Joseph Marine

Feb. 3: The FDA refuses to even review Moderna's mRNA flu shot. Feb. 12: Blackstone, with up to $750M in that shot, hires Checkmate, a lobbying firm Calley Means named. It lobbies FDA and HHS that quarter. On what, it doesn't say. Feb. 17: FDA reverses. Somebody should ask.

The incompetent lunatic RFK should be impeached. -2,289 measles cases in 2025 -5,200 measles cases in 2026 -11 measles deaths since last year -North Korea, Bhutan and Sri Lanka don't have flying cars. But they are measles-free. cnn.com/2026/11/10/health/cd…

It took the US 35 years to gain measles elimination status It took just two years of RFK Jr and MAHA to lose it Truly pathetic stuff

There's no high profile media campaign urging measles vaccine despite historically high measles cases and outbreaks in the USA Because the person in the hotseat at the Department of Health barely believes in germ theory never mind in vaccines RFK Jr's legacy : MEASLES

I was on @MooreintheAM talking about the surge in ER patient volumes in the GTA this fall.

I want to make sure that you saw this. It came out the day of the election so it might have gotten buried. It is extremely important. VSD Is the Vault with the Secrets brownstone.org/articles/vsd-…

Hospitals Are So Crowded Patients Spend 24 Hours in the E.R. Hallways Wait times for hospital beds are getting longer, clogging up emergency rooms, and doctors say it is only getting worse wsj.com/health/healthcare/ho…

Now that we have more doctors elected to government, can we work on legislation that holds healthcare providers accountable for knowingly spreading false medical claims that put people at risk? I’m talking about using your credentials to sell bullshit you KNOW is bullshit and leading people down a rabbit hole of harm while cashing the checks. Wouldn’t that be fucking fantastic.

Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education. The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her. MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school." HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities." MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one." HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad." MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better." HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia." MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—" HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period." MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue." HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time." MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW." ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW." MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one." CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test. And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500. Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power. A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws. If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students."

The year is 1956. Your mother is expecting you, and her doctor smokes through the appointment. More doctors smoke Camels than any other brand, the adverts say, and he tells her a few a day will settle her nerves and keep the baby small for an easy birth. The year is 1960. Your first proper shoes come from a shop with an X-ray machine in the corner. You slide your feet into the slot and watch your own toe bones wriggle, green and glowing, while the assistant checks the fit. You go back every time your feet grow. The year is 1961. Your mother is expecting your sister and the sickness is bad. The chemist has a new tablet, advertised as completely safe in pregnancy. Your sister arrives the next year alongside 10,000 other babies whose mothers took it, and some of them arrive without arms. The year is 1964. Three sore throats, so the tonsils come out, as they do for over a million children a year on both sides of the Atlantic. Twenty beds, and the promise of ice cream. Nobody asks what the tonsils were for. They were the immune system, and the operation never did much for the throats. The year is 1972. You are sixteen and every car on earth runs on leaded petrol. The lead comes out of the exhaust and settles on the playground, the vegetable patch and the blood of every child walking to school. The men who put it in the petrol knew what it did to a brain in the 1920s. The ban arrives in your forties. The year is 1981. Your mother's hands have gone stiff. The doctor has a new arthritis tablet with the biggest launch the drug industry has ever mounted. Two years later it is pulled on both sides of the Atlantic, with dozens of pensioners dead whose kidneys could not clear it. She gets off lightly: the sun burns her on it, and she spends a summer behind the curtains. The year is 1991. Your father is diabetic, and the dietitian hands him a sheet. More than half his calories are to come from carbohydrate: bread, potatoes, pasta, cereal. His sugar goes up on it, so his insulin goes up with it, and his waist follows. He does as he is told for twenty years. The year is 1998. Your back has gone. The doctor has a new opioid, and the rep carries a letter from a medical journal saying addiction on it is under 1%. The letter is five sentences long. The company pleads guilty twice, and by the second time more than half a million Americans are dead. The year is 2002. Your knees hurt, and the doctor has a new pill that is kinder on the stomach. You take it for two years, the same two years the maker is sitting on its own heart data. It is withdrawn with as many as 140,000 heart attacks laid at its door. Your heart was fine. The man next door's was not. The year is 2008. Your wife has a prolapse after three children, and the surgeon fits a strip of plastic mesh. Once the tissue grows through it, it cannot come out. Australia apologises to its women in 2018, America bans it in 2019, Britain apologises in 2020. Your wife gets hers by press release. The year is 2026. You are seventy, and the new doctor has a screen and a number for everything. The meat on your plate is a hazard. The oil in the bottle is good for your heart. The injection is for life. He is the age the first doctor was when he lit a Camel in front of your mother, and every bit as sure. Not one of them was a rogue. Every one was the standard of care, taught to the next doctor, printed on the leaflet, and handed to a family with no way to check it. You have spent seventy years as the experiment. The results come out after you are gone, under somebody else's name, and the chair you are sitting in is where they recruit for the next one.

