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vlgr Aug 20, 2026

Congratulations to Moderna on Its $44 Billion Cancer Vaccine Press Release

Moderna and Merck say their personalized mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3. Investors responded by adding roughly $44 billion to Moderna’s valuation before receiving the hazard ratios, event rates, survival curves or almost any other numerical evidence traditionally associated with the word “trial.”

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vlgr Aug 14, 2026

Brussels Solves Breakfast: Coffee Optional, Cabbage Compulsory

Two EU initiatives arrived almost on top of each other. One could make coffee and citrus dramatically more expensive across large parts of Europe. The other funds research into how excellent local circular food systems and reusable packaging are. Perfect timing. Who needs oranges, kiwi or chocolate anyway?

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vlgr Aug 14, 2026

Trump Likes His Heart. Trump Takes Aspirin.

On January 22, 2026, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, photographs of President Donald Trump showed a sizeable bruise on the back of his left hand. Predictably, the pictures circulated quickly and speculation about his health followed.

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vlgr Aug 11, 2026

MAHA Wins One: Common Sense Returns to Childhood Vaccines

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order restructuring federal childhood vaccine recommendations around three fairly revolutionary concepts: actual risk, individual circumstances and parental choice. In other words, America is moving away from “CDC says every child gets this” toward “here are the core vaccines, here are vaccines appropriate for particular risks, here are decisions for parents and physicians, and now go produce better evidence.”

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vlgr Aug 10, 2026

Moderna’s mRNA Flu Vaccine Enters Through the Retirement Home

Moderna has finally done for seasonal influenza what it previously did for COVID-19: placed a strand of laboratory-produced messenger RNA inside lipid nanoparticles and persuaded the FDA that this was a perfectly reasonable thing to make an annual appointment.

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vlgr Aug 10, 2026

Pfizer’s New Invention: The Schrödinger’s Control Group and Other Tales

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine was a triumph of modern science. A genuinely extraordinary piece of biotechnology. Within months of SARS-CoV-2 appearing, researchers had designed a nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine capable of instructing human cells to produce the viral spike protein, wrapped that message inside lipid nanoparticles, tested it in tens of thousands of people and prepared the technology for production on a scale previously reserved for Coca-Cola.

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vlgr Aug 7, 2026

Unemployed? Lose Weight or Die. Either Way, You’re Off the Statistics.

Britain floated weight-loss injections as a way to get people back into work. The MHRA has now received more than 158,000 suspected adverse reactions involving the drugs and reports of hundreds of fatal outcomes. Apparently there are several ways to improve the employment figures.

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vlgr Aug 6, 2026

Scientists Want 4 Billion People by 2200. They Never Said Which Ones.

A new paper in Sustainable Development has the polite solution to the planet’s problems: gently reduce the human population from over eight billion to around four billion by the year 2200. The good news is the White man has already volunteered.

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vlgr Jul 30, 2026

When the Senator Calls You Anthony Fauci, You Know You’re in Trouble

Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth before the Senate. A few hours later, Senator Ron Johnson offered him another opportunity to answer questions voluntarily. More ominously, he had stopped calling him Doctor.

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vlgr Jul 28, 2026

The Princess and the Diary: Fauci Faces the Music He Wrote Himself

Tomorrow, Anthony Fauci sits in front of Rand Paul’s committee under subpoena. The man who spent years as the calm, authoritative voice of “the science” now has to explain the notebook he kept while the science was still arguing with itself in private. The diary is not subtle.