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Polio Amnesia: When "Freedom" Becomes an Iron Lung Policy

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Jan 25, 2026
A sharp rundown of an aborted Hepatitis B infant trial and why its design was unethical. A critique of rhetoric treating polio and measles as negotiable public-health choices. Concerns about autism advisory panels being repopulated with anti-vaccine-aligned voices. Reports of FDA and NIH institutional erosion, industry pullback from vaccine research, and calls to preserve the record of how trusted figures enabled this shift.
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Measles Elimination Seen As 'Cost Of Business'

  • CDC officials framed potential loss of measles elimination status as a tolerable cost of porous borders and travel.
  • Hosts saw this as complacency while measles cases and harms rise domestically.
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Autism Committee's Composition Raises Red Flags

  • The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee added members aligned with vaccine-autism claims, raising concerns.
  • Howard warned this could produce biased research supporting predetermined vaccine-autism links.
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FDA Leadership Turmoil Signals Institutional Damage

  • Richard Pazder resigned from FDA citing chaos, inflammatory internal messaging, and dismantled institutional norms.
  • The hosts argued this signals deep erosion at FDA and regulatory instability harming public health oversight.
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