers Were Being Proposed

James Lyons-Weiler, PhD

Pennsylvania officials announced two “measles-associated” deaths in Lancaster County. They did not release case histories, final causal determinations, death certificates, or enough clinical information for the publ...

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What Ben Shapiro Misses on the Question of Vaccines and Autism

Ben Shapiro titled his August 11 essay “The Cardinal Sin That Shattered America’s Trust” and gave it the subtitle, “Data still doesn’t lie.” On that much we agree. Data do not lie. They can, however, be asked a narrow question and then cons...

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Harvard Global and the Forty-Year Failure to Follow Foreign Research Money

The Pentagon’s 30-university audit did not create this problem. Congress wrote the disclosure law in 1986. Federal oversight repeatedly failed. Harvard’s intermediary now provides a concrete test of whether the government can finally see th...

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American Association of Immunologists’ Aluminum Argument Is Not Immunology

The American Association of Immunologists has every right to oppose President Trump’s August 10 executive order on childhood vaccines. There are provisions in that order that can be expected to draw scrutiny, especially the decision to expr...

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MORENS GUILTY

David M. Morens, a former senior adviser in the Office of the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pleaded guilty on August 18, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to Count One: co...

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