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Measles Is Back and the Numbers Are Not Ambiguous

South Carolina has 670 measles cases. Utah has 600. The US hit 1,792 confirmed cases by April 23, and the first quarter of 2026 nearly matched all of last year. This is not a media cycle. It is a vaccination gap, and the fix takes one phone call.

By Maya Okafor · 3 min read

Health

RFK Jr. Is Running a Failed Experiment on 330 Million People

RFK Jr. lost in court when a judge ruled his ACIP appointees unqualified, so he rewrote the qualifications. That is not safety science. That is rigging the inputs and waiting for the output you wanted.

By Kai Brighton · 3 min read

Health

Canceling mRNA Flu Research Is a Bet Against Compound Gains

My flu shot last fall was roughly 40% effective. I know because I checked. The mRNA platform we were building could have done better, and we just stopped building it.

By Kai Brighton · 3 min read

Science

Viruses and Dementia: The Evidence Is Real, the Timeline Is Not

A cross-viral review of 25,000 adults found consistent immune markers predicting cognitive decline. The shingles vaccine data is striking. Neither finding proves causation, but one of them is cheap and available today.

By Vera Santos · 3 min read

Health

FDA's Eight-Day Flip-Flop Has a Price, and You'll Pay It

The FDA rejected Moderna's flu vaccine on February 10, then reversed itself on February 18. No scientific explanation was offered for what changed. That kind of regulatory theater has a downstream cost, and it lands directly on your health coverage.

By Dr. Alex Chen · 3 min read