4. The Politics of Health

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…

This report compiles key actions and measures implemented by the Public Health Agency of Canada to address the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses related lessons learned

We compare Canada with nine other countries to examine the growth of COVID-19 cases and the effectiveness of our response.

Canada handled the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and weathered the ensuing upheaval better than several other nations with comparable health-care and economic infrastructure, a new study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal suggests.

The role of environmental factors in autism spectrum disorder might be minimal, but we should try to figure out what they are.https://www.medscape.com/viewar...

An investigation by the Information Commissioner of Canada concludes the Harper government muzzled scientists.

The Conservative leader’s promise to cut “woke” funding to universities and research echoes the disaster unfolding in the U.S.

In the past few years, the federal government has cut funding to hundreds of renowned research institutes and programs. Ottawa has dismissed more than 2,000 ...

In the first few days of 2014, scientists, journalists, and environmentalists were horrified to discover that the Harper government had begun a process to close seven of the 11 of Canada's world-renowned Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries...

Science—and the culture of evidence and inquiry it supports—has a long relationship with democracy. Widely available facts have long served as a [...]

It wasn’t just climate research. Rock snot, sharks and polar bears: All were off-limits during the Harper administration

Misinformation, Covid-19

Public health authorities say the Covid-19 vaccines have saved lives, but a Canadian report shared across platforms estimates the shots have killed 17 million people globally. This is false; government agencies and independent experts worldwide told AFP the findings are flawed and that only a minuscule percentage of deaths among the vaccinated can be attributed to the jabs.

Here's what we know.

A Republican U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania with ties to a racist former Trump official came under fire Tuesday for minimizing the more than 1000 deaths of children who died from COVID-19. “Many of these children had pre-existing – I’m sorry, had underlying medical conditions,” said Rep. Guy Reschenthaler on the House floor, “making them more vulnerable to […]

A clip of this disingenuous documentary is making the rounds.