Before Sir Dr. Jeremy Farrar got the plum job of CEO of the wealthiest foundation in the UK and one of the wealthiest in the world, he did research for Oxford University in Vietnam for 18 years. It seems curious how one job led to the other. Will (as is said to happen in Las…
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html And many cases are asymptomatic. However, expect fewer cases as colleges are ending their spring semesters, and most required frequent testing of students and staff. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases AVG. ON MAY 9 14-DAY CHANGE TOTAL REPORTED Cases 41,012 –30% 32,735,745 Tests 1,109,433 — — Hospitalized 39,072 –13% — Deaths 667 –6% 581,301
The courageous BMJ and editor Fiona Godlee have dared to suggest the only way forward through the quicksand of clinical trial data in which we find ourselves. When only the manufacturer knows what is in a drug’s database, and the manufacturer’s primary duty is to shareholders, medicine progresses backwards to a new Dark Age. Simply,…
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/tolerating-covid-misinformation-better-alternative/626564/
From the CSM, citing leaked diplomatic correspondence it had acquired: … According to leaked diplomatic correspondence, Iran has been warning Washington since July 2012 that Sunni rebel fighters have acquired chemical weapons, and called on the US to send “an immediate and serious warning” to rebel groups not to use them. In a letter acquired by The…
March 3 Letter from Congressman Holt asking for a Congressional Investigation into the government’s handling of the anthrax letters investigation. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett supports this also. A brief excerpt follows, addressed (respectively) to the chairs of the House Homeland Security, Judiciary, Select Intelligence and Oversight and Government Reform Committees: Dear Chairmen Thompson, Conyers, Reyes, and…