The Focal Points

The Focal Points (formally branded FOCAL POINTS / Courageous Discourse) is an independent Substack publication run by cardiologist and epidemiologist Peter A. McCullough and nonfiction author John Leake. It focuses on COVID-19 vaccine skepticism, health policy, food safety, and civil liberties from a right-libertarian perspective that is sharply critical of mainstream medical institutions and government health authorities. The outlet broadly supports the Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda, though it sometimes criticizes the administration from the right when it judges progress too slow or timid.