Category: Medical
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Informed Consent in Medical Care Requires Consideration of Alternatives
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Dec. 24, 2025) — I recently had a surprising discussion with a well-informed colleague on the fact that doctors must provide alternatives to patients, not just a single option. “Isn’t that just a formality?” they asked. It struck me that “just a formality” reveals the problem. I told…
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Why HHS Is Right on Pre‑Pubertal Puberty Blockers, Surgery, and Early Medical Transitioning
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Dec. 21, 2025) — For maximum impact, please share with your loved ones so they can have the facts. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has acted appropriately in restricting the routine use of puberty blockers, cross‑sex hormones, and surgical transition in minors. This position does…
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An Epistemic Audit of WHO’s December 2025 Statement on Vaccines and Autism
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Dec. 12, 2025) — Executive Summary On 11 December 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO), via its Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS), published a high-profile statement declaring that a “new analysis” reaffirmed that there is “no causal link between vaccines and autism.” This categorical claim rests…
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MAHA Contagions: Industrial Contaminated Food and Cooking Oils as Structural Drivers of Non‑Infectious Epidemics of Chronic Illness
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Dec. 9, 2025) — Key Takeaways: Industrial cooking oils—including today’s seed oils—have repeatedly served as silent carriers of chemically driven epidemics, from Spain’s Toxic Oil Syndrome and PCB-contaminated rice-bran oils to epidemic dropsy, trans fats, and diacetyl-laden aerosol sprays. Kennedy’s MAHA framework reframes these events as structural contagions arising…
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ACIP Vote is In: Big Change on the Recommendation for Universal Day of Birth Exposure to HepB Vaccination
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Dec. 5, 2025) — In a December 5, 2025 vote, ACIP removed the long‑standing universal recommendation that every newborn in the United States receive the first dose of Hepatitis B vaccine (HepB) at birth. Instead, the panel adopted a “shared clinical decision‑making” approach: infants born to mothers who test positive for…
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AVIAN FLU PANDEMIC OR PANDEMONIUM? I Tried to Warn You All About the False Positives from Non‑Quantitative RT‑PCR on SARS‑CoV‑2; No One Acted. Now AIV H5 RT‑qPCR Is Set to Repeat the Same Catastrophe.
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, President, IPAK | Founder IPAK-EDU.org | Founder, NAATEC Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Dec. 2, 2025) — The settings for a COVID 2.0 Pandemic of False Positives are all in place. “We must catch every case” is no excuse to misdiagnose individuals and let them cook and potentially die at home quarantined w/untreated, misdiagnosed bacterial pneumonia or other…
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Bill Cassidy’s Footnotes vs. the Executive Branch: Who Actually Runs U.S. Health Policy?
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Nov. 25, 2025) — NB: My analysis here does not rest on personal familiarity and long-standing working relationship with Kennedy, but on the evidentiary and methodological standards I have applied to every vaccine-chronic illness study since 2015. This is an important article that deserves your attention and social…
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URGENT: Tell ACIP Your Thoughts on CDC’s Vaccine Recommendations
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Sep. 4, 2025) — Below this information is an exact step-by-step set of instructions on how to participate with public comments to ACIP including workarounds to help you get around the legacy obfuscation. https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-16706/p-13 “Matters to be Considered: The agenda will include discussions on COVID-19 vaccines; Hepatitis B vaccine;…
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BREAKING: FDA Rescinds Emergency Use Authorization for COVID-19 Vaccines
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Aug. 27, 2025) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rescinded the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for COVID-19 vaccines, narrowing their availability to high-risk groups. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the change on Wednesday, describing it as a step to end…
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Religious Freedom and Rational Law: West Virginia’s Vaccine Exemption Win
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Aug. 23, 2025) — On August 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights issued a letter to West Virginia’s Vaccine for Children (VFC) program providers. The message was clear: the federal Vaccines for Children statute requires states to honor religious exemptions where state law provides them…
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The Fluoride Reversal: FDA, RFK Jr., and the Reckoning with Chemical Childhood
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (May 14, 2025) — In a move that quietly signals the beginning of a major regulatory realignment, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on May 13, 2025, its intent to remove concentrated ingestible fluoride prescription drugs for children from the market. The decision, initiated under the direction…
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Autism Rates Reach Unprecedented Highs: 1 in 12 Boys at Age 4 in California, 1 in 31 Nationally
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Apr. 15, 2025) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released its 2025 report from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network, and the findings are alarming: autism spectrum disorder (ASD) now affects 1 in 31 American 8-year-olds—the highest rate ever recorded. For…
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Why A Cancer Vaccine is Not a Vaccine
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, reposted with permission (Jan. 22, 2025) — The recent announcement of the Stargate initiative—a $500 billion project led by Oracle, OpenAI, and SoftBank—has ignited global interest. Central to this effort is the development of personalized cancer vaccines, a technology poised to transform medicine. However, the term “vaccine” here is misleading. Cancer…
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Understanding Chronic Illness Means Embracing Complexity in Medical Research
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, reposted with permission (Jan. 20, 2025) — In the wake of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decisive win as Donald Trump’s backer in the 2024 presidential election, the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative has emerged as a transformative force in public health policy. With its ambitious goal to tackle the epidemic…
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WHO Disinformation on the COVID Origin Story
by Robert W. Malone, MS, MD, Malone.News, reposted with the author’s permission (Jan. 17, 2025) — Summary: I submitted the following essay on WHO disinformation regarding the COVID-19 origins, gain-of-function research, and the WHO’s relationship with the CCP/China four days ago to the Wall Street Journal with a request to be considered for publication in…
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Grieving Father Sues Vaccine Manufacturer, Canadian Government over Teen Son’s Death
by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 2, 2025) — During an anguished accounting to Texas physician and America Out Loud host Dr. Mary Talley Bowden of his son Sean’s untimely death 33 days after taking the Pfizer COVID-19 “vaccine,” Canadian father Dan Hartman revealed he filed dual first-of-a-kind wrongful death lawsuits against Pfizer and the Canadian government.…