Mundane Astrology Looks at the Coup of Iran in 1953

Mundane Astrology Looks at the Coup of Iran in 1953

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I would like to examine the 1953 Coup Of Iran through the lens of two books, The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot and Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner. let's start with the The Devil's Chessboard.

In The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government, David Talbot treats the 1953 Iranian coup (Operation Ajax) not merely as a Cold War foreign policy decision, but as a seminal moment where the CIA became an unchecked, corporate-aligned power state operating above democratic oversight.

Talbot frames the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh through several core arguments:

1. The Protection of Wall Street and Corporate Capital

Talbot places heavy emphasis on Allen Dulles’s pre-CIA career as a partner at the white-shoe Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell.

• The Thesis: Dulles and his brother, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, viewed the world through the lens of international corporate wealth.

• The Iranian Application: When Mossadegh nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP), Talbot argues that the Dulles brothers saw it not just as a regional political dispute, but as an intolerable threat to Western capitalist interests and property rights. The coup set a precedent: the national security apparatus could be deployed to protect private corporate cartels under the guise of national security.

2. Allen Dulles as the Imperial Grandmaster

Unlike traditional histories that view coups as institutional government decisions, Talbot centers on personality, informal networks, and rogue agency.

• Dulles is portrayed as a shadowy grandmaster moving pieces on a board, viewing nations like Iran as mere pawns in an imperial game.

• Talbot emphasizes how Dulles circumvented traditional diplomatic channels and manipulated President Dwight D. Eisenhower—who was initially cautious about covert action—into authorizing the removal of a democratically elected leader.

3. The Blueprint for Future Overthrows

Talbot positions Operation Ajax as the crucial proof-of-concept for the CIA.

• By using bribed mobs, psychological warfare, paid press disinformation, and military co-optation (personally orchestrated on the ground by Kermit Roosevelt Jr.), the CIA realized it could rewrite foreign governments cheaply and quietly.

• Talbot argues this success intoxicated Dulles and the agency, directly leading to the 1954 Guatemalan coup (Arbenz) and subsequent interventions throughout the Third World, embedding a culture of interventionism that eventually turned inward.

4. Moral Bankruptcy and Long-Term Consequences

For Talbot, Operation Ajax represents the explicit corruption of American democratic values. By replacing a secular democrat (Mossadegh) with an autocratic monarch (Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi), Dulles sacrificed long-term global stability and democratic integrity for short-term geopolitical and financial control.

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Now let's examine the 1953 Iranian coup through Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes.

In Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA, Tim Weiner approaches the 1953 Iranian coup (Operation Ajax) through a starkly different lens than David Talbot. While Talbot views the coup as a masterclass in clandestine power executed by an all-powerful, corporate-aligned deep state, Weiner presents it as a flukey, chaotic operation whose accidental success created a dangerous and enduring delusion within American intelligence.

Weiner frames the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh around several core themes:

1. The Delusion of Operational Brilliance

Weiner’s central thesis throughout Legacy of Ashes is that the CIA has historically suffered from incompetence, poor analysis, and self-deception.

• Near-Total Failure: Weiner details how Operation Ajax actually collapsed in its initial phase. When the Shah fled to Rome and the first attempt to arrest Mossadegh failed, CIA Director Allen Dulles and the State Department considered the operation dead and ordered its chief operative, Kermit Roosevelt Jr., to abort and leave Tehran immediately.

• Accidental Triumph: Roosevelt ignored Washington’s orders to retreat. Capitalizing on widespread public anxiety, paid mob agitators, military opportunists, and street-level chaos, the coup succeeded almost in spite of CIA planning.

• The "Magic Bullet" Fallacy: Because the operation ended in success, the CIA convinced itself—and President Eisenhower—that it had perfected a cheap, clean method for regime change. Weiner argues that this overconfidence directly set up the CIA's future intelligence disasters (such as the Bay of Pigs).

2. Cold War Hysteria Over Rational Analysis

Where Talbot sees the coup primarily as Wall Street corporate protectionism, Weiner emphasizes institutional paranoia and strategic blindness.

• Truman had resisted covert action in Iran, believing it would backfire. Eisenhower, however, came to power surrounded by advisers terrified of Soviet expansion.

