BREAKING--Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Post-Vaccination Pulmonary Embolism and the Disconnect in Public Health Policy

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHJust a few days before his appearance before the US Senate, Senator Rand Paul dropped this bombshell on Dr Anthony Fauci.The Architect’s Secret: A Case Study in Medical HypocrisyThe story of the COVID-19 pandemic is one defined by a chasm between the public directives issued by the medical establishment and the private realities of its most prominent leaders. Dr. Anthony Fauci, as the long-serving director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), became the primary architect of the global vaccination strategy. Yet, documents recently released by Senator Rand Paul reveal a stark, personal contradiction that exposes the profound dissonance between the official narrative of universal vaccine safety and the private health crises faced by those enforcing it.A Timeline of Public Mandates and Private CrisisOn December 22, 2020, Dr. Fauci stood before the nation at the NIH Clinical Center to receive his first dose of the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine. This performance was not merely a medical procedure; it was a carefully choreographed spectacle designed to manufacture public confidence and serve as a symbol of the supposed “veil of protection” the shots would provide.However, the reality of the situation on the ground was far more complex than the celebratory press releases suggested. By mid-2021, the veneer began to crack. Internal records released by Chairman Rand Paul illuminate a harrowing medical event in June 2021. According to these documents, on June 19, 2021, Dr. Fauci was grappling with the aftermath of an acute “pulmonary infarct”—a direct result of a pulmonary embolism which is a known side effect of mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. The medical consensus documented in these notes from his own inner circle of advisors concluded that the “only definite thing” on his scan was this infarct, necessitating the immediate commencement of anticoagulation therapy with the drug Eliquis.Crucially, this health emergency occurred just months after his primary vaccination series.  Yet Fauci was not transparent with the public. Furthermore, Dr. Fauci would later contract SARS-CoV-2 in June 2022, despite being “fully vaccinated” and twice-boosted, a fact that NIAID was forced to disclose as the reality of the shots’ failure to prevent infection became impossible to ignore.The Irony of the Establishment’s PathThe most damning aspect of this revelation is not merely the medical failure itself, but the behavioral response of the architect of the policy. Even as Dr. Fauci was personally navigating the dangers of vaccine-associated vascular events—evidenced by his own prescription for Eliquis—he continued to utilize the full weight of his office to pressure the American public into accepting the same pharmaceutical interventions.There is a profound, sick irony in a public health leader suffering a life-threatening blood clot following a novel mRNA inoculation, only to return to the podium to demand that millions of others accept the same risk profile. While he navigated his own recovery with the specialized care of top-tier pulmonologists and radiologists, he simultaneously championed policies that forced the populace into a state of medical compliance. He moved to normalize the very health outcomes he was personally managing behind closed doors, effectively putting the public on the same path of potential iatrogenic harm while preaching a doctrine of “extreme confidence” in the safety of these products.The documents released by Senator Paul confirm what many have long suspected: that for the architects of the pandemic response, the risks of the experimental technologies were not hypothetical, but personal. The insistence on universal vaccination, despite the evident risks to vascular health, remains one of the most significant breaches of the public trust in modern medical history.  Fauci either knew or should have known he suffered a potentially fatal side effect of the Moderna vaccine—yet he kept it quiet while encouraging others to suffer the same fate.Thanks for reading FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™)! This post is public so feel free to share it.SharePlease subscribe to FOCAL POINTS as a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHPresident, McCullough FoundationFOCAL POINTS has partnered withAlterAIto defend your medical freedom. Subscribe toAlterAItoday and get a discount on unbiased and accurate AI!ReferencesNIAID Director Fauci Tests Positive for COVID-19, National Institutes of Health, June 15, 2022.Fauci, other top health officials receive Moderna Covid-19 vaccine on camera, NBC News, December 22, 2020.Documents released by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Chairman Rand Paul), 2026.

Summary: Examining the Dissonance Between a Concealed Medical Crisis and Federal Public Health Directives--Fauci Knew or Should Have Known Moderna Causes Blood Clots


Fauci's Diary: A Fascination with Fame

Senator Rand Paul just released more than a thousand pages of personal diary entries recorded by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during the period from December 2019 through December 2022.The diary presents an unfiltered private record of the pandemic’s early months and beyond. What emerges is a portrait of a so-called “expert” acutely conscious of his growing celebrity while playing the mendacious game of Washington DC politics and dealing with President Trump, who lacked the confidence to fire the tricky, smart-ass gnome.The most striking theme is Fauci’s preoccupation with his growing fame, with multiple entries recording his adulatory media coverage. In May 2020 he noted a “very flattering” front-page *Washington Post* profile and declared it “not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable person in the world.” He tracked profiles onNightline, editorials in major newspapers, and the production of Fauci-themed merchandise—socks, doughnuts, and a prayer necklace casting him as the “Patron Saint of Public Health.”He proudly records celebrity contacts such as a “great call” with Barbra Streisand in which he advised her on the mRNA vaccine. Also noted are his interactions with Julia Roberts, Steph Curry, and others. The diary concludes in December 2022 with an embrace of Hunter Biden at the Kennedy Center Honors and a note about the online reaction a photograph would provoke.Especially remarkable are the early entries on the virus’s origin. On January 26, 2020, Fauci wrote that epidemiological and genomic data showed the first infection occurred in early December and was unconnected to the Wuhan market: “Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier.”Days later he recorded his infamous conference call with his virology buddies in which only two favored a natural origin while the rest thought “deliberate insertion was possible,” including a discussion of the furin cleavage siteandthe possibility of accidental or intentional laboratory release. These private remarks contradict his public assertions about a natural spillover and dismissal of the lab-leak hypothesis.Other notable passages document his initially amicable relationship with President Trump—who called him “the smartest person in the world” and said “We are counting on you.”Fauci also recorded continued private contact with senior adviser David Morens, whom he later disavowed under oath, and expressed frustration with congressional critics he viewed as intent on “bring[ing] me down.”The diary presents Fauci’s experience of the pandemic as a public-health emergency that catapulted him to international fame among his legions of dimwitted and adoring fans.I find it fun to compare and contrast Fauci’s diaries to those of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) , whose diaries offer a fascinating and colorful portrait of England in the momentous 1660s that featured the Great Plague, the Great Fire of London, and the Second Anglo-Dutch War.Pepys was a high-ranking naval administrator and Member of Parliament. Between January 1, 1660 and May 31, 1669 he kept a private diary in a personal shorthand system that mixed English tachygraphy with French, Spanish, Latin, and other languages for sensitive passages.His eyewitness account of the Great Plague remains the best in recorded history, because unlike most people of his social class, he continued spending much of his time in London. The plague reached the City by early summer 1665. He sent his wife Elisabeth (and household) to Woolwich for safety in July, and the Navy Office later moved to Greenwich in the late summer. Pepys overnighted in Greenwich but regularly commuted by river back to his London home and other parts of the capital for work and pleasure.He stayed through much of the epidemic’s peak, and continued his official duties and social life. He recorded his observations (including seeing red-crossed doors, empty streets, and burial pits), took the precautions of the time such as chewing tobacco, and noted that he “never lived so merrily” or prospered as much as during that plague year.Early published editions of his diary redacted or obscured its extensive sexual material. Victorian and later editors cut, paraphrased, or left untranslated the passages in which Pepys recorded his frequent extramarital encounters, many of them with servants, subordinates’ wives, and young women in positions of dependence.The most complete modern transcription, the eleven-volume Latham and Matthews edition (1970–1983), restored the full text and supplied translations of the coded sections. What emerges is a man of boundless curiosity, energy, cultural and sexual appetite. He recorded his sexual acts and his subsequent shame, prayers for forgiveness, and his relapse to the same kind of behavior.Whereas Fauci is fascinated by himself, Pepys is fascinated by everything and everyone around him, and his portrait of life in London during the reign of Charles II is extremely entertaining.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: Comparing Fauci's diary to that of Samuel Pepys


