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1 week ago | 
blog.maryannedemasi.com | Maryanne Demasi
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1 week ago | 
blog.maryannedemasi.com | Maryanne Demasi
In a major policy shift, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order halting federal funding for “dangerous” gain-of-function (GoF) research. The order defines such work as “scientific research on an infectious agent or toxin with the potential to cause disease by enhancing its pathogenicity or increasing its transmissibility.”Sitting behind the Resolute desk, flanked by key health officials, Trump signed the order with his trademark black Sharpie.
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1 week ago | 
blog.maryannedemasi.com | Maryanne Demasi
Paediatric gender dysphoria has rapidly emerged as one of the most divisive and urgent issues in medicine today. In the past decade, the number of children and adolescents identifying as transgender or nonbinary has soared. In the US alone, diagnoses among youth aged 6 to 17 nearly tripled—from around 15,000 in 2017 to over 42,000 by 2021—signalling a seismic shift not only in culture but in clinical practice.
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2 weeks ago | 
blog.maryannedemasi.com | Maryanne Demasi
This week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a landmark policy shift. Under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., all new vaccines must now be tested in placebo-controlled clinical trials before licensure. The announcement, confirmed by outlets including The Washington Post and CNN, marks the first time the federal government has explicitly committed to applying gold-standard scientific principles to vaccine safety evaluation across the board.
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2 weeks ago | 
blog.maryannedemasi.com | Maryanne Demasi
It started with a scientific paper in Nature—a peer-reviewed journal trusted by researchers worldwide. The study, led by scientists in Poland, set out to examine how Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine behaves inside immune cells after injection. It was a technical investigation, using advanced molecular tools and long-read RNA sequencing to track how the vaccine’s mRNA might be altered once inside the body.
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2 weeks ago | 
blog.maryannedemasi.com | Maryanne Demasi
During the pandemic, the so-called "experts" ordered us to "trust the science" — even when that science was patently absurd. We were told to mask up on planes, only to remove the mask the moment food was served. We were expected to believe that a thin sheet of Perspex could somehow prevent an airborne virus from floating around it. For a time, I thought we might be unburdened by the nonsense, but I was wrong.
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2 weeks ago | 
blog.maryannedemasi.com | Maryanne Demasi
When Donald Trump returned to office in 2025, he vowed to "end the weaponization of government censorship once and for all."His Executive Order — Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship — was welcomed by many, including myself. As a journalist — even one who focuses mainly on medicine, science, and public health — the idea that the federal government would no longer collude with media giants to control speech was a breath of fresh air.
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3 weeks ago | 
blog.maryannedemasi.com | Maryanne Demasi
Slovakia has become the first European country to formally investigate claims that Covid-19 vaccines may have been contaminated with “extremely high levels of DNA.”The move, announced by Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, follows an independent scientific analysis commissioned abroad. The report found that vaccine samples used in Slovakia, contained DNA components that the “manufacturer did not disclose” in the relevant regulatory documents.
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3 weeks ago | 
blog.maryannedemasi.com | Maryanne Demasi
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance is more than a memoir of Laura Delano’s journey through pain, survival, and recovery. It is a fearless, forensic examination of a psychiatric system that too often harms those it is meant to help. Instead of merely recounting her own harrowing experience, Delano exposes an industry that, despite its claims of scientific rigour, frequently silences, dismisses, and pathologises those in distress.
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1 month ago | 
blog.maryannedemasi.com | Maryanne Demasi
As a scientific writer and researcher, I’ve witnessed the decline of medical journals firsthand. Once forums for open debate and intellectual rigour, they’ve morphed into gatekeepers, more concerned with preserving a narrow orthodoxy than pursuing truth. My previous work has exposed how journals suppress uncomfortable questions, avoid studies that challenge dominant narratives, and operate under a peer-review system distorted by bias and external influence.