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The Forgotten History of Disabled Children Under Nazism
Mother Jones Sep 20, 2025

The Forgotten History of Disabled Children Under Nazism

From The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today, Counterpoint Press. The prosecutor at the Treblinka trials, Alfred Spiess, described his defendants to filmmaker Claude Lanzmann this way: “They weren’t SS men; they came from the euthanasia project, became accustomed to killing, were kept together during the winter of the […]

Welcome to the New Era of Covid Vaccine Tourism
Mother Jones Sep 15, 2025

Welcome to the New Era of Covid Vaccine Tourism

In 2021, as the first wave of Covid vaccines became more available to the general population in the US, international travelers from Latin America and elsewhere came to the country to get the lifesaving shot. At the time, an array of federal subsidies and guarantees made it possible for almost anyone to immunize themselves against […]

US goes rogue on health policy
Semafor Sep 15, 2025

US goes rogue on health policy

While other countries are trying to minimize vaccine skepticism, Washington is defunding research into immunizations.

The Saga of RFK Jr. and an Estonian Vaccine Skeptics Conference
Mother Jones Sep 12, 2025

The Saga of RFK Jr. and an Estonian Vaccine Skeptics Conference

Last week, organizers for the “European Conference of Health and Human Rights” announced a change: Their keynote speaker, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had withdrawn after Estonian politicians reportedly called Kennedy a “quack” and “cuckoo.” It was the end of an odd saga. A month earlier, organizers announced Kennedy was […]