Category: National
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RESEARCH METHODS; On the Use – and Abuse – of Power Analyses in Biomedical and Clinical Research
“Not powered to detect” has become a way to end the conversation, not a statistical finding. by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Oct. 1, 2026) — Imagine that researchers test whether a treatment relieves symptoms. They also watch for a serious complication, but their study includes too few people to reliably detect an important…
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Appeal Filed with First Circuit on Maine Student-Vaccine Case
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 30, 2026) — The non-profit legal entity We the Patriots USA announced Wednesday it filed an emergency appeal with the First Circuit Court of Appeals concerning the case of a Maine father/plaintiff threatened with a charge of truancy. The accusation arose from the father’s eighth-grade son having been absent from school…
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Johnson Set to Hear from Hospital Insiders Re: COVID Protocols
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 28, 2026) — At 1:00 p.m. EDT Monday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) will hold a “roundtable” discussion with the purpose of airing “Real Stories from Real People” concerning practices carried out in hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic and their outcomes. Johnson is the only U.S. senator, or member of Congress for…
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Multi-Year Investigation Claims State, Federal Non-Compliance in Connecticut’s Election Practices
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 27, 2026) — In late 2022, Connecticut-based Fight Voter Fraud, a non-profit founded in 2018 by Linda Synkowicz, began researching the responsibilities and obligations of Connecticut’s registrars of voters to determine if the individuals in those positions were complying with state election statutes mandating training, canvassing and updating voter rolls on…
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The Senate Map is Expanding – In Favor of the Republicans
Three traditionally Blue States; Michigan, Minnesota and New Hampshire are now in play. by David Shephard, ©2026 (Sep. 18, 2026) — On Wednesday the Detroit News, one of Detroit’s two major newspapers, endorsed Republican Mike Rogers for the Senate. Why would a big city paper, home to lots of Democrats, do such a thing? Well, one…
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Risks of Using AI in Clinical Research and How They Are Preventable with AI
There are foreseeable ways AI-assisted research—and people who misuse AI—can harm human subjects and corrupt scientific inference. We can now avoid them in a context, ironically, powered by AI. by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Sep. 14, 2026) — AI can make a bad protocol look finished. It can produce polished prose, tidy tables,…
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Two-Day Online Conference Questions Vaccine Protocols, Government Mandates
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 12, 2026) — The non-profit legal group We the Patriots USA is hosting its Seventh Annual Vaccine Safety Awareness symposium this weekend. Speakers include Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (VSRF) founder Steve Kirsch; Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, MD; Atty. Ray Flores; Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, PhD; Dr. Ryan Cole, MD, and many others…
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Judge Denies Temporary Restraining Order in Maine Vaccine Case
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 8, 2026) — Following a hearing last Thursday, on Tuesday a federal judge denied two plaintiffs’ motions seeking a temporary restraining order (TRO) and preliminary injunction against the Maine Department of Education and a school-district superintendent for barring an eighth-grader from attending school due to his religious objection to required vaccines.…
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What Happened to Maria Bartiromo?
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 5, 2026) — On Thursday, a press release from Fox News Media announced that longtime anchor Maria Bartiromo would no longer be on the air. “Effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with FOX News Media,” the press release begins. “In making the announcement, FOX News Media said, ‘We thank Maria…
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Religious-Exemption Revocation Laws Challenged in Maine and Beyond
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 3, 2026) — In mid-July, the non-profit We the Patriots USA filed a lawsuit against the state of Maine challenging its 2021 law revoking its religious exemption for compulsory vaccines for school attendance. An eighth-grader was “informed that he could not return to school to start eighth grade this fall because…
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Poll: What is the Most Significant Vulnerability in U.S. Elections?
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 2, 2026) — Columnist, podcaster, author and political commentator Jeff Crouere has posted a survey asking readers to select their most pressing concern in regard to the integrity of U.S. elections, particularly in light of the fast-approaching congressional midterms. Ten options are presented, all of which have been the focus of…
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Trump Changes Lake Ontario to “Lake America”
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 27, 2026) — In the wake of a trade war with Canada, at 1:25 p.m. EDT, President Trump signed an executive order changing “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America.” An agreement with the Canadian government was reportedly on the horizon last week, but talks fell through late in the process, administration officials…
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The Fight for Religious Exemptions Continues
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 23, 2026) — In a recent episode of her podcast, “On Call,” Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, MD interviewed Atty. Brian Festa of We the Patriots USA, a non-profit law firm advocating for the restoration of religious exemptions to government-issued mandates for schoolchildren. Early in the interview, Festa presented the argument that…
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The Fallout From Trump v. Barbara
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Aug. 22, 2026) — INTRODUCTION The recent SCOTUS decision in Trump v. Barbara – holding, among other things, that if born here on U.S. soil, the child of an illegal alien or a foreigner unlawfully present here is nonetheless a U.S. citizen – continues to produce fallout. While technically not radioactive,…
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Keep on. The Search Isn’t Over.
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (Aug. 19, 2026) — Once and done. This was the mantra of us programmers during the 1980s and ‘90s at the insurance company where I worked. No wonder, given the complicated web of systems we had to maintain. In the beginning, each line of business—property casualty, life, disability,…
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Citing Census Bureau Data, Trump Declares 2020 Election Victory
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 18, 2026) — On Tuesday evening, President Trump reported on Truth Social that the U.S. Census Bureau, a subsidiary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has embarked on an accounting of voters who participated in the 2020 election, which Trump has always claimed he won but after which Joe Biden was…
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World War II Memorial Vandalized
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 14, 2026) — At 8:52 a.m. EDT Friday, President Trump commented on Truth Social about the vandalism which took place at the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC. “Our beautiful World War II Memorial was just hit by Spray Painting Vandals,” Trump wrote. “THERE CAN BE NO GREATER INSULT TO…
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Trump Signs Executive Order on Vaccines
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 10, 2026) — At 2:55 p.m. EDT, President Trump began speaking from the Oval Office regarding the CDC’s childhood vaccine schedule, thanking HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for his assistance in contributing to it. Reading presumably from the order, Trump said the recommended number of vaccine doses for children is…
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CMS Administrator: “Fraud” Problem Similar to “Border Crisis”
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 5, 2026) — In an interview with Martha MacCallum on Wednesday’s episode of “The Story,” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz likened the billions of dollars in “fraud” investigators have discovered through the Medicaid and Medicare programs to the former porous borders between the U.S. and neighbors. Abuse…
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In Defense of Professor Ilan Wurman
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2026 (Jul. 31, 2026) — Professor who? … you may ask. Pay attention, faithful P&E readers, as the following will give you a better understanding of the intellectual goo that presently passes for “viewpoint tolerance” and “academic integrity” on many of the Republic’s university and college campuses, especially in the law “schools”…