 
                                Mark Honigsbaum
@honigsbaum
Writer and medical historian. Author of Living With Enza, The Fever Trail & The Pandemic Century. http://markhonigsbaum.substack.
@honigsbaum.bsky.social
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https://markhonigsbaum.com/ 12-03-2012 18:41:52
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        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…
 
         
        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…
 
         
         
         
        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…
 
         
         
         
        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…
 
         
         
         
                         
                         
                        