The Aluminum Firestorm Starts Tomorrow

How we got to this point, that we never "nailed" this question of aluminum safety, and were "saved" by a Danish epidemiologist who had a last-minute "hunch," is a subject of a future story. But, as a top vaccine expert told me, "one study will not be enough."

The “People Will Have to Die” Fallacy

Brian Lehrer, the host of a daily NPR show bearing his name, broke my heart today. “It could be, sadly, that it’s going to be a lot of death and disease that ends this period,” he said in a panel at the New York Academy of Medicine on the topic of “how media shapes population health outcomes.”

Celebrities, Quasi-Particles, Everything Works and No Side Effects - Reporting From The Eudemonia Summit

“Eudemonia at its core is the source of truth. It’s the place to discover what’s real and what isn’t. What is science and what is snake oil.” 

ETP Ask Me Anything: The Rise of Wellness

We are launching a multi-part series of investigative reporting and podcasts about Wellness. Who are the key voices? What is it like from a patient's perspective? How does wellness fit with evidence-based medicine? Will it start to be reimbursed by CMS? (Our prediction is Yes).

AI Slop Infiltrated American Newspaper Articles. 9% of them, to be exact.

A recent analysis of 1500 American newspapers finds the overall rate of fully AI-written articles a shocking 5%, and “mixed” another 4%, for a total of 9%. The rate was higher for articles about technology - no surprise! (16%) and health - no good! (12%). 

A Modern-Day Jekyll

There is no term to describe the phenomenon of a public figure holding a dark secret for years before being exposed and falling from grace. So I borrowed one from Robert Louis Stevenson.

AI’s Toxicity Problem: A Guide for the Consumer

AI companies’ PR departments would much prefer their executives talked about other topics. An image of people teaching these purportedly all-powerful machines like babies - and the idea that they can be “adjusted” at any moment - does not exactly inspire investor confidence.

Conservative Forces Behind Today’s CDC Demolition Predate Kennedy’s arrival at HHS.

“Never again should public health bureaucrats be allowed to hide information, ignore information, or mislead the public.” - Project 2025.

Breaking: Kennedy brings the “Aluminum Family” back as an “Aluminum Working Group”

NEW YORK - Secretary Kennedy brought back members of the “aluminum family” as an “aluminum working group“ which is being led by Lyn Redwood, according to a member of the group who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The group consists of Christopher Exley (UK) and Christopher Shaw (Canada), the

From Willowbrook to the Geiers: Families Speak Out

“Once, I went down to the Geiers’ basement to use the bathroom. I saw several ladies packaging drug bottles into boxes. And in the bathroom I saw what appeared to be equipment from a chemistry lab.”

ETP Live - Monday 11:30 EST

"Autism Epidemic:" The Origin of an Idea. With the attention drawn to the concept of an "Autism Epidemic," we gathered four top voices in this field - Mitzi Waltz, Gil Eyal, David Mandell and Greg Robinson - to explore the origins of this idea. Who coined

We Are All Scared of Kennedy

Korney Chukovsky (pronounced cor-NEIGH choo-KOF-ski) is described as a “Russian Dr Seuss.” Born out of wedlock and kicked out of school for being of “lower class,” Chukovsky taught himself several languages and became the beloved founder of Russian children’s literature. In the 1960s he defended political dissidents such as