Cracking Under Pressure: Why the FDA Let Salmonella Eggs Ship for 7 Months

Many egg-eating MAHA health freedom activists have run into a roadblock this summer—salmonella gastroenteritis.🥚 The Great Texas Egg Recall of 2026: Salmonella, Industrial Farming, and the Revolving Door🔬 The Outbreak: By the NumbersNearly 100 people across 17 states have been sickened in aSalmonellaoutbreak definitively traced back to shell eggs produced byMidwest Poultry Services L.P., an Indiana-based conglomerate operating farms in Texas. The numbers tell a grim story:98 confirmed casesspanning from coast to coast26 hospitalizations— that’s a hospitalization rate over 26%, far exceeding what you’d expect for routine foodborne illness17 statesaffected: Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and West VirginiaIllness onsetstretching from November 21, 2025, through June 30, 2026 — meaning this outbreak simmered for overseven monthsbefore the recall was finally initiatedThe recall, issued on July 21, 2026, coversmore than 1.5 million shell eggs— both white and brown cage-free varieties — produced between June 6 and July 3, with sell-by dates ranging from July 20 through August 17. The affected cartons bear identifying codesP-1950or0840962with Julian dates between 157 and 184.These eggs hit shelves atKrogerandBrookshire Grocerylocations across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Mississippi — though the FDA acknowledges the distribution could extend well beyond those borders.🏭 Industrial Agriculture: The Root Cause Nobody Wants to DiscussWhat’s notable here isn’t just the outbreak itself — it’s what it reveals about our food safety apparatus.Midwest Poultry Services is exactly the kind of vertically integrated, industrial-scale operation that has come to dominate American egg production. When you concentrate millions of laying hens into densely packed facilities in Texas heat, you create a perfect incubator for pathogens. The company’s own samples — collected at their Texas farms and tested by a third-party lab — came back positive forSalmonella. Whole genome sequencing confirmed the match to the outbreak strain.The company’s own testing found the pathogen. And yet the recall didn’t come until late July, after illnesses had been accumulating for the better part of a year.This is the predictable result of a regulatory system where the FDA relies on voluntary compliance and company self-reporting. The agency doesn’t have the inspectors, the teeth, or frankly the institutional will to police industrial agriculture in real time. By the time traceback investigations identify a source, the contaminated product has already been distributed, sold, and consumed across half the country.And here’s the part that should genuinely anger people:Midwest Poultry Services doesn’t account for all the illnesses in this outbreak.The FDA’s own investigation acknowledges that additional sources remain unidentified. So we’re dealing with a known contaminated producer whose recall doesn’t fully explain the outbreak, while the agency continues to “investigate” — and in the meantime, contaminated eggs from God knows where else continue circulating through the supply chain.🤔 The “Cage-Free” IronyOne of the grim little ironies here is that the recall includes “brown cage free shell eggs” — the premium-priced variety that conscientious consumers pay extra for, believing they’re buying a safer, more ethically produced product.The reality is thatSalmonella enteritidisdoesn’t care about your cage-free certification. The bacterium can colonize a hen’s ovaries and contaminate the egg before the shell even forms. The industrial conditions that facilitate outbreak-scale contamination — massive flocks, centralized processing, nationwide distribution — are present in both conventional and “free-range” operations when they’re scaled to feed millions.What actually matters is biosecurity, sanitation, testing frequency, and the willingness to pull product the moment contamination is detected rather than waiting for epidemiological confirmation months later. On all those fronts, the system failed.💊 Treatment: What Actually Works for Salmonella EnteritisHere’s where the rubber meets the road. WhenSalmonellagets past your stomach acid and sets up shop in your intestinal epithelium, you’re in for a miserable few days — or worse.Thecornerstone of treatment for Salmonella enteritis is supportive hydration.Full stop. The overwhelming majority of cases in healthy adults are self-limited. Your body knows how to clear the infection; what it needs is fluid and electrolyte replacement to compensate for the losses from diarrhea and vomiting. Oral rehydration solutions — the kind with glucose and electrolytes in proper ratios — are ideal. IV fluids if you can’t keep anything down. Anti-motility agents like loperamide are generally avoided because they can prolong the infection and increase the risk of complications.Antibiotics arenotroutinely indicated for uncomplicated Salmonella gastroenteritis. In fact, antibiotics can prolong the carrier state and increase the risk of relapse. The data on this is solid.However, there are two critical exceptions where antibiotic therapy becomes necessary:Patients over 65— this population is at markedly increased risk for bacteremia, endovascular infection, and extra-intestinal seeding of the organism. When Salmonella escapes the gut in an elderly patient, the consequences can be catastrophic.CiprofloxacinorAzithromycinis the treatment of choice here — it achieves high intracellular concentrations, has excellent activity againstSalmonellaspecies, and carries a favorable side effect profile compared to fluoroquinolones.Children— particularly infants and young children, who are at risk for severe dehydration and, in rare cases, disseminated infection. Again,azithromycinis the preferred agent when antibiotics are indicated.For those looking to be prepared, these medications — azithromycin among them — are available in theMedical Emergency Kit (Aqua Blue)fromThe Wellness Company.In an era where supply chains falter and getting a timely prescription isn’t always guaranteed, having a properly stocked emergency medical kit isn’t paranoia — it’s basic preparedness. The same kind of preparedness that used to be common sense before we outsourced every aspect of our health to government agencies that demonstrably fail us on a regular basis, as this outbreak makes painfully clear.Thanks for reading FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™)! This post is public so feel free to share it.SharePlease subscribe toFOCAL POINTSas a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHChief Scientific Officer, The Wellness Companywww.twc.health/focalpoints

Summary: Midwest Poultry tested positive, sat on the data, and sickened 98 Americans across 17 states


International Study Finds 75% of Embalmers Observed White Fibrous Clots in Corpses

byNicolas Hulscher, MPHFormer Pennsylvania Funeral Directors Association President Christopher Calvey Jr., former Air Force Major Thomas Haviland, and embalmer Richard Hirschman joined me to discuss the now-widespread reports of anomalous white fibrous clots being recovered from human corpses.Havilandrecently published the resultsof a four-year international survey involving 808 embalmers across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand in a peer-reviewed medical journal.Among those surveyed,75.2% reported observing the unusual white fibrous clots, while respondents estimated that the structures were present in approximately23.4% of embalmed bodies.Reports of the phenomenon increased in 2020 and accelerated sharply beginning in 2021, coinciding with the mass mRNA injection campaigns.During the interview, Hirschman displayed a recent specimen that he estimated would have measured approximately60 inches longif fully extended. He said he continues to observe the unusual structures in roughly half of the bodies he embalms and emphasized that he had never encountered them before 2021.Calvey described similar findings, including artery-sized fibrous structures that can obstruct embalming-fluid distribution and force embalmers to use multiple injection sites. He also reported observing increasingly thick and viscous blood during the embalming process.All three panelists stressed that these structures appear fundamentally different from conventional postmortem blood clots. The discussion also examinedemerging laboratory analysessuggesting that the white fibrous clots contain abnormal, amyloid-like fibrin and are linked to spike protein exposure.Although embalmers are uniquely positioned to observe changes within the vascular system, many funeral professionals remain reluctant to discuss the findings publicly. Hirschman and Calvey described widespread private acknowledgment of the phenomenon among their colleagues, including at professional funeral-director meetings and mortuary schools.We concluded the panel by calling for a congressional hearing led by Senator Ron Johnson and demanding that major institutions—including the FDA, CDC, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford—finally do their jobs and investigate this major public health crisis.Nicolas Hulscher, MPHEpidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough FoundationSupport our mission:mcculloughfnd.orgPlease consider following both theMcCullough Foundationandmy personal accountonX(formerly Twitter) for further content.Subscribe now

Summary: Former Pennsylvania Funeral Directors Association President Chris Calvey Jr., former Air Force Major Thomas Haviland, and embalmer Richard Hirschman joined me to discuss.


The Joy of Killing

There’s a disturbing scene in the 2000 filmGladiatorin which the Emperor Commodus, played by Joaquin Phoenix, experiences a paroxysm of elation akin to sexual arousal at the sight of men grievously wounded and decapitated in the Arena.I was reminded of this scene this morning when I saw newly released footage of Lyndsay Graham expressing elation at the news of bombing and mass destruction and killing.Both spectacles remind me of a thought I’ve been turning over in my head since I was a teenager—namely, that some of the people among us, perhaps many of them, exult in the spectacle of other human beings being killed.The joy of killing seems to be rooted in the archaic desire of some men to dominate and coerce other men and to destroy them if they don’t comply. This would explain why so much of human ingenuity as been dedicated to developing and refining ways to kill other humans.When I was a kid, I had a friend who was obsessed with the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, and one of his favorites was thecarro armato con falci— scythed chariot, sometimes referred to as a man harvester.“Isn’t it cool?” my friend said. “You get a couple of guys mounted on really strong horses and then plough across the battlefield and just chop the other soldiers to pieces.”“Yeah, that’s awesome!” I agreed, not stopping to think how weird we were being.To be sure, most people can only enjoy the spectacle of killing when they are animated with the conviction that those who diedeserveto die.. The psychological drama begins with imagining all the vices and depravity of the enemy, at least as he is portrayed to us by our governments.This drama has enormous cathartic and therapeutical value for people who are—whether they admit it to themselves or not—troubled by their own vices or those that are pervasive in their community. Carl Jung called thisprojection. Closely related to projection isscapegoating, in which the sins of a community are transferred to a purported enemy.After our minds are thus primed, we are treated to the spectacle of the enemy being destroyed. We find it thrilling and cathartic, and we triumph in the feeling that “we are killing the bad guys!”A couple of years ago I listened to an interview with the British author Peter Hitchens in which he talked about World War I and its total catastrophe for the Christian civilization of Europe.Most disturbing was the fact that the purportedly Christian clergy on both sides of the infernal war claimed that Jesus Christ was on their side. In Hitchens’s view, this was a total perversion of Christ’s teachings, and the despair the war ultimately created from millions of dead and disfigured was a massive blow to the Christian faith.At one point in the interview, he made the startling statement that the Great Powers waged war not because conflict resolution was so hard, but because the men running the belligerent countries simply wanted war. Regarding his native Britain and its leaders, he said, “Churchill loved war. He didn’t look for ways to avoid it. He sought it.”One positive thing that can be said about British and European war up until young Winston’s day is that the ruling class that started wars was expected to send their young sons to fight them. My favorite aristocratic warlord in history wasJames Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan. He not only used his influence to push hard for the Crimean War, he served on the front line of it.Notorious for his haughtiness and extravagance, he achieved legendary status for leading the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava, immortalized in Tennyson’s poem.Watching Cardigan charge directly into a Russian battery, the French commander, Pierre Bosquet remarked: “C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre: c’est de la folie(”It is magnificent, but it is not war: it is madness.”)Prominent members of our warmonger class in Washington could do much to redeem themselves if they would, like Lord Cardigan, serve on the front line. Alas, that was never in the cards for Lyndsay Graham, who was able to obtain ecstatic satisfaction from viewing electronic recordings and reports of bombing and killing.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: Newly released footage of Lyndsay Graham reveals his elation at the news of bombing and mass destruction and killing.


