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US government studies into vaccine safety are being suppressed | Robert B Shpiner
<p>The Food and Drug Administration commissioned the research and received the answer, but is not releasing it</p><p>Last week, the New York Times and the Washington Post reported yet another troubling case of data suppression at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Studies of millions of vaccine recipients were completed by career scientists, peer-reviewed and accepted by working pharmacovigilance journals; after political appointees declined to sign off, they were withdrawn. The agency commissioned the work and received the answer, but is not releasing it.</p><p>In October, FDA scientists were directed to withdraw two Covid-19 vaccine safety studies that had already been accepted by the journals Drug Safety and Vaccine. In February, top officials declined to sign off on submitting Shingrix safety abstracts to a major drug-safety conference. The Covid studies were not small. One examined the records of 7.5 million Medicare beneficiaries for 14 pre-specified adverse outcomes after 2023–2024 Covid-19 vaccination, using a self-controlled case-series design with follow-up of up to 90 days. Only one signal – anaphylaxis at roughly one per million Pfizer-BioNTech doses – exceeded statistical noise. A second examined 4.2 million recipients aged six months to 64 years for more than a dozen outcomes; it identified the rare febrile-seizure and myocarditis signals already on the label. The Shingrix safety analysis confirmed the elevated but low Guillain-Barré risk that has been on the package insert for years.</p><p>Robert B Shpiner is a clinical professor of medicine (pulmonary and critical care) and associate professor of neurosurgery (neurocritical care) at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he has practiced critical care for more than 40 years</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/12/fda-vaccine-safety">Continue reading...</a>
Why do particle physicists like spending time in fields?
The concept of a field plays a key role in particle physics, but what exactly is it? From its origins in the study of magnetism to the quantum fields of today, columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein goes exploring
Så trimmar ”val-professorn” demokratin
<p>Han har förklarat matematiken bakom valsystemet i snart 20 år – i intervjuer, debattartiklar och tv-soffor. Han har också varit med och förändrat hur röster räknas i Sverige. Ändå finns det fortfarande saker som skaver för matematikprofessorn Svante Linusson.</p>
Utbrottet av hantavirus ovanligt – men djurspridda sjukdomar ökar globalt
<p>Hantavirus tillh&#xF6;r ett virussl&#xE4;kte som fr&#xE4;mst b&#xE4;rs och sprids av gnagare. Dessa virus &#xE4;r generellt v&#xE4;rdspecifika, vilket inneb&#xE4;r att ett visst hantavirus bara b&#xE4;rs av en eller f&#xE5; arter av v&#xE4;rddjur. Gemensamt &#xE4;r att de sprids till m&#xE4;nniskor genom inandning av partiklar fr&#xE5;n urin, avf&#xF6;ring eller saliv fr&#xE5;n smittade djur. Andesviruset, ett hantavirus som f&#xF6;rekommer [&#x2026;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://forskning.se/2026/05/12/hantavirus-djurspridda-sjukdomar/">Utbrottet av hantavirus ovanligt – men djurspridda sjukdomar ökar globalt</a> appeared first on <a href="https://forskning.se">forskning.se</a>.</p>
A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa
Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come directly from the Earth’s mantle, a sign of a rupture in the tectonic plates and the possible beginning of a new continental boundary
Charles Darwin reports a squirrel surprise
Nature, Published online: 12 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01334-wAn unexpected creature munches on cherry blossom flowers, and the value of drawing art is considered in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.
Arts and cultural engagement ‘linked to slower pace of biological ageing’
<p>Research from UCL suggests visiting art galleries or museums, singing and painting can help improve health outcomes</p><p>Singing, painting or visiting a gallery or museum helps people age more slowly, according to the <a href="https://academic.oup.com/innovateage/advance-article/doi/10.1093/geroni/igag038/8669801">latest study</a> to link taking an active interest in art and culture with improved health.</p><p>The findings are the first to show that both participating in arts activities and attending events, such as viewing an exhibition, lead to people staying biologically younger.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/12/arts-cultural-engagement-linked-slower-pace-biological-ageing-ucl-research">Continue reading...</a>
Så anpassade sig atlantsillen till Östersjöns bräckta vatten
När atlantsillen för många tusen år sen koloniserade Östersjön behövde den anpassa sig till bräckt vatten. Gener som är viktiga för funktionen av spermier, ägg och embryon har spelat en central roll i anpassningen. Mutationer i fyra specifika gener har varit särskilt betydelsefulla. Det visar en ny kartläggning av forskare vid Uppsala universitet, som publiceras i PNAS.