by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., January 16, 2026
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants flu vaccines to carry a warning that the shots can cause febrile seizures in young children.

The agency’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) last week sent notices to several vaccine makers — including Sanofi, AstraZeneca, GSK and CSL Seqirus — asking them to add the warning.

CBER cited two postmarketing observational studies it conducted, which found that children between the ages of 6 months and 4 years faced a higher risk of febrile seizure in the day following vaccination.

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     James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Jan 16, 2026
This article provides a comprehensive, plain‑language yet legally rigorous account of the current state of legal contests surrounding mRNA COVID‑19 vaccine mandates in the United States as of January 2026. It focuses primarily on students and healthcare workers, the two groups most frequently subjected to compulsory vaccination as a condition of education, employment, or professional licensure.

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     by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., January 6, 2026
A study by Danish researchers who said they found no link between aluminum in vaccines and autism was flawed, according to a new peer-reviewed report.

The report, by a dozen leading scientists and thought leaders in aluminum toxicology and vaccine injuries, concluded that the Danish study failed to establish the safety of aluminum in vaccines.

The original study, published July 15, 2025, in Annals of Internal Medicine, lacked understanding of aluminum toxicology, was poorly designed, used statistical adjustments that likely obscured aluminum’s actual impact on children’s health outcomes and failed to adequately disclose potential conflicts of interest, according to the new report.

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     by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., January 7, 2026
A systematic review of 69 studies and reports on COVID-19 and cancer identified a possible safety signal linking COVID-19 vaccines and SARS-CoV-2 to certain types of cancer.

The study identified safety signals for leukemia, lymphoma, breast and lung cancer. The authors of the paper, published last week in the journal Oncotarget, said their findings suggest the need for further research.

The paper identified mechanisms — including the spike protein and DNA contamination found in some COVID-19 vaccine types — that might be responsible for triggering cancer.

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     James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Jan 07, 2026
So-called “bioethicist” Art Caplan’s MedPage Today editorial claims that most American children receive “about 30 doses” of vaccines across 16 diseases. By contrast, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS team, through the January 2026 Høeg/Kulldorff report, documented a far more complex and expansive exposure count: up to 92 discrete vaccine events, and many more when considering strain-level detail. This article reconstructs the counting systems behind those conflicting claims, dissects CDC 2025 vaccine schedule assumptions, and demonstrates—using real biological, scheduling, and economic logic—why Caplan’s framing fails both analytically and ethically.

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