Policy, Politics, Public Health, Vaccines
The Orwellification of the CDC
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” (George Orwell, 1984) According to the CDC w...
Subject: Vaccines
Clinical Ethics, Policy, Politics, Vaccines
No surprise: RFK Jr will find some nonsensical reason to link autism to vaccines
At his confirmation hearing to be the 26th Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Ken...
Public Health, Vaccines
The Elimination of Mandated Vaccines in Florida Means an Elimination of Global Immunity
On September 3rd, 2025, the state of Florida announced plans to eliminate all mandated vaccines, including those require...
Clinical Ethics, COVID-19 pandemic, Vaccines
Vaccination Mandates, Physically Forced Vaccination, and Rationing in the Intensive Care U...
The following is an editorial that can be found in a future issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Background Vacci...
Vaccines
Gimme a Boost?
Kyle Ferguson, PhD Arthur Caplan, PhD The unfairness of “boosters” might seem self-evident: Millions of Americans are re...
Global Ethics, Health Disparities, Politics, Public Health, Social Justice, Vaccines, Vulnerable Populations
Vaccinating the World: The Problem with Drop-in-the-Bucket Thinking
By Govind Persad, JD, PhD The United States, after wasting over 15 million doses since March and with a stockp...
Professionalism, Public Health, Vaccines
Time to Stand Up For The Morality of Vaccine Mandates
Arthur Caplan, PhD ABPD Statement in Support of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates For All Eligible Americans The Association of ...
COVID-19 pandemic, Public Health, Vaccines
Bioethicists Respond: “Now That The Pfizer Vaccine Has Full FDA Approval, What Does ...
In this series, we ask bioethicists to respond to a question that embodies current challenges for bioethics, medicine, o...
Conflict of Interest, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Philosophy & Ethics, Public Health, Vaccines
The Pandemic of the Unvaccinated: John Stuart Mill and Mandates
By Brian M. Cummings, MD and John J. Paris, SJ, PhD John Stuart Mill proclaimed, “Over himself, over his own body and mi...
COVID-19 pandemic, Ethics, Vaccines
College Vaccination Mandates do not Violate Medical Ethics
by Nathan Nobis PhD In a June 14, 2021 opinion essay in the Wall Street Journal, physician-ethicist Aaron Kheriaty and l...
COVID-19 pandemic, Ethics, Global Ethics, Pediatrics, Vaccines
Juvenile Justice: Why It Is Ethical to Vaccinate Our Children Now
by Kyle Ferguson, Ph.D., and Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. On May 10, 2021, the F.D.A. authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus...
COVID-19 pandemic, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Vaccines
Vaccine Passports: Alleviate Stranger Danger!
by Brian M Cummings M.D. and John J. Paris S.J. Vaccine passports a...