Restoring Trust in Public Health: Science, Not Manipulation
This is the second in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans rightly skeptical of public health institutions. This series highlights key findings from several congressional oversight reports, including the final report of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, […]
Understanding Fraud in COVID-19 Financial Relief Efforts
This is the first in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans rightly skeptical of public health institutions. This series highlights key findings from several congressional oversight reports, including the final report of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Coronavirus […]
FDA’s ‘Drug Safety Priorities’ Working Group Politicized Under Biden Administration
America’s FDA leadership has been making decisions based on ideology, not drug safety. Back in the early 2000s, the FDA launched the Safety First Steering Committee (SFSC). It was created to address the safety concerns of marketed drugs of noteworthy concern to Americans. Today, the acronym is still found ubiquitously throughout FDA documents, but links […]
Should God Be Part of Mental Health Treatment?
Months before he became health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared his moving conversion story, expressing that belief in God helped break his longtime heroin addiction that began when he was a boy, the year after his father’s tragic murder. “We grow through pain,” Kennedy told podcast host Sage Steele. “Pain is […]
New Study Sparks Scientific Debate
Medical researchers are engaged in a vigorous debate over the potential dangers of the COVID-19 vaccine after a journal urged for immediate global market withdrawal of all COVID vaccines. A Jan. 28 study published in Science, Public Health Policy and the Law says there were 19,028 reports of American COVID vaccine-related deaths as of Sept. […]
Trump Decree Bans Schools From Requiring COVID-19 Vaccine
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday cutting off federal funding to schools that mandate the COVID-19 vaccine, fulfilling a promise he made repeatedly on the campaign trail. “OK, that solves that problem,” said Trump after he signed the order in the Oval Office. The order prohibits “federal funds from being used to support” […]
Obamacare’s Flawed Priorities and the Need for Reform
Obamacare, formally called the Affordable Care Act, was sold to the American public as a transformative step toward equitable health care access. Yet, its fundamental flaws remain glaring. Nowhere is this more evident than in Obamacare’s Medicaid funding priorities and its approach to religious and moral freedoms—issues that President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. forcefully […]
Pro-Life Groups Optimistic for RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary
Pro-life advocacy groups are saying they see Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a man who changed his mind. The newly confirmed secretary of health and human services has apparently shifted to align with President Donald Trump’s pro-life agenda during his Senate confirmation hearings after openly supporting abortion policies for most of his public life. The […]
Trump Should Reinstate Obama’s Moratorium on Risky Biological Research
President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing an executive order to halt funding of risky viral gain-of-function research—lab experimentation designed to genetically manipulate biological agents to make them more transmissible and pathogenic. Trump is right to do so. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, which killed more than an estimated 15 million globally, the rationale for such a moratorium is stronger than […]
GOP Aims to Undo Biden’s Diversion of AIDS Funding to Abortion
The President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief is supposed to be a major lifesaving program from the United States to the world. Under then-President Joe Biden, however, it was used to promote abortion abroad. Now, Republicans in Congress are seeking to remove the PEPFAR’s promotion of abortion through its sponsorship of organizations that support the […]