Mira Petrov
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A DC judge dismissed the Study 329 suit. The court did not say the paper is honest.
A DC court dismissed an attempt to force JAACAP and Elsevier to retract Study 329. The ruling did not find the paper sound. It found that no reader has standing to make a journal stop selling a fraudulent article.
InvestigationsBecerra Got the Fauci Whistleblower File. The HHS Inspector General Did Not.
A whistleblower told the Director of National Intelligence in August 2021 that Anthony Fauci lied to Congress about gain-of-function funding. The file was routed to Xavier Becerra, Fauci's cabinet boss, instead of the independent HHS Inspector General. The paper trail is now public.
InvestigationsAaron Siri Wrote a Book Made of Court Filings
A new book by attorney Aaron Siri assembles a decade of FOIA wins, court filings, and depositions into one record of what the federal vaccine docket does and does not say.
InvestigationsThe founder of Kentucky's biggest rehab chain was indicted this week. The wire fraud charge is the smaller of his problems.
A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Kentucky indicted the founder of Addiction Recovery Care on June 4 for selling the same COVID-era tax credit twice. The bigger case, the FBI Medicaid investigation into the company he built, is still open.
InvestigationsSix Negative Tests, Forty-Two Days: What Australia's Biosecurity Order Won't Say Out Loud
Australia extended facility detention of six hantavirus contacts to a full 42 days under the Biosecurity Act after they tested negative. WHO's own guidance reserves that option for the high-risk tier; most peer countries chose monitoring.
InvestigationsVietnam's New Integrity Rule Arrives 251 Retractions Late
Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology issued a research-integrity framework with permanent bans on May 25, 2026. The Retraction Watch database already lists 251 retractions carrying Vietnamese affiliations.