• Weiner argues that the CIA completely misread Mossadegh. Intelligence officers viewed the nationalistic Prime Minister through a rigid Cold War binary, assuming that an anti-British leader must inevitably fall into the arms of the Soviet Union, despite Mossadegh's staunch anti-communist stance.

• The CIA's political analysis was shallow: it treated complex regional dynamics as simple theater in the Soviet-American struggle.

3. Institutional Arrogance and the Myth of Kermit Roosevelt

Weiner dismantles the romanticized internal mythology that grew around Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt Jr.

• Roosevelt returned to Washington as a legendary hero, privately briefing Eisenhower and top officials about how a handful of agents and a briefcase of cash saved Iran from communism.

• Weiner points out that Roosevelt’s sensationalized accounting of the coup inflated the CIA's ego and convinced American presidents that covert covert-action operations could replace actual diplomacy and long-term foreign policy strategy.

4. The Legacy of Unintended Consequences ("Ashes")

The title Legacy of Ashes comes from Dwight Eisenhower’s late-in-life reflection that he left behind "a legacy of ashes" in intelligence. Weiner shows how the 1953 coup perfectly exemplifies this:

• The short-term tactical victory—restoring Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to absolute power—planted the seeds for deep Iranian resentment toward the United States.

• The destruction of Iran's fragile secular democracy directly paved the way for the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the rise of the Islamic Republic, and decades of hostile geopolitical blowback for American foreign policy.

Synthesis: Talbot vs. Weiner

Analytical Axis	David Talbot (The Devil's Chessboard)	Tim Weiner (Legacy of Ashes)
Primary Driver	Corporate interests, Wall Street power, Sullivan & Cromwell networks.	Cold War panic, systemic miscalculation, intelligence incompetence.
View of the Coup	A calculated, sinister masterstroke by an unchecked secret government.	A botched operation saved by chaos and luck that created a false myth of success.
Allen Dulles's Role	The imperial grandmaster manipulating the board and President Eisenhower.	An overconfident director blinded by covert action who misread regional realities.
Long-Term Impact	Proof-of-concept for corporate-state interventionism and anti-democratic subversion.	A classic example of intelligence "blowback" that destroyed American credibility long-term.

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Shifting gears here, how might mundane astrology explain this coup using the synodal cycles of the plants, Jupiter out to Pluto, through the lens of the harmonic 4 transiting aspects (conjunction, outgoing square, opposition and incoming square.

In Mundane Astrology—particularly through the lens of cyclical planetary dynamics championed by astrologers like André Barbault and Charles Harvey—major geopolitical events like the August 1953 Iranian coup d'état are evaluated through the interaction of the outer planet synodic cycles (Jupiter through Pluto).

The 4th Harmonic phase model views a synodic cycle like a breathing pattern of history:

1. Conjunction (0 degrees): The seed moment; absolute concentration of potential, initiation of a new geopolitical or economic paradigm.

2. Outgoing / Waxing Square (90 degrees): Crisis in action; initial structural test, confrontation with established resistance, aggressive expansion of the seed impulse.

3. Opposition (180 degrees): Peak exposure, maximum polarization, ultimate manifestation, or radical ideological turning point.

4. Incoming / Waning Square (270 degrees): Crisis in consciousness; systemic decay of the old cycle, institutional restructuring, reckoning, and liquidation before the next conjunction.

Applying this framework to August 1953 highlights several key synodic cycles intersecting in the 4th harmonic structure.

1. The Heavyweight Backbone: Saturn–Neptune (The 1952–1953 Conjunction)

The single most decisive planetary cycle defining the 1953 coup was the Saturn–Neptune conjunction at 21 degrees - 23 degrees Libra.

• Archetypal Meaning: Saturn represents institutional power, state authority, boundary enforcement, and hard realism. Neptune represents ideology, covert operations, deception, propaganda, oil/petroleum, and socialism/communism. Combined, the cycle rules covert statecraft, ideological warfare, oil disputes, and the secret subversion of institutions.

• The 0 degree Phase in 1952–1953: In August 1953, Saturn and Neptune were tightly conjunct in late Libra. This was the seed phase of an entirely new 36-year cycle. Operation Ajax was literally a textbook manifestation of Saturn-Neptune: using secret intelligence (Neptune) to restructure state power (Saturn) over a dispute rooted in nationalized oil (Neptune).

