When we were on our editorial call last week, Matt Badiali mentioned how much he loved Adam Sharp’s piece on Ozempic killing food stocks. I missed it at the time. But now that I’ve read it, I must echo Matt’s sentiment. And I’d like to add something.

I’m about to start my 4th month on tirzepatide (called “Zepbound” in the US and “Mounjaro” in the EU), often referred to as a “GLP-2” because it does more than Ozempic. I won’t get into the chemistry here; I’ll leave that stuff to resident Paradigm Press science expert and aficionado Ray Blanco.

But I will tell you this: tirzepatide isn’t a miracle drug. It’s the damn Magic Pill.

Dropping 15 pounds (6.8 kg) over 3 months isn’t even the best part. It’s how I walk past my refrigerator with utter indifference. It’s as if my brain’s switchboard operator (who was sadly drowned in beer last century) was suddenly resurrected and switched off the alcohol, sugar, and carb cravings. To me, willpower was something that happened to other people. I still think that. But now, I know I don’t need it.

For someone who was constantly dozing off, I haven’t taken a nap in two months. I’m wide awake. Like Marty-Feldman-wide-awake.

Your editor on tirzepatide… or the late, great comedian Marty Feldman. Credit: Generation X Culture

And booze? I’ve had exactly one beer since January. And a few Aperol Spritzes with friends. In 6 months. That used to be a night’s warm-up. It’s not that the drug ruins your taste buds; I can’t tell you how good that beer tasted. Truly, Nectar of the Gods stuff. But one was enough. For months.

If I were Lilly, I’d slightly tweak the formula and market it to winos as “Virginity: One prick and it’s all gone.”

Yes, I’m pleased as punch and wanted to share it. But I’m telling you this now because in 2020, after catching lab-fresh, test-tube-range, completely inorganic COVID in Boracay, Philippines, friends and statheists alike labeled me an “anti-vaxxer.” Boracay is a beautiful and popular Philippine island where people from Wuhan, China, frequently travel for their vacations.

Full disclosure: I wound up taking AstraZeneca’s non-mRNA jab in late 2021 with disastrous results. That vaccine was so poor that the UK removed it from its list of accepted COVID vaccines. Pam and I took it to ease our passage to Italy. Never again.

People like me, who are all for good drugs, were called anti-vaxxers. We weren’t, by and large, against vaccines. In fact, my son Micah is fully vaxxed.

We were against being lied to and being coerced. Against watching government apparatchiks suppress every question that might complicate their precious narrative. We watched censorship run and were told that was science.

What garbage! And now we have the proof.

On June 12, 2026, outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released her first batch of declassified documents. (Editor’s Note:Hell hath no fury, aye?) Her documents show the U.S. government funded more than 120 biological laboratories in over 30 countries. Some of that work involved hazardous pathogens, and some involved gain-of-function research. And, according to Gabbard, the Biden administration's national security team lied to the public about all of it.

Of course, they did!

This bombshell isn’t from some sidelined virologist. This is now the official position of the United States intelligence community… signed, declassified, and released.

What the Documents Say

The ODNI release confirms what so-called conspiracy theorists like me said from the start. U.S. money flowed through the CDC, USDA, and various universities into a global network of labs. Some handled dangerous pathogens. Some ran gain-of-function experiments, which make viruses more transmissible or more lethal.

Ukraine alone had more than 40 such facilities with U.S. involvement. Individual labs received millions in direct U.S. funding. The declassified slides show a network diagram connecting intelligence agencies, contractors, universities, the CDC, and the USDA. This isn’t some rogue scheme the USG ran in a basement. This was a formal, coordinated intelligence program.

And you’d like me to think the United States Government is always a force for good in this world?

Hard pass.

Do you now blame Russia for raising hell about biolabs in Ukraine?

Didn’t think so.

After all, if these biolabs were working on “harmless” projects, why did Victoria Nuland tell then-Senator Marco Rubio she was so worried about them falling into Russia’s hands?

Now that’s the question. And it’s been answered.

A Marine officer working with DARPA wrote an internal report way back in August 2021. His conclusion: COVID-19 was an American-created recombinant bat vaccine, or its precursor. It was developed under an EcoHealth Alliance program at the Wuhan Institute of Virology with U.S. funding. That report is now part of the official declassified record.

Boy, we can’t even blame the CCP anymore!

Gabbard's statement was crystal clear. Fauci and the Biden national security team lied to the American people about U.S.-funded biolabs. They threatened those who tried to expose the truth.

The Fact-Checkers' Verdict on Themselves

Think back to 2021. If you had said the U.S. funded dangerous virus research in Wuhan, you were condemned as a conspiracy theorist. Flakebook removed posts. @jack’s Twitter suspended accounts. Respected scientists signed letters calling the lab-leak hypothesis a fringe idea.

Those same institutions haven’t issued corrections, nor apologized. The accounts are still suspended. The fact-check labels still sit on those posts like expired milk cartons.

Dr. Robert Malone wrote about the biolabs during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He was vilified for it. His reaction to Gabbard's release was frustrated relief. He said: "The story of censorship, vilification, targeted delegitimization, followed by eventual vindication, is getting a bit old."

Getting a bit old? That may be the most gentlemanly way to describe what happened to people whose careers and reputations were destroyed for alleging something that later proved true.

What’s Still Playing Out

The Gabbard release is about origins and concealment. That’s the clean vindication. But a second thread is still unwinding. It concerns the vaccines themselves.

Senator Ron Johnson has spent years pressing the FDA and CDC on safety-signal data. His office produced documents alleging the agency switched its adverse-event algorithm. The new one was less likely to flag serious signals. A different method later detected signals that were ignored. Johnson calls it the greatest government scandal of his lifetime. That’s his characterization, not yet a formal conclusion, I hasten to add.

FDA advisory committee members spent much of 2025 requesting biodistribution data for lipid nanoparticles and information about DNA contamination in mRNA products. They weren’t given any. One participant described the official responsible for the delays as "stonewalling." As usual, Congress did nothing.

None of this is settled. Regulators still say the benefit outweighs the risk for most people. That may be true. But "we told you everything we knew" is no longer a claim any honest person can make on the government's behalf.

The Real Scandal Is the Silence

Almost none of this is on the front page of The New York Times. Gabbard's release ran on Fox News, in Senate press releases, and in the alternative outlets that were censored for reporting the same material 3 years ago. Ron Johnson's vaccine documents live on Newsmax and Substack.

The institutions that spent 4 years telling you what was true aren’t rushing to update the record. They’re hoping you forget. They’re hoping you won't notice that the documents they once called dangerous misinformation are now official U.S. government releases.

Wrap Up

The term "anti-vaxxer" is a political weapon, not a medical term. It’s a disparaging word used to end conversations. The people it was aimed at were only against being coerced, silenced, and lied to by institutions that claimed a monopoly on truth and, in fact, had a monopoly on violence. (And yes, the term “violence” includes turning your population into unwilling pin cushions.)

The Gabbard documents don’t prove every specific claim every skeptic made. They do something more important. They prove the skeptics were right about what mattered most. The government knew more than it said. It funded more than it admitted. It suppressed anyone who came close to the truth.

We weren’t crazy. We certainly weren’t dangerous. We were merely early.