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Easier to Obtain Medically Assisted Death Than Treatment for Chronic Lyme Disease

https://medicaldetective.substack.com/p/you-can-get-medically-assisted-dying-easier-than-treatment-for-chronic-lyme-disease?

You Can Get Medically Assisted Dying Easier Than Treatment for Chronic Lyme Disease

Richard Horowitz
Feb 04, 2026

There are certain aspects of medicine and specifically medical politics that make my blood boil. All of my calm abiding meditation goes out the window when I see the Canadian broadcasting system continuing their biased attack on Lyme disease patients in Canada, especially when it is easier to get medically assisted dying in a country than it is to get treated for a chronic illness. This is what was in the news media this week, once again:

Lyme disease is littered with misinformation. Celebrities are part of the problem, experts say. Chronic Lyme isn’t medically recognized. It’s a controversial term that some say fuels a dubious industry.

[A number of celebrities including Bella Hadid, Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake claim to have Lyme disease, but some doctors worry this could mislead people into thinking they too could have the disease. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto, Patrick Smith, Manny Carabel/Getty Images)https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/celebrity-chronic-lyme-industry-9.7056234]

This news article from a Canadian broadcasting system, casting doubt on whether chronic Lyme disease and persistent infection is real, was released the same week that this article was highlighted by LymeDisease.org on January 27th:

[From: https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-can-persist/]

Does anyone in the news media actually do a medical search (or know how to do one) before reporting news and purporting to know the truth? The article on the persistence of Lyme disease came out several days before the Canadian broadcasting system released their news feed. This is the second article I saw on the subject of chronic Lyme being a ‘non-disease’ coming out of Canada in the past few weeks, where the best they can do is to slam medical clinics trying to help patients. See the last Medical Detective Substack I did on sleuthing the ‘mysterious brain disease in Canada’ which likely involves some patients having chronic tick-borne illness mixed with mold and other environmental toxins:

(See link for article)
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**Comment**
Important excerpt:
The newer guidelines by the IDSA do not incorporate any of the recent science on biofilms and persisters, and the Canadian healthcare system has chosen to adopt IDSA guidelines instead of giving doctors a choice, as we have here in the US to follow ILADS guidelines.
As Dr. Horowitz points out, his findings on persistence were published SEVEN years ago yet were never mentioned in the Canadian news story. But studies showing persistence were found even far before that:
I already did a summary of the horrifically biased Canadian piece here, where I summarize and point out the myriad of errors; however, I highly recommend reading Dr. Horowitz’s piece as he takes a deep, deep dive into the subject and the fact that some with potentially treatable illness are applying for medical assistance in dying.  The blatant denial of chronic, persistent Lyme/MSIDS will only further this practice.
I will end with a potent quote:

You Can Die from Lyme Disease. We Don’t Need More Help Getting There ~ Dr. Richard Horowitz

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Activism, Lyme, research, Uncategorized

Illegal Las Vegas Biolab Being Used to Justify Broad Sweeping Federal Biosecurity Bill

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/illegal-las-vegas-biolab-disclosure?

Illegal Las Vegas Biolab Disclosure in Congressional Record Leads to New Federal Biosecurity Bill Shielding Pathogen Data From Public Scrutiny

