Tag: CDC
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FDA Knew Its COVID Vaccine Safety Algorithm Could Hide Signals. It Used It Anyway.
Perhaps it’s time for IPAK to design The People’s Vaccine Safety Tracking System. Thoughts? by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Sep. 17, 2026) — A new BMJ investigation documents a preventable pharmacovigilance failure: a known masking defect, an available statistical remedy, and public reassurance built partly on the absence of alerts that the surveillance…
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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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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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Certain U.S. Senators Do Not Understand Measles—and They Do Not Understand Secretary Kennedy
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Apr. 23, 2026) — There is a difference between disagreement and distortion. Several senators crossed that line in their attacks on Secretary Kennedy’s measles testimony. They did not merely disagree with him. They used Senatorial rhetoric to treat a technically demanding surveillance problem as though it were morally…
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Dr. Erica Schwartz and the Only Question That Matters: Will Trump’s CDC Pick Break Regulatory Capture, or Rebuild It?
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Apr. 20, 2026) — The press keeps asking the wrong question about Erica Schwartz. Is she conventional? Is she confirmable? Is she a stabilizing choice after institutional chaos? Those questions are trivial. The real question is whether the next CDC director will preserve the old machinery of regulatory…
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Report: ACIP to Discuss Report on Vaccine Injuries at Upcoming Meeting
by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 16, 2026) — A meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be held March 18-19 and reportedly encompass a “leaked” report on from an ACIP advisory body calling for change to re-instill the public’s confidence in “vaccination programs.” The…
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Rational Discourse Is Hard at Work at the FDA
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Feb. 10, 2026) — In June 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration instituted what is formally known as a class Safety Labeling Change to the prescribing information of mRNA COVID‑19 vaccines, requiring updated warnings about the risks of myocarditis and pericarditis following administration of these products. In conjunction with…
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Is the Measles Scare Over?
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Feb. 8, 2026) — As of early 2026, a glance at the CDC’s measles rash-onset curve suggests the storm may be passing. The final few bars are low. But whether it is ending takes a bit more time. To assess whether the measles situation is truly resolving, we…
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Moderna Quits Vaccines over Effective Regulatory and Prosecutorial Climates. Here are a Few Reasons Why.
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Jan. 27, 2026) — In a development as symbolic as it is strategic, Moderna has publicly scaled back its investment in vaccine development, citing a regulatory climate that no longer guarantees impunity. The announcement came during a January 2026 interview with Bloomberg TV, reported by Reuters, in which Moderna…
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The Schedule Is the Signal: Why the January 2026 Vaccine Policy Reset Was Necessary, Not Radical
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Jan. 6, 2026) — The CDC’s January 2026 childhood vaccine schedule realignment is not a retreat from science—it is its restoration. By aligning the U.S. with international norms, reclassifying low-benefit vaccines, and preserving universal access, the policy reasserts informed consent, parsimony, and scientific integrity as central to public health. This…
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HHS Tackles Lyme Disease: A New Era of Federal Commitment to an ‘Invisible Illness’
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Dec. 20, 2025) — Washington, D.C. — December 2025 For decades, Americans suffering from persistent symptoms after Lyme disease treatment have heard the same refrains: “It’s all in your head.” “You’re cured.” “There is no such thing as chronic Lyme.” That narrative is collapsing. In a sweeping new…
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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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From Big Chem to Your Table: PFAS Are Being Sprayed on Our Food and No One Told the Public
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Dec. 4, 2025) — They’re spraying PFAS on our food, and the public has no idea. PFAS—per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—are synthetic chemicals engineered to resist heat, oil, and water. Their carbon-fluorine bonds, among the strongest in chemistry, make them incredibly stable and essentially non-degradable in nature. Developed in…
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Kirsch Announces “Courage In Health” Conference with Free Virtual Attendance
by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 31, 2025) — Tech entrepreneur, philanthropist and VSRF founder Steve Kirsch will be one of 30 featured speakers at the “Courage in Health” Conference beginning Saturday and ending November 9. Kirsch, who has questioned the COVID-19 “vaccine” products almost from their initial release to the American public in late 2020 and…
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Tylenol and Autism: More to the Story
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Oct. 13, 2025) — In 2020, the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that one in 36 children (approximately four percent of boys and one percent of girls) was estimated to have autism-spectrum disorder, estimates that were significantly higher than those in all previous years. But just…
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Can’t Sit Still Pop a Pill (Part 2)
by Patti Johnson, American Policy Center, ©2025 (Sep. 15, 2025) — [See Part 1 here.] Part 2 What is normal? Here is a little about Einstein: “Einstein was slow in learning how to speak. His parents even consulted a doctor. He also had a cheeky rebelliousness toward authority, which led one headmaster to expel him…
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RFK Jr. versus Faux Pocahontas
by John Bernard, ©2025 (Sep. 5, 2025) — For clarification, the clown show vis-a-vis using RFK Jr. as a punching bag during a televised Congressional budget hearing in a childish attempt to score sleazy publicity points exposed several suspect political streetwalkers feigning confusion: to wit, RFK Jr. praising Operation Warp Speed while damning CDC’s continued…
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The Empty Revolt: A Rational Rebuttal to the 1,000 Authors of the HHS “Secretary Kennedy Must” Resignation Letter
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Sep. 3, 2025) — Let us begin with what is human. Fear. Grief. Disillusionment. Many who signed the September 3 letter calling for Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s resignation are no doubt good people. They have built careers in public health under an institutional consensus that framed obedience as virtue…
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The Curious Case of Dr. Thomas Shimabukuro’s Missing Emails
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Jul. 8, 2025) — In a quiet but consequential corner of federal oversight, a complex triad of inquiries continues to unfold around Dr. Tom T. Shimabukuro, former Director of the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office. What began as a request for transparency in COVID-19 vaccine safety data has now…
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ACIP Meets to Discuss Vaccine Recommendations
by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 25, 2025) — As of 10:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is live-streaming the first meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) committee following its purging by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. approximately two weeks ago and selection of eight new members, leaving nine seats…