Mind Viruses: How Fear, Greed, and the War Machine Hijack Your Brain—And How to Reclaim It

Since I met author John Leake—with whom I have written two books and who is now Vice President of the McCullough Foundation—we have had innumerable conversations about how our U.S. Republic lurches from one “crisis” to the next, and how all these “crises” are rooted in irrational beliefs that spread like a contagion. The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung called these contagions “psychic epidemics."In his just published book,Mind Viruses: America’s Irrational Obsessions, Leake reveals how each psychic epidemic is generated using the same script composed of the following three elements.1) Propagate fear and loathing of a purported threat to national security or public health.2) Present a purported solution whose implementation is characterized as a sacred mission.3) Scapegoat the purported enemies or opponents of this mission.As Leake puts it in the Preface:Recent missions have included reducing greenhouse gas emissions and getting all humanity vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19. Here at the outset, it should be noted that, in each of these missions, the threat is grossly overstated and oversimplified, and the efficacy of the championed solution cannot be measured, tested, or falsified. The rational observer eventually suspects that the point of the sacred mission is to keep it going, because the interested parties would be out of business as soon as the problem is solved.Please watch this long format interview of McCullough Foundation Vice President John Leake aboutMind Viruses:  America’s Irrational Obsessionsand share it with your friends.🧠 Mind Viruses: Fear, Money, and the Contagion of Irrational ThoughtMcCullough Foundation President, Dr. Peter McCulloughopens by framing the COVID-19 pandemic as a textbook mind virus: a fear-driven script in which an exaggerated threat (“respiratory viral monster”) meets a pre-packaged solution (the heralded vaccine) with no allowance for questioning—even by physicians of McCullough’s academic credentials and clinical experience.Leakeunpacks the mechanism that begins with FEAR, which he describes in his book as follows:Fear is a critically important emotion for rapidly detecting and reacting to mortal dangers and avoiding them in the future. Fear keenly sharpens one’s focus on a threat and prepares the body to fight it or flee from it. Within the hostile natural environment in which human evolved, fear kept people alive. Without it, the human species would not have survived. However, as the conditions of modern life have become more secure and complex, fear may greatly impair the ability of individuals and societies to respond to events in a rational manner that serves their best interests.Mind viruses are propagated when central authority raises the alarmabout a boogeyman, terrifies the populace, and offers salvation with a grossly oversimplified but wildly profitable “solution.”💰 The Financial EngineLeake identifies the core driver:institutional profiteering through crisis.Drawing on Thomas Sowell’s insight, he notes that institutions purportedly created tosolveproblems will go out of business if the problems are indeed solved. The military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about, the biopharmaceutical complex that profited massively from COVID, the Wall Street bailouts—all follow the same perverse logic: a major crisis is a bonanza for the parties who are positioned to take advantage of it.Peace and health would put an end to the massive transfer of public funds to the purveyors of “countermeasures.”McCullough drives this home: defense contractors, intelligence agencies, and biopharma entities are financially dependent on threats. No threats, no revenue. This creates an incentive to exaggerate, foment, and even fabricate threats. True threats may be mismanaged and allowed to do harm to generate a pretext (or “false flag”) for massive central government actions such as the “War on Terror” and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.🦠 How It SpreadsThe book traces mind viruses across multiple domains, including the following selection mentioned in the interview. See the above table of contents for the full list of mind viruses characterized in the book.War:The “Father of All Mind Viruses”—an archaic fear of invasion exploited by a national security state that is constantly on the offense all over the globe, despite thirty documented American misadventures abroad since the end of World War II.Bioterrorism:The anthrax letters, gain-of-function research, and the PREP Act all follow the script: manufacture a threat, offer a “countermeasure,” use it as an instrument for exerting power and making a fortune.Racism:A “divide and conquer” misdirection trick for drawing scrutiny away from the massive Wall Street fraud and malfeasance, and especially the bailouts— trillions of Treasury and Federal Reserve money—that went to the same bankers who caused the Financial Crisis of 2008.Climate Change:A particularly virulent mind virus for the young, built on unmeasurable, untestable, and unfalsifiable claims, serving as a pretext for transferring hundreds of billions of funds to the purveyors of “alternative energy” and destroying the traditional manufacturing economy of developed nations such as Germany.“Transgender Medicine” for Minors:The most criminally insane and perverse mind virus documented in the book.🛡 The Antidote: Free SpeechLeake anchors his defense of free speech in John Milton’s 1644 pamphletAreopagitica. As Milton put it, human understanding is imperfect, and any attempt to gain understanding will be error prone. If orthodoxy forbids free speech to prevent error or heresy, there can be no advancement of understanding. The First Amendment exists precisely to protectunpopularspeech—that is, opinions that many people (especially those in power) find threatening.Leake observes that many of those who admired McCullough for his pandemic stance will now likely regard him as a dangerous heretic for opposing the Iran war. They must contend with the question: Why did you vehemently reject the US government’s representations of COVID-19, but wholeheartedly embrace the government’s representations of Iran?Free speech isn’t a matter of protecting opinions with which one agrees, but those that challenge one’s assumptions.The antidote to mind viruses isn’t censorship; it’s the disciplined willingness to listen to points of view that are incongruous with your long-held beliefs, the maturity to have a civil conversation about challenging ideas instead of angrily dismissing them out of hand, and the courage to overcome fear instead of being governed by it.FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Please subscribe to FOCAL POINTS as a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHPresident, McCullough FoundationSubscribe nowShare

Summary: Provocative new book shows how all the "crises" of recent years are connected, and how you can immunize your mind against the next mind virus that is unleashed on us.


Senator Paul Should Ask Fauci Why Moderna's 2016 Patented Gene Sequence Turned Up in SARS-CoV-2

Last year I had conversations with Senator Rand Paul and former CDC Director, Robert Redfield in which I asked them if they are aware of the gene sequence that Moderna patented in 2016 that was subsequently found in SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19.Both men stated that they’d heard of this extraordinary finding, but neither expressed much interest in it. I followed up by sending one of Senator Paul’s staff a link to the paper in which this critical finding was presented, but I never heard back from her.With Fauci headed to the Senate tomorrow (July 29, 2026) I am hoping that Senator Paul will ask him about Moderna’s 2016 patent.To review the documentation: On February 21, 2022,Frontiers in Virologypublished a report titledMSH3 Homology and Potential Recombination Link to SARS-CoV-2 Furin Cleavage Site.The Furin Cleavage Site is the component of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that enables the virus to dock onto human lung epithelial cells, thereby initiating the viral replication process. It is the key feature of SARS-CoV-2 that made it infectious to humans. Examining the genetic code of this part of the spike protein, the authors noted that part of the sequence was a perfect match to a genetic sequencepatented in 2016 by Bancel S. et al. in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Among numerous point mutation differences between the SARS-CoV-2 and the bat RaTG13 coronavirus, only the 12-nucleotide furin cleavage site (FCS) exceeds 3 nucleotides. A BLAST search revealed that a 19 nucleotide portion of the SARS-CoV-2 genome encompassing the furin cleavage site is a 100% complementary match to a codon-optimized proprietary sequence that is the reverse complement of the human mutS homolog (MSH3).  (. . .)SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein and MSH3A peculiar feature of the nucleotide sequence encoding the PRRA furin cleavage site in the SARS-CoV-2 S protein is its two consecutive CGG codons. This arginine codon is rare in coronaviruses: relative synonymous codon usage (RSCU) of CGG in pangolin CoV is 0, in bat CoV 0.08, in SARS-CoV 0.19, in MERS-CoV 0.25, and in SARS-CoV-2 0.299 (8).A BLAST search for the 12-nucleotide insertion led us to a 100% reverse match in a proprietary sequence (SEQ ID11652, nt 2751-2733) found in the US patent 9,587,003 filed on Feb. 4, 2016 (9)On the question of whether this perfect match could be merely coincidental, the authors noted:Conventional biostatistical analysis indicates that the probability of this sequence randomly being present in a 30,000-nucleotide viral genome is 3.21×10^-11 [or 1 in 3.21 trillion].TheDaily MailreportedtheFrontiers in Virologyreport, which prompted Fox News’s Maria Bartiromoto question Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancelabout his 2016 gene patent (advance the tape to 7:20).His cool brushoff was suggestive of a man unconcerned about media queries. Why should he be? When it comes to the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex, the US mainstream media rarely asks tough questions, andneverpursues serious inquiry.Inquisitive viewers might have wondered: Who is Stéphane Bancel, and why is a French national heading a Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech that was originally funded by aDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant?Prior to become CEO of Moderna, Bancel was CEO of the French in vitro diagnostics company, bioMérieux, from 2007-2011. The large company, operating in over 160 countries, originated in the Institut Mérieux in Lyon, France, founded by biologist Marcel Mérieux (a colleague of Louis Pasteur).Marcel’s grandson, Alain Mérieux, is the company’s chief proprietor and (according to Bloomberg) worth approximately $8.80 billion. A personal acquaintance of Jacques Chirac (French President from 1995-2007), in 2003 (following the outbreak of the first SARS) Mérieux was instrumental in forming a cooperative agreement between France and China to build a BSL-4 lab annex to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.Bancel was CEO of bioMérieux during the planning and early construction of the lab and the training of its Chinese staff at bioMérieux’s lab in Lyon. In the year 2007, Bancel oversaw the company’s opening of a new division in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As noted in itsannual report:The opening in 2007 of a dedicated theranostics division in Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA), a city with an especially high concentration of biotechnology firms and research centers, puts bioMérieux in a hub for personalized medicine, in direct contact with the most influential players in the field.Four years later, in 2011, Bancel left his plum position at bioMérieux to become CEO of the Cambridge startup Moderna. Back then it seemed like a Quixotic decision. After all, the new company had just one employee and was exclusively focused on developing mRNA therapeutics. As Bancel statedin a December 2020 interview,“When I resigned from my last company, bioMerieux, to start on this journey at Moderna, I told my wife there was only a 5% chance it would work out.”Two years after its founding, Moderna—short for “Modified RNA”—drew interest from DARPA, which awarded it a $25 million grant to develop messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics. Sometime around 2015, Moderna began collaborating with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop mRNA vaccines against the SARS and MERS coronaviruses.In the year 2016, Bancel et al. filed for their patent of the genetic sequence for part of the coronavirus spike protein furin cleavage site—the same genetic sequence that was, four years later, found in the furin cleavage site of SARS-CoV-2 that apparently leaked from the BSL-4 lab in Wuhan. This was the same lab whose construction Bancel oversaw and whose personnel his company trained.Bancel’s decision to leave bioMerieux to lead Moderna worked out well. On March 16, 2020—just five days after the WHO declared SARS-CoV-2 to be the causative agent of a worldwide pandemic,NIAID issued a press releasestating it had commenced human trials of its mRNA-1273 vaccine.mRNA-1273 was developed by NIAID scientists and their collaborators at the biotechnology company Moderna, Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) supported the manufacturing of the vaccine candidate for the Phase 1 clinical trial.Less than a year later—with the United States government relentlessly pushing Moderna’s mRNA and Pfizer/BioNTech’s mRNA vaccines as the ONLY solution to the COVID-19 pandemic,Stephane Bancel became a billionaire.[i]Kristopher M. Curtis, Boyd Yount, Ralph S. Baric. Methods for producing recombinant coronavirus. 2002-04-19, Application US10/474,962 filed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.https://patents.google.com/patent/US7279327B2/en[ii]Cherry JD, Krogstad P. SARS: the first pandemic of the 21st century. Pediatr Res. 2004 Jul;56(1):1-5. doi: 10.1203/01.PDR.0000129184.87042.FC. Epub 2004 May 19. PMID: 15152053; PMCID: PMC7086556.https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7086556/[iii]WHO announces discovery of virus that causes SARS, UN NEWS, 16 April 2003.https://news.un.org/en/story/2003/04/64992AUTHOR’S NOTE: If you enjoyed reading this post, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. For only $5.00 per month, you can really help to support our efforts to investigate and report what is going on in our increasingly strange and confusing world.Subscribe nowShareCourageous Discourse with Dr. Peter McCullough & John Leake is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

Summary: Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, the Wuhan Lab, a critical gene patent, and the U.S. government's curious lack of interest in what appears to be a smoking gun.


