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  • The measles (MMR) vaccine has a significant seizure risk

    Alex Berenson - Apr 23rd 2026 11:32am EDT

    The Unreported Truths hive mind is at work. After yesterday’s article suggesting reporters and health bureaucrats should be honest that deaths from measles are quite rare, a reader emailed: I think you have missed one important fact: The measles vaccine has long been given along with two others, mumps and rubella. It’s called the MMR […]

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  • The costs of the legacy media’s obsession with measles

    Alex Berenson - Apr 22nd 2026 1:27pm EDT

    Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a terrible way for a child to die. SSPE, an untreatable brain disease, usually strikes around age 10. It starts with irritability and muscle weakness and ends in coma and death. And as a frightening opinion piece in the New York Times explained Tuesday, the disease usually occurs as the […]

  • Your thoughts on conspiracies – real and imagined

    Alex Berenson - Apr 21st 2026 11:21am EDT

    Yesterday, I wrote about a conversation I’d had with “Steve,” a thirty-something guy who works at a local business and knows me through my appearances on Joe Rogan’s podcast. These days, Steve has mostly given up on Rogan. Now he prefers Candace Owens. He thinks Candace asks good questions, particularly about Zionist/Israeli conspiracies. He believes […]

  • The future is conspiratorial

    Alex Berenson - Apr 20th 2026 2:41pm EDT

    Today I was working in a coffee shop when someone said hi. I looked up from my laptop to see a guy who works near the shop at a business I occasionally visit. During Covid, he recognized me there. He’d heard me on Joe Rogan’s podcast, liked what I’d said. So we had a friendly […]

  • The truth about rising measles cases – from a physician

    Alex Berenson - Apr 19th 2026 11:37am EDT

    A few days ago, an email popped up in my inbox: My name is Cory Franklin – former head of MICU [medical intensive care unit] at Cook County and editorial board contributor to the Chicago Tribune. You can look me up. There is a very serious problem going on in medicine that you would be […]

  • A follow-up on yesterday’s piece about Woody Brown, his novel, and “facilitated communication”

    Alex Berenson - Apr 17th 2026 11:57am EDT

    I knew yesterday’s piece asking if Woody Brown — who is autistic and non-verbal — actually wrote the novel published under his name might upset some readers. Few topics are more controversial than autism, from its causes to its rates to its treatments. And Brown’s story raises questions without clean answers: Is it more unfair […]

  • Why does the legacy media keep humiliating itself?

    Alex Berenson - Apr 16th 2026 6:03pm EDT

    Sometimes the truth is no fun. On March 30, the New York Times gave the world the inspiring tale of Woody Brown, a 28-year-old California man whose debut novel, “Upward Bound,” captures the lives of autistic people in adult day care. The twist: Brown is himself severely autistic. The novel draws on his own experiences. […]

  • URGENT: Eric Swalwell quits Congress

    Alex Berenson - Apr 13th 2026 6:12pm EDT

    Whew, that was quick. Following accusations of sexual harassment and rape, Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell – who until last week had been the leading candidate to be California’s next governor – announced today on X he will resign from Congress, less than a day after suspending his campaign for governor. He was facing a potential […]

  • Reporters and health bureaucrats attack Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for doing the right thing (again)

    Alex Berenson - Apr 13th 2026 3:37pm EDT

    Another day, another legacy media fit about Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. Besides remaking the National Institutes of Health — a project he and I discussed last August — Bhattacharya now is acting director of the Centers for Disease Control, So it was that Bhattacharya delayed releasing a CDC-funded study purporting to show that Covid shots worked […]

  • It is impossible to be too cynical (about the Democratic-legacy media axis)

    Alex Berenson - Apr 12th 2026 3:28pm EDT

    Beware the overly jacked Congressdude. Until last week, Eric Swalwell, who represents a deep blue district in northern California, was a leading Democratic candidate to become the state’s next governmor. Now Swalwell, whose chin and shoulders suggest heavy steroid use, extreme self-regard, or both, is in what savvy political analysts call deep doodoo. Turns out […]

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  • Dreams of future past

    Alex Berenson - Apr 11th 2026 11:09am EDT

    Considering he made a small fortune writing science fiction, Michael Crichton didn’t trust science (or scientists) much. And as interest in artificial intelligence soars, I find myself wondering what Crichton, who died in 2008, would make of AI engines, and the companies behind them. AI has jammed into our lives even faster than the Internet […]

  • How to save America

    Alex Berenson - Apr 10th 2026 11:11am EDT

    At the end of yesterday’s piece on the fall of Rome and its parallels with contemporary America, I asked Unreported Truths readers to throw out ideas to help “our politics and culture — the smaller and more realistic the better.” As usual, you delivered. Here are eight of the most interesting comments or emails I […]

  • On bread and circuses

    Alex Berenson - Apr 9th 2026 1:11pm EDT

    Travel has never been easier. No need to worry about your phone. It will cheaply sync to a local network and offer unlimited roaming. No need to worry about changing money or travelers’ checks (remember those?). Your credit card will work anywhere. No need to worry about an unfriendly border guard. Immigration agencies have checked […]

