Interim CDC head Jay Bhattacharya invents a new “gold standard” to stop publication of studies showing COVID-19 vaccines had major benefits with minimal risk.
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Posted inHealth Care
RFK Jr. and the Perils of Peptides
The Health and Human Services Secretary’s push to deregulate unapproved peptides will inevitably lead to worse health outcomes.
Posted inPolitics
Stop Asking How Democrats Will Fight Trump. Start Asking Republicans
The president is supplanting long-standing Republican principles of limited government, free markets, low taxes, and federalism with his trademark incompetent authoritarianism.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
The Opioid Crackdown Is Hurting People in Pain
Purdue Pharma and “pill mills” are rightfully getting clobbered with lawsuits and regulations for their role in the opioid crisis. But the crackdown is pummeling patients with chronic pain.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Why Won’t the White House Let the CDC Contact Trace Its Rose Garden Event?
The Amy Coney Barrett announcement offered evidence that medical professionals usually can only dream about. But Trump’s staff is shutting them out.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Trump Administration’s Version of ‘Political Correctness’
They are banning words from use in public documents.
