From the war that never ends, has no endgame, in the country that destroys empires comes this little item courtesy of the NY Times. We can’t even identify the enemy’s leaders to negotiate with! But we can and do give them large chunks of money… KABUL, Afghanistan — For months, the secret talks unfolding between…
Like so much in today’s world of politics, there is no logic that can explain it. Biodefense labs (whose value in the light of the risk they pose is questionable) are being built smack in the middle of large cities (Boston), in areas that flood (Galveston), and in the middle of a farming area dense…
From YLE print and TV in Finland: … Thirty-seven children in Finland came down with narcolepsy soon after being injected with the vaccine against swine flu. Some of the children have sustained serious brain damage that has made it impossible for them to attend school. They suffer from symptoms including hallucinations, personality changes and cataplexy,…
Military tribunals (and places like Guantanama) for so-called terrorists transgress the 5th, 6th, 8th and 9th Amendments of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. Goodbye to Habeas Corpus, Due Process and Geneva Convention protections, among others. Olbermann provided amusing commentary. But we can’t get convictions using real courts, real judges and real juries. What a dilemma! …
Two articles, each reporting on a different study, found that uptake of subsequent doses of HPV vaccine, after the first, was poor. Neither entertained the possibility that side effects might have something to do with this. Maybe side effects had nothing to do with it. But since vaccine effectiveness depends on 3 repeated doses, it…
Although a drug overdose was claimed to be a contributor to the death of Dr. David Kelly, a pharmacologist claims that Kelly did not have an elevated blood level of co-proxamol at the time of death. This drug contained darvon and a “regular strength” tylenol, from which it would be very hard to overdose without…
From the BMJ blog comes this gratifying discussion of an important paper in the PLOS: … an important and fascinating paper in PloS Medicine shows how editors can be exposed to dramatic conflicts of interest. The paper is suitably po faced, as is the accompanying editorial, but, as a blogger and ex-editor, I can spell out…
http://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/ The University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) and The UC Washington Center Cordially invite you to attend a seminar: The Anthrax Mailings Investigation Monday, November 29, 2010, 1:00 – 5:30 pm UC Washington Center, 1608 Rhode Island Ave. NW FBI has closed the 2001 anthrax mailings investigation. The alleged preparer…
From Sydney Morning Herald and Medical Journal of Australia: The [following] editorial calls for the urgent establishment of a new national body to provide uniform monitoring and “active surveillance”, looking for adverse reaction cases in the community. “This is critical to ensure that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks,” Dr Gold said. Febrile convulsions…
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