by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Feb. 6, 2026) — Scott Gottlieb’s Washington Post essay is rhetorically powerful and personally moving. It is also structurally incomplete—and that incompleteness matters, because it reproduces a double standard that has distorted U.S. vaccine policy, medical practice, and research priorities for decades. The core claim of the piece is uncontroversial: viral […]
