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Jeremy Faust
Inside Medicine — emergency physician re-analyzing CDC/FDA data
Jeremy Faust is a Brigham and Women's / Harvard emergency physician and the editor-in-chief of MedPage Today. His newsletter Inside Medicine (~88,000 subscribers) re-analyzes primary CDC and FDA datasets, and he has become a prominent critical voice on the Kennedy administration's agency decisions.
Coverage status — October 2026: Faust publishes Inside Medicine on Substack to ~88,000 subscribers (per his subscribe page; the Boston Globe said “nearly 85,000” in July 2026). His main content is free, and his beat is the data underneath CDC and FDA decisions under Secretary Kennedy.
His signature method is re-analysis rather than commentary: he works directly from primary datasets — CDC, FDA, and trial data — instead of reacting to headlines. That approach produced, among other pieces, a deep dive on the administration dismantling CDC’s peer-review system for its outside research grants.
His stance toward the MAHA administration is critical, stated plainly. A July 10, 2026 STAT/Boston Globe profile called him a “’loud and unafraid’ voice in Trump era.” At the same time, Anthony Fauci is quoted praising his fairness: “He doesn’t just blast out against something; he gives it a fair evaluation.”
Why tracked here: he owns the data-rebuttal beat — when the agencies publish numbers, Faust is among the first to re-run them in public, and this chronicle follows his checks alongside the official claims.
Sources (Oct 2026): Inside Medicine (Substack), including his subscribe page; STAT/Boston Globe profile, July 10, 2026.