4. The Politics of Health

The BC government has prioritized remote First Nations communities. But a record of health-care racism has left many skeptical.

Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the nationwide push to prioritize First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities for the COVID-19 vaccine is starting to bear fruit, and that vaccination rates in those communities are now significantly higher than those reported elsewhere.

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NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department.

I've already made two videos about Sabine Hossenfelder's gradual decline into deception and charlatanry, but her behavior has gotten so bad lately that it's ...

Vaccines have been a pretty hot issue for decades now, and increasingly so with the rollout of the new COVID vaccines. But must they be? What do the detracto...

When mRNA vaccines emerged as heroes during the COVID-19 pandemic, headlines heralded them as a revolutionary new technology. Many people wondered: How could a new technology be safe enough to give…

Earlier this year, a study published in Cell, a highly esteemed journal, found that the mRNA genetic material and spike protein persist in the lymph nodes of individuals who got the mRNA vaccine for…

Fox contributor Lisa Booth ranted on Sunday that the United States isn't all that much better than China when it comes to taking away the freedoms of Americans who refuse to be vaccinated. Chinese citizens have been protesting as people continue to be quarantined at home, lacking food and medicine. ...

It's time to learn about the immune system! What happens when a pathogen invades your body? What happens when you get a cut? What are allergies? What causes ...

Did you know that everywhere around you, there are tiny microscopic organisms? It's true! They're in the water, in the air, and they're even inside you. Don'...

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Pandemics kill people in two ways, said Chris Whitty at the start of the Covid outbreak: directly and indirectly, via disruption.

Watching RFK Jr.—Trump's newly appointed Health Secretary—spread dangerous autism conspiracy theories from one of America's highest medical positions has pus...

RFK Jr. claims that he will find the cause of autism by September.Show notes at https://www.microbe.tv/btn/btn-062/Become a patron of Beyond the Noise at htt...

John Oliver discusses RFK Jr.’s potential to sway the presidential election, who his views are impacting on and off the campaign trail, and most importantly:...

Autism rates are rising, but RFK, Jr. is wrong about the reasons. Here’s what the science says

RFK Jr. keeps making insane comments and promoting hairbrained conspiracy theories that are even too much for Fox News to handle. In an interview with Jesse ...

Medical exploitation is an often overlooked part of Black history and partly explains the mistrust that members of the Black community have for the medical industry.

Autism activists are behind a journal's decision to retract a paper claiming a preservative once routinely used in vaccines is responsible for the condition. Brian Deer examines the facts

HHS, under the direction of RFK Jr., has hired known conspiracy theorist and quack David Geier to run a planned study which will investigate the thoroughly disproven idea of a link between childhood vaccinations and autism. David Geier and his father Mark have a scandalous past of subjecting autistic children…

Today in a cabinet meeting, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised that “by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures.” This alarming claim is untrue, impossible, and ableist. Like the hiring of David Geier, RFK Jr.’s comment…

April 17, 2025, Washington, D.C. – As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of Autistic individuals, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Autism Society of America, Autism Speaks, The Arc of the United States, Autistic Women and Non-Binary Network, Autistic People of Color Fund, and partners across the disability and…