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Last fall, FDA safety officers began compiling a list of children possibly killed by COVID vaccines. Digging through thousands of reports of adverse effects and autopsy records of those who had died after receiving the mRNA vaccines manufactured by Moderna and Pfizer, the team eventually determined that several adolescents had apparently died from the COVID vaccines. On Dec. 5, the team’s leader, Dr. Meghna Alimchandani, sent an email recommending changing the labels...
Eugene Wu recently started his fourth year as a patient of Cliffside Rehabilitation in Queens, New York. He has little hope of ever leaving. Minimally conscious, nonverbal, and quadriplegic since suffering a brain injury, the 47-year-old former IT worker spends his days mostly alone.  Until mid-2025, Eugene was visited almost daily by family members. Court-imposed restrictions now prevent his sister Amy from seeing her younger brother at all, an ongoing source...
One of the most urgent questions facing society today is the potential impact of AI on education and labor markets. So it’s no surprise that two scientists attempted to provide an answer, producing a meta-analysis suggesting that incorporating ChatGPT in schooling dramatically improved student outcomes. Social media and online sources promoted the 2025 study as a beacon of bright light.  The problem is that the researchers’ conclusions were later found to be...
Many Americans may be losing trust in journalism, but attorneys at the Clarkson Law Firm are apparently not among them. In recent years, the Southern California-based firm filed at least four class-action lawsuits in federal courts that appeared to rely heavily on investigative articles published by ProPublica, STAT News, and other news outlets. Most of the suits came on the heels of negative stories about some of the country’s biggest health insurers,...

The Overstated Role of Money in Politics

Last fall, FDA safety officers began compiling a list of children possibly killed by COVID vaccines. Digging through thousands of reports of adverse effects and autopsy records of those who had died after receiving the mRNA vaccines manufactured by Moderna and Pfizer, the team eventually determined that several adolescents had apparently died from the COVID vaccines. On Dec. 5, the team’s leader, Dr. Meghna Alimchandani, sent an email recommending changing the labels...
Eugene Wu recently started his fourth year as a patient of Cliffside Rehabilitation in Queens, New York. He has little hope of ever leaving. Minimally conscious, nonverbal, and quadriplegic since suffering a brain injury, the 47-year-old former IT worker spends his days mostly alone.  Until mid-2025, Eugene was visited almost daily by family members. Court-imposed restrictions now prevent his sister Amy from seeing her younger brother at all, an ongoing source...
One of the most urgent questions facing society today is the potential impact of AI on education and labor markets. So it’s no surprise that two scientists attempted to provide an answer, producing a meta-analysis suggesting that incorporating ChatGPT in schooling dramatically improved student outcomes. Social media and online sources promoted the 2025 study as a beacon of bright light.  The problem is that the researchers’ conclusions were later found to be...
Many Americans may be losing trust in journalism, but attorneys at the Clarkson Law Firm are apparently not among them. In recent years, the Southern California-based firm filed at least four class-action lawsuits in federal courts that appeared to rely heavily on investigative articles published by ProPublica, STAT News, and other news outlets. Most of the suits came on the heels of negative stories about some of the country’s biggest health insurers,...

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