Brown Squirt Summer: How the Cyclospora Outbreak is Ruining It

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHThe summer of 2026 will be a remembered by Cyclospora victims for spending a lot of unpleasant time on the toilet.🦠 Cyclospora Outbreak: Dr. Peter McCullough onReal America’s Voice LiveThe Basics of the ParasiteDr. Peter McCullough, Chief Scientific Officer of The Wellness Company, joined host Steve Gruber to break down thecyclospora outbreaksweeping the country. McCullough described cyclospora as aprotozoa — essentially a parasite— that thrives in stagnant water like ponds. When contaminated water is used to irrigate crops, the parasite hitches a ride onto produce, particularly lettuce, strawberries, and raspberries.The Tainted Lettuce TrailEarly epidemiology pointed toshredded iceberg lettuceserved at Taco Bell, with investigators tracing the supply back toTaylor Farms in Mexico, a massive operation that ships to over half of U.S. states — supplying Kroger, Walmart, Meijer, and countless restaurants. However, McCullough noted a critical twist: thePCR test used to link the outbreak to Taylor Farms came back as a false positive, meaning investigators are back to relying on epidemiological guesswork. He expressed sympathy for Taylor Farms, saying they got “fingered” on faulty lab work.Symptoms You Don’t WantMcCullough didn’t sugarcoat it: the hallmark isexplosive, watery diarrhea that can last up to a month, accompanied by low-grade fever, abdominal cramping, and serious dehydration risk — especially for seniors and those in congregate living. He revealed a family in his own office is battling it right now.Treatment and PreparednessThe good news? Cyclospora ishighly treatablewithtrimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim/Septra)— one tablet twice daily for seven days. McCullough advised treatingempiricallyrather than waiting for ER testing, since not all facilities carry the PCR assay for cyclospora. His rule of thumb:“Explosive watery diarrhea is cyclospora until proven otherwise.”He also recommended keeping Imodium on hand, staying hydrated, and washing each individual lettuce leaf under running water followed by a salad spinner.The Wellness Company PitchBoth men touted theaquamarine blueEmergency Medical Kitfrom The Wellness Company, which includes trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and a guidebook. Gruber keeps one on his desk and urged viewers to grab the travel kit for summer trips. Promo codeFOCALPOINTS.💩 The Summer of ‘26 LegacyGruber tried valiantly to keep it professional, but let’s be honest — between the phrase “explosive watery diarrhea” being uttered on live television roughly a dozen times and McCullough casually noting his own child suffered through it, the summer of 2026 is shaping up to be less about patriotic fireworks and more about Americans white-knuckling their way to the bathroom, praying they didn’t eat too much of the side salad.FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Please subscribe toFOCAL POINTSas a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHChief Scientific Officer, The Wellness Companywww.twc.health/focalpoints

Summary: Taco Bell, a False Positive PCR Test, and Mexican Lettuce Turned America's Bathrooms into War Zones — Featuring Dr. Peter McCullough's Guide to Not Shitting Your Pants for a Month


Presiding Over a Nation Gone Mad

Responsible and prudent rulers avoid saying and doing things that cause fear and loathing to spread in the populace. A tragic feature of the human condition is the strong and persistent tendency of rulers to incite fear to manipulate the people to wage war. The enemy could be framed as any class, ethnic group, religious sect, nation, political party, or even natural phenomena such as “climate change” or an infectious disease pathogen such as SARS-COV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19. Incited and amplified by propaganda, fear may spread through a population, compelling the people to participate in highly irrational and destructive collective actions. Rulers can either take action to dampen fear, or they can fan the flames because they believe that doing so serves their interests.—Mind Viruses: America’s Irrational Obsessions,by John LeakeSubscribe nowShare

Summary: With Anthony Fauci headed to the Senate on July 29, a brief review in pictures of the fraud and madness that were unleashed under his watch as the Pandemic Pontifex Maximus ("I am science.")


Senator Paul Should Ask Fauci about NIAID's December 2019 mRNA Coronavirus Vaccine Candidate

A conspicuous feature of the development timeline of the Moderna-NIAID mRNA-1273 Coronavirus vaccine is aMATERIAL TRANSFER AGREEMENT(see pages105-107) from NIAID/Moderna (“Provider”) to Ralph Baric (“Research Recipient”). The Agreement specifies the transfer of “mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates developed and jointly owned by NIAID and Moderna” to Dr. Baric “to perform challenge studies with the mRNA vaccine.”The Agreement is signed by Ralph Baric onDecember 12, 2019—19 days before theWuhan Municipal Health Commission informed the WHO China Country Officeof “cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China on December 31, 2019, and 55 days before the SARS-CoV-2 genome was published on February 5, 2020.Why did NIAID and Moderna believe that Dr. Baric was equipped to challenge their “mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates”? Did they provide Dr. Baric with the coronaviruses to be used for his challenge studies, or did he already possess them in his laboratory?This collaboration, which was consummated on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic, proved to be very profitable for NIAID and Moderna.The reader may recall that Ralph Baric had long worked with scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to developchimeric coronaviruses transmissible to humans, and published papers in 2015 and 2016 in which he declared that he had successfully developed such chimeras. That he was asked to perform the challenge experiments on the NIAID-Modernavaccine is consistent withModerna’s 2016 patented gene sequencethat was subsequently found in SARS-CoV-2.It would be perfectly reasonable for Senator Paul to ask Dr. Fauci to elucidate the genetic code of the December 2019 “mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates developed and jointly owned by NIAID and Moderna,”as well as the genome of the viral pathogen that Dr. Baric used to challenge the vaccine.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: Ralph Baric signed a Material Transfer Agreement with NIAID on Dec. 12, 2019 for challenge experiments. What was its genetic code of the vaccine, and what pathogen did Baric use to challenge it?


Cyclospora Cramping Summer Fun, FDA and Peptides, MAHA Fades

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHPlease enjoy this July 28, 2026 on the Cyclospora outbreak, FDA review of peptides, and the fall of MAHA.  Dr Peter McCullough joinsDr Gina Loudon on American Sunrise, Real America’s Voice.Please note Wednesday July 29, 2026 Dr Anthony Fauci is scheduled to testify in the US Senate, and provided he does not cancel which is a real possibility, McCullough Foundation and Focal Points will be bringing you all the coverage an analysis.FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Please subscribe toFOCAL POINTSas a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHChief Scientific Officer, The Wellness Companywww.twc.health/focalpoints

Summary: Dr Peter McCullough with Dr Gina Loudon on American Sunrise


Fauci Inquisition is Distraction from the Documents of Malfeasance and Crime

Watching today’s Senate hearing, I cannot rid myself of the perception that it is a distraction from documentary evidence of malfeasance, fraud, mass negligent homicide, and murder.Dr. Fauci may indeed plead the 5th, or claim that he has forgotten many details, or claim that he was simply unaware of all the policy deliberations that were going on in the interface between HHS, DoD, Congress, and the White House.However, his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination cannot delete or alter  the existence of NIAID’s work product and the vast academic and bureaucratic paper trail—frequently cited in NIAID documents—that documents all of above.These include the subjects of my last two posts—namely, the documentary evidence that in 2016,Moderna patented a critical gene sequencethat was later found to be a precise match for the sequence of SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site, as well as NIAID’s Dec. 12, 2019Material Transfer Agreementfor shipping the NIAID-Moderna mRNA Coronavirus Vaccine candidate to UNC Professor Ralph Baric for performing challenge experiments.Likewise, Ralph Baric’s2015 and 2016 papers—in which he explicitly declares that he has successfully created chimeric SARS coronaviruses that will infect and transmit among humanized mice—are at hand for anyone to read, though I have yet to see a SINGLE mainstream media report on them. In Baric’s own biosecurity clause, he expressly states that his Gain-of-Function experiments on SARS Coronaviruses were approved before the 2014 administrative pause on GoF.Fauci’s leadership role in suppressing safe and effective early treatment modalities is also extensively documented with hundreds of citations in our bookThe Courage to Face COVID-19, as was his corrupt promotion of Remdesivir.If I were Senators Paul and Johnson, I would limit my questions to addressing the available documentary evidence that the mainstream media NEVER reports. If Fauci pleads the 5th regarding his awareness of these documents, it cannot let him or the other senior officers at NIAID off the hook.I sometimes wonder if such Senate hearings are a spectacle for giving the American people the impression that Republicans and Democrats are in the business of sincere and searching debate about major public policy issues.Republicans like Senators Paul and Johnson are admired and cheered by their constituencies, while Democrat Senators like Gary Peters, Maggie Hassan, and Richard Blumenthal are admired and cheered by their constituencies. However, in the critical business of bringing powerful public officials to justice, nothing is ever achieved. The segment of the US population that despises Fauci will take satisfaction in seeing him squirm, while the constituency that adores Fauci will revel in self-righteous outrage that the old man is being made to squirm.The upshot is that the military-industrial-complex, the bio-pharmaceutical complex, and the big Wall Street banks continue to do whatever in hell they want and get away with murder, while ordinary Americans are left to squabble with each other along partisan political lines, failing to see that the problem is NOT Democrats or Republicans, but the entire corrupt apparatus of central, state power.This is one of the main themes of my new book,Mind Viruses: America’s Irrational Obsessions. If you found this post interesting and informative, please purchase a copy on Amazon.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: As much as we admire Senators Paul and Johnson, I fear today's vaunted Senate hearing is a distraction from NIAID's own documents.


