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Months Before Officials Told Pregnant Women the COVID Shot Was Safe, Fauci Privately Flagged a Theoretical First-Trimester Miscarriage Risk
Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul pulled the first messages off Fauci's government iPhone: a January 2021 chain in which he privately flagged a theoretical first-trimester miscarriage risk, months before official guidance told pregnant women the shot carried no such concern.
InvestigationsFeed These Bacteria a Splash of Glycerol, and 95% of the Uranium Leaves the Water
Microbes in a flooded German uranium mine turned 95 percent of the dissolved metal into an iron compound that held together when oxygen returned, the exact failure that has always defeated standard cleanup.
InvestigationsArkansas Cut 18,000 Eligible People From Medicaid Over Paperwork, and the 2027 Fix Is AI Its Own Authors Say Will Reproduce the Bias
A federal work requirement hits ACA Medicaid on January 1, 2027. Health-policy academics propose using AI to verify, screen, and manage the rollout, and the paper's lead author admits the system will "100% reproduce" the biases baked into the data.
InvestigationsMIT Put an AI Skin Doctor in Front of 776 People. Its Friendliest Feature Fooled the Ones Who Needed Help Most.
623 lay people and 153 doctors used the same AI to read skin conditions. The doctors shrugged off its bad advice. Everyone else trusted it more the more fluently it explained itself.
InvestigationsVitamin K Shot Refusals Nearly Doubled Since 2017. A Cancer Scare Refuted Twenty Years Ago Still Shadows It.
Refusal of the newborn vitamin K shot has nearly doubled since 2017. The injection all but erases a bleed that kills roughly one in five infants it reaches, and the cancer scare still shadowing it was refuted twenty years ago. The institutions losing these parents will not even count the damage.
InvestigationsTwo Vaccine Injury Programs, One Country: COVID Claims Landed in the One That Almost Never Pays
The federal fund for routine vaccine injuries has paid $5.2 billion to nearly 10,000 people. The program COVID shots were routed into has compensated 34 claims, and RFK Jr. wants to change the math.
InvestigationsTwo Scientists Nominated Fauci for Cash Prizes. Then His Agency Funded Them by the Hundreds of Millions.
The emails Rand Paul released July 24 show Fauci's taxpayer-funded staff drafting his award nominations, and two scientists who submitted them going on to draw large NIAID grants.
InvestigationsBuilt to Find Nothing: Merck Tested Gardasil's Safety Against Its Own Aluminum Adjuvant
In ten of eleven pivotal trials, Merck's Gardasil 'placebo' was 225 micrograms of the same aluminum adjuvant that is in the vaccine, and serious harms counted only inside a 14-day window.
InvestigationsThe Phone-Radiation Study Everyone Called a Debunking Was Too Small to Find the Tumor
Japan and Korea spent two years 'validating' the NIH finding that cell-phone radiation gave rats heart tumors. They used one dose, one sex, and too few animals to detect it. Korea's rats grew the tumor anyway.
InvestigationsA Gene-Editing Trial Killed a Six-Year-Old. The Only Official Penalty Was a $3,500 Fine.
Xinhua Hospital paid about 24,000 yuan in September 2025. The death it was fined over stayed out of the medical literature for another ten months, and out of the Nature paper entirely.
InvestigationsPregnant Women's Blood Pressure Registers Every Smoke Day. A Federal Rule Lets States Erase Those Days From the Record.
On heavy smoke days, adults' systolic pressure ran nearly 4 mmHg higher; across eight southwestern states, gestational smoke exposure raised the odds of gestational hypertension 12 percent. Since 2016, regulators have won EPA approval to erase wildfire smoke from the Clean Air Act record in more tha
InvestigationsThe American Diabetes Association Had Police Remove the Editor of Its Own Journal. Then It Refused to Print His Reply.
Steven Kahn edits the ADA's own journal. In June its meeting had state police walk him out for handing out one of its editorials. In July it refused to print the response he and his colleagues wrote. He calls it what it is: pure censorship.
InvestigationsBPA Sits in 90% of Us. The Cancer Studies Sample It With a Method That Was Never Going to Find Anything.
Bisphenol A shows up in more than nine of ten Americans, yet California's reviewers just called the cancer evidence 'inadequate,' because the studies measure a chemical the body clears in hours from a single urine sample.
InvestigationsA Gene-Editing Trial Killed a 6-Year-Old. Nature Published the Science and Left Her Out of the Record.
Her parents paid $860,000 to base-edit their daughter's brain. She died of an immune reaction within a week, the trial's fatal outcome was never disclosed, and the Nature paper built on the same work never names her.
InvestigationsA Pharma-Funded Nonprofit Is Lobbying the FDA to Kill Seven Peptides It Can't Sell You
The Partnership for Safe Medicines has deep ties to the drug lobby. Now it's urging the FDA to permanently block BPC-157, MOTS-c and five other off-patent peptides that compounding pharmacies sell cheap.
InvestigationsNearly Half of America's ER Substance-Use Visits Involve Someone the Justice System Already Booked
Forty-four percent of Americans who go to an emergency room for substance use have a booking in their past. A survey of 139,524 people measured how much the jail and the ER share a population.
InvestigationsNEJM Retracted the Study That Approved Amgen's Vasculitis Drug. It Had Never Done That in 200 Years.
The FDA says the drug's superiority result came from re-scoring nine patients after the trial was unblinded. It is still on U.S. shelves while Amgen fights the withdrawal.
InvestigationsAustralia Switched Off Social Media for a Generation of Kids. Nepal Already Ran That Experiment.
The ban is sold as youth mental-health protection, but its own university researchers call the harm evidence overblown, and the one nation that already banned a platform got ID checks and VPN workarounds, not healthier kids.
InvestigationsTwo Journals That Buried the Lab-Leak Question Now Warn of a 'Gilded Age' in American Science
The Lancet and Science marked America's 250th by casting the administration's research cuts as vandalism. Both journals spent the public trust they now invoke, and the editorials never mention how.
InvestigationsKennedy Ended the COVID Emergency Authorizations. The Document That Blocks Injury Lawsuits Wasn't the One He Signed.
The emergency use authorizations wind down within a year. The liability shield that routes injured people to a program denying more than 98% of claims runs untouched through 2029.
InvestigationsA Road Made From Recycled Fishing Nets Shed Less Microplastic Than the Tires Rolling Over It
Hawaii scientists laid ocean-net plastic into a real Oahu street, then measured what came off. The recycled plastic barely registered. Tire wear, the source almost nobody regulates, swamped it by orders of magnitude.
InvestigationsEurope Called Medical AI 'High Risk' and Still Gave Patients No Right to Refuse It
An algorithm once cut the extra care flagged for Black patients by more than half, and ran for years before anyone noticed. A commentary in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine says the rules now governing medical AI would not have caught it.
InvestigationsThe WHO Invented Osteopenia for Statisticians. Merck Turned It Into 34 Million Patients.
The man who chaired the 1992 WHO meeting says they never imagined osteopenia would be treated as a disease. Three years later Merck launched Fosamax and started putting bone scanners in doctors' offices.
InvestigationsHis Heart Was Pumping at 10 Percent. The Real Question Is Why It Took an Algorithm to Notice.
An AI tool flagged a 45-year-old's hidden heart failure and the story became 'AI beats your doctor.' The case actually documents a missed standard workup, and it dropped the same week as the FDA clearance.