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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Vaccines get a bad rap on social media. But studies of vaccines for diseases like shingles and influenza suggest they not only protect us from pathogens but increase our chances of living into old age free from conditions associated with senescence. markhonigsbaum.substack.com/p/why-its-sm...

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

As a new study calls into question one of the central planks of the "lab leak" hypothesis, I review the long history of pandemics and describe how researchers have long puzzled over their origins. markhonigsbaum.substack.com/p/opportunit...

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

In the last six weeks, Europe has seen Biblical levels of rain, exceeding the 40 days and nights described in the Book Genesis. When will the deluge end, many have been asking? But what if it has only just begun?And what are we going to do about it? substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The new Netflix miniseries Death By Lightning based on the 1881 assassination of president James Garfield by a deranged office seeker is highly pertinent to our troubled times. open.substack.com/pub/markhoni...

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Some thoughts on the shooting of Charlie Kirk, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, and what the litany of campus shootings say about our violent, blood-soaked times. markhonigsbaum.substack.com/p/meridian-t...

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Today, parakeets are a common sight in public parks. But in 1930 the birds sparked a worldwide panic when it was discovered their faeces contained a deadly bacterium. Click on my Substack to read my new post on the Great Parrot Fever Pandemic of 1930. markhonigsbaum.substack.com/p/the-green-...

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I'm sorry to hear of the loss of your business. But why so much faith in the opinion of the German intelligence services? Your confidence is not shared by the WHO's scientific advisory group as you can see from this extract from its recent report:

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

“Uncritical”? Perhaps you didn’t read it properly.

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

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 scenarios of how the virus could have got to Wuhan. markhonigsbaum.substack.com/p/where-did-...

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

We all cry from time to time but why? Read my latest Substack post where I explore the evolutionary mystery of tears (for paying subscribers only). markhonigsbaum.substack.com/p/the-myster...

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Five years into the biggest pandemic in a century it is understandable that some of us should wish to move on and forget. But the shadow cast by Covid-19 is a long one and many of us are still trying to make sense of it. markhonigsbaum.substack.com/p/the-long-s...

https://markhonigsbaum.substack.com/p/the-long-shadow-of-covid-19

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Following Trump’s decison to slash 1,200 jobs at the National Institues of Health, I am reissuing my podcast series on the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic on my Substack. In particular, I urge you to listen to the episode, ‘Resurrectng the Killer’...

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

A blue picture to brighten up a blue Monday Strait of Gibraltar looking toward Tangier

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

RFK Jr’s confirmation as US health secretary is a dark day for public health. The question is, how far will the rot go? markhonigsbaum.substack.com/publish/post...

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

“You’ve said you’re pro vaccines but are you pro these onesies?”demands Bernie referring to the anti-vax kids clothing range sold by RFK Jr’s Children’s Health Defense non-profit. “I’m pro vaccines’ insists Bobby. Judge a man by what he does, not what he says. Once a shill, always a shill.

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Introducing the President (non-elect) and mini-me.

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

RFK Jr, who has promised to wean Americans off processed food if he becomes head of the Department of Health and Human Services, forced to share a Big Mac with Trump and Musk. Shit in, shit out, I guess 🍔💩

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Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

If you love plants and the natural world I can highly recommend Simon Parkin’s latest book, The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad, which tells the incredible story of the Leningrad Plant Institute and the efforts botanists there went to save its collection of seeds from the Nazis. Epic

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