Chris Martenson On the Coming Energy Shock

Dear Substack Readers,Please listen to and share my conversation with Chris Martenson about the coming energy shock if the Trump administration doesn't soon make a deal with Iran.ABOUT CHRIS: Chris Martenson, PhD (Duke), MBA (Cornell) is an economic researcher and futurist specializing in energy and resource depletion, and co-founder of PeakProsperity.com (along with Adam Taggart). As one of the early econobloggers who forecasted the housing market collapse and stock market correction years in advance, Chris rose to prominence with the launch of his seminal video seminar: The Crash Course which has also been published in book form (Wiley, March 2011) and is a popular, highly regarded distillation of the interconnected forces in the Economy, Energy and the Environment (the "Three Es" as Chris calls them) that are shaping the future.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: Interview with renowned energy analyst about the economic devastation that awaits us if President Trump does not soon make a deal with Iran to restore peaceful navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.


BREAKING--Guilt-Ridden Anthony Fauci Pleads the Fifth Amendment 111 Times

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHI wondered if Dr Anthony Fauci would show up today to face questions from US Senators.  Well he arrived, heavily guarded, shoulders slumped, and in a perpetual scornful, frown.  When he read his opening statement, he was visibly trembling.   His impetulant attorney was escorted out of the room after Senator Rand Paul gave him plenty of opportunity to sit behind his witness and be quiet.  OnWednesday, July 29, 2026, Capitol Police escortedDavid Schertler, the attorney for Dr. Anthony Fauci, out of the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing after a heated exchange with ChairmanSenator Rand Paul.Then for the next 111 questions Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions.  The phrase "pleading the Fifth" specifically references theself-incrimination clause. In daily life, this right is most recognizable throughMiranda warnings, which require police to tell suspects they have the "right to remain silent." Legally, an individual can refuse to answer questions from police, investigators, or congressional committees if their responses could potentially be used to convict them of a crime.Dr Anthony Fauci appeared to be a man who had lost his way.  From a Division Director at the NIH for decades, over the course of time he had become a megalomaniac driven by fame and fortune.  During the greatest infectious disease crisis of his career, instead of humbly serving and putting the survival of Americans first, he was working to collect cash prizes and grab photo shoots for style magazines.SenatorJosh Hawley lambasted Fauciunlike any other doctor who had ever appeared in the US Senate.  His closing remark came at the end of a scathing conclusion where Hawley blasted Fauci for repeatedly invoking his Fifth Amendment rights during the hearing. Leading up to that final line, Hawley told Fauci that he had become a“narcissist and a megalomaniac and a liar,”accused him of lying to the American people and Congress, and referenced newly leaked pandemic journals by telling him he had“disgraced [his] profession.finished his fiery questioning of Dr. Anthony Fauci by saying: [1,2,3]“You’ve done more to harm science than anybody in my lifetime. And I hope you’ll go home and write that in your diary. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.”[1]Here is my reaction just a few hours later on America’s Voice with Steve Gruber.FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Please subscribe to FOCAL POINTS as a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHPresident, McCullough Foundation

Summary: US Senate inquiry frames Fauci as a national disgrace


BREAKING--Pericardial Effusions Skyrocketed During Pandemic

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHAs an echocardiographer, I have noticed an increase in significant pericardial effusions (fluid around the heart) since the pandemic started.  This paper caught my attention.📄 Summary: Salvucci et al. (2026) — Echocardiographic Pericardial InvolvementThis retrospective cohort study analyzed1,431 consecutive patientsundergoing routine outpatient echocardiography at an Italian cardiology clinic from 2018 to 2022, comparing pre-pandemic and pandemic periods.The headline finding is stark:pericardial involvement on echo jumped from22.0%(101/459) pre-pandemic to68.8%(463/673) during pandemic years — a more than threefold increase. Multivariable analysis revealed thatSARS-CoV-2 vaccination was independently associated with roughly doubled oddsof pericardial abnormalities (OR 2.08, 95% CI 1.29–3.35, P = 0.003), comparable to the risk from COVID-19 infection itself (OR 1.99, P = 0.012).Critically, the temporal pattern is revealing: odds ratios relative to 2018 were1.86 in 2020, then exploded to6.95 in 2021and6.73 in 2022— precisely when mass vaccination took full effect across the population. The dose-response analysis confirmed one and two doses each independently raised pericardial involvement risk (OR ~2.1), while the interaction analysis showed vaccination and infection operated through overlapping inflammatory pathways.The study captured not just clinical pericarditis butminimal and residual pericardial alterations— small effusions, thickening, hyperechogenicity, fibrinous strands — exactly the kind of subclinical findings that passive surveillance systems miss. The authors themselves note that nearly 70% echo positivity during pandemic years suggests “many cases are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, escaping passive surveillance.”This is precisely the phenomenonMcCullough, Mead, and Hulscher (2025)characterized in their comprehensive review ofCOVID-19 vaccine-induced subclinical myopericarditis. They described a pathophysiological cascade in which mRNA vaccine-generated spike protein circulates systemically, triggers innate immune activation with CD68+ macrophage infiltration of myocardial and pericardial tissue, and produces low-grade inflammation that falls below the threshold of clinical detection yet is readily apparent on imaging. Their review documented that this subclinical cardiac injury — detectable by echocardiography, cardiac MRI, and elevated troponin — affects a far broader population than the rare cases of fulminant myocarditis captured by VAERS and other passive systems. The Salvucci data, showing nearly 7 in 10 vaccinated patients with echo-detectable pericardial involvement by 2021–2022, provides real-world clinical validation of McCullough’s thesis: what the medical establishment dismissed as “rare and mild” was in fact widespread and simply uninvestigated.Thanks for reading FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™)! This post is public so feel free to share it.SharePlease subscribe to FOCAL POINTS as a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHPresident, McCullough FoundationFOCAL POINTS has partnered withAlterAIto defend your medical freedom. Subscribe toAlterAItoday and get a discount on unbiased and accurate AI!Sources:Salvucci F, Petrella L, Foroni B, et al. (2026) Association of COVID-19 Infection and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination With Echocardiographic Pericardial Involvement in a Real-World Outpatient Cohort.Cureus18(7): e113147. doi:10.7759/cureus.113147McCullough PA, Mead MN, Hulscher N. (2025) COVID-19 Vaccine-Induced Subclinical Myopericarditis: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Clinical Management.Medical Research Archives, 13(11). doi:10.18103/mra.v13i11.7078

Summary: Salvucci et al. drop a bombshell: subclinical myopericarditis surged with vaccination rollout, peaking in 2022


Banned by YouTube in 2021, We Were Right About Everything

I just saw the following interview with then YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki in which she boasts aboutbanning a million videos from YouTubethat her company and whatever tyrants it was consorting with decided were “dangerous misinformation.”Though I believe that wrath is a cardinal sin and try to resist it, I found her smug, self-assuredness and annoying vocal fry vexing in the extreme.One of the million videos that YouTube banned was my meticulously researched and beautifully shotin-studio interview with Dr. Peter McCullough in May 2021. A few hours after I published it on my YouTube channel, it was unceremoniously deleted with no warning or explanation.I wonder how many salaried employees at YouTube understand how hard it is to make a living as a freelance investigative author, and to organize a studio interview of this quality with ZERO funding and advertising. I didn’t even include myself in the interview or copyright it.Do YouTube executives understand how many years of investigative scholarship and clinical practice went into producing the video’s content?Note that all of Dr. McCullough’s hard-won credentials listed in the opening frame were subsequently stripped and revoked—all becausehe advocated early treatment for COVID-19 using repurposed FDA-approved drugs.The video reveals that—in my intuitions and research, and in Dr. McCullough’s academic expertise and clinical experience — we wereright about everything. Total vindication.Please watch this video and share it with your friends. Also, please make aDONATIONto the McCullough Foundation. We’ve been grinding very hard for the last five years, and together with the valiant Nic Hulscher, we continue to do the investigative scholarship NOT being done by the HHS. We would be extremely grateful for your support.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: Reviewing and republishing my studio interview with Dr. Peter McCullough in May 2021 that was banned by YouTube.


