John Blosser

Investigative Reporter

ABOUT

John is a Florida-based investigative journalist and magazine reporter who has been a writer his entire life. He has covered everything from entertainment to medical news, and has traveled the world—from Brazil to Russia and Canada to Rome—in search of the truth and a good story.

LATEST STORIES

HUMAN RIGHTS

Quebec Laws Target Religious Expression, Push Educators From Classrooms

Teachers are being pushed out of Quebec classrooms for wearing hijabs, turbans and other religious symbols. Civil liberties groups say the province’s escalating secularism laws are targeting faith itself.

DRUGS

UK Marijuana Boom Driven by Just 10 Doctors Writing Half of All Prescriptions

A handful of doctors is driving a massive prescription surge in the UK’s $6.6 billion-a-year medical cannabis industry—even as new data links the drug to higher rates of depression, anxiety and heart disease.

VIOLATIONS

Ashleigh Banfield’s Career Ends—Anti-⁠Scientology Reporting Claims Another Victim

Having fallen to one of America’s least-watched cable news networks, even they rejected Ashleigh Banfield’s virulent hate—as did her former audience.

MENTAL HEALTH

Euthanasia Cases Surge as Psychiatrists Expand Abusive “Treatments” to Include Death

Assisted suicide is no longer limited to terminal illness, with psychiatric patients now deemed capable of giving “informed consent” to die—even as the same system treats them as too insane to live.

MENTAL HEALTH

Virginia Jury Awards $20 Million in Child Abuse Case at Psychiatric Facility

The jury deliberated only three hours before reaching their verdict, after video showed a psychiatric worker dragging a 13-year-old across a room by a shirt wrapped around his neck.

DRUGS

Child Welfare Caseworker Arrested for Fentanyl Use While on Duty in Ohio

A Marion County Children Services employee was arrested after police say she was found driving high on fentanyl during a workday, despite a prior dismissal for violating drug-free workplace rules at a previous agency.

VIOLATIONS

Ashleigh Banfield May Be the Only Woman Rebuffed by Jeffrey Epstein

In public, Banfield accurately described him as a creep, a sleaze and a pedophile. In private, she begged a friend to find out if he wanted to date her.

HUMAN RIGHTS

FOIA Expert Dr. David Cuillier Warns: You Don’t Miss Access Until It’s Gone

Dr. David Cuillier says “secrecy creep” has steadily eroded US FOIA compliance over three decades, calling it a growing threat to democracy itself if left unchecked.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Sunshine Week Spotlight: FOIA Fees Put Government Transparency Behind a Paywall

Research by Dr. David Cuillier and Dr. A. Jay Wagner shows public records are increasingly out of reach for citizens, nonprofits and journalists.

MENTAL HEALTH

47 Young Women Claim “Hunger Games” Torture at Michigan Mental Health Facility

Attorney Michael Jaafar represents dozens of girls who allege beatings, forced stripping and sexual misconduct at Vista Maria. The facility ended its residential program amid mounting complaints.