  • On the ceasefire (and why, unfortunately, it is a win for Iran)

    Alex Berenson - Apr 8th 2026 10:16am EDT

    First, so you have no question about my views: the Iranian regime is an outlaw state, an antisemitic, anti-American theocracy. It brutalizes women. It guns down unarmed protestors. I have no sympathy for it. I wish it didn’t exist. But that doesn’t mean I will grade this war on a curve. If anything, Iran’s awfulness […]

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  • How we used to think about medical costs

    Alex Berenson - Apr 7th 2026 11:04am EDT

    I am working on a piece about Michael Crichton, his 1990 novel Jurassic Park, artificial intelligence, and the perils of advanced science (and scientists). But along the way I wanted to highlight this passage midway through the novel. The visionary behind the park is telling one of his employees why he chose to use genetic […]

  • Five ugly messaging mistakes the Trump Administration has made on the Iran War (and how to fix them)

    Alex Berenson - Apr 6th 2026 7:07am EDT

    (Side note: No, you did not miss any articles last week. I took the week off from the Unreported Truths fam for spring break with the actual fam. Won’t happen again… for a while. Anyway I’m back, with the world’s best baseball cap – picture coming soon.) — Set aside, for now, the merits (or […]

  • Why do public health bureaucrats keep pushing flu shots on kids?

    Alex Berenson - Mar 26th 2026 5:39pm EDT

    One child experienced nephrotic syndrome 13 days after the second vaccine dose; the child subsequently developed anaphylactic shock and venous thrombosis as iatrogenic events that occurred during hospitalization.1 Flu shots are safe for kids. Except when they’re not. Faced with massive parental resistance, health bureaucrats and the pediatricians who love them have largely stopped pushing […]

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  • Why blue states are crashing, volume one trillion

    Alex Berenson - Mar 23rd 2026 4:53pm EDT

    Seems like only a few hours ago I offered up the bizarre yet only-too-real story of Jahmed Haynes. Haynes is the career criminal who killed an 80-year-old woman in Seattle in broad daylight and has somehow dodged trial for almost two years. Right. It was only a few hours ago. But I can’t help myself […]

  • The most enraging piece you will read this year

    Alex Berenson - Mar 23rd 2026 12:17pm EDT

    This weekend, X lit up over a plea deal in a murder case in Seattle. In 2023, Cordell Goosby killed Elina Kwon and her unborn child in a random shooting in Seattle. On Friday, Goosby, who has a history of mental illness and drug abuse, pled not guilty by reason of insanity. Prosecutors accepted the […]

  • Open marriages with young kids: yet another symptom of the infantile misery of the urban creative class

    Alex Berenson - Mar 20th 2026 12:16pm EDT

    Every so often a friend sends me articles about woke culture — usually from New York magazine — he knows will enrage me. This time the piece was called “Could Opening Your Marriage Lighten Your Mental Load?” It purported to describe the virtues of “poly parenting” for women: For these moms, non-monogamy seems to offer […]

  • Yes, liberal hypocrisy has an actual face

    Alex Berenson - Mar 19th 2026 2:28pm EDT

    Sean Wilentz thinks all the good thinks! Wilentz, a history professor at Princeton University, hates Donald Trump. He likes progressivism (if it’s not too progressive). He likes both Clintons. No doubt he believes in science. Of course he believes in science. Wilentz thinks all these good thinks from his house on Edgehill Road in the […]

  • The final humiliation for everyone who pushed Covid jabs on kids

    Alex Berenson - Mar 18th 2026 4:15pm EDT

    Since Covid, public health bureaucrats and the legacy media have complained about falling parental trust in vaccines. They blame influencers. Or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Or social media. They do anything but admit reality: parents who saw mRNA shots fail after massive hype cannot help but wonder about other jabs. Now a peer-reviewed British study […]

  • Israel (and America) are fighting a new kind of war in Iran

    Alex Berenson - Mar 18th 2026 11:38am EDT

    Israel (with the help of the United States) is attacking Iran from the top down. Literally and figuratively. And it is worth discussing just how radical this strategy really is. Everything old is new again. — (Radical strategies, radical insights. For pennies a day.) Subscribe now Or to make a one-time donation — Back in […]

  • URGENT: A Biden-appointed federal judge has ruled the Trump administration may not change the childhood vaccine schedule or appoint new members of the vaccine advisory committee

    Alex Berenson - Mar 16th 2026 6:23pm EDT

    BREAKING: Federal judge Brian E. Murphy this afternoon issued a preliminary injunction effectively finding that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, may not lighten the childhood vaccine schedule. Murphy, appointed by President Biden in 2024, also essentially stopped Kennedy from appointing his own preferred members to the federal vaccine advisory […]

  • Why the Iran war is so tricky

    Alex Berenson - Mar 16th 2026 11:36am EDT

    It’s not just about the Strait of Hormuz. Here’s a slightly more detailed version of a thread I just posted on X. URGENT: What they’re not telling you (because they don’t want to scare you). Iran can ALREADY make a nuke with its current uranium stock. Depending on its engineering skill, this would explode either […]