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Infectious Disease
A Blocked Vaccine Study, and the Statistical Method Its Own Lead Author Warned About
A CDC vaccine-effectiveness study pulled from the agency's own journal landed in JAMA, and the press called it censorship. The method it used has a documented blind spot its own lead author once published on.
Infectious DiseaseAmerican Infant Mortality Just Hit a Record Low. The International Comparison Is Half an Accounting Trick. The Mississippi Gap Is Not.
Preliminary CDC data put the 2025 U.S. infant mortality rate at 5.4 per 1,000 live births, a record low. The international comparison the headlines lean on is partly an artifact of how countries count. The domestic gap is not.
InvestigationsAaron Siri Wrote a Book Made of Court Filings
A new book by attorney Aaron Siri assembles a decade of FOIA wins, court filings, and depositions into one record of what the federal vaccine docket does and does not say.