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Underlying Conditions

Medicine, public health, and health policy. What the science says, what the system does, and who pays the price.

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Senator Ted Cruz asked me for this evidence in 2021. I sent it to his committee.

The 82% is not a miscarriage rate. It is what you get after removing nearly every healthy pregnancy the registry had finished counting.

Is COVID vaccination safe in pregnancy? What Dr. Fauci's texts show.

Three federal health officials had to extrapolate from other vaccines in January 2021 because COVID vaccine clinical trials excluded pregnant women.

Trump said the vaccine order was about autism. It never says autism.

The order cuts the recommended list from 18 diseases to 11, tells manufacturers to split a shot nobody makes, and hands the Attorney General the only part a president can actually execute.

AOC filmed her fertility shot. Nobody films the storage bill.

Egg freezing works. The success numbers, the prices, and the insurance rules are murkier than the marketing, and half the biology never gets studied at all.

Organ donation when the donor isn't dead: what records show

A Kentucky man woke up on the way to his own organ recovery. A Mississippi woman spent 15 hours alive at an organ recovery center while her family planned her funeral.

FDA approves first mRNA flu vaccine: what mFLUSIVA means

mRNA vaccines make it possible to update shots in weeks. HHS canceled $766 million in federal funding for mRNA vaccines for pandemics.

Congress defunded the rule that finds the contaminated food

Nine recalls this year came with a named food. Nine more FDA investigations have no food at all, so nothing comes off the shelf.

How Much Did the New Mexico Measles Outbreak Cost? $53,522 a Case.

The state bought immunity at emergency prices in August that it could have bought at $26.35 a dose long before.

RFK Jr. on CNN: fact-checking the measles and autism claims

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. asked Dana Bash to cite a study six times on Sunday. The source he finally named traces to a CDC page HHS rewrote twice.

Fauci hearing fact-check - Part III - the safety claims, the money, and the question nobody answered

Fifteen claims from five senators: the VAERS death numbers, the deaths-per-year chart, the $1.4 million to Wuhan, the humanized mice, the $900,000 prize, the Q clearance, and the mask reversal.

Fauci hearing fact-check - Part II - gain-of-function and Wuhan

The definition at the center of this argument has been rewritten six times in thirteen years, most recently on July 20, 2026, the week before the hearing.

Fauci hearing fact-check - Part I

This is a partial fact-check of today’s Senate Committee on Homeland Security hearing. Dr. Anthony Fauci was subpoenaed to appear testify before the committee. Senator Rand Paul chaired the hearing.

What Fauci's diary says about COVID's origins, schools, and boosters

Part 5, December 2021 through May 2022, is not in the release. That gap is Omicron.

The One Thing MAHA Voters Want That MAHA Can't Deliver

MAHA supporters rank cost first. The movement in power hasn't lowered a bill. That gap is the whole story.

The Measles Outbreak Is “Slowing.” A Newborn’s Family Still Can’t Meet Her.

Utah’s weekly measles case count has fallen. The national tally hasn’t, and a newborn who’s too young to be vaccinated is caught in between.

The FDA lab check that exists to catch a cyclospora false positive.

FDA suspended proficiency testing for the national food lab network in April 2025 after losing four positions. A retracted lab result doesn’t clear Taylor Farms or Taco Bell.

Medical freedom is a market, and it is selling you control

The AIDS activists who forced open the FDA demanded access and answers. Right to Try 2.0 keeps only the first.

The CDC Nominee Who Hasn’t Read the CDC Website

Dr. Erica Schwartz vowed to “never betray science,” then wouldn’t commit to removing a false vaccine-autism claim from the CDC’s own site.

Wildfire Smoke, Heat, and the Limits of the Clean Air Act

A public achievement, clean air by statute, is being handed back to households one box fan at a time.

Waste, Fraud, and a Prescription: The Military’s Testosterone Plan

The plan will screen half a million men a year, feed a prescription market built on marketing, and dispense a drug the Navy tests SEALs to catch.