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From Spanish Flu to the Russian Lab Scare: How Uncertainty Becomes a Geopolitical Narrative

From the 1918 influenza pandemic to reports of a possible laboratory accident in Irkutsk, history shows how incomplete evidence, sensationalist reporting, and geopolitical rivalry can turn medical uncertainty into a tool of political narrative-building.

Jeffrey Silverman

Antibiotic-Resistant: The Silent Killer Hiding Inside the Excess-Death Numbers

While the world’s attention is fixed on wars, lab scandals, and the aftermath of the pandemic, another threat is quietly growing — antimicrobial resistance, which has already embedded itself in excess mortality statistics, and no one wants to look closely at that number.

Jeffrey Silverman

David Morens: Smoking Gun of ‘Lab Origin’ of COVID with Guilty Plea!

Years of emphatic denials that U.S. taxpayers never funded gain-of-function work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have met their match in a federal courtroom. On August 18, 2026, David Morens—long-time senior adviser to Anthony Fauci—pleaded guilty to conspiring to hide the very paper trail those denials tried to bury.

Henry Kamens