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America’s public health sector has emerged from the COVID crisis with severe reputational damage. People have simply lost trust in guidance from key institutions like the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...

but there’s one area where federal officials can quickly make up some ground with the average American. They can reveal the secret royalties that change hands between pharmaceutical companies and government scientists, which could have enormous implications for our health. ...

It took the pandemic and mandated vaccinations for many to decide that perhaps Big Government and Big Pharma were much too close for comfort. Traditionally a concern for progressives skeptical of large corporations, it spilled over to conservatives who saw Washington elites trying to control their health decisions. During the pandemic, it became plain that those parties had been in bed together all along.

Indeed, a massive amount of money changes hands among the NIH, its scientists – public employees – and private entities like pharmaceuticals. Billions go out the door to fund research and hundreds of millions come back into NIH coffers through royalty payments.

Too much of this information is redacted, despite the potential for each of these transactions to create a conflict of interest. Auditors at Open the Books found some $710 million in royalties paid to government scientists as “inventors” during the Covid era (late 2021 through 2023). Going back to September 2009, the number rises to $1.039 billion. Add in the payments made to NIH subagencies (royalties are divided among inventors and NIH research centers), and the total becomes a staggering $2.685 billion. ...

Sen. Paul’s Royalty Transparency Act would force NIH and other government entities to disclose these payments as a matter of routine, and the HSGAC Committee voted 13-0 to advance it last week.

The new legislation would:

Require Executive Branch employees subject to the public financial disclosure reporting requirements of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to disclose royalty payments for inventions developed during their employment with the federal government.

Agencies would be required to publicly post financial disclosure reports on their websites.

The bill would also require applicants for federal grants and contracts to disclose royalty payments to the government for the 10-year period preceding the grant or contract.

By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. "Milk" might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. This was not by accident; food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Unchecked by government regulation, basic safety, or even labelling requirements, they put profit before the health of their customers. By some estimates, in New York City alone, thousands of children were killed by "embalmed milk" every year. Citizens--activists, journalists, scientists, and women's groups--began agitating for change. But even as protective measures were enacted in Europe, American corporations blocked even modest regulations. Then, in 1883, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemistry professor from Purdue University, was named chief chemist of the agriculture department, and the agency began methodically investigating food and drink fraud, even conducting shocking human tests on groups of young men who came to be known as, "The Poison Squad."

Over the next thirty years, a titanic struggle took place, with the courageous and fascinating Dr. Wiley campaigning indefatigably for food safety and consumer protection. Together with a gallant cast, including the muckraking reporter Upton Sinclair, whose fiction revealed the horrific truth about the Chicago stockyards; Fannie Farmer, then the most famous cookbook author in the country; and Henry J. Heinz, one of the few food producers who actively advocated for pure food, Dr. Wiley changed history. When the landmark 1906 Food and Drug Act was finally passed, it was known across the land, as "Dr. Wiley's Law."

Professor Jiang Nails It: The Experimental "Vaccines" and the Collapse of Trust in Elites

Professor Jiang lays it out plain on why people have lost trust in institutions. Citing the example that governments and elites locked down entire nations, wrecked lives, and shoved unproven jabs down everyone's throats with zero real evidence that COVID was the apocalypse they claimed. Kids couldn't go to school, the poor couldn't work, and for what? A rushed, experimental mRNA concoction that we now know has caused more harm than good in countless cases. It's the kind of straight talk that's music to my ears as someone who's been skeptical of this whole mRNA push from day one. ...

In it, Professor Jiang points to COVID as a prime example of how elites have eroded trust. He says: "Then you had Covid, right? Covid, where the government, the elite, locked down the entire nation. Kids could not go to school, the poor could not go to work and make a living. And there was absolutely no evidence that Covid was actually dangerous. Okay? Then the government made everyone take an experimental vaccine." Boom. He's echoing what many of us skeptics have been screaming since 2020. No long-term studies, rushed under Operation Warp Speed, and pushed with mandates that trampled freedoms. And now? We're seeing the fallout—spiking excess deaths, myocarditis in young people, and a laundry list of side effects that Big Pharma and governments still downplay. ...

Governments colluded with pharma giants to roll out these experimental mRNA shots, hyping them as "safe and effective" while burying dissent. Remember how they censored doctors and scientists who raised alarms? How they coerced billions into taking something that hadn't been properly tested?

This isn't just incompetence—it's criminal. These institutions and elites played god with people's lives, turning the world into a giant lab experiment. They locked us down, destroyed economies, and injected experimental tech into arms under the guise of "public health." And for what? Billions in profits for Pfizer and Moderna, while everyday folks suffered. Kids lost years of education, mental health crises skyrocketed, and the poor got poorer. No accountability, no apologies. Just more gaslighting. We should be furious. These so-called leaders—politicians, health officials, and billionaire puppeteers—treated us like guinea pigs. They shattered trust in institutions, and as Professor Jiang says, today in America (and honestly, worldwide), there's no trusted institution left. Good riddance to that facade.