Year after year the AMA asks you to join to support their efforts to protect physician reimbursement. It's not working. How much pressure can they apply when their survival depends on CMS continuing to require CPT - their main source of revenue- for physician billing?

sciencepolitics.org/2026/10/… Science is under a withering attack by the Trump administration. Here, my co authors and I offer key proposals to build science back better.

Presented at #TCT2026: In patients with moderate aortic stenosis and high-risk features, the percentage who died or had a heart-failure event within 2 years was lower with transcatheter aortic-valve replacement than with surveillance (16.7% vs. 23.9%). Full PROGRESS trial results: nej.md/4eUv9kA @crfheart

That a Nobel mooted institute director in a hard science field could be framed by a seeming cabal of Woke women causing not only the destruction of a leading cancer expert's life but also of the institute itself for the pettiest of motives at MIT is more horrifying than the Jason Arday episode at Cambridge. Lysenkoism is alive and well and its new name is Wokism. The immense prestige of the Ivy League, Oxbridge and les grand ecoles attract not only the tall trees, but growing in its shadow, also the malignant creepers of envy, deceit and greed. All those who exclaim "trust the science!" must never forget the scientists are fallible humans who work in institutions from whom ambition and folly have not been banished. The hunger for power is the Satan in the search for truth and it will lead us astray should we not consciously at whiles renew our glance at the light. nypost.com/2026/10/18/us-new…

This is literally the same with all the synbio kids making companies… barely know how to do proper research and now they claim to revolutionise biotechnology.. 😂 specially the igem kids.. not one single company makes profit or has revolutionised shit.. not even gingko bioworks

“You Can See Everything” is on track to become one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. Here are four takeaways from its surprise success: 1) Restraint bolstered demand: A24 initially released the film in 855 theaters, expanding its footprint as word of mouth grew. 2) Secrecy dialed up anticipation: Nobody knew the Nathan Fielder doc existed until its surprise world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in early September (nothing short of a miracle in Hollywood). 3) Word-of-mouth elevated ticket sales in the movie’s second weekend: 90% of initial ticket buyers said they would “definitely recommend” the film, while 80% said it was “even better than expected.” 4) Younger audiences are all in on A24: Roughly 70% of opening weekend ticket buyers were under 35; this year’s lineup of “The Drama,” “Backrooms” and “Primetime” also scored big among Gen Zers. wp.me/pc8uak-1lI2b7

Twenty-one studies meta-analysis. Vaccination against herpes zoster was associated with a reduced risk of any dementia (RR 0.76, 95% CI 0.69–0.83) & Alzheimer’s disease (RR 0.53, 95% CI 0.44–0.64). Influenza vaccination was linked to a reduction in dementia risk (RR 0.87, 95% CI 0.77–0.99), as was pneumococcal vaccination (RR 0.64, 95% CI 0.47–0.87) for Alzheimer’s disease. Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (Tdap) vaccination was also associated with a significant reduction for any dementia (RR 0.67, 95% CI 0.54–0.83). Adult vaccination staves off dementia. Run..do not walk..to get vaccinated. academic.oup.com/ageing/arti…

This is outstanding