Tag: NIH
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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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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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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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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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United States Announces Revolutionary Reform in Autism Research and Treatment
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Sep. 22, 2025) — The federal government just signaled a serious course correction on autism. In a joint appearance that felt less like a press conference and more like a policy pivot, President Donald J. Trump stood alongside HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya,…
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The Restoration of Gold-Standard Science: NIH Adopts the MAHA Playbook
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Aug. 18, 2025) — Since 2015, I have called for the full restoration of scientific integrity—for biomedical research to be ripped from the hands of politicized, captured institutions and returned to a rational, objective, methodologically rigorous foundation. I have written books, launched independent research platforms, published peer-reviewed critiques,…
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Florida Surgeon General Highlights Vaccine Injuries, Calls on NIH to Act
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Jul. 19, 2025) — July 17, 2025, Tampa Florida At a press conference at Florida State University in Tampa Florida, Florida Surgeon General Dr Joseph Ladapo made an urgent call for the NIH program funding to help Americans injured by COVID-19 vaccines and expressed support for the May federal…
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An Operational Vision for NIH Reform: Rebuilding the Scientific Core
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Apr. 22, 2025) — I have already outlined the scientific research priorities I see as necessary and good to help America meet its goals of becoming healthy again. Now I want to share my vision as a hard-nosed strategic reformer. The NIH is no longer trusted. Not by…
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The First 14: What RFK Jr. and New HHS/NIH/FDA/CDC Leadership Should Do RIGHT AWAY
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, reposted with permission (Jan. 31, 2025) — When installed at NIH, CDC and FDA, the objective scientists and administrators that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has said he would bring in will do the following: 1. Show the world that influenza has been overcounted due to diagnostic substitution with “influenza…
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Barron Trump Poses Question about COVID-19 Vaccine “Safety”
by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 30, 2024) — In August, Barron Trump, the 18-year-old youngest child of 45th President and 47th President-Elect Donald J. Trump, opened an account on “X,” formerly “Twitter,” which he used to promote his father’s candidacy but also to ask many “Yes” or “No” questions of the public without indicating his own…
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A New Vision of Transformative Medical Research via NIH to Make America Healthy Again
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Nov. 12, 2024) — I SEE FOUR PRIORITIES FOR TRANSFORMATIVE MEDICAL RESEARCH AND TRANSFORMATIVE MEDICINE: PREVENTING AND REVERSING IATROGENIC ILLNESS. MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS. METABOLIC DISORDER AND DIABETES. PREVENTING AND TREATING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE. We will set scientists free to be scientists and free physicians to be healers. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making…
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An Urgent Call to All Scientists – We Must Reframe Scientific Priorities for the Future of America with A Unified Approach to Learning Well
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Oct. 27, 2024) — It is October 2024, and we face a crossroads. Science and medicine are represented as advancing at breakneck speed, but the way we fund and prioritize research is outdated, fragmented, and deeply flawed. We are chasing immediate results, throwing resources into short-term translational projects,…
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OPINION: The GOP Plan to Right-Size the NIH and Provide Oversight Does Not Go Far Enough
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Oct. 5, 2024) — The National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in particular, have been under scrutiny for handling the COVID-19 pandemic, with critics pointing to failures in leadership and unchecked, wasteful research practices. In response, Republicans in Congress…
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Malone Speaks on House Committee Report Revealing Domestic Gain-of-Function Research
by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 13, 2024) — In an interview on “The Highwire” Thursday afternoon hosted by founder Del Bigtree, Dr. Robert Malone, MD, a pioneer of mRNA technology and outspoken critic of the U.S. government’s COVID-19 mandates, discussed a congressional report released Tuesday revealing that, contrary to testimony made to Congress by former NIAID…
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Trump: “I Will Not Allow COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates”
by Sharon Rondeau (May 23, 2024) — In a wide-ranging speech at Crotona Park in the Bronx, NY Thursday evening, 45th President and 2024 presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump pledged to “not allow COVID-19 vaccine mandates” as well as mask mandates in American public schools if he is re-elected on November 5. During…
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HHS Abdicates on Pediatric Dose Limit in Vaccines, Defers instead to the Peer-Reviewed Literature. That’s Now IPAK.
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Apr. 8, 2024) — “For the 850 mcg dose FDA claims is safe using the wrong types of aluminum, the wrong type of mammal, the wrong route of exposure, and a single cherry-picked, misinterpreted study, a person would have to weigh 374 pounds to avoid exceeding the FDA’s…
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Hearing Wrap Up: Suppression of the Lab Leak Hypothesis Was Not Based in Science
by Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2023, reposted with permission (Jul. 15, 2023) — WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing titled “Investigating the Proximal Origin of a Cover Up” to examine the potential conflicts of interest and suppression of scientific discourse by the National Institutes of Health surrounding…
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COVID Doctor Who Left Hospital Job Has a Vision for Health Care
by Dr. Joseph Mercola, ©2023 (May 1, 2023) — Before the COVID pandemic, Dr. Paul Marik became well-known for his development of a highly effective sepsis protocol using intravenous vitamin C, which resulted in a dramatic reduction in mortality rates. Then, in 2020, he cofounded the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) and subsequently…
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Conflicts of Interest: Pfizer’s Secret Collusion With the NIH
by Dr. Joseph Mercola, ©2023 (Mar. 21, 2023) — In late February 2023, Moderna agreed to pay $400 million to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for the patent it holds on Moderna’s mRNA shot.1 The patent process is a part of the COVID mRNA shots that the media haven’t really addressed…
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Book Chapter, though Brief, Begins Connecting the Dots
by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 17, 2023) – In a Substack post issued Thursday evening commemorating the third anniversary of the announcement of a “vaccine” clinical trial in response to the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the U.S. and across the globe, investigative journalist John Leake released the fourth chapter of a book he co-authored…