WHO challenged at public hearing on the handling of the Swine Flu pandemic/ Council of Europe

From the Express: … Dr Fletcher, a highly ­respected retired pathologist and former chief scientific officer at the Department of Health, said: ‘‘From all the considerable reports I have read, Dr Kelly did not lose enough blood to cause his death. “He would have had to lose three to four pints of blood but all…

There is tremendous strength in numbers.  Hang on, hold tight. This is a huge victory!  I hope my governor, Dem. Janet Mills, sees she is on the losing side after the US election results and eastern Canada’s decision to stop shooting itself in the foot.  Will the Dems keep digging their own graves?  Maine is…

When I do an interview I never have any sense of how it went.  I am so focused on trying to get the right words out that I don’t even remember what I talked about when I am done.   But I just listened to this and I think I did a good job explaining both…

The UK government originally contracted for 120 million doses of swine flu vaccine; it was able to cancel some contracts (by agreeing to buy bird flu vaccine for an epidemic that does not exist, and buying extra flu drugs from GSK), but still purchased 44 million doses. Only 6 million doses were actually used.  The…

I love the Lancet. I have my own subscription, and it isn’t cheap. However, the Lancet took a cheap shot last week, when it retracted a paper on autism by Wakefield et al. immediately following a ruling by the UK’s General Medical Counsel. The Lancet has been embroiled in controversy (and repeatedly tried to extract…

Well-known arms control/disarmament/nonproliferation expert Jonathan Tucker died last week at 56.  Paul Walker, who follows a similar career trajectory, as arms control advocate and expert, wrote about Tucker’s life and accomplishments.  Regarding Tucker’s views on the anthrax letters case, Paul wrote the following: His intellectual and academic vigor, together with his journalistic instincts, were also…