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September 2026

Another Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated Study Has a Bigger Problem Than Peer Review
A closer look at the data behind CHD’s headline.
 • V. J. Mercer
Rage Bait Is a Business Model—and We Keep Working for Free
We think we are correcting misinformation. Too often, we are also distributing it.
 • V. J. Mercer
Bored? Your Mind Is Trying to Tell You Something
What boredom is, why it exists, whether cavemen felt it, and why unlimited entertainment has failed to cure it
 • V. J. Mercer
THE CONTROL EXPERIMENT THAT DOESN’T TEST ITS OWN CONCLUSION
Does Jamie Andrews’s SARS-CoV-2 control experiment expose a flaw in virus isolation. or does it demonstrate something much narrower about cell-culture…
 • V. J. Mercer
The Nicolas Hulscher Formula
How a Scientific Signal Becomes a Scare Story
 • V. J. Mercer
When Misinformation Becomes the Feed
Fact-checking representative claims from Valerie Anne Smith’s X account, and the pattern that matters more than any single post.
 • V. J. Mercer
The Joe Tippens story: How one remission became a cancer protocol
Joe Tippens entered remission after adding a dog dewormer to his cancer treatment. His story is remarkable. It is not proof of a cure—or evidence for…
 • V. J. Mercer
Why Am I Me?
Science can explain how a self is built. It still cannot tell us why experience exists, why this life is the one I experience from within—or what it…
 • V. J. Mercer
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