1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual. First posted 2014

Published today in The Defender: In a letter to the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine, Dr. Meryl Nass, a practicing physician in Maine, asked the Board of Licensure to define what it means by “misinformation” and “disinformation.”   The Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine this month issued a position statement in which it said:…

Just in case people are starting to wake up and realize there are actually effective drug treatments for Covid, it is important to keep banging the drum that says, not only don’t the drugs work, but they are dangerous, to boot. And so we have a new meta-analysis designed to do just that. This is…

Thanks to Eileen Dannemann for obtaining this memo from Iowa’s Assistant Attorney General. It includes a very clear explanation from DHHS explaining the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, Emergency Use Authorizations and Emergency Declarations in the context of H1N1 flu. Appended to it are a few additional comments from the Iowa AG’s office. This…

Now this is a really odd FDA decision.  FDA is acknowledging that the 10 million doses it is authorizing is adulterated.  But adulterated doses can’t be sold.  But EUA products don’t generally get sold, except to the US government.  I am scratching my head.  I thought all these doses were already bought and paid for,…

Who are the anti-vaxxers, really? If I asked you whether you were for or against pharmaceutical drugs, you would think my question absurd.  Obviously, each drug is different and should be judged on its own merits; furthermore, the usefulness of a drug depends on the specific needs of the person to whom it is given. …

Fifteen minutes on vaccine regulation/safety on YouTube.