Keeping Things in Perspective
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/02/archdiocese-new-orleans-johnson-vaccine/ On Tuesday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged Catholics to avoid taking the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine and to choose alternatives from Pfizer or Moderna instead because Johnson & Johnson used cells derived decades ago from an abortion to create the vaccine. The bishops’ recommendation follows a similar one from the Archdiocese of New Orleans last…
OPINION COMMENTARY https://www.wsj.com/articles/too-much-caution-is-killing-covid-patients-11606238928 Doctors should follow the evidence for promising therapies. Instead they demand certainty. By Joseph A. Ladapo Nov. 24, 2020 12:28 pm Fear and panic are central impediments to competent decision-making during a crisis. As Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations rise around the country, creating an atmosphere of crisis, political leaders are reaching for last spring’s…
India under Modi is a testing ground. Remember how Modi banned high value Rupee notes to force Indians to use digital money. It can happen here.–Nass Skull and Crossbones Sign Given to Unvaccinated in Rural India https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-06-10/skull-and-crossbones-sign-given-to-unvaccinated-in-rural-india LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – Police in rural India have made some citizens who have not been vaccinated against…
Last July, FDA sent out warning letters to supplement companies, informing them that N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) could no longer be marketed as an ingredient in food supplements, using the justification that it was also a licensed drug. FDA has concluded that NAC products are excluded from the dietary supplement definition under section 201(ff)(3)(B)(i) of the…
Nature Medicine ran a 3 page article that claimed to explain why the novel coronavirus is not a lab construct. USA Today wrote a summary piece explaining it: “If someone were seeking to engineer a new coronavirus as a pathogen, they would have constructed it from the backbone of a virus known to cause illness,”…
Documented flu cases have dropped by 97 percent compared with this time last year. There have been NO flu-related deaths registered in Pennsylvania this year. Why are pharmacies still advertising flu shots? CDC reports only 5 child deaths due to flu, in the entire United States, have occurred this 2011-2012 flu season. The reason for…