Science Education & Policy

We Won't Lose Vaccine Leadership Due To Less Government, Government Has Always Done Little

"If it was up to the NIH to cure polio through a centrally directed program instead of independent investigator driven discovery, you'd have the best iron lung in the world, but not a polio vaccine."- Dr. Samuel Broder, M.D., former Directo ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 12 2025 - 7:05pm

Trump's 'No Surprises Act' Reduced Patient Out-Of-Pocket Expenses

Health care is expensive. If you are convinced that donating blood is a community service and do it for free, the Red Cross sells it for up to $200 per pint. If you need a transfusion, each pint will cost $1,000 and up. That is paid for by insurance. What ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 28 2025 - 11:00am

Snus Works For Smoking Cessation And Harm Reduction

Rather than encourage smoking cessation and harm reduction, the US Centers for Disease Control have spent over a decade undermining products that were not Big Pharma. That has been and remains a mistake. Smoking kills, and anything that helps reduce or eli ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 9 2025 - 10:54am

Doctors Urged To Proactively Address Cancer Myths- Groups Like American Cancer Society Won't

Information freedom is a good thing but there is no question it has been weaponized. Many scientists have been ruined by activists and their trade groups who use Freedom of Information Act rules to find a sentence in correspondence with corporations or tra ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 28 2025 - 10:32am

Restoring The Value Of Truth

Truth is under attack. It has always been, of course, because truth has always been a mortal enemy for those who attempt to seize or keep power in their hands. But the amplification of the phenomenon by today's information technology is extremely worr ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 10 2025 - 1:59pm

Conferences Good And Bad, In A Profit-Driven Society

Nowadays researchers and scholars of all ages and specialization find themselves struggling with mailboxes pestered with invitations to conferences, invitations to submit papers to journals, invitations to participate in the editorial board of journals, in ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 3 2025 - 12:43pm