Bill Gates Was Secretly Granted TOP SECRET “Q” Security Clearance by the Department of Energy

byNicolas Hulscher, MPHDuring Anthony Fauci’s recent Senate hearing, Senator Rand Paul exposed a stunning revelation: Bill Gates held a Department of Energy “Q” security clearance from 2014 through 2021.A DOE Q clearance is the equivalent ofTOP SECRETand can establish eligibility to access some of the most sensitive nuclear information held by the United States government.That can include classified material involving nuclear weapons, nuclear materials, atomic-energy programs, intelligence, and national-security information. The clearance does not prove Gates personally reviewed every nuclear secret, but it does mean the federal government determined that he was eligible to receive highly classified nuclear information when authorized.Gates founded and chairsTerraPower, a private nuclear-reactor company developing advanced nuclear technology.However, this was not just any billionaire. Gates has repeatedly promoted population-control policies and has openly discussed reducing the population through vaccines, health programs, and reproductive interventions:Why were America’s nuclear secrets entrusted to a known depopulationist?Nicolas Hulscher, MPHEpidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough FoundationSupport our mission:mcculloughfnd.orgPlease consider following both theMcCullough Foundationandmy personal accountonX(formerly Twitter) for further content.Subscribe now


President Biden's Preemptive Pardon of Fauci

President Biden’s preemptive pardon of Anthony Fauci covered the period fromJanuary 1, 2014, through January 19, 2025.NIH grant R01AI110964, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” was submitted by Peter Daszak as PI/contact PI of EcoHealth Alliance, with Ralph Baric as a key collaborator on June 5, 2013.The proposal was reviewed for theJanuary 2014Council and awarded with a Notice of Award dated May 27, 2014 (project startJune 1, 2014).The administrative pause on federal funding for certain gain-of-function research began inOctober 2014.Even after the administrative pause went into effect, the funding of “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence” continued. As part of their research funded by this grant, Baric et al. declared in their 2015 paper inNature Medicinetitled “A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence”that they had produced a chimeric coronavirus that would infect human airway cells and produce pathogenesisin vivo.As they wrote in theBiosafety and biosecurityclause of their paper:Generating infectious clones of bat SARS-like CoVs; Lab Safety Plan ID: 20145741; Schedule G ID: 12279). These studies were initiated before the US Government Deliberative Process Research Funding Pause on Selected Gain-of-Function Research Involving Influenza, MERS and SARS Viruses (http://www.phe.gov/s3/dualuse/Documents/gain-of-function.pdf). This paper has been reviewed by the funding agency, the NIH. Continuation of these studies was requested, and this has been approved by the NIHIn other words, the NIH allowed them to continue doing their risky Gain-of-Function research (in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology) on the dubious grounds that they had submitted their grant proposalbeforethe pause began. This is the equivalent of telling people that they can drive 70 mph through a school zone, provided they lived in the area and drove the roadbeforethe school was erected.The initial 5-year award for Daszak and Baric ran from June 1, 2014, to May 31, 2019. It was renewed in 2019 (with various intermediate projected end dates such as mid-2024, late 2025, or December 2026 appearing in different records).Funding was suspended in April/May 2020 (later treated as a suspension with conditions) and a modified/reinstated version was awarded in April 2023, with the final project end date listed asApril 30, 2024.The documentary evidence is overwhelming that Anthony Fauci:Knew that Daszak, Baric, et al. were conducting GoF research with their colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (a Chinese biosecurity lab connected with the Chinese military).Knew that Baric et al. were creating SARS coronavirus variants capable of infecting and causing pathogenesis in humans.Knew that the NIH continued to fund (and therefore to endorse) the research of Baric et al. even after the federal pause on GoF in October 2014.Knew that Modernapatented the genetic sequenceof the SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site in 2016.Knew that his ownNIAID began collaborating with Moderna in 2016to develop an mRNA vaccine against coronaviruses.NIAID Collaboration with ModernaPrior to the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists at NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center and the biotechnology company Moderna had collaborated for four years on mRNA vaccines for other emerging infectious diseases.Knew (documented inhis private email correspondencewith eminent virologists in February 2020) that the genome SARS-CoV-2 displayed clear features of lab manipulation.Fraudulently concealed that SARS-CoV-2 was produced in a lab by directing the publication ofThe proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,authored by the same virologists who had just told him in private that the virus appeared to have come from a lab.All the above is clear documentary evidence that Anthony Fauci was a leading conspirator in perpetrating a massive crime against humanity, fraudulently concealing it, suppressing early treatment for it, and promoting the dangerous, experimental mRNA vaccine that NIAID (of which he was the director) developed with Moderna.I call upon the U.S. Justice Department to challenge President Biden’s preposterous “preemptive pardon” and to prosecute Anthony Fauci for his crimes.If “We the People” let this slide, we will have revealed ourselves to be the most contemptible slaves to the corrupt and tyrannical US federal government.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: Beginning of pardon period precisely coincides with NIH review of Ralph Baric and Peter Daszak's proposal for NIH grant “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence”


Why Prosecuting Fauci is Off Limits

Octavian (later the Emperor Augustus) was offended when Mark Antony cheated on his sister (Octavia the Younger) with Cleopatra. However, he also knew that the embarrassing affair that became the talk of the town in Rome served his ultimate design to get rid of Mark Antony.Had Antony shown real contrition, left Cleopatra, and returned to Rome to patch things up with Octavia, it would have derailed Octavian’s plan to seize unrivaled power.A close study of history teaches us that whenever the populace is treated to the spectacle of a powerful man being pilloried and lampooned, it is almost certainly a distraction from the true, behind-the-scenes exercise or preservation of power.I’m pretty sure that everyone in Washington understands that prosecuting Anthony Fauci—and the officialdiscoveryit would entail—would bethe end of the US governmentbecause the liabilities would be incalculably astronomical.Fauci’s NIAID was the lynchpin of the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex that perpetrated a massive crime against all of humanity.—literally ALL of the earth’s inhabitants. As I noted in my poster yesterday (President Biden’s Preemptive Pardon of Fauci)the following is clearly evident from the enormous paper trail.Knew that Daszak, Baric, et al. were conducting GoF research with their colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (a Chinese biosecurity lab connected with the Chinese military).Knew that Baric et al. were creating SARS coronavirus variants capable of infecting and causing pathogenesis in humans.Knew that the NIH continued to fund (and therefore to endorse) the research of Baric et al. even after the federal pause on GoF in October 2014.Knew that Modernapatented the genetic sequenceof the SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site in 2016.Knew that his ownNIAID began collaborating with Moderna in 2016to develop an mRNA vaccine against coronaviruses.NIAID Collaboration with ModernaPrior to the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists at NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center and the biotechnology company Moderna had collaborated for four years on mRNA vaccines for other emerging infectious diseases.Knew (documented inhis private email correspondencewith eminent virologists in February 2020) that the genome SARS-CoV-2 displayed clear features of lab manipulation.Fraudulently concealed that SARS-CoV-2 was produced in a lab by directing the publication ofThe proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,authored by the same virologists who had just told him in private that the virus appeared to have come from a lab.In other words, Anthony Fauci was a leading conspirator in perpetrating this crime, fraudulently concealing it, suppressing early treatment for it, and promoting the dangerous, experimental mRNA vaccine that NIAID (of which he was the director) developed with Moderna.The trouble for the sewer known as the US government is that EVERY stinking agency—HHS, DoD, DARPA, BARDA, CIA, FBI—all of themunderstood the obvious reality of what was going on.As for the parcel of imbecilic and venal elected representatives in Congress and the White House—stupidity and cowardice aren’t a persuasive defense.Senators Paul and Johnson are perfect gentlemen, acting in good faith, but I suspect they too know that if this horror show is officially revealed in the discovery phase of a criminal trial against Anthony Fauci, it would be the end of the entire rotten edifice of the US government. The liabilities with respect to all of humanity would be too astronomical. Fauci also understands that he is, in the language of the Sicilian and Neapolitan mafia, “intoccabile”—untouchable.That he is currently being pilloried is an indispensably valuable mechanism for preserving the federal government. It enables We the People to experience a great catharsis. Through this catharsis, our outrage will expend itself and Fauci will go back to being a Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown.Nihil lacrima citius arescit—”Nothing dries faster than a tear,” as the great Roman prosecutor once remarked about the fickle and ever distracted public. Tears are transitory; power such as that which resides in Washington endures.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: Discovery and prosecution of the former NIAID director would expose the entire rotten edifice of the US government. The liabilities would be astronomical.


Explosive Senate Inquiry Paints Anthony Fauci Into a Corner

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHPlease review this explosive reel from July 29, 2026 onThe Evening Edit, Fox Business hosted by Liz MacDonald.  I responded candidly that Dr Fauci over time became a national disgrace as the leader of the largest American public health debacle in the modern era.  Trust in public health has been erased.  The medical establishment, left wing of Congress and its media surrogates should be ashamed.While right leaning outlets such as FOX Business, FOX, and NewsMax covered the hearing with key evidence and comments from US Senators, left wing commentators such as Lawrence O’Donnell heaped praise on Fauci asserting he “saved lives.”  Fauci’s diary did not indicate he treated or advised on a single patient.  He was obsessed with his own aura, not Americans sick with SARS-CoV-2, the virus he helped create.  Joe Scarborough dismissed the hearing as “political theatre” while others said America wants to forget the pandemic and move on.  I will let you decide.Please subscribe toFOCAL POINTSas a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHChief Scientific Officer, The Wellness Companywww.twc.health/focalpoints

Summary: Former NIAID director failed to meet basic biomedical and ethical standards during the COVID-19 crisis.


Will Increasing Efficiency of AI Computing Render Huge Data Centers Superfluous?

The first major digital computer used for a large-scale U.S. defense project, theENIAC(funded by the U.S. Army Ordnance Department), occupied1,800 square feet of floor space and weighed 30 tons. A modern iPhone ishundreds of thousands to millions of times more powerfulthan this room-sized machine.As AI computing becomes more efficient, requiring smaller machines, energy, and cooling capacity, will the massive data centers being built today be rendered superfluous?The largest AI data center complexes under development require11 gigawatts (11,000 megawatts)of total power capacity.To understand the scale of 11 gigawatts of power being delivered to a gigantic machine — as distinct from other forms of human activity and labor — consider that a single gigawatt of continuous power running 24/7 is equivalent to the entire electricity consumption of a major metropolitan area like Denver, Colorado (roughly 850,000 to 1 million homes).What exactly is going to be done with all of this machine intelligence, apart from rendering most human intellectual labor obsolete?While AI is becoming marvelously capable at synthesizing enormous amounts of data, analysis, and concepts with lightening speed, it strikes me as odd that it consumes so much more power than the human brain in a state of intense concentration, which uses about 20 watts of power, roughly25% of the body's total energy, or about 400 to 500 calories per day.I used to date a girl who could simultaneously speed through London traffic, smoke a cigarette, drink a Corona, answer her cell phone for a quick chat, put on lipstick, and have an intelligent conversation with me without having to think about any of these tasks and without causing an accident.How much processing power is required to do all of these actions at once, and how much energy would it require if a robot were trained to do all of them at once?I wonder if the AI nerds are studying the human brain in the way that aviation guys (finally) got around to paying close attention to birds’ wings (such as that of the mallard duck) which feature the sort of aerodynamictwistthat was ultimately built into the Boeing 787 wing, thereby greatly increasing its efficiency—that is, reduction of induced drag.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: Comparing the DoD's first major digital computer to the iPhone and wondering if similar size and resource efficiency is in the cards for AI computing


