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  • PART ONE: The way we run vaccine clinical trials is bizarre, unethical, and must change

    Alex Berenson - Jul 22nd 2026 12:48pm EDT

    (Part 1: The trouble with vaccine trials) Randomized placebo-controlled trials are the heart of medicine. They’re how doctors know new treatments work and have acceptable side effects compared to their benefits. Except for vaccines. Vaccine trials often use a different, lower standard that makes it impossible to tell how serious their side effects are. The […]

  • Physicians wanted!

    Alex Berenson - Jul 20th 2026 12:40pm EDT

    A reader just wrote: Are you aware of any way to search for doctors/NPs aligned with UT subscribers? If not, would you consider putting something like that in the subscriber community? Years ago, I considered something like this, building a list of physicians and other medical professionals who broadly shared the UT philosophy (which I […]

  • PART TWO of today’s GLP-1 piece: Questions for (and answers from) a woman who says the new anti-obesity drugs have changed her life

    Alex Berenson - Jul 17th 2026 5:06pm EDT

    (Second of two parts) Earlier today, I posted a piece explaining why the GLP-1 anti-obesity/diabetes drugs may be so important. Medicine has overpromised and underdelivered for at least a generation, if not since the post-World War 2 era, when new antibiotics and sanitation made hospitals safer and drug companies and scientists created whole new classes […]

  • PART ONE: For this reader, the GLP-1 tirzepatide (sold as Zepbound) was a miracle

    Alex Berenson - Jul 17th 2026 8:52am EDT

    (First of two parts) A lot of you have spoken out on the GLP-1 weight-loss/diabetes drugs since I asked about them on Tuesday. First, almost 3,000 UT readers answered the poll. Of the almost 1,000 who had actually taken GLPs, two-thirds had a good experience. Only 1 in 8 said they had not worked. Your […]

  • The New York Times again reveals its allergy to honest reporting on racially charged topics

    Alex Berenson - Jul 16th 2026 1:09pm EDT

    On Tuesday, the New York Times reported black students had been largely shut out of New York’s top public high schools for next year’s new class. In the second paragraph of its article on the racial gaps, the Times wrote: About 62 percent of the students in the city’s public schools are Black or Hispanic. […]

  • Alex Berenson and Benjamin Ryan talk trans!

    Alex Berenson - Jul 15th 2026 3:33pm EDT

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  • I want to hear what you think of the GLP-1s

    Alex Berenson - Jul 14th 2026 7:14pm EDT

    I’m working on a depressing piece (or pieces) about meningitis “vaccines.” It grows out of Sunday’s article on the gonorrhea vaccine failure (that trial actually tested a repurposed meningitis B vaccine called Bexsero, on the theory that gonorrhea and meningitis bacteria are closely related). Spoiler alert: I cannot believe the meningitis jabs (at least the […]

  • Coming Wednesday: a talk with Ben Ryan about trans issues

    Alex Berenson - Jul 13th 2026 5:54pm EDT

    Fair to say Benjamin Ryan’s piece last week about pediatric transgender medicine generated a lot of interest/controversy from Unreported Truths readers. Some of you felt he’d both-sided the debate and Republican moves against puberty blockers and surgeries for adolescents shouldn’t be seen as politically motivated (though conservatives clearly have political winds at their back on […]

  • A gonorrhea vaccine fails – and reveals a much bigger problem with the studies health bureaucrats use to push flu and Covid jabs

    Alex Berenson - Jul 12th 2026 3:03pm EDT

    Last year, England began offering gay and bisexual (aka gay) men a vaccine for gonorrhea, the sexually transmitted bacterial infection often called “the clap.” Though not fatal, gonorrhea is unpleasant and increases risk for HIV. Like other sexually transmitted diseases, it is far more common in gay men. English authorities offered the vaccine, originally designed […]

  • The biggest vaccine failure story of the year, coming soon

    Alex Berenson - Jul 11th 2026 11:58am EDT

    I am working on a piece about a failed vaccine trial with much broader implications (which the public health bureaucracy will of course do everything possible to ignore)… But I want to ask you: on this kind of story, which is timely but based on public information (call it a semi-exclusive, I doubt anyone else […]

  • The craziest American hospital grift yet

    Alex Berenson - Jul 10th 2026 1:01pm EDT

    The motto of New York-Presbyterian — the dominant hospital chain in Manhattan — is: Amazing Things Are Happening Here. None more amazing than this: New York-Presbyterian, a “non-profit” with $11.5 billion in sales and a half-billion in profits last year1, calls itself a rural hospital under Medicare rules so it can take advantage of federal […]

  • On the disaster of transgender medicine

    Alex Berenson - Jul 9th 2026 1:51pm EDT

    Note: For three-plus years, Benjamin Ryan has offered readers top-notch investigative reporting on transgender pediatric medicine — or what might more accurately be called the trans pediatric medical industry. Ben has published investigations and scoops documenting the field’s recklessness, including an investigation with Compact magazine based on conference videos from a top trans medical organization. […]

