Flu Season Winding Down / CDC

While Omicron is clearly the one you want to get, this is the one the authorities don’t want you to get.  Yet they are risking a “boy who cried wolf” scenario as well as battle fatigue by pulling out all the stops for this one. Can Charles Eisenstein have nailed why the authorities continue to…

Merck developed a clever scheme for marketing HPV vaccine:  it would lobby for laws that would add the vaccine to state Medicaid entitlements, require it be covered by private insurers and mandate the vaccine to attend school.  I know of two different approaches at the state level. In 2007 in Texas, Governor Perry simply issued…

In case you were looking for a synopsis of the important parts of the Frontline anthrax letters program, here it is.  This piece was written by the TV show’s investigative team, and details important flaws in the FBI’s case.  Definitely worth a read, and maybe a reread, to feed your anthrax letters obsession.

Excerpts from the Editorial: The FBI’s case against Ivins is almost wholly circumstantial. It includes his strained behavior while under suspicion and surveillance by the FBI, which he was aware of before apparently committing suicide in July 2008. While the NAS study may well validate the scientific protocols used by the FBI in its investigation,…

From Reuters and the NY POst: Prosecutors will ask a judge to dismiss all charges in the [criminal] sexual assault case against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn at a court hearing on Tuesday, the New York Post reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources.   The Manhattan district attorney’s office will file a motion recommending the…

One big contributor to ridiculously high administrative costs of medicine in the US is the federal government. Constantly changing federal rules seem to aim for complexity.  Compliance is nearly impossible for small medical practices, because Medicare changes its rules every few months. Doctors have to play by its rules, but it is very difficult to…