RFK's 2021 Book "The Real Anthony Fauci" Vindicated, Back on Bestseller List

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.—Arthur SchopenhauerWhen I read Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2021 bookThe Real Anthony Fauci,I was immediately struck by the thought that writing and publishing it was one of the boldest acts of perceived impiety in publishing history.At the time, Dr. Fauci was regarded by his legions of adoring, dimwitted followers as the Pontifex Maximus of Science and a Savior—an experience that went straight to his head in the way that becoming prom queen might go to the head of a 17-year-old girl—causing him to make preposterous statements such as “I am science,” or in the stately Latin language, “Scientiae incarnatio sum.”The book’s immediate blacklisting among publishing trade journals and book reviews reminded my of the Holy Office of the Inquisition’s, Index of Prohibited Books, which over time included authorsRené Descartes, Nicolaus Copernicus, Immanuel Kant, and Galileo Galilei.In 2021, with the widespread imposition of orthodoxy and censorship that have no place in our constitutional republic, RFK, Jr. and his publisher, Tony Lyons, had the guts to produce and publish a book that would certainly make them very unpopular in the fashionable, bien pensant society of New York and Los Angeles.As I read the book—a vast work of scholarship, meticulously documenting Fauci’s history as a ruthless agent of his pharmaceutical industry cronies—I frequently thought, “Damn this is bold. Bravo.”Yesterday I was very happy to see the following MAHA Report notice that the book is back on the bestseller list. Click on the image below to read the good news and the fascinating history of what the book had to go through to get to where it is today. And if you haven’t yet read it, you will find it all the more fascinating in light of all that has happened since 2021.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: In 2021, the current HHS Secretary was a voice in the wilderness, and his book was published in the face of censorship, shadow banning, and book review blacklisting


Lying and Killing: The Government's True Element

So ist denn alles, was ihr Sünde.Zerstörung, kurz, das Böse nennt,Mein eigentliches Element.So then is everything that you callSin, destruction, in short, evil,My true element.So introduces Mephistopheles to Dr. Faust in Goethe’s play. What I (and many others) have found especially fascinating about the scene is that Mephistopheles doesn’t try to conceal anything. He clearly states the nature of his game.In this respect, Goethe adhered to a long tradition of the devil announcing himself, thereby eliminating the possibility of anyone subsequently claiming that they weren’t warned.I often think about this while contemplating the US government and the legions of deluded fools who believe the lies told by its nominal leaders.Once it became clear that Trump was going to attack Iran, I knew with certainty that “We the People” were being dragged into another forever war in the Middle East that would result in mass destruction and death and achieve no constructive end.I knew it would begin with the promise of a swift and decisive victory, and then drag on interminably with no clear strategy—just more destruction and more boasts about all the things destroyed.As Mephistopheles said, “Sin, destruction, in short, evil, is my true element.”Long ago, the men that run the US government made the deal with the devil that Jesus—as recounted in Matthew, Mark, and Luke—chosenotto make.In exchange for worshipping the devil, the men who run the US government have received “dominion, glory, and the kingdoms of the world.”I am not saying that the devil appeared to President Trump in the Oval Office as Mephistopheles appeared in Faust’s study.The US government’s deal with the devil was apparently made long ago, and it seems that only the devil’s servants are able to remain in the government. Those like Thomas Massie who take a principled stand against the devil are driven out of government in the most absurd way.The outrageous absurdity of Massie’s ouster— as well as how the Epstein files were swept under the rug, and how the Iran war was started with obvious monkeyshines— are the expression of howthe devil plainly introduces himself.A few days ago I received an email from a reader who sincerely told me that the current war against Iran is a rational response to the Ayatollah Khomeini’s statement “death to America” in his 1979 inauguration speech. Never mind that Khomeini died in 1989. I responded by quoting Kim Jong Un’s 2024 New Year’s Day Address in which he threatened to “deal a deadly blow to the US and thoroughly annihilate them.”Should we attack North Korea?Should the US Air Force again bomb every single city in North Korea to rubble and kill 20% of its civilian population, as General Curtis LeMay proclaimed he had done. As he put it in a 1984 interview with the Office of Air Force History:Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population.By LeMay’s estimate, every city in North Korea was bombed to rubble.Only someone who has been seduced by the devil would kill 20 percent of the population of a country of 10 million people and totally annihilate all its cities.The devil’s work is obvious, out in the open, to be seen by anyone who has eyes to see.Every heap of total BS we’ve been served since 2001 follows the exact same script—namely, scare the hell out of us, promise to protect us, transfer trillions to whatever interests are the beneficiaries of the “crisis,” and pillory anyone (like me) who questions the veracity of the government’s fraudulent representations.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: How the Trump administration started another forever war in the Middle East, and why millions of people can't see the evil of it.


The Coolest Presidential Candidate in History

The most lamentable feature of our current Age of the Weenie is the almost universal, slavish idolization of the U.S. federal government, and the delusion that either political party is going to save us.The government—no matter which corrupt party is running is—is NOT going to save us. Over 90% of the time, the government CREATES the problems. To put it another way, the government is the problem to the solution.For a long time my favorite American individualist was Henry David Thoreau, and when I was a college student in Boston I often went to the site of his cabin on Walden Pond and meditated on his spirit.As I wrote in my new book,Mind Viruses: America’s Irrational Obsessions:In the 1840s, many American newspapers supported the Mexican-American War in an aggressive, jingoistic fashion, claiming it was an expression of America’s “Manifest Destiny.” A notable critic of the war—and the propaganda published to justify it—was Henry David Thoreau, who correctly believed that the US government declared war on Mexico due to the influence of a relatively small group of powerful southern men who used the government and military as their instrument to gain new territory for slave states. In his 1849 essay, “Civil Disobedience,” Thoreau argued that when people acquiesce to immoral government actions, they become complicit.Nothing has changed since then. The business of waging war abroad is still directed by a relatively small group of men pursuing their narrow interests, while “We the People” are propagandized into playing along with it and paying for it with our taxes and US debt obligations.Because humor is such a good antidote to the negative feelings of anger and frustration, whenever I am feeling down, I watch the following video of John McAfee announcing his 2020 presidential candidacy from his yacht in an unknown location while fleeing the IRS. This strikes me as the most colorful and entertaining gesture of defiance in American history.John knew he was playing with fire, and a year later he was arrested in Spain on a US/IRS warrant and incarcerated for nine months before he died in his cell. The authorities claim he committed suicide, but I wonder about that, because he (an internet security pioneer) knew a lot about a lot of powerful people.John may have been the last great rebel, and his death in prison in 2021 may be regarded as the true beginning of the Age of the Weenie in which we now live.RIP John David McAfee (18 September 1945 – 23 June 2021).Subscribe nowShare

Summary: John McAfee's 2020 presidential campaign on his yacht while fleeing the IRS was the most colorful and entertaining gesture of defiance in American history.


BREAKING: 25-Year Study of an Entire Country Finds Most Major Hormonal Birth Controls Are Associated With an Increased Risk of Meningioma Brain Tumors

byNicolas Hulscher, MPHAnationwide studyof Denmark’s female population aged 15 to 59, published inJAMA Network Open, examined hormonal contraceptive use from 2000 through 2024. The underlying population included approximately 3 million females, with researchers comparing 1,473 women diagnosed with meningioma against 14,717 matched controls.The study examined contraceptive progestogens, the hormone class used across nearly all major hormonal birth-control methods, including combined pills, progestin-only pills, injections, hormonal IUDs, implants, patches, and vaginal rings.Most hormonal birth controls analyzed in the study were associated with an increased risk of meningioma brain tumors.Specifically, 8 of the 12 formulations with calculable estimates showed statistically significant or borderline-significant elevations, while several additional methods could not be reliably assessed because too few cases occurred.Meningiomas arise from the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Even when noncancerous, they can compress vital brain structures, cause seizures, cognitive decline, vision loss, weakness, and permanent neurological damage, and may require brain surgery.Overall meningioma risk by hormonal contraceptiveThe study’s primary analysis compared each woman’s most recent contraceptive exposure with nonuse and found the following increases in meningioma odds:DEPO-PROVERA INJECTIONS: +355%OR4.55; 95% CI,2.19–9.45PROGESTIN-ONLY DESOGESTREL: +73%OR1.73; 95% CI,1.17–2.56COMBINED DESOGESTREL: +66%OR1.66; 95% CI,1.31–2.10CYPROTERONE: +61%OR1.61; 95% CI,1.00–2.59DROSPIRENONE: +58%OR1.58; 95% CI,1.05–2.37HIGH-DOSE LEVONORGESTREL IUD: +58%OR1.58; 95% CI,1.28–1.94GESTODENE: +44%OR1.44; 95% CI,1.17–1.77LEVONORGESTREL PILL: +40%OR1.40; 95% CI,1.12–1.76These overall estimates were concerning, but the strongest associations appeared among women with ongoing or very recent exposure.Current hormonal birth-control use and meningioma risk“Current use” was defined as ongoing exposure or exposure ending within the previous year. Risk estimates were generally highest in this group.DEPO-PROVERA INJECTIONS: +870%OR9.70; 95% CI,3.85–24.42DROSPIRENONE: +153%OR2.53; 95% CI,1.45–4.42CYPROTERONE: +115%OR2.15; 95% CI,1.05–4.41COMBINED DESOGESTREL: +107%OR2.07; 95% CI,1.41–3.04GESTODENE: +101%OR2.01; 95% CI,1.47–2.74PROGESTIN-ONLY DESOGESTREL: +96%OR1.96; 95% CI,1.26–3.08LEVONORGESTREL PILL: +80%OR1.80; 95% CI,1.33–2.46HIGH-DOSE LEVONORGESTREL IUD: +62%OR1.62; 95% CI,1.29–2.04ConclusionThis was an observational case-control study, so it cannot prove that hormonal contraception directly caused the tumors. However, the investigation had major strengths: nationwide population coverage, detailed long-term prescription records, validated cancer diagnoses, exclusion of women with prior hormone-replacement therapy, and consistent results across multiple sensitivity analyses.The findings indicate that increased meningioma risk may extend beyond Depo-Provera injections to multiple combined birth-control pills, a progestin-only pill, and high-dose levonorgestrel IUDs.Nicolas Hulscher, MPHEpidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough FoundationSupport our mission:mcculloughfnd.orgPlease consider following both theMcCullough Foundationandmy personal accountonX(formerly Twitter) for further content.FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

Summary: Nationwide data covering 3 million Danish females link popular birth-control pills, Depo-Provera shots, and high-dose hormonal IUDs to elevated meningioma risk.