  • Summertime, and the reporting is bad

    Alex Berenson - Jul 8th 2026 6:31pm EDT

    How could they have missed this? How could they ALL have missed it? I need to get it out. NOW. I’ve had that thought before. But never for a story about the President of the United States, a man covered by hundreds of news organizations. Saturday, July 6, 2024. I was searching White House visitor […]

  • The people have spoken

    Alex Berenson - Jul 8th 2026 2:08pm EDT

    On Monday, before Maine senate candidate Graham Platner was revealed1 to be just as sociopathic as anyone who has paid any attention to him expected, I revealed the 2026 Founding Member swag offer – a UTFM-embossed poker chip! A lot of you liked this idea. However, some of you felt T-shirts (last year’s gift) were […]

  • URGENT: Did The New York Times whitewash allegations of sexual misconduct against hero-of-the-left Maine senatorial candidate Graham Platner?

    Alex Berenson - Jul 7th 2026 12:17pm EDT

    (Back to healthcare soon, but this is too critical and timely to miss.) — Graham Platner’s campaign to become Maine’s next senator is imploding as allegations of sexual misconduct and assault pile up against him. Planter’s campaign is on life support and may not last the day. The biggest loser, besides Platner himself, will likely […]

  • July is free* stuff month at Unreported Truths!

    Alex Berenson - Jul 6th 2026 2:11pm EDT

    Last summer, I offered Unreported Truths founding members (that’s the $300/year level, or $350/year if you’re signing up as one for the first time1) T-shirts with a snazzy “UTFM” logo. They were a hit. But the days have passed, as days do. Summer is back. So I’ve spent more time lately than I’d like to […]

  • Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity

    Alex Berenson - Jul 6th 2026 12:19pm EDT

    International soccer is notoriously corrupt. Infamously corrupt. How corrupt? In 2015, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn indicted nine officials at FIFA, the Swiss federation that owns the World Cup soccer tournament, on bribery charges.1 How corrupt? The 2018 World Cup was played in Russia. The 2022 cup was in Qatar — in December, because Qatar is […]

  • On poker, competition, freedom, and America

    Alex Berenson - Jul 4th 2026 3:17pm EDT

    If Unreported Truths has seemed light this week, I apologize. I was in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker, the world’s largest poker tournament. Even if you have never touched a card, you may have heard of the WSOP “Main Event,” the $10,000 buy-in tourney that’s drawn fortune-seekers to the desert since 1970. […]

  • If Tom Kean cannot do his job, he shouldn’t be in Congress

    Alex Berenson - Jul 1st 2026 2:06pm EDT

    This spring, Congressman Tom Kean Jr. went missing. For four months, Kean, a Republican from New Jersey, didn’t show up for House votes. Or talk to his constituents. Or the media. Or other Republicans. In May, his chief of staff told a reporter, “There’s no cameras where Tom is,” a comment that hardly put the […]

  • Father’s Day is over, but the need for The Fatherhood Manifesto is not

    Alex Berenson - Jun 29th 2026 1:48pm EDT

    Over the weekend, I received this email about The Fatherhood Manifesto: I am a widower going on eight years now. Your book was somewhat basic with no-frills or convoluted flowery philosophy like all the self-appraising authors sound like. Instead, it was straight to the point and authentic because dads don’t have time to read anything […]

  • The supreme cynicism (and greed) of hospital executives

    Alex Berenson - Jun 26th 2026 5:44pm EDT

    None of us are angry enough about the American medical system. Ryan Werner, an Unreported Truths reader from Utah, just sent me this note: I’m sending you an email I received from Intermountain Healthcare’s Foundation (and my quick reply)… Attached was a fundraising email titled, “Can you give $5 to help a patient at Primary […]

  • The Democrats set themselves on fire

    Alex Berenson - Jun 24th 2026 12:02pm EDT

    You think AOC is a radical whose rise reveals progressive Democrats have views far out of touch with average Americans? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Get ready for DAC! Yesterday, Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old “democratic socialist” and graduate student, won a Democratic Congressional primary in New York City. Barely 70,000 people voted, but make […]

  • Anti-competitive hospital practices cost American families up to $2,500 a year

    Alex Berenson - Jun 23rd 2026 2:38pm EDT

    Hospital chains use their market power over private insurers and patients to raise costs by up to $2,500 per American family per year, a new federal report has found. The report adds to the evidence hospital price increases are helping drive the medical cost crisis, with hospital executives among the biggest beneficiaries. It highlights a […]

  • Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right

    Alex Berenson - Jun 22nd 2026 12:39pm EDT

    Yesterday, the New York Times celebrated Father’s Day with an article by a trans “man” about how his daughter had helped him accept his top surgery. True story. I don’t mean to pick on Zach Ellams, the author, who clearly enjoys being a parent. But in running an essay called “What I Learned About Parenting […]