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  • UPDATE on Berenson v Biden: a (senior) federal lawyer just joined the case and the gov’t wants to extend the stay

    Alex Berenson - Jul 18th 2025 5:33pm EDT

    A few hours ago, I offered an update on Berenson v Biden, explaining we’d reached a ripe moment to settle the lawsuit with the Trump administration and tell the world how the Biden White House had censored me — but that the administration might be heading down a road that would make it defend Democratic […]

  • Berenson v Biden is at a critical moment

    Alex Berenson - Jul 18th 2025 12:36pm EDT

    Within days, the Trump White House will have to decide if it stands for free speech on the Internet, as it has promised — or Democratic censorship. The reason is that a federal judge, Jessica G.L. Clarke, just ruled against me and partly dismissed Berenson v Biden, my lawsuit against the Biden Administration and Pfizer […]

  • Why your eye surgeon wants you to get a multifocal lens that Medicare won’t cover for your cataracts

    Alex Berenson - Jul 16th 2025 3:56pm EDT

    Get ready an up-close-and-personal look at the economics of one corner of modern American medicine. Hope you have a barf bag handy. Two weeks ago, I posted about an ophthalmologist who pushed my mother to have cataract surgery for $5,000 to $9,000 per eye though she had no real vision problems. Some of you asked […]

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  • The endless wokeness of Hollywood

    Alex Berenson - Jul 16th 2025 11:42am EDT

    (A short break from our regularly scheduled programming on the crisis in medicine, though not entirely, as you’ll see.) Like all nine-year-old boys, my son loves dinosaurs. So last night we went to Jurassic World Rebirth, the 372nd installment in the Jurassic Park series. Actually, it was decent entertainment. Seeing 200-foot tall creatures on a […]

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  • Turns out even more of you are doctors (and nurses) than I expected

    Alex Berenson - Jul 15th 2025 6:02pm EDT

    Maybe we need to change the name to The Journal of the Unreported Medical Truths. Yesterday’s poll, which was open to healthcare professionals only, received more than 1500 votes. One-third of you are physicians. Another third are nurses. Ten percent identified as scientists or healthcare executives. (Full poll results below.) Obviously, that’s just a fraction […]

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  • A poll: how many of you are physicians or other medical professionals? (And WHY do you read Unreported Truths?)

    Alex Berenson - Jul 14th 2025 1:13pm EDT

    Last week, an old friend – a journalist turned physician – emailed a surprising note: Alex, I am one of your biggest fans, and read your work religiously. I place it at the same level as Substack postings by Matt Taibbi and Seymour Hersh. What you have been writing lately about medicine, particularly the circumstances […]

  • Unreported Truths has spoken

    Alex Berenson - Jul 11th 2025 11:45am EDT

    As the world’s richest man likes to say, vox populi, vox dei. Yesterday I asked UT readers if I should join a new weekly three-person podcast.1 Somewhat to my surprise, you very solidly said no. About 60 percent of you rejected the idea. You were clear in your comments and emails — you want me […]

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  • On Substack, medicine, and journalism

    Alex Berenson - Jul 10th 2025 5:27pm EDT

    The last time I tried to cooperate with a magazine writer who had questions for me — with Derek Thompson of the Atlantic in 2021, it didn’t go so well.1 So when Hannah Docter-Loeb of Nature emailed to ask if I’d talk for an article “about Substack and people who use Substack for health/science information,” […]

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  • An offer, and a poll

    Alex Berenson - Jul 10th 2025 10:40am EDT

    After yesterday’s piece about professional ghoul Dr. Christina Propst, a UT reader emailed me, “You’ve been on fire lately. Thanks.” No. Thank you for the attaboy. But I’d like to think he’s right, that I’ve been finding new ways to use reporting and analysis to explore the crises corroding medicine. Matt Taibbi is our leading […]

  • On the bizarre anger and meanness of our public health betters

    Alex Berenson - Jul 9th 2025 3:00pm EDT

    I can’t stop thinking about Dr. Christina Propst — the Houston physician who mocked the victims of last Friday’s Texas floods. “They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for,” she wrote on Facebook last weekend, as rescuers had just begun wading through downed trees and wrecked cabins in search of the living […]

  • On why Substack – and your support -matters so much

    Alex Berenson - Jul 8th 2025 2:21pm EDT

    Yesterday, a Nature magazine writer asked me to comment for an article on “Substack and people who use Substack for health/science information.” Since Nature’s view of mRNA Covid shots is that they “have saved millions of lives… [with] no signs of slowing down,” I’m not sure the magazine will give my views a fair shake. […]

  • The story behind my Biden Parkinson’s scoop – and what it meant – a year later

    Alex Berenson - Jul 8th 2025 11:03am EDT

    Sometimes the biggest, most important scoops come the quickest. On Saturday morning, July 6, 2024, the New York Post revealed Dr. Kevin Cannard, a specialist in Parkinson’s disease, had met President Biden’s personal physician at the White House in January. Nine days before, Biden’s debate with Donald Trump had exploded the efforts to hide his […]

