Tag: vaccines
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Appeal Filed with First Circuit on Maine Student-Vaccine Case
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 30, 2026) — The non-profit legal entity We the Patriots USA announced Wednesday it filed an emergency appeal with the First Circuit Court of Appeals concerning the case of a Maine father/plaintiff threatened with a charge of truancy. The accusation arose from the father’s eighth-grade son having been absent from school…
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Fauci to Testify at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday
by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 29, 2026) — 8:02 a.m. – Former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci just arrived on Capitol Hill to testify under subpoena to the Senate Homeland Security Committee about the origins of the COVID-19 virus following the release of eye-opening diary entries from Fauci’s own hand as the pandemic unfolded. Committee…
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Vaccine Manufacturers Put on Dramatic Notice: FDA Rejects Moderna’s Flu Vaccine Application
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Feb. 12, 2026) — We suspect that Moderna’s refusal is an attempt to avoid giving FDA the data it needs for age-specific approval and recommendation by restricting its options to proceeding in a way that would force the FDA to lower its standards. FDA called Moderna’s $750M bluff.…
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A RATIONAL MOMENT: The Double Standard at the Heart of the Vaccine Debate
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…
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An Epistemic Audit of WHO’s December 2025 Statement on Vaccines and Autism
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Dec. 12, 2025) — Executive Summary On 11 December 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO), via its Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS), published a high-profile statement declaring that a “new analysis” reaffirmed that there is “no causal link between vaccines and autism.” This categorical claim rests…
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Bill Cassidy’s Footnotes vs. the Executive Branch: Who Actually Runs U.S. Health Policy?
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Nov. 25, 2025) — NB: My analysis here does not rest on personal familiarity and long-standing working relationship with Kennedy, but on the evidentiary and methodological standards I have applied to every vaccine-chronic illness study since 2015. This is an important article that deserves your attention and social…
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CDC’s Autism Reversal: Inside the Collapse of a 25‑Year Public Health Narrative
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Nov. 20, 2025) — On November 19, 2025, quietly and without ceremony, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its website and rewrote one of the most politically charged sentences in modern American medicine. A sentence that had been treated as gospel—“Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism”—was suddenly recast…
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Shedders, Silent Spreaders: Stop Blaming the Unvaccinated
by Patti Johnson, American Policy Center, ©2025 (Nov. 3, 2025) — We’re fed up with the lies. For years the mainstream media has peddled a tired narrative, pinning every childhood disease outbreak on the unvaccinated which often includes the homeschooler. Heavily influenced by Big Pharma interests, they deliberately undermine parents who have made informed decisions…
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Film Featuring Unprecedented “Vaccine” Research to Premiere Sunday Evening
by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 11, 2025) — On Sunday the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) will live-stream its production of “An Inconvenient Study” at 8:00 p.m. EDT/5:00 p.m. PDT at the Malibu Film Festival at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) in Los Angeles. The non-profit research arm of “The Highwire” founded by medical journalist…
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BULLETIN: Fourteen‑Year Fugitive from Justice Poul Thorsen Arrested in Germany for Defrauding the US Government: What This Means for the Vaccine/Autism Question
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Sep. 16, 2025) — Poul Thorsen, a Danish physician and researcher prominently involved in vaccine‑autism epidemiology, was indicted in 2011 in the U.S. for allegedly misappropriating more than $1 million in CDC grant funds. For over a decade he was a fugitive who face, name and charges were…
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URGENT: Tell ACIP Your Thoughts on CDC’s Vaccine Recommendations
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Sep. 4, 2025) — Below this information is an exact step-by-step set of instructions on how to participate with public comments to ACIP including workarounds to help you get around the legacy obfuscation. https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-16706/p-13 “Matters to be Considered: The agenda will include discussions on COVID-19 vaccines; Hepatitis B vaccine;…
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Johnson Opens “Vaccines” Hearing
by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 15, 2025) — At 3:16 p.m. EDT, Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, opened a hearing scheduled for 3:00 p.m. by acknowledging injuries which followed vaccinations and providing a brief history of the 1986 law which gave vaccine manufacturers “blanket immunity” from liability. At 3:20 p.m., ranking…
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Senate Subcommittee Hearing on Vaccine Injuries Tuesday
by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 15, 2025) — The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will hold a hearing Tuesday beginning at 3:00 p.m. titled, “Voices of the Vaccine Injured.” Seven witnesses are scheduled to testify, one of whom, a medical doctor, claims a vaccine-related injury. The remaining witnesses will be speaking for relatives either vaccine-injured or…
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A Rational Moment: The Kennedy Bar is What Modernization Should Look Like
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Jun. 20, 2025) — Science must outlive the PR cycle. Modernization, as used today by industry lobbyists and public health officials, often amounts to a euphemism for deregulation: fewer checks, less transparency, and faster product pipelines with fewer questions asked. In contrast, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s approach…
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After 61 Years of Silence, The Media Suddenly Discovers Conflicts of Interest at ACIP—The Very Moment RFK Jr. Initiates Reform Moves
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Jun. 13, 2025) — For thirty years, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) operated as one of the most powerful medical bodies in the United States—largely in the shadows, shielded from public scrutiny by a media that, astonishingly, never thought to ask even the most basic…
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Was Firing ACIP the Right Move? Former ACIP Member Conflicts of Interest Details Emerge
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Jun. 10, 2025) — Washington, D.C. — On June 9, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the dismissal of all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the body responsible for issuing federal recommendations on vaccine use in the United…
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Reclaiming Scientific Integrity: A Call for Objective, Predictive Research on Autism Risk
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Apr. 7, 2025) — Finally, The Fork in the Road.. Never a More Exciting Time for Science, But WashPo is Debby Downer On April 4, 2025, the Washington Post reported on the National Institutes of Health’s upcoming initiative to investigate the causes of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Rather than welcoming…
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Intentional Abuse of Health Outcomes in Studies and Recommendations of Vaccines During Pregnancy
by James Lyons-Weiler, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Mar. 6, 2025) — “They mysteriously stopped the trial after 349 women enrolled in the study … the results of those 349 women have never been made public” – Dr. Marty Makary The Helsinki Declaration, first adopted in 1964 by the World Medical Association, was designed to protect human…
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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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Are Vaccines Safe and Effective – Period?
by John Bernard, ©2025 (Jan. 29, 2025) — The “stick-it-to-the-man” anarchistic Left of the 60’s has fully morphed into promoters of the 60’s skit, “Sign za paper, old man.” There isn’t one single medication or medical procedure that doesn’t present side effects if not risks to Life for some people. And yet, the Left is…