America out loud

They call it public health. But what was once clean water, mosquito nets, and checking milk for tuberculosis has become something else. Dr. David Bell, a physician from Australia who once worked at the World Health Organization (WHO), remembers when public health had its limits. He ran malaria programs, directed labs, saw poverty and pathology...

Jill Escher didn’t seek out the autism world. It came to her like a meteor in 2001, when her two-and-a-half-year-old son was diagnosed with severe autism. Then her daughter followed, six years later. Both are nonverbal. Neither can read, write, or perform basic tasks expected even of toddlers. Their condition is not the so-called “quirky genius” type often portrayed...

Why are COVID-19 Vaccines Remaining on the Market? Trump vs. Biden Administration: Is it the same vaccine policy? We will take that question on the show today, with our special guest, Dr. Randall Bock. MAHA Movement Flabbergasted COVID-19 Vaccines Remain on Market The reporter asked: “Who was really giving the orders on vaccines?” Dr. McCullough...

Azadeh Khatibi didn’t seek the spotlight. A board-certified physician with degrees in medicine, public health, and medical science, she expected to serve patients and study population health. But California’s COVID-era policies—mandates, censorship, politicized medicine—pushed her onto a different path. She fought back. When California proposed AB2098, threatening doctors’ licenses for COVID dissent, she sued. When Governor Newsom’s...

Modestly, I’m both the subject of this interview and its writer. As a physician, I sat with Dr. Keith Ablow, also a physician and former Fox News commentator, to probe my Substack piece, Unraveling Autism’s Surge. But this isn’t about us. It’s about autism — its past, present, and elusive future of children and parents’ suffering...

Professor Gil Eyal, a Columbia University sociologist and author of The Autism Matrix, unpacks the surge in autism diagnoses since the 1980s. Has this been a biological epidemic, a shift in terminology, or a product of societal change? Eyal, whose research began in 2004 and led to his 2010 book, offered a sociologist’s lens, not a clinician’s,...

Katrina (not her real name), a mother of three, expressed regret for not having questioned the pediatrician’s recommendations over vaccine protocols sooner. “I feel a lot of regret for going along with the protocol, despite my gut instincts. So many times I would leave, sit in my car crying because I didn’t speak up for myself...

Dr. Benjamin Wolozin doesn’t promise miracles. He studies decay — brain decay, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS—the holy trinity of neurodegeneration. At Boston University, where he is Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology, he has seen what happens when the brain breaks down. ALS often begins with a stumble. A foot drags. Speech falters. In three years, many patients...

Lee is a British citizen who no longer believes his country is run by its government. From his vantage, it’s steered by unelected bureaucrats, NGOs, and foreign billionaires. The façade of democracy remains, but the substance has rotted. The National Health Service (NHS) bleeds money, not from lack of funding, but because it funds “pointless programs” like...

Mike Fairclough used to be a headmaster in the UK. Now he writes books. He spent 30 years in education, starting as a teacher in 1995 and becoming a headmaster in 2004. He ran a school with 365 students, ages seven to eleven, until 2022. His approach was character education, focusing on building strengths instead...