Category: Medical
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New Hepatitis B Vaccine Study Suggests A Few Hundred More Cases of HepB Chronic Infection if Day of Birth Vaccine is Dropped
But their study assumes day of birth vaccination increases immunity later compared to delayed start. It does not. by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Oct. 24, 2026) — An 83 percent projected increase in chronic infections combines delayed vaccination with a large assumed effect of decline in vaccine completion – an assumption is not…
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No Study Is an Island
Cumulative evidence matters in the study of vaccine-induced iatrogenic disease and death by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Oct. 20, 2026) — Science loses its cumulative force when every new study must establish, by itself, every link between an exposure and a disease. A computational analysis can identify a candidate immune target. An antibody…
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Gerber and Nestlé Sued By Texas Over Toxic Metals in Baby Food
Texas has challenged the companies’ safety assurances. The public deserves the complete testing record—and a system that turns those records into prevention. by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Oct. 15, 2026) — A manufacturer that asks parents to trust its baby food should expect independent scrutiny of the evidence behind that trust. Claims about…
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VSRF to Speak with Dr. James Miller Tuesday Evening
by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 13, 2026) — The Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (VSRF), founded in 2021 by entrepreneur and philanthropist Steve Kirsch, will interview a COVID-19-era “hospital insider” during its weekly broadcast this evening. The program begins at 4:00 p.m. PDT/7:00 p.m. EDT. VSRF’s newsletter announcing the show reads, in part: What happens when hospital…
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Wolves in White Coats: What Hospitals Did
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Sep. 1, 2026) — HHS says hospitals and clinics turned distressed minors into recurring customers, secured payment through questionable coding, and expanded under federal and professional protection. On August 13, 2026, the Department of Health and Human Services released Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and…
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CNN Is Not Defending Science. It Is Defending a Technology From Scientific Scrutiny.
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Aug. 30, 2026) — CNN has published another article in which the label “misinformation” does the work that evidence should have done. The August 23 article, “mRNA Cancer Vaccines: Promising but Dogged by Misinformation”, celebrates Moderna and Merck’s personalized melanoma treatment while dismissing concern about cancer following COVID-19 vaccination.…
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Fauci Summoned
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Jul. 14, 2026) — July 29 is Anthony Fauci’s Day is Fauci’s Day of Reckoning. Fauci is returning to Congress under subpoena. The central question is no longer whether every dissenting COVID hypothesis was correct. It is whether the country’s most powerful health official used one evidentiary standard for…
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Will Vaccine Choice Be a Major Political Fight Within the DNC? If So, It’s About Time
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Jul. 8, 2026) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said the quiet part in public. In a June 2026 interview on GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, Shapiro tried to define Democrats as the party of “real freedom.” Then he placed vaccine choice inside that frame. Real freedom, he said,…
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Current vs. Proposed Pediatric Schedule Moves the Needle on Aluminum. Outlaw Aluminum in One Vaccine, Adopt the New Schedule, and We Reduce Aluminum Chronic Exposure by 78%
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Jul. 7, 2026) — Animal studies demonstrate that aluminum hydroxide – the same form found in pediatric vaccines – causes autoimmunity, asthma and allergic rhinitis. This is true for studies that use massive or, corrected per body weight, doses that overlap early-life exposure in human patients on the…
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The Emergency That Will Not Die: Do Not Relent
HHS Begins Cutting the COVID EUA Knot. The PREP Act Liability Wall Still Stands. Tell Your Legislators: Tear Down This Wall. by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Jul. 3, 2026) — HHS announced today that Secretary Kennedy signed determinations terminating the COVID-19 EUA declarations for drugs and biological products and for medical devices, because HHS determined that…
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Surfaced NIH Emails Reveal Superficial Comprehension of how Outbreaks Become Epidemics and Pandemics
And an instinct to hide information to suppress rational criticsm of public health programs and policies by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Jul. 1, 2026) — Francis Collins warned Anthony Fauci that the January 21, 2016 World Economic Forum session titled “Vaccine Innovation for Pandemic Preparedness” looked like a “potential land mine,” according to NIH…
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U.S. Strikes Medical Fraud
June 23, 2026 takedown announcement shakes medical fraudsters to the core by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Jun. 24, 2026) — June 23, 2026 takedown: 455 defendants, 90 licensed medical professionals, over $6.5B in alleged false claims, HHS/CMS/OIG participation, CMS suspensions/revocations, and Sec. Kennedy’s statement on HHS collaboration with law enforcement. (Department of Justice).…
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Tulsi Gabbard Opened the Fauci Files: The Lab-Origin Cover-Up Is Now in the Record
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 The release raises an important counter-intelligence question: Did Fauci lift a finger to help the CCP cover up in a way that worked counter to the interests of the United States of America? (Jun. 21, 2026) — Those who tied SARS-CoV-2 to the Wuhan laboratory ecosystem from the…
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From Nuremberg to Now
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Jun. 4, 2026) — In 1947, a panel of American judges ended a trial with a single sentence that became the conscience of modern medicine: “The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.” That is the first principle of the Nuremberg Code, and it was not written as…
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Dr. Oz Provides White House Press Briefing
by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 2, 2026) — At approximately 1:15 p.m. EDT, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz opened the White House press briefing. The Trump administration has been calling on administrators and cabinet members to deliver briefings since White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt went on maternity leave last month. The TrumpRX initiative, Oz said,…
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Alleged $90 Million Medicare Advantage DME Fraud Scheme Involving Dublin Helping Hand
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (May 23, 2026) — On March 20, 2026, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced that Anar Rustamov, a 38-year-old Azerbaijani national formerly of Sunnyvale, California, had been charged in connection with a scheme that allegedly used an entity he created, Dublin Helping Hand,…
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VITAMIN D DOSING POLICY AND YOUR HEALTH: Summary Recap and Full Video
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (May 22, 2026) — Yesterday, a joint IPAK/Grassroots Health event was held at which an expert panel discusses the facts of Vitamin D underdosing, deficiency, your health & and errant HHS policies. We ask of you, dear reader, that you send this to your doctor, your Senator, your medical…
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What Is Medicine When Everyone is Sick?
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (May 9, 2026) — Take a fifty-eight-year-old American. Hypertension. Prediabetes. Obesity. Osteoarthritis. Depression. Sleep apnea. High cholesterol. Perhaps chronic kidney disease stage 3a, discovered after routine labs. Perhaps a statin, an SSRI, a GLP-1 drug, two antihypertensives, a CPAP machine, NSAID avoidance, physical therapy, dietary instructions, specialist referrals,…
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The Denominator They Buried
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (May 7, 2026) — One of the easiest ways to lie with medicine is to hide the denominator. You do not have to fabricate data. You do not have to invent a mechanism. You do not have to forge a clinical trial. You only have to say “SSRIs…
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The Number They Never Put in the Headline
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (May 1, 2026) — We’ve seen it a thousand times. When pharma decides it wants to open a new market, it makes mountains out of molehills on efficacy. When that market is threatened by measured risk detectable as such, they start digging to bury it. Popular Rationalism has definitive, cited,…