Dr. Jordan Vaughn, President of the Microvascular Research Foundation, testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday, during the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations' first hearing about the negative side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine, criticizing the decision by public health officials in 2021 not to issue a Health Alert Network message when increased risks from the COVID-19 vaccine became apparent.

"Literally the job of the FDA. The job of CDC is to actually regulate our products and inform practitioners and people about the dangers that they might see as soon as they see them," said Vaughn. He added, "That health alert notice would’ve told physicians to be on the lookout for this because this is happening."

My first thought when I glanced at the ironic headline trumpeting the “growing sense of despair” at the CDC was how well it paralleled Americans’ growing sense of despair during the pandemic, a sense of despair that deepened every single time the CDC issued its next politically motivated health decree or mandate. ...

In a rare flash of self-awareness, another one of yesterday’s trio of articles concluded by unintentionally summarizing the CDC’s problem with politics:

Conservatives argue that government workers - many of whom
Mr. Trump derides as members of the "deep state" looking to
undermine his agenda - had accumulated too much power in
recent years, making decisions about the Covid-19 pandemic that
were unpopular among those on the right and viewed by them as
highly political.

Following that eye-popping paragraph, the Times wrapped the article by quoting Catholic University law professor Joel Alicea, who explained, “By making executive officials removable at will by the president, the Constitution ensures political accountability for them to the American people.”

See? They know what’s really causing all this. Accountability. But they don’t want to engage with those real arguments, preferring instead to battle slogans and strawmen with buzzwords like “authoritarianism” and “no kings.” And ironically, everything the Times reported in its three articles about Democrats’ and CDC employees’ response merely reinforced how politicized the massive health bureaucracy has become, even while Americans’ health has steadily worsened.

“There’s a lot of trouble at C.D.C.,” Secretary Kennedy said, “and it’s going to require getting rid of some people over the long term in order for us to change the institutional culture.” Hopefully. And he echoed the same point: “Anybody who lived through Covid saw all these bizarre recommendations that were not science-based, all the misinformation.”

When the senators confabulate over “the science,” what they really mean is the armature of medical authority that has enabled the money-flow to their campaign committees (and eventually to their own bank accounts.) It’s that very scaffold of authority that has collapsed. Why? Because the medical authorities lied over and over about the Covid-19 episode, and especially about the vaccines, which were never properly tested, and were neither safe nor effective.

Your own doctors got paid extravagantly to push the vaccine. The so-called Pfizer Papers, collected, collated, and analyzed by Naomi Wolf’s organization (because nobody else would do it) showed the sloppiness of the whole process behind the vaccines’ development and release, and the pharma companies’ evasion of responsibility for the damage done. The medical journals lied about everything from the origin of the virus to the efficacy of the vaccine. The CDC campaigned against viable, inexpensive treatments for the virus. The CDC pushed the worthless, gamed PCR tests to jack up the case numbers. The CDC pushed the idiotic mask rules, school closings, business closures, and the vaccine mandates. The hospitals killed people with remdesivir and respirators, and got paid for it! The authority of all these parties is blown, especially the CDC’s — and these perfidious senators have the gall to hide behind this “science”?

Pfizer ... They're the ones that pushed the mandates. They funded grassroots organizations, medical organizations in the United States to push that mandates are necessary and they've made $100 billion in profit.

John Ioannidis also says when it comes to medicine, from his own analysis, the greater the financial interest in a given field, the, the less likely the research findings are to be true. And we're talking about one of the most lucrative products in the history of medicine, which is unsafe and defective and in my view will turn out to be one of the greatest medical mistakes. And in fact the mistake is one thing, but the COVID up and suppression of this information is criminal and people need to understand and treat it that way.

On Fox & Friends this weekend, Kennedy was asked and answered the most important question about the Centers for Disease Control:

ANCHOR: “What would you say is the last great success that our government public health agencies have had?”

RFK JR: “I don't think there have been successes. I think we've seen a 30- or 40-year decline in the agency because it's been infiltrated by the pharmaceutical companies. They’ve made a series of bad decisions. They launched a tsunami of addiction in this country.” ...

And bless him, Secretary Kennedy finally said it out loud, to a national audience. If you think about it, the awful Senate hearing last Thursday was really a miracle, because they are now actually debating these most important national issues— instead of lamely pretending they don’t exist. More, please.

Dr. Peter McCullough, a cardiologist who sounded the alarm about vaccine-induced myocarditis early in the pandemic, said public comments about this issue were “spot on.”

He added:

“Because the main goal of the CDC was to increase vaccination rates, the agency was biased and did not bring forward important safety information on a timely basis.

“The CDC should have installed an independent data safety and monitoring board to meet monthly during the campaign. Likely such a board would have shut down the CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine program for excess mortality in January 2021.”