• The Geopolitical Seed: The 1953 coup set the template for US Cold War covert interventions for the rest of that Saturn-Neptune cycle (which ran until the next conjunction in 1989).

2. The Power Shift: Jupiter–Pluto (The Waning Square / 270 degree Phase)

While Saturn-Neptune provided the covert thematic background, Jupiter and Pluto provided the dynamic tension of raw power and capital.

• Archetypal Meaning: Jupiter rules expansion, international finance, legal sovereignty, and ideological reach. Pluto rules deep coercive power, cartels, covert intelligence, underground wealth (petroleum), and total transformation/overthrow.

• The Incoming Square (270 degree) in Summer 1953: In August 1953, Jupiter in Gemini was forming an exact incoming square to Pluto in Leo (23 degrees Gemini to 22 degrees Leo).

• The 4th Harmonic Dynamic: An incoming square demands the liquidation or forcible reorganization of structures that no longer fit the dominant power paradigm. Mossadegh’s assertion of national sovereignty over Iranian oil (Jupiter in Gemini: legal rhetoric, trade contracts) came into direct, irreconcilable friction with the entrenched global plutocracy and covert covert-action network (Pluto in Leo: autocratic power, intelligence agencies, corporate oil syndicates). The 270 degree phase broke Mossadegh's resistance to force a realignment back under Western hegemony.

3. Economic Revolution: Uranus–Pluto (The Approaching Conjunction)

Throughout the early 1950s, Uranus (rebellion, technological disruption, sudden shifts) and Pluto (underground power, total upheaval) were approaching their monumental mid-1960s conjunction.

• The Cycle Phase: In August 1953, Uranus was in Cancer and Pluto was in Leo, in a closing balsamic relationship heading toward their 0 degree seed in 1965–1966.

• The Dynamic: In mundane terms, the pre-conjunction phase forces a death-struggle between older imperial/colonial mechanisms and emerging nationalistic self-determination movements. Iran’s oil nationalization was one of the opening salvos of Third World decolonization—a movement that would fully erupt when the Uranus-Pluto cycle finally hit its exact conjunction a decade later.

4. The Trigger: Jupiter's Transits to the Saturn–Neptune Conjunction

In 4th harmonic analysis, outer planet conjunctions define the macro-historic epoch, but faster outer planets (like Jupiter) act as the ignition mechanism when they form quarter-phase hard aspects to those heavy conjunctions.

• In August 1953, as Jupiter in Gemini squared Pluto in Leo, it simultaneously formed a trine/trine-sextile release pattern to the exact Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Libra.

• Jupiter amplified the covert potential of Saturn-Neptune, providing the financial grease (bribes, paid mobs, covert CIA funding) necessary to translate secret planning into tangible street-level regime change in Tehran.

Summary of the 1953 Mundane Grid

Planetary Pair	Harmonic Phase in Aug 1953	Aspect Angle	Mundane Expression in the Coup
Saturn – Neptune	Conjunction (0 degrees)	0 degrees Libra	Birth of the modern covert state apparatus; espionage used to seize control of oil and institutional power.
Jupiter – Pluto	Incoming Square (270 degrees)	90 degrees Gemini–Leo	Crisis of power; international finance and intelligence agencies breaking a sovereign government over resource control.
Uranus – Pluto	Balsamic (Closing to 0 degrees)	Cancer / Leo	Destruction of nationalistic self-determination to preserve the global order prior to the 1960s revolutionary boom.

Through this astrological lens, August 1953 was not an isolated event; it was the birth hour of a 36-year Saturn-Neptune cycle of covert imperial intervention, triggered by a Jupiter-Pluto crisis in global wealth and power enforcement.

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89% of Americans Finally Understand That Government Is Corrupt

89% of Americans Finally Understand That Government Is Corrupt

Martin Armstrong - Armstrong Economics

September 9, 2026

The American people are not merely dissatisfied with Washington. They have concluded that the government itself is corrupt. A new Gallup poll found that 89% of American adults believe corruption is widespread throughout the government, the highest reading in the 20-year history of the survey. This is no longer a fringe position dismissed as a conspiracy theory. Nearly nine out of every ten Americans now look at their government and see an institution serving someone other than the people.

