Mask mandates weren’t all they were cracked up to be
Newsflash: mask mandates may have been useless in preventing the spread of coronavirus variants. As Faye Flam writes, most of the masks people wore – loose fitting cloth or paper…
Johns Hopkins researchers: lockdowns were a failure
Just two years ago, the nation was about to plunge into an unprecedented series of actions in response to a global pandemic. The most sweeping were a series of lockdowns…
The FDA continues to fail the American public
The Food and Drug administration’s role in approving vaccines to combat the coronavirus shed a new level of scrutiny on the critical government agency and its gatekeeper role in America’s…
The FDA gives its first ever approval to marketing a vaping product as a means to quit smoking
The Food and Drug Administration did something unusual recently: for the first time ever, it allowed a vaping system to be legally marketed in the U.S. as a way for…
Setting limits on our endless crises
There’s a saying that if everything is a crisis, then nothing is a crisis. Such sayings may be trite, but there’s a germ of truth to them. And a dark…
