4. The Politics of Health

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Comfortable Liberal Pundits Abandon Science for Vibes, Yet Again

A critical look at the Great Barrington Declaration, exposing the risks of herd immunity strategies and the spread of harmful COVID-19 misinformation.

The Conversation: The Great Barrington Declaration's advocacy for naturally acquired herd immunity to COVID-19 amounts to a global chickenpox party: naive and dangerous.

"We were very hands-on parents. But in our dealings with his teachers and school administrators, there always seemed to be something left unsaid. It was like there was an elephant in the room that we didn’t know about." View Entire Post ›

National Institutes of Health officials reportedly told scientists to erase mRNA vaccine references on grants - ‘Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started,’ one scientist reportedly warned

Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.

Ontario is facing a huge spike in cases of measles with the virus rapidly spreading among mostly unvaccinated residents.

The health secretary is quietly undermining America’s vaccination infrastructure.

The rapid spread and mutation of a deadly bird flu virus in the United States warrants urgent global action, say experts

In the face of a major measles outbreak, HHS secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. has seemingly done a 180. Fellow anti-vaccine activists are furious.

An unvaccinated child has died of measles, Texas officials announced Wednesday, the first death from measles in the United States in a decade. The child’s death in a hospital in Lubbock, in West Texas, comes as the largest measles outbreak in the state in over 30 years is now spreading to New Mexico. Since last month, 124 people have contracted the disease, most of them unvaccinated children. “The minute you stop vaccinating and maintaining that vigilance of 90-95% vaccine coverage, measles comes roaring back, and that’s what’s happened here in West Texas,” world-renowned pediatrician, virologist and vaccine expert, Dr. Peter Hotez, tells Democracy Now!

A new analysis by ProPublica shows that after Texas' 2021 abortion ban went into effect, pregnancy became far more dangerous.

Fascinating new research shows mollusk blood proteins have strong antimicrobial properties, especially when combined with existing antibiotics.

More than five years on, studies suggest the animal is the most likely culprit, but other candidates haven't been ruled out.

Antivaxers, cranks and fantasists thrive in safe, stable societies but the days of consequence-free idiocy may be ending

Childhood vaccine refusal is a globally contentious topic, with some jurisdictions addressing it with punitive policies. Media discourse influences ho…

With anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the nation's biggest health agency, it wouldn't take much tampering to enable vaccine-preventable diseases to make a comeback.

Many claims about the dangers of vaccines come from misrepresenting scientific research papers.

Society and education are inherently ableist. Disabled people are routinely excluded from education, or have poorer outcomes within educational systems. Improving educational experiences and outcomes for people of color has required educators to design antiracist curricula that explicitly address ra …

Society and education are inherently ableist. Disabled people are routinely excluded from education, or have poorer outcomes within educational systems. Improving educational experiences and outcomes for people of color has required educators to ...

Halting the spread of the coronavirus will require a high-level counteroffensive against new destructive forces.

There have been recent trends of parents in Western countries refusing to vaccinate their children due to numerous reasons and perceived fears. While opposition to vaccines is as old as the vaccines themselves, there has been a recent surge in the ...