A crisis narrative becomes justification for FOIA-exempt biosecurity expansion.
Jon Fleetwood
Feb 04, 2026
A recently disclosed illegal biolab raid in Las Vegas—now formally entered into the Congressional Record—is being used by lawmakers to justify a sweeping new federal biosecurity bill that would dramatically expand executive and national-security control over biological research while exempting large portions of pathogen surveillance data from public disclosure laws.  (See link for article which is behind a paywall)
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**Comment**
What began as a garden hose sticking out of a building resulting in a code-violation call, turned into a raid by SWAT teams, FBI, and hazmat wearing workers.
The lab was found in a residential home where potential biological materials were in a locked garage. Over 1,000 samples were collected and are being tested.  There were multiple refrigerators with vials of unidentified liquids in gallon-sized containers along with a centrifuge and other lab equipment.
Chinese national, Ori Solomon, believed to be the property manager at the location, was arrested and charged with felony disposal/discharge of hazardous waste in an unauthorized manner, but has pled not guilty. Despite being in possession of a non-immigrant visa, he was in illegal possession of six firearms and subsequently charged with a felony gun crime. Officers found French and Israeli passports in his name as well. (Ori Salomon on the French passport and Ori Solomon in the Israeli passport).  Three additional renters in the home were evidently not involved. Source
An LLC tied to the home’s county records matches the name of a company which is part of an ongoing federal case in Reedley, California also involving a biological lab. Chinese citizen, David He (aka Jia Bei Zhu, Jesse Zhu, and Qiang He) was arrested in 2023 for manufacturing and distributing misbranded medical devices and for making false statements to the FDA.  To deflect authorities He changed his name, and the names of his companies and their locations.
He and romantic and business partner Zhaoyan Wang, told prosecutors COVID-19 test kids were pregnancy tests in order to get them into the U.S.  He received money from Chinese banks and housed thousands of samples of potential pathogens labeled: HIV, malaria, TB, COVID-19, dengue fever, and Ebola, along with blood, tissue, other bodily fluid samples and serums, and 1,000 transgenic mice (engineered to mimic the human immune system).
Interestingly, He has not been convicted yet and has plead not guilty.
The items found in LA were consistent in appearance with the items in Reedley.

Authorities insist this is an isolated incident that poses no threat to the public, despite employees cleaning the house described feeling “deathly ill” after entering the garage, and multiple people who had stayed at or visited the house reported serious illness, including respiratory issues and extreme fatigue.

Ha, ha, ha……they must really believe we are stupid.

 

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Activism, Malaria, research, Viruses

Pathogenic Priming Nearly Six Years Out

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/pathogenic-priming-nearly-six-years?

Pathogenic Priming Nearly Six Years Out: What Do We Know?

The question in 2026 is no longer whether pathogenic priming is biologically plausible. The question is: What do we do about it?
James Lyons-Weiler, PhD
Jan 24, 2026

In April 2020, “Pathogenic priming likely contributes to serious and critical illness and mortality in COVID‑19 via autoimmunity” introduced a specific concept, backed by data, that repeated exposure to immunogenic viral epitopes that share homology with human proteins would likely prime the immune system toward pathogenic autoimmunity, with consequences that extend beyond acute infection to multi‑system disease and long‑term morbidity.

That paper, funded by the public via IPAK, did not merely assert that “molecular mimicry is possible.” It catalogued predicted autoreactive homology between SARS‑CoV‑2 epitopes and human proteins across immune‑relevant pathways, showed that only one immunogenic epitope lacked human homology, and explicitly warned that exposure by infection or injection carried foreseeable autoimmune risk if those homologous regions were used uncritically in antigen design.¹

Nearly six years later, the literature citing that work no longer sits at the level of conjecture. It contains experimental demonstrations of antibody cross‑reactivity, functional autoantibodies with physiological effects, validated biomarker panels that discriminate post‑acute sequelae of COVID‑19 (PASC), post‑vaccination prolonged‑symptom cohorts with defined autoantibody signatures, tissue‑level immune injury documented at autopsy, and population‑scale shifts in autoimmune disease incidence. The question in 2026 is no longer whether pathogenic priming is biologically plausible. The question is which parts of the causal chain have been empirically observed, which endpoints are now measurable, and where precision still fails.

This article synthesizes that record using the PubMed‑indexed citation corpus associated with the original 2020 paper, frozen as of January 2026, and focuses on what has been observed, not merely predicted.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Weiler and others warned us about pathogenic priming repeatedly.

And here is Weiler’s paper which provides an assessment of potential for human pathogenesis via autoimmunity via exposure, via infection or injection.  Potential has now become reality with measurable evidence.

Now the goal should be to find therapies to alleviate or reverse this autoimmunity caused by exposure to unsafe epitopes.

The evidence is clear.  Important quote:

Pretending otherwise is no longer scientifically defensible. ~ James Lyons Weiler

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses

Take Action: Biggest 2026 Supplement Threats

https://anh-usa.org/the-biggest-supplement-threats-in-2026/

The Biggest Supplement Threats in 2026

By The ANH Team 
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The Biggest Supplement Threats in 2026

We’re up to our knees working on which policies will have the biggest impact on your supplement access in 2026. Let’s make sure we get the best possible outcomes to assure your access to the health products you need. Action Alert!