The 89% reading rose by an astonishing 10 percentage points in a single year. Perceptions of widespread government corruption had remained between 72% and 79% from 2010 through 2025. The public was already deeply cynical, but something has clearly broken. When almost the entire population believes its government is corrupt, the political system has lost more than popularity. It has lost legitimacy.

Gallup found that 91% of Democrats, 90% of independents, and 83% of Republicans believe government corruption is widespread. Americans cannot agree on immigration, taxation, abortion, foreign policy, health care, or the definition of a woman, yet they have reached near-unanimous agreement that the people running the government cannot be trusted.

The partisan movement reveals how voters process corruption. In Joe Biden’s final year in office, only 57% of Democrats said corruption was widespread. That figure rose to 76% during the first year of Donald Trump’s second term and reached 91% in 2026. Democratic concern exploded by 34 percentage points once the opposing party controlled the White House. Republicans have been more consistent, with approximately eight in ten describing corruption as widespread during the past two years, compared with 87% in 2024.

Both parties recognize corruption most clearly when the other side controls the government. Democrats ignored abuses under Biden and suddenly discovered systemic corruption under Trump. Republicans condemned the Deep State under Biden but became more willing to defend Washington when their party returned to power. This is precisely how the two-party system protects itself. Each side treats corruption as a partisan weapon rather than an institutional disease.

America now has the highest perceived level of government corruption among the 38 nations belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The median across those advanced economies was 59% in 2025, down from 69% in 2009. The United States stood at 79% last year, already 20 percentage points above the OECD median and higher than every other member country. The new American reading of 89% may widen that gap dramatically once complete international figures become available.

Since 2023, Gallup has asked the question in 132 countries, and only four recorded readings nominally above America’s current 89%: Lebanon at 92% in 2024, Peru at 92% in 2025, and Ghana and Nigeria at 90% in 2024. The self-proclaimed guardian of global democracy is now viewed by its own citizens as nearly as corrupt as governments struggling with chronic instability and institutional failure.

Corruption in the United States rarely resembles a politician accepting a suitcase filled with cash. Washington legalized much of its corruption and gave it respectable names such as lobbying, campaign contributions, consulting, public-private partnerships, speaking fees, book deals, foundations, and regulatory cooperation. The transaction is hidden beneath lawyers, nonprofit organizations, political action committees, government contracts, and a revolving door between regulatory agencies and the industries they supposedly regulate.

If a businessman hands a government official cash to obtain favorable treatment, everyone recognizes the bribe. If a corporation contributes millions of dollars to political organizations, hires former regulators, funds policy institutes, and helps write legislation benefiting its industry, Washington calls it participation in democracy. The outcome is often the same, but the paperwork makes it legal.

Members of Congress have access to information capable of moving markets while debating whether they should be permitted to trade individual stocks. Defense contractors finance politicians who approve military spending. Pharmaceutical companies influence agencies that approve and purchase their products. Banks help design regulations governing banks. Technology companies cooperate with government agencies while lobbying against restrictions on their power. Foreign governments and their representatives spend fortunes attempting to purchase influence over American policy.

This is why the public distinguishes between government and business. Gallup found that 71% of Americans believe corruption is widespread in business, an increase of eight points from last year. That is certainly high, but it remains 18 percentage points below the government figure, the largest gap recorded in the American survey. Between 2006 and 2025, perceptions of government corruption averaged 11 points above business corruption. Americans increasingly believe government has become the greater problem.

A private company must generally persuade someone to purchase its product. Government does not require consent. It taxes, regulates, fines, licenses, prosecutes, surveils, borrows, and spends through force of law. Corruption in business can destroy a company, but corruption in government can destroy the rule of law because the people benefiting from the abuse also control the institutions responsible for investigating it.

The national debt is another monument to this system. Washington spends trillions of dollars it does not possess, directs the money toward politically protected interests, and transfers the obligation to taxpayers who had no meaningful influence over the decision. Politicians purchase votes today with borrowed money and leave future generations with the interest bill. Both parties complain about debt while in opposition and expand it when in power because neither side is willing to dismantle the patronage network supporting Washington.

