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A federally funded field trial used a controlled fire whirl to burn up to 95% of a crude oil pool while cutting soot by 40%, raising the question of why the standard in-situ burn, with its measured worker-lung cost, has gone unchallenged for thirty-five years.
InvestigationsA Senate Homeland Security subcommittee took testimony on whether mRNA COVID shots can plausibly cause cancer, and on the parallel campaign to keep that question out of the journals. Dr. John Campbell walked his audience through it.
InvestigationsA Reddit pitch for a Quest reseller put receipts on a markup the insurance-billed lab market has spent years obscuring. A Florida cost study confirms what the consumer market already figured out.
InvestigationsA polished hernia FAQ walks patients through recovery time, return-to-work, and lifestyle. It skips the question with 26,153 pending lawsuits behind it, and the no-mesh option the international guideline still keeps on the table.
InvestigationsSen. Ron Johnson's June 3 subcommittee hearing on plausible mechanisms linking mRNA injections to cancer, the South Korean cohort behind it, and the editorial notice Springer had posted on the paper months earlier.
InvestigationsPolice escorted ADA members out of New Orleans on Friday for passing out an editorial against Trump's NIH overhaul. The shove was bad. The editorial defending the status quo has a credibility problem the press is mostly missing.
InvestigationsA 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.
InvestigationsTwo NIAID scientists are charged with bringing 113 undeclared vials into Detroit during an active Congo mpox outbreak. One allegedly told a federal officer he does it all the time.
InvestigationsA KFF and AP investigation pulled more than 300 sworn allegations of medical neglect from 33,000 ICE habeas petitions, even as the detention ombudsman office quietly closed and the federal detainee care bill passed half a billion dollars.
InvestigationsFor one strange year, the EWG hiking-boots crowd and the MAHA red-hat moms were fighting the same pesticide war. Then Trump invoked the Defense Production Act on behalf of Bayer, the final MAHA report quietly stopped mentioning glyphosate, and a coalition that was actually winning got stomped by a C
InvestigationsAustralia 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.
InvestigationsDoctor Mike's lighthearted Never Have I Ever video sits at the top of a funnel that includes a $997 media academy, a UNICEF vaccine-ambassador title, and an ongoing pitch to pharmaceutical executives about social-media trust.
InvestigationsVietnam'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.