THE TOPLINE

  • 2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for supplement access, with multiple federal and state policies advancing that could sharply limit consumer choice.
  • Major federal threats include FDA moves on GRAS reform, Senator Durbin’s supplement “listing” bill, and stricter New Dietary Ingredient rules, all of which could raise costs, eliminate thousands of products, and give the FDA broad new tools to restrict supplements.
  • State-level bills targeting youth access to weight loss and muscle-building supplements could unintentionally restrict common nutrients for everyone, reducing visibility and availability of safe, beneficial products and undermining public health rather than protecting it.

We’re off to a blazing start in 2026, which is looking very likely to be a pivotal year for health freedom. We have lots of irons in the fire—we’ve been telling you about our ongoing legal efforts to open up free speech about the benefits of supplements and to protect natural medicines like homeopathy, CBD, natural desiccated thyroid, and peptides. But bad policies are also moving forward on multiple fronts that require your sustained grassroots opposition.  

Here’s a survey of the top initiatives we have our eyes on in 2026:

The ‘GRAS’ Isn’t Always Greener

An FDA rule is due to be issued any time now that will make big changes to the “Generally Recognized as Safe” (GRAS) pathway by which certain food and many dietary supplement ingredients enter the market. It’s been an oft-stated priority for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. and it has been included (as the first item) on a list of 2026 deliverables at the FDA.

We’ve written many articles about this topic in the last year, including providing a white paper on the subject that explains in details how GRAS reform can be done without massively reducing consumer choice and chilling innovation. The main issue at play is the “loophole” by which companies can self-certify ingredients as GRAS (or, “self-GRAS”) without any transparency or FDA review. As we’ve explained in our own blueprint for GRAS reform, we agree that more transparency is needed, but we can’t “throw the baby out with the bathwater” and eliminate self-GRAS entirely, as we’re afraid the FDA is on the verge of doing. Self-GRAS is in fact how many safe, natural supplement ingredients come to the market, so eliminating it will have major ramifications for supplement access.

We are still working on influencing key people in the administration to guide GRAS reform to ensure continued access to health-promoting products.

Supplement Choices Going…Going…Gone!

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has once again introduced his anti-supplement listing bill. We discussed this in last week’s coverage. In short, what sounds like an innocuous transparency measure could actually have a major impact on your supplement access, threatening high-dose products and innovative formulations, raising prices, and reducing choice. The bill gives the FDA a hit list that it can use to attack supplements that haven’t complied with its overreaching policies. It’s been a bad idea for a long time. We’ve beaten Sen. Durbin before, and we can do it again, but only with your help.

State-based Threats

A number of states are considering bills that would prohibit the sale of weight loss and muscle building supplements to those under the age of 18. These bills use vague definitions that could sweep in a wide range of supplements—including protein powders, hormones, and essential nutrients—risking unnecessary restrictions on products unrelated to weight loss, even during a public health crisis.

Some proponents argue that these measures are needed to protect children from “unhealthy weight control behavior,” which are risk factors for eating disorders. This is a noble goal, but the language in these bills casts a wide net that could limit access to products that have nothing to do with weight loss. Additionally, some of these bills require restricting access to these products by placing them behind a counter or in a locked case, so access for everyone, not just minors, is restricted. Hidden from a customer’s view, some people may never become aware of a product that would perfectly suit their health needs—or be too intimidated to ask for it.

The result is reduced access to beneficial products for all consumers, which undermines—not protects—public health.

We’ve identified several states considering these bills. Click your state’s link to take action.

Alaska

Hawaii

Illinois

Massachusetts

Michigan

New Hampshire

Washington

New Dietary Ingredients

This threat has been simmering for a long time at the FDA. The law calls for all “new” (that is, post-1994) supplements that come to the market to comply with “new dietary ingredient” (NDI) requirements. Yet the FDA has turned what was supposed to be a notification process into a complicated and expensive pre-market approval process for all “new” supplements. And to make it worse, the agency has adopted an exceedingly broad view of what counts as a “new” supplement. When we asked a legal scholar and economist to estimate the market impact of the FDA’s NDI rules, the results were astounding:

  • as many as 41,700 products disappearing from store shelves;
  • an industry-wide cost of between $2 billion and $165 billion in animal and human product safety studies to comply with the FDA’s NDI notification protocols; and
  • the loss of between 55,270 and 104,475 jobs in the supplement industry.