Americans have watched trillions disappear into wars with no clear objective, emergency programs with little oversight, failed infrastructure promises, corporate subsidies, foreign aid, government contractors, and agencies that can never pass a serious audit. The Pentagon has repeatedly failed comprehensive financial audits, yet Congress continues approving larger military budgets. No private corporation could admit that it cannot account properly for its assets and then demand even more money without consequences.

The public also witnessed how government behaved during COVID. Officials imposed lockdowns, closed businesses, censored dissent, issued contradictory directives, and protected pharmaceutical companies while insisting that every decision followed “the science.” Small businesses were destroyed while politically connected corporations expanded. Government officials violated restrictions they imposed upon everyone else, and few faced any accountability. That period taught millions of Americans that emergency power protects the institution before it protects the citizen.

The weaponization of law has deepened the collapse in trust. Each political faction now believes the other uses prosecutors, intelligence agencies, courts, tax authorities, and regulators as political instruments. Justice is no longer perceived as blind. The public increasingly assumes that the outcome depends upon the identity, wealth, connections, and political usefulness of the accused.

This is extremely dangerous for a republic. The rule of law survives because most people voluntarily accept the legitimacy of institutions even when they dislike an individual decision. Once the population believes that laws are selectively enforced and government acts primarily for itself, obedience becomes based upon fear rather than consent.

Elections cannot repair this when the bureaucracy, debt structure, lobbying apparatus, intelligence agencies, regulatory state, and government contractors remain largely untouched regardless of which party wins. Voters change the elected management, but the permanent machinery continues operating. Every president campaigns against Washington and eventually discovers that Washington is larger than the presidency.

The bureaucracy protects itself because its survival does not depend directly upon performance. A business that continually fails eventually loses customers and capital. A government agency that fails demands a larger budget, more employees, and broader authority. Failure becomes evidence that it was not given sufficient resources. Success is defined internally, and accountability disappears into committees, reports, and investigations that rarely punish anyone with power.

Americans finally see the system for what it is. The question is no longer whether government corruption is widespread. Nine out of ten have already answered that question. The issue is how long a republic can survive after its citizens conclude that the government no longer represents them.

This article was originally published on Armstrong Economics.

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/martin-armstrong/89-of-americans-finally-understand-that-government-is-corrupt/

FDA’s Botched Review of Moderna’s Flu mRNA Vaccine

FDA’s Botched Review of Moderna’s Flu mRNA Vaccine

Maryanne Demasi   September 8, 2026   Pharma, Vaccines  

When the FDA licensed Moderna’s new mRNA flu vaccine last week, legacy media coverage focused almost exclusively on efficacy.

The pivotal trial reported that the vaccine was “26.6% more effective” than a conventional flu vaccine at preventing protocol-defined influenza-like illness.

What received far less scrutiny was a much more serious problem in the trial data published in The New England Journal of Medicine—much of it relegated to an appendix behind a paywall.

An analysis of that appendix alongside the FDA’s own briefing document exposes clear regulatory malfeasance.

A statistically significant safety signal from the pivotal trial was systematically diluted until it disappeared from the official story.

The Safety Signal

Moderna’s pivotal Phase 3 trial (P304) enrolled roughly 40,000 adults aged 50 and older, randomised 1:1 to either the company’s mRNA-1010 vaccine or a traditional trivalent flu vaccine.

This study evaluated an “optimised” version of Moderna’s vaccine after earlier versions produced disappointing efficacy results.

Even with this updated formulation, the headline “26.6% relative efficacy” figure was misleading. In absolute terms, the vaccine reduced the risk of illness by just 0.8%.

Most concerning, however, were the serious adverse event (SAE) data.

The six-month data show that 449 participants in the mRNA group experienced at least one SAE, compared with 389 in the conventional group—an excess of 60 people.

So, while the pivotal trial showed there were 4 fewer influenza hospitalisations in the mRNA group, 60 additional people experienced an SAE.

SAEs are not mild events—they are usually severe enough to require hospitalisation, threaten life, cause significant disability, or result in death.

The imbalance of SAEs in Moderna’s pivotal trial was statistically significant—meaning it was unlikely to be a random fluke.

Yet in the briefing documents presented to the FDA’s advisory committee, VRBPAC, the agency characterised SAEs as “balanced.”