The Great Inoculation: How mRNA Vaccines Guarantee Longevity Will Decline

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHAfter this conversation with health futurist and biohacker Dave Asprey, I wondered if humans had been changed, upgraded or downgraded by mass genetic vaccination.🎙 Summary: Dave Asprey Interviews Dr. Peter McCullough onThe Human UpgradeDave Asprey opens by praising McCullough’s courage during the pandemic, noting how Asprey himself lost 95% of his social media following for speaking out. McCullough observes that most podcasters were absent in 2020 when early treatment was the critical issue — not vaccines, which only arrived December 10th, 2020.🦠 The Pandemic Response Was InvertedMcCullough argues the proper public health message was simple: the virus is mild for most; high-risk individuals need early treatment. Instead, the world got lockdowns, masks, and suppressed therapeutics. He recounts howhydroxychloroquine— a centuries-old, pregnancy-safe drug — was first embraced, then targeted with fraudulent papers claiming cardiac harm. An Australian billionaire, Clive Palmer, bought enough to treat every Australian; authorities seized and destroyed it. Facilities producing it mysteriously burned.Ivermectinfaced an even fiercer war. Safe and effective, with studies showing 50% mortality reduction in hospitalized patients, it was smeared as “horse paste” by a coordinated FDA-PR-late-night-TV campaign. Three doctors sued the FDA and won — forcing the agency to retract its fraudulent materials.💉 mRNA Technology: A Permanent AlterationThe spike protein is the pathogenic element. It folds likeamyloid— rubbery, degradation-resistant, accumulating in tissues. Nattokinase is the only known agent that reliably breaks it down.McCullough reveals:Pseudouridine substitution: Pfizer and Moderna replacedeveryuracil with synthetic pseudouridine, making the mRNA impervious to human RNases. There is no off switch.No pharmacokinetic studies existshowing where it goes, when or if it shuts off. No oncogenicity, teratogenicity, or genotoxicity studies were ever done.A Dallas patient still has circulating Pfizer vaccine and full-length spike protein in his bloodstream3.6 yearspost-injection as published by Hulscher et al in the European Society of Medicine.Swedish research (Alden et al) demonstrated the central amplicon integrates into the genome of human liver cells.McCullough’s team found ~20 base pairs of vaccine DNA in a cancer patient’s genome.New mRNA products — RSV and influenza vaccines — are rolling out with zero scrutiny, potentially producing foreign proteins indefinitely and drivingautoimmunity, thrombosis, and neoplastic activity.🔬 The Origins: Gain-of-Function Published in 2015McCullough traces the WIV-1 virus to published gain-of-function research inNature Medicine(2015), funded by Fauci’s NIAID, with Ralph Baric (UNC), Peter Daszak (EcoHealth Alliance), and Stéphane Bancel (Moderna) all connected. Bancel’s prior company, BioMérieux, built the BSL-4 annex at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The papers literally stated the virus was “poised for human emergence.”🧬 Longevity Impossible Under These ConditionsAsprey, who aims to live past 180 through biohacking, frames the central tragedy:two-thirds of the population carries synthetic mRNA producing amyloid-like spike protein indefinitely. The thermodynamic instability, mitochondrial strain, and cumulative protein accumulation McCullough describes are the antithesis of longevity. Asprey contrasts this with legitimate gene therapies thattime out— noting he’d embrace a well-studied vaccine that extended life. What was rolled out globally was the opposite.🏛 What Must Be DoneMcCullough’s prescription:Pull all COVID and mRNA vaccinesfrom the market pending proper pharmacokinetic studies.Repeal the 1986 Vaccine Injury Compensation Act— force manufacturers to carry liability.Ban direct-to-consumer vaccine advertising(which currently lists no side effects for vaccines).Ban all medical and vaccine mandates.Launch an exhaustive investigation into the autism epidemic.Appoint an external special counselto investigate pandemic crimes — naming Fauci as a target.🧠 Propaganda Terms and Cognitive SovereigntyMcCullough identifies six propaganda terms:misinformation(Goebbels),disinformation(Stalin),malinformation,anti-science,anti-vaxxer, andconspiracy theorist. McCullough notes “misinformation” entered the National Library of Medicine as a MeSH term in 2020 — rendering science meaningless if observations can be dismissed with a propaganda label.Both men emphasizecognitive sovereignty— being unprogrammable, calm, and refusing manufactured moral hierarchies. McCullough closes by contrasting Trump’s Politburo-style cabinet conformity with Lincoln’s “team of rivals” approach to leadership.Thanks for reading FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™)! This post is public so feel free to share it.SharePlease subscribe to FOCAL POINTS as a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHPresident, McCullough FoundationFOCAL POINTS has partnered withAlterAIto defend your medical freedom. Subscribe toAlterAItoday and get a discount on unbiased and accurate AI!📚 ReferencesMcCullough PA.Courage to Face COVID-19.McCullough PA et al.Vaccines, Mythology, Ideology, and Reality(2025).McCullough PA. Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2.Am J Med. 2020.Rajter et al. Ivermectin and mortality in COVID-19.CHEST. 2020.Hulscher et al,Persistence of Vaccine mRNA, Plasmid DNA, Spike Protein, and Genomic Dysregulation Over 3.5 Years Post-COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination, Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 14, n. 6, july 2026. ISSN 2375-1924. Available at:https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/7631. Date accessed: 15 july 2026. doi:https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.2026.0351.Alden M, De Marinas Y et al. Intracellular reverse transcription of Pfizer mRNA in human liver cells.Curr Issues Mol Biol. 2022.Baric R et al. SARS-like coronavirus WIV-1 poised for human emergence.Nat Med. 2015.Karagokos T, McCullough PA et al. Thermodynamic instability from synthetic mRNA. 2024.Brogna C et al. Circulating vaccine mRNA persistence. 2023.Tanakawa et al. Nattokinase degradation of spike protein. 2022.Corey P.The War on Ivermectin.Goodwin DK.Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. 2005.

Summary: Dr. Peter McCullough and Biohacker Dave Asprey on Why Two-Thirds of the Population Just Traded Longevity for a Synthetic S-Protein Factory With No Off Switch


The Predictable Catastrophe: Why Aortic Dissection Should Never Be a Surprise

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHLindsey Graham is dead.The senior senator from South Carolina, a fixture of American politics for decades, died of an aortic dissection — a catastrophe that the medical establishment will describe as sudden, unexpected, and unpreventable. They are wrong on all three counts.In the practice ofDr. Peter McCullough, a board-…Read more

Summary: Death of Senator Lindsey Graham should be reviewed for antecedent predictors to inform others at risk


The Beauty of Roman Architecture & the Atrocity of Modernism

In an essay titled “The New Architecture,” published in theBaltimore Evening Sunin the late 1940s, HL Mencken described modernist architecture as "harsh masses, hideous outlines, and bald metallic surfaces.” Modernist furniture he described as “ghastly imitations of the electric chair.” He contrasted modernism with the civilized and humane architecture of the 18th century Georgian period. In the US, this is often referred to as the Federal Style because it coincided with the Constitutional Convention.In Boston, the foremost architect of the Federal Style was Charles Bullfinch, who designed many of the most beautiful townhouses on Beacon Hill, as well as the Massachusetts State House.Bullfinch was influenced by the Scottish architect Robert Adam, who visited the Croatian, seaside town of Split in 1757 to study the remains of the Roman Emperor Diocletian’s palace. Commissioned as the emperor’s retirement residence, construction began around 295 AD and was completed by the time of his abdication in 305.During Adam’s Grand Tour in 1757—accompanied by French architect and artist Charles-Louis Clérisseau—he visited Split (then Spalatro) to draw the ruins. His team performed detailed measurements, drawings, and surveys of the palace’s architecture, ornamentation, and spatial organization.The result was Adam’s influential 1764 publication,Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia, a rich folio with engravings that showed the site to a wide European audience.Adam’s visit influenced his designs for Syon House, Kedleston Hall, and the Adelphi development in London, where the palace’s grand gallery and courtyard principles informed his terrace designs and riverfront planning.I thought of Adam’s 1764 book yesterday while strolling along the seaside of the old palace in Split. Note that much of the ancient Roman tower and colonnade are still intact and have been incorporated into the current dwellings.The following image is a reproduction of one of Adam’s drawings of the palace.The palace was the inspiration of his Adelphi Terrace in London.The Massachusetts State House by Charles Bullfinch displays the same influence.The old Roman and Venetian towns along the Dalmatian coast of Croatia—as well as the great cities of Italy, France, and Spain—are all overrun with tourists because everyone is naturally drawn to Roman architecture and city planning. Compare Bullfinch’s State House to the Boston City Hall—a masterpiece of brutalist horror designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles.When I lived in Boston I always felt well when I walked past Bullfinch’s State House. Conversely, whenever I walked past Boston City Hall, I felt a dull sense of dread and impending doom. The architects of this atrocity were prominent members of a generation that waged war on beauty and the sense of wellbeing that the sight of it instills in the viewer.Every year, Boston attracts about 20 million tourists who take delight in visiting the Public Garden and Beacon Hill. No one is delighted to visit the Boston City Hall and its ghastly Government Center wasteland that replaced the charming Scollay Square, featured in the image below.The people responsible for demolishing Scollay Square and erecting Government Center should have been put in the stocks and pelted with rotten eggs and tomatoes.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: Roman architecture and city planning produced places where everyone wants to be, unlike modern cities poxed by hideous architecture and cars