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Infectious Disease

A 2014 Trial Warned That Correcting Vaccine Fears Backfires on the Hesitant. Public Health Corrected Harder.

A randomized trial found that correcting MMR-autism fears left the most hesitant parents less likely to vaccinate. A decade later, a panel of credentialed doctors in Sydney shows the trust cost of correcting harder anyway.

Infectious Disease

In 1999, Fifteen Reports Suspended a Vaccine Within Weeks. The Spike Signal Has Waited Years for a Study.

Spike protein has turned up in the vessel-lining cells of vasculitic skin lesions 18 months after the shot, and adverse-event reports keep stacking up. The agencies that suspended a vaccine over fifteen reports in 1999 now call thousands a coincidence.

Infectious Disease

Your Antibodies Are Still Fighting the 2020 Virus

For two years the message was that another ancestral booster would keep pace with the virus. The immunology says the opposite can happen: repeated shots against the 2020 strain can lock your antibodies onto a version of SARS-CoV-2 that stopped circulating, and in 2023 the WHO named immune imprinting

Drugs & FDA

The FDA Said No to Moderna's mRNA Flu Shot in February. By August, the Two Men Who Said No Were Gone.

The FDA refused to even review Moderna's mRNA flu shot in February because it was never tested against the enhanced vaccines seniors are steered toward. The two officials who objected are gone, and the agency approved it anyway, for the oldest patients, on a promise to prove it works later.

Autoimmune & Inflammation

Rare but Real: The Autoimmune Hepatitis After mRNA That VAERS Was Built to Miss

Twenty-seven biopsy-confirmed cases of autoimmune hepatitis after an mRNA dose, jaundice and an ALT of 1,092 that resolved on steroids. The disproportionality math found 'no safety signal.' It was measuring a reporting system, not the liver.

Cancer

Glioblastoma Craves Sugar. Oregon State Coated a Gene Therapy in It and Rode Straight Past the Blood-Brain Barrier.

Glioblastoma overexpresses the same sugar transporter that guards the brain. Oregon State researchers used that greed to smuggle a tumor-suppressor gene into tumors, and mouse survival rose 50 percent.

Investigations

A Top Cancer Scientist, a Deleted Study, and the Question Washington Won't Fund

A June 2026 Senate subcommittee hearing centered on a Brown University cancer researcher's review of 333 post-vaccination cancer case reports, and on the retractions, censorship, and cyberattack that met it.

Investigations

A Senate Subcommittee Just Put the COVID Shot Cancer Question on the Record

A 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.

Investigations

A Senate hearing finally put the cancer question on the record. The journal notice had been up for months.

Sen. 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.