So how did the FDA make the SAE imbalance disappear?

Making Serious Adverse Events Disappear

The short answer is that the FDA used pooled data that obscured the safety signal.

Specifically, the agency relied on Moderna’s own “Integrated Safety Summary,” which combined data from four separate Phase III trials (P301, P302, P303 and P304), involving nearly 72,000 participants.

Once the pivotal trial P304 was combined with the other trials, the SAE rate became 3.1% in the mRNA group versus 2.9% in the comparator group—allowing the FDA to state that the rates were “balanced.”

Pooling data across clinical trials is common when regulators are looking for rare events. But the four trials Moderna pooled were very different in many aspects.

They tested different mRNA vaccine formulations against different flu vaccines—standard-dose and high-dose, quadrivalent and trivalent—across different age groups and countries, with follow-up ranging from six months to a year.

When these disparate trials were combined into a single analysis, the safety signal that stood out in the large pivotal trial was diluted.

The FDA accepted the approach—despite being aware of the problem.

In an appendix to its own briefing document, the FDA acknowledged that differences between the trials could produce safety variations “not fully captured by pooled analyses”—but proceeded anyway.

Table 6 of the FDA’s own review makes the switch even clearer (see below).

For the first 28 days after vaccination, when serious adverse events were still balanced between the groups, the agency reported safety results from the pivotal P304 trial alone (purple box).

But as more SAEs accumulated over the following months, a statistically significant imbalance emerged.

Instead of reporting those longer-term results from P304 in the same way, the FDA switched to Moderna’s pooled analysis (red box), where the signal was diluted enough for the agency to continue describing the rates as “balanced.”

The pooled analysis also obscured a concerning pattern in all-cause mortality.

In the pivotal trial P304, there were 40 deaths in the mRNA arm versus 34 in the comparator arm.

In the preceding trial P303, deaths were consistently higher across all three mRNA sub-studies:

• Sub-study 1 (mRNA vs Standard Trivalent): 5 deaths in the mRNA-1010 arm vs. 1 death in the comparator arm (5 vs 1).
• Sub-study 2 (mRNA vs High-Dose Trivalent): 3 deaths in the mRNA-1010 arm vs. 2 deaths in the comparator arm (3 vs 2).
• Sub-study 3 (mRNA vs Standard Quadrivalent): 3 deaths in the mRNA-1010 arm vs. 1 death in the comparator arm (3 vs 1).

Notably, in Sub-study 1, Moderna’s own trial investigators assessed one of the five deaths in the mRNA group as caused by the vaccine—the same product that has now been licensed.

Together, these numbers raise serious concerns about a possible excess in mortality in the mRNA groups—a pattern the FDA failed to highlight.

One Rule for Efficacy, Another for Safety

The FDA’s handling of efficacy reveals an even more striking double standard.

For efficacy, the agency relied strictly on study P304—the large pivotal trial testing the exact formulation submitted for licensure.

Earlier trials of Moderna’s vaccine had produced weaker efficacy results—and in at least one case, negative efficacy. Had the FDA pooled those trials for efficacy, the “26.6% efficacy” figure would almost certainly have been substantially lower.

But, as noted above, when the pivotal trial produced an unfavourable safety result, the FDA did the opposite—it pooled the data.

One approach maximised the efficacy. The other diluted the safety concerns.

Who Is Protecting the Public?

On the surface, the FDA says Moderna’s flu mRNA vaccine is “safe and effective.”

Dig deeper, and the pivotal trial shows a statistically significant excess of participants experiencing SAEs.

Dig deeper still, and you discover the statistical trickery Moderna used—and the FDA accepted—to make the SAE signal disappear.

This brings us back to a fundamental question I have raised over years of reporting on regulatory failure.

When the FDA accepts the manufacturer’s trial design, adopts its data analyses, and rubber-stamps statistical methods that dilute a safety signal, who is actually protecting the public from harm?

Further Reading

June 2026: FDA poised to approve Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine despite earlier rejection

Maryanne Demasi, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is an investigative medical reporter with a PhD in rheumatology, who writes for online media and top tiered medical journals. For over a decade, she produced TV documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and has worked as a speechwriter and political advisor for the South Australian Science Minister.

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