As I explain here, pandemics lack familiar mnemonic prompts. There is no viral equivalent of the Last Post or the ceremony at the Cenotaph Chris Smyth open.substack.com/pub/markhonigs…

Despite what the NYT seem to think, there's no evidence we were mislead about origins of COVID, & #lableak narratives remain unevidenced, underwhelming conjecture - but the abuse of scientists is very real, as I write in The Irish Times today: irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

Nuff respect to Gary Stevenson the Citi bank trader turned inequalities campaigner for his call to reform the UK’s tax/wealth system. When the Daily Mail attacks you and Fiona Bruce interrupts you on BBC Question Time you can be sure you’re cutting through.

"It is Kennedy’s well-documented antipathy to vaccines that could have the most far-reaching impacts." For the latest issue, Mark Honigsbaum writes about what the USA's new health secretary, RFK Jr, could mean for the country's healthcare provision. indexoncensorship.org/2025/04/rfk-jr…

Forget talk of "the China virus" and a "lab leak", bats –and the trade in wild animals – are a far more likely source of the Covid pandemic. Today, I write about the natural origin theory and sketch a scenario of how the virus could have got to Wuhan. markhonigsbaum.substack.com/p/where-did-co…

This is the viral equivalent of giving Ebola, Marburg and Covid a free pass. So much for closing America’s borders to dangerous immigrants 🇺🇸

Here’s a thought - with pandemics bubbling up, how would fractured politics & US Govt agency cuts affect our chances of beating the next one. Mark Honigsbaum.bsky.social lays out the scenario… & it’s not pretty! markhonigsbaum.substack.com/p/the-next-pan…

How a dietary shift in #chimpanzees triggered by the global demand for tobacco, and cuts to #virus surveillance programmes, triggered a deadly outbreak of #Marburg - a #pandemic scenario. open.substack.com/pub/markhonigs…

Should teams like Andorra even be allowed in World Cup qualification when England are thrashing them 1-0?

From Gaza to Los Angeles, compassion has become a zero-sum game in which you cannot have empathy for one cause without having enmity for another. No wonder our politics is so divided. open.substack.com/pub/markhonigs…

Sad, poignant, thought-provoking. Mark Honigsbaum on the plight of UK/US AIDS quilts, both now in storage & why we find it difficult to deal w/ pandemic aftermaths. Accepting that our unsustainable exploitation of the planet causes them would be a 1st step! open.substack.com/pub/markhonigs…

Empathising with the plight of Palestinians is to be applauded, but when it leads you to embrace a death call something has gone very wrong with your moral compass. My post on the Bobby Vylan affair and the dangers of empathy open.substack.com/pub/markhonigs…

I have no idea who alina is 😂 but I’m digging her attitude. It takes real balls to refuse to submit to moral purity tests when your peers are jumping on the “free Palestine” bandwagon. Everyone deserves to be free of hate dudes, not just Palestinians.

📍RFK Jr. has crossed the Rubicon. The war on science and vaccines isn’t looming - it’s here. I had hoped that after the darkest days of the pandemic, we could start rebuilding a stronger, more science-driven public health system. I was wrong. So, starting today, I’m back. And I

Opposition to the idea of vaccination existed even before vaccines themselves did - for BBC Future Media I explore the strange history of the antivaccine movement. The tropes of antivaccine propaganda are not only meritless, but centuries old bbc.com/future/article…

Have been waiting to share this 🙌 A friend’s son (25) has battled severe Long COVID since 2020 — brain fog, memory loss, and crushing fatigue(sleeping ~3 hrs/day). He tried everything — HBO, LDN, countless supplements — with little effect. About 6 weeks ago, he started Dr.

🧠DEMENTIA PREVENTION—Almost everyone needs to go out now and get the shingles vaccine ASAP. Don’t wait until age 50 for standard eligibility—ask your doctor for singles vax. MULTIPLE large studies worldwide now show that shingles vaccine strongly prevents dementia onset. Do it.