“Regulation of New Dietary Ingredients” was another item on the FDA’s list of 2026 deliverables, so we will be on the lookout for developments and update you accordingly.

This is far from  an exhaustive list, but these are the top threats we’re looking out for in the coming weeks and months. As ever, we will remain vigilant in the defense of every Americans’ health autonomy and alert you when threats arise and how your voice can be heard so we can work together to defend the health freedom of every American.

Go here to oppose ‘mandatory filing’ for supplements

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Activism, Supplements

20 Year Architecture Behind Pandemics As a Business Model With Bill Gates at the Center

https://sayerji.substack.com/p/breaking-the-epstein-files-illuminate

BREAKING: The Epstein Files Illuminate a 20-Year Architecture Behind Pandemics as a Business Model—With Bill Gates at the Center of the Network

Inside the JPMorgan–Gates–Epstein Pipeline: Donor-Advised Funds, Vaccine Finance, and the Architecture of Pre-Positioned Profit
Sayer Ji
Feb 02, 2026
The latest DOJ batch of Epstein files reveal that by the time the world encountered COVID-19, the financial, philanthropic, and institutional machinery to manage—and profit from—a pandemic was already firmly in place.

While the Epstein files have reignited scrutiny around specific relationships, their deeper significance lies in how they intersect with a much longer and largely unexamined timeline. Public records, institutional initiatives, and financial instruments indicate that the conceptual foundations of pandemic preparedness as a managed financial and security category began to take shape in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as philanthropic capital, global health governance, and risk finance increasingly converged. Following the 2008 financial crisis, this framework rapidly accelerated—expanding through reinsurance markets, parametric triggers, donor-advised funding structures, and global simulations—years before COVID-19 made the architecture visible to the public.

What This Investigation Examines—and What It Does Not

This investigation is not concerned with the origins of COVID-19 itself. Rather, it examines what was already in place before it arrived. Drawing on internal emails, financial agreements, text messages, and planning documents—particularly from the 2011–2019 period, when many of these systems moved from conceptual to operational—the record shows that pandemics and vaccines were already being treated as standing financial and strategic categories. Investment vehicles, donor-advised fund structures, simulation programs, and reinsurance products were not improvised in response to crisis; they were refined and expanded within an architecture whose foundations predate the COVID-19 era by more than a decade. Exercises such as Event 201 make clear that coronavirus pandemics were not hypothetical abstractions, but explicitly modeled scenarios—integrated into financial, philanthropic, and policy planning well before COVID-19 emerged.

Executive Summary

  • Vaccines as capital strategy: Internal JPMorgan emails from 2011 show Jeffrey Epstein advising the bank’s most senior executives on how to pitch a Gates-anchored donor-advised fund, insisting the presentation include the phrase “additional money for vaccines” and directing the creation of an “offshore arm — especially for vaccines.”
  • Pandemics as a funding vertical: A 2017 email thread between Epstein, Gates, and Boris Nikolic names “pandemic” as a “key area” for donor-advised fund structures—three years before COVID-19.
  • Pandemic simulation as career currency: A January 2017 iMessage thread from Epstein’s phone shows an associate listing “pandemics (just did pandemic simulation)” as a professional credential—while simultaneously discussing career placement into Gates’ private office, Boris Nikolic’s Biomatics Capital, Merck’s vaccine team, and Swiss Re’s pandemic reinsurance products.
  • Crisis as investable asset: A Gates Foundation briefing describes the Global Health Investment Fund as an “impact investment” vehicle targeting five-to-seven percent returns on drugs and vaccines, backed by a sixty percent principal guarantee.
  • Simulation as technical deliverable: A 2017 internal scope document from bgC3, Gates’ private office, lists “strain pandemic simulation” alongside neurotechnology and national defense applications.
  • The pandemic preparedness network: A 2015 Gates Foundation letter confirms pandemic preparedness coordination with the International Peace Institute—led by Terje Rød-Larsen, a documented Epstein dinner guest—while Epstein separately feeds Rød-Larsen Gates’s public pandemic messaging.

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

It’s all right here folks, in bright purple crayon.

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses