How long Covid’s scientific stalemate made it politically erasable

• by Steven Phillips

• June 11, 2026

When Bad Data Enters the Drug Pipeline

Federal prosecutors allege that a Florida physician and research staff fabricated clinical trial records that were submitted into database systems used to evaluate investigational drugs.

• by Kathryn Wighton

• June 11, 2026

• 2 min

Evaluating the Role of SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Levels in the Care of Long COVID Patients Infected with the Omicron Variant

• by Marina Kawaguchi, Yasue Sakurada, Kazuki Tokumasu, Yuki Otsuka, Yasuhiro Nakano, Yui Matsuda, Hiroyuki Honda, Daisuke Omura, Nobuyoshi Matsuki, Masanori Furukawa, Akihito Higashikage, Fumio Otsuka

• April 22, 2026

Side Effects: Salt, Steroids, and Second Brains

So get this: sodium may track with memory decline (in men), steroids might not be “immunosuppressive” in the ICU, and second pregnancies reshape the brain differently than first. Same theme: biology is less binary than we teach it.

• by Kerri Miller

• April 22, 2026

• 7 min