Tag: SARS-CoV-2
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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James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Aug. 27, 2025) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rescinded the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for COVID-19 vaccines, narrowing their availability to high-risk groups.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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Lab-Origin Denialists Are… Denying Lab Origin… Over, and Over, and Over, and Over…
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Jul. 31, 2025) — They’re still at it. Despite five years of escalating evidence, FOIA disclosures, high-profile reversals, and basic failures to meet the burden of proof, the architects of the natural-origin narrative have once again mounted the stage to insist—with renewed fervor—that SARS-CoV-2 could not possibly have emerged from a…
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CDC Still Playing Fast and Loose With Deaths — This Time with Children
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (May 3, 2025) — On April 26, 2025, the CDC issued its Week 17 FluView report with a headline figure: 216 children have died this influenza season, the highest recorded in any non-pandemic year. Within hours, the number was elevated into national headlines. MedPage Today and The Associated Press quickly reframed the data as an indictment…
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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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Rushed Science, Reckless Oversight: The Unseen Risks of RNA Injectables
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Dec. 3, 2024) — The rush to bring vaccines to market in response to the spread of SARS-CoV-2 across the globe left critical safety measures and scientific rigor as an afterthought. A new peer-reviewed study by researchers from the University Hospital of Würzburg, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,…
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Given FARA, were US Public Health Administrators and US-Based NIAID-Funded Researchers Working Illegally on Behalf of Other Nations?
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Oct. 21, 2024) — See: The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) (22 U.S.C. § 611 et seq.) U.S.-Funded Research in China – A Deep Dive into GOF and Collaboration The intricate collaboration between U.S. public health administrators, researchers, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has raised serious…
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The Complex Adaptive Landscape Created by SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Shows Us Why Evolution Will Not Allow Effective mRNA Vaccines Against mRNA Viruses, Part 1
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Oct. 17, 2024) — The hype surrounding mRNA vaccines, hailed as groundbreaking, has masked a critical reality: the natural evolutionary dynamics of RNA viruses and the nature of the vaccines themselves will inherently limit their effectiveness in the long term. This was clear before 2020. Significant biological concerns…
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Non-Reviewed Preprint Favors Natural Origins Based on Weak Assumptions, Speculation, Logic Flaws, and Overdrawn Conclusions
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Sep. 20, 2024) — A non-peer-reviewed paper concludes that wildlife trade at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, is the most likely conduit for the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors suggest that multiple likely intermediate host species, including raccoon dogs, civets, bamboo rats, and…
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Scientists Silencing Science: The True Harm in Dismissing the Lab-Leak Hypothesis
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Aug. 26, 2024) — On August 1, 2024, a group of 41 authors published an article(1) asserting that promoting the lab-leak hypothesis for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 is harmful, branding such exploration as “anti-science” and devoid of evidence. These authors, many of whom hold significant influence in the…
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No, Wildlife is not Teeming with SARS-CoV-2 Virus
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Aug. 14 2024) — The COVID-19 pandemic was met with a high priority on diagnostic testing in managing public health crises. Central to this effort has been the widespread deployment of Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests, widely regarded as the gold standard for detecting SARS-CoV-2. However,…
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POPRAT RapidReport: Man Injected 217 Times Shows No Superior Immune Response – and Class Switching
by James Lyons-Weiler, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Mar. 8, 2024) — In a remarkable medical case from Magdeburg, Germany, a 62-year-old individual known as HIM embarked on an extraordinary journey of receiving 217 SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations within 29 months, a venture pursued for private reasons and well beyond the scope of national vaccination recommendations. This hypervaccination, which…
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Viruses and Accelerated Aging Provide Key Insights on Expected Effects of Repeated Exposures to SARS-CoV-2 Spike Proteins
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Jan. 7, 2024) — BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF THE SPIKE PROTEIN INFORMS US THAT THE VACCINATED SHOULD AGE FASTER AND HAVE MORE CHRONIC ILLNESS, AS SHOULD THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEMS. THIS IS A COMPLETE REFERENCE RESOURCE FOR YOURSELF, YOUR DOCTORS AND YOUR LAWYERS. The last decade of…
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Biden Administration Cuts Wuhan Funding, Vindicates IPAK on Laboratory Origin Likelihood
by Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, reposted with permission (Jul. 19, 2023) — On Jan 30, 2020, IPAK, The Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, published a proposal that the Wuhan Institute for Virology was the most likely source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (then known as nCOV2019). (See article). Dr. Lyons-Weiler was invited to…
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The Uncanny Accuracy of Predictions From Virologists Manipulating Viruses in the Laboratory
by Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, reposted with permission (Mar. 29, 2023) — “Coincidence is the word we use when we can’t see the levers and pulleys.” Sci-Fi Author Emma Bull Here are four predictions that point to SARS-CoV-2 as an inevitable consequence of gain-of-function research. PREDICTION 1. There will be a major outbreak…
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Health Officials Caught Deploying Fear and Staging Coverup
by Dr. Joseph Mercola, ©2023 (Mar. 13, 2023) — In January 2022, House Oversight Committee Republicans released a batch of emails sent to and from the National Institutes of Health (NIH),1,2,3 showing that scientists in the earliest days of the pandemic strongly suspected SARS-CoV-2 was a genetically engineered virus. The correspondence also revealed that NIH…
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CDC Must Not Survive COVID-19
by Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, blogging at Popular Rationalism, ©2023, reposted with permission from the author (Feb. 25, 2023) — Discretionary Budget Authority (CDC):$10.1 Bln (10.1 BILLION dollars) Discretionary Budget Authority (IPAK): $84K (84 thousand dollars) CDC receives 14.1 million times more funding than IPAK. Think about that. Given the run I’ve given them in…
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WHO Puts Mad Scientist in Charge of Global Health
by Dr. Joseph Mercola, ©2023 (Feb. 8, 2023) — December 13, 2022, the World Health Organization named Dr. Jeremy Farrar as its new chief scientist for global health.1 As chief scientist, Farrar will oversee the WHO’s science division “to develop and deliver high quality health services” worldwide. As detailed in “The Dam of Lies Surrounding…
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Mad Scientists Create Coronavirus With 80% Lethality in Mice
by Dr. Joseph Mercola, ©2022 (Oct. 26, 2022) — Less than two months ago, we reported scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have resurrected the Spanish flu virus through reverse genetics. Disturbingly, the scientists appeared frustrated by the fact that…
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Scientists Have Recreated World’s Deadliest Flu Virus
by Dr. Joseph Mercola, ©2022 (Sep. 8, 2022) – Evidence points to SARS-CoV-2 being the product of gain-of-function (GoF) research. Indeed, attorney Tom Renz will soon release the results of a major legal investigation, which he claims will demonstrate — beyond a reasonable doubt — that SARS-CoV-2 was created as part of a GoF project.1…

