Sen. Joni Ernst is calling out the Biden administration for continued funding of “pathogens of pandemic potential” research in Guinea. Grants for the project have gone to the EcoHealth Alliance, which Ernst says “can’t be trusted — with dollars or…
I just finished reading Thomas Mallon’s fine historical novel Fellow Travelers and now look forward to seeing the Showtime mini-series that it inspired. Against the backdrop of the McCarthy era, these works concern the Lavender Scare: Gay Americans in the federal government were targeted as…
July 25, 1985, was a red-letter day in the history of the AIDS epidemic. A publicist for the movie star Rock Hudson, who had been looking alarmingly gaunt and was now in hospital, announced that the actor had been diagnosed…
The story may or may not be apocryphal. A medical lecturer was taking questions after a talk and was asked, “Doctor, at what point did physicians start saving more lives than they took?” Came the reply: “Soon. Very soon.” The…
A federal judge in Texas ruled Wednesday that the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that insurers must provide free coverage of HIV prevention medications violates a Christian company’s religious liberty and is unconstitutional. Lawyers for the company, Braidwood Management Inc., said…
“How’m I doing?” Ed Koch famously asked New Yorkers. Almost a decade after the mayor’s passing, former supporters retroactively answer in the negative. The New York Times published an article, “The Secrets Ed Koch Carried,” over the weekend that relied on…
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s own words buttress Senator Ron Johnson’s claim that he “overhyped” AIDS during the 1980s. But decades after he issued them neither Rolling Stone nor the Hill nor the Daily Beast bother to question, let alone investigate, Johnson’s accusation. Instead,…
“The finding of AIDS in infants and children who are household contacts of patients with AIDS or persons with risks for AIDS has enormous implications with regard to ultimate transmissibility of this syndrome,” Anthony Fauci informed the American public in…
News that Michel Foucault molested children recalls revelations that Hulk Hogan used steroids. The surprise comes only in response to surprise. “Young children were running after Foucault saying, ‘What about me? Take me, take me,’ ” French Legion of Honor…
Residents of Colorado’s House District 41 are concerned with several perennial issues that resurface every election year. The Aurora suburbs are experiencing crumbling transportation infrastructure, increasing cost-of-living expenses, and a massive upsurge in homicide and other violent crime. Promising to…