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More details on the Israeli anthrax vaccine settlement, including acknowledgement of illnesses/ Haaretz
A longer report was published in Haaretz, with an excerpt below: … In December 2008, the [Israeli Medical Association] investigative committee published a report, which found grave fault with the way in which soldiers were recruited for the experiment, and the unscrupulous methods for achieving the soldiers’ consent – which included failure to inform them…
Musing on issues of mandatory flu vaccinations
Many healthcare institutions are imposing mandates on staff for flu vaccinations, with penalties ranging from wearing masks throughout the workday (even for those with no cough or sneeze–which demonstrates the lack of scientific basis for this measure, since merely breathing on someone has never been demonstrated to transmit influenza) to blanket firings of employees who refuse to…
“U.S. scientists say uncertainties loom about Ebola’s transmission, other key facts”/ Reuters
Reuters’ Sharon Begley has to be one of the very best science journalists in the US. She always gets to the meat of the matter. Here she gives us the highlights of what scientists said remains unknown about Ebola transmission, at an IOM meeting November 3. The full article is below, and it confirms what…
CDC now admits there IS a (low) risk of infection, if you are on a plane or in a room with a symptomatic Ebola patient/ CDC
CDC changed its story again. As of October 27, CDC updated its risk guidelines to acknowledge that being in a room or on a plane with someone who is symptomatic with Ebola puts others at low, but not zero, risk of contagion. I applaud CDC for this change. It admits there is much we do…
Vaccine Makers Struggle to Speed Output: Cell-Culture Technology Hastens the Process, but Slow-Growing Virus Remains a Problem
From the Nov. 25 WSJ: Cell culturing vaccines is not a well-developed technology, and may not shave much time off vaccine production. Nor will the plant’s cutting-edge technology do much to solve one of the biggest problems vaccine makers have faced in churning out this year’s swine-flu vaccine: a slow-growing virus. High-speed techniques that bypass…
HUGE TURNAROUND: Republican National Committee goes FAR condemning NSA surveillance and seeks to hold officials accountable / Atlantic and TIME
From the Atlantic: … the GOP establishment is changing along with its elected officials; the RNC voted in a winter meeting to literally renounce NSA domestic surveillance. “It was passed by a voice vote as part of a package of RNC proposals,” Benjy Sarlin reports. “Not a single member rose to object or call for further debate,…