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retractionwatch.com 8/10 ?

Weekend reads: Computer science conferences impose caps; Lancet strikes to continue; Is this the ‘mathocalypse’?

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news , the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more ...

2026-10-17

Dr. Peter McCullough 8/10 ?

Will the NIH Vaccine Injury Clinic Confront the Wuhan Spike Protein as Root Cause?

Past NIH research suggests the agency will ignore the cause and continue to frustrate patients with vague and aimless approaches to the problem.

2026-10-17

David Avocado Wolfe (Substack) 8/10 ?

David Avocado Wolfe LIVE & UNCENSORED — Mental Clarity: Return to Your Natural Brilliance — Full Episode with QA

Podcast Episode 50 — Season 2 Finale! David Avocado Wolfe and Co-Host Red Wolf Welcome Mikki Willis, Nadine Artemis, and Chris Shelton for Hours of Inspiration, Wisdom, and Camaraderie.

2026-10-17

NEJM Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

Community Engagement Requirements in Medicaid — Law as a Determinant of Health

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

2026-10-17

Dr. Mercola 8/10 ?

Multidimensional Sleep Health Parameters Linked to Cardiometabolic Outcomes

Sleep is one of your body's most powerful regulators — shaping your heart health, metabolism, immune resilience and even your lifespan. Yet most people only think about sleep in terms of “how many hou...

2026-10-17

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[Comment] Establishing cardiovascular safety of the small-molecule GLP-1 receptor agonist orforglipron in type 2 diabetes

Cardiovascular outcomes trials with GLP-1 receptor agonists, which to date have largely comprised peptide analogues of the incretin hormone GLP-1, have evolved from studies primarily designed to estab...

2026-10-17

Dr. Mercola 8/10 ?

Study Confirms Birds Are Breathing in Microplastics — Are You Inhaling Them Too?

Microplastics are small plastic particles that are less than 5 millimeters in size. They form when large plastic materials, such as packaging, textiles, tires, and industrial coatings, break down thro...

2026-10-17

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[Comment] Making every vial count: fractional dosing of yellow fever vaccine

Yellow fever is an important public health problem, but vaccine manufacturing cannot be scaled up easily, making it necessary to use existing vaccine stocks to protect as many people as possible. Frac...

2026-10-17

Dr. Mercola 8/10 ?

TRT Is Becoming a Direct-to-Consumer Business, but Is That Wise?

Testosterone treatment has moved from the doctor's office to your doorstep. Citing industry market figures, Men's Fitness reports that the testosterone market has grown beyond $4 billion, while direct...

2026-10-17

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[Comment] Shortening treatment to accelerate hepatitis C elimination

Simple oral direct-acting antiviral treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has transformed clinical management and paved the way for elimination.1 The first pan-genotypic fixed-dose combinati...

2026-10-17

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[Comment] Offline: In praise of astrologers, sorcerers, and magicians

“Prophecies are the grounds on which fights over the future take place”, writes Carissa Véliz in Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI (2026). That figh...

2026-10-17

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[World Report] “You have to be willing to take risks”: the 2026 Nobel prizes

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Talha Burki reports.

2026-10-17

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[World Report] Health in Brazil's election

Ahead of a presidential runoff between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro, experts outline what is at stake for health. Luke Taylor reports from Rio de Janeiro.

2026-10-17

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[Perspectives] Shadows and interiority

American television series The Pitt may have redefined the popularity of medical drama, but hospitals have always provided a rich seam for creatives, whether their medium is page or screen. From novel...

2026-10-17

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[Perspectives] Beyond the battlefield: war and global health security

During the Syrian war (2011–24), the Assad Government forces and their Russian allies conducted hundreds of strikes on medical facilities in opposition-held areas. Monitoring groups documented over 60...

2026-10-17

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[Perspectives] Temporal rationing: a man with gastric cancer in Colombia

Pepe, a 45-year-old man living in the city of Cali, Colombia, worked as a self-employed hauler of goods with a wheelbarrow. In 2010, he presented to a general practitioner with several months of abdom...

2026-10-17

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[Obituary] Roger Detels

Epidemiologist and pioneer in HIV research. Born on Oct 14, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA, he died on July 25, 2026, in Los Angeles, CA, USA, aged 89 years.

2026-10-17

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[Correspondence] WHO should adjust its cervical cancer plan

In Gary M Clifford's Comment, he observed that the dominant driver of global inequalities in cervical cancer burden, which are poised to increase dramatically, is unequal access to cervical screening....

2026-10-17

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[Correspondence] WHO should adjust its cervical cancer plan – Authors’ reply

We agree with Eric J Suba that current global inequalities in cervical cancer burden are driven largely by unequal access to effective screening programmes. This point was highlighted by Brisson and c...

2026-10-17

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[Correspondence] Smoking rates: when should harm-reduction evidence be updated?

In their Comment, Ruth Bonita and Robert Beaglehole use New Zealand as an example to argue that smoke-free nicotine products accelerate adult smoking declines, stating that annual decline increased “a...

2026-10-17