  • Repeated mRNA Covid jabs are linked to faster death from pancreatic cancer

    Alex Berenson - Jul 7th 2025 2:59pm EDT

    Men who received three or more mRNA Covid shots died much more quickly of pancreatic cancer than those who did not, Japanese researchers have found. The results remained statistically significant after adjusting for the severity of the cancer and the treatments the men had undergone. The researchers suggested an unusual immune change from the mRNA […]

  • The crisis of trust in medicine: a personal story

    Alex Berenson - Jul 3rd 2025 2:48pm EDT

    This week, my mom called me to talk about a potential medical procedure. This was not entirely a surprise. My mom just turned 80, the golden age for American healthcare. What I mean is: she is old enough to go to doctors all the time, not so old the doctors can’t do anything. She’s in […]

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  • Six years after Tell Your Children, Fox News asked me to update the world on the harms of cannabis

    Alex Berenson - Jul 1st 2025 6:59am EDT

    Yesterday, a Fox News digital producer asked if I had anything to say about the growing evidence that cannabis is more harmful than scientists thought even a year ago. I told her I had plenty, and I’d be glad to write it, as long as I could cross-post the piece here. The article is below. […]

  • A note from a pediatrician who supports the US vaccination schedule

    Alex Berenson - Jun 30th 2025 5:44pm EDT

    NOTE TO READERS: This email defending the American vaccine schedule came in the wake of the piece about the Danish vaccine schedule. I have cut it for length but am otherwise running it unedited — the writer is capable of speaking for himself. His point of view is worth a listen. He’s a straight shooter. […]

  • Turns out Unreported Truths readers love free swag as much as anyone else

    Alex Berenson - Jun 30th 2025 3:20pm EDT

    Lots of good stuff coming very soon – including, I hope, a fascinating 1988 paper on 19th-century British attitudes to vaccination and mandates. Turns out not everyone saw vaccines as a savior even in the epidemic era. The more things change… But first, a bit business. Six days ago, I added an offer to the […]

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  • On Andrew Cuomo’s final humiliation

    Alex Berenson - Jun 25th 2025 10:10am EDT

    It couldn’t have happened to a nicer psychopath. In spring 2020, as Covid panic peaked, Andrew Cuomo — then the governor of New York — was inescapable. His press conferences were required viewing for blue-state Covidians who feared they were one breath from a ventilator. Vaccine-loving fool Stephen Colbert and bad person Ellen DeGeneres called […]

  • New York City Democrats may pick a socialist Muslim who has basically never worked as their mayoral candidate

    Alex Berenson - Jun 24th 2025 6:58pm EDT

    You know things are bad when Andrew Cuomo is the hero. Cuomo was last seen losing his job as New York’s governor after multiple sexual harassment complaints. (13, but who’s counting?) Then there’s his decision to make nursing homes take Covid patients, which probably led to thousands of deaths. But as Democrats vote in a […]

  • The founding members have spoken

    Alex Berenson - Jun 24th 2025 11:29am EDT

    Hey founding members: Considering you’re paying $300 a year, you’re pretty easy to please. But a couple of you said you thought T-shirts would be a nice perk. I like this idea. It recognizes your support, it’s a good token of appreciation. But it’s not an extra article or anything that undercuts the core mission […]

  • The founding members have spoken

    Alex Berenson - Jun 24th 2025 11:29am EDT

    Hey founding members: Considering you’re paying $300 a year, you’re pretty easy to please. But a couple of you said you thought T-shirts would be a nice perk. I like this idea. It recognizes your support, it’s a good token of appreciation. But it’s not an extra article or anything that undercuts the core mission […]

  • An Unreported Truths reader sums up the last 72 hours and reminds us why Donald Trump is not Joe Biden (thankfully)

    Alex Berenson - Jun 24th 2025 9:57am EDT

    Very quick hit here, but I spent the weekend thinking and writing about game theory, decision trees, signaling, blah blah blah… Donald Trump saw a chance and he took it. His gut told him Iran was weaker than it seemed and he could deliver the coup de grace to its nuclear program. Risky move. And […]

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  • A special note to founding members only

    Alex Berenson - Jun 23rd 2025 3:19pm EDT

    You are the core of Unreported Truths. I remember being shocked anyone would be willing to support me this way. But you did, and many of you have for years. It seems only fair to ask if there’s something I can do for you. Obviously, all stories go to everyone, and always will. But maybe […]

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  • UPDATE: Iran fires missiles at a US base in Qatar – but gives advance warning

    Alex Berenson - Jun 23rd 2025 2:44pm EDT

    Well. President Trump appears to rolled sevens again.1 Even as I published the article that just hit your inboxes, Iran had fired missiles at the giant American air base in Qatar. But oil prices dropped dramatically, because Iran said that it had warned Qatar before the attack in order to minimize the risk of casualties. […]

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  • On the first true game theory war

    Alex Berenson - Jun 23rd 2025 1:24pm EDT

    The enemy gets a vote. This is the core maxim in war. No matter how well your strategists plan, no matter how bravely your soldiers fight, the other side has its own vision and its own forces. Or, as Mike Tyson said, Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Tyson’s plan […]