Tag: newborns
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Policy Critique: Vitamin K Shots at Birth are a Universally Applied Therapy Not Everyone Needs – And in the U.S., Shots are a Monopoly
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Mar. 23, 2026) — When does “Standard of Care” cross over into “monopoly enforcement of medical therapy given without indication”? It’s true: infants are nearly always born with low Vitamin K. But the low levels are consistent across all mammals to varying degrees. Some researchers argue this may be physiologically intentional —…
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Policy on HepB Vaccines Used on Day 1 of Life in US Is Not Based on Evidence of Protection Against HepB Viral Infection
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Aug. 14, 2025) — I consume massive quantities of literature each week. It is reasonable to expect that ACIP might be looking into the individual benefit:risk ratio of HepB, especially given the tip-off by an article I mention later. So I went to find the evidence of benefit.…
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The Mask Has Slipped from the Evil Face of Modern Liberalism — and Its Incongruity
“HOMICIDE” February 1, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Here in my home state of Virginia our new governor, a physician by training and a Democrat by choice, has joined with extreme liberals to favor a change to our laws that will permit outright murder of the most innocent, pure, and vulnerable among us. The bill…