CANCELLED by CDC late June 17: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting on Covid vaccine side effects, Friday June 18

French physician and pharmacoepidemiologist Marc Girard has written a valuable piece on swine flu vaccines, their risk assessment and their rushed approval, contrasting this with what should ordinarily take place before a drug or vaccine enters the market.

It turns out that hydroxychloroquine has been tested in a couple of hundred clinical trials–BEFORE Covid-19 appeared–for an extraordinarily wide range of medical conditions.  Just to give you a feel for the range of illnesses the drug was tried on (I stopped making a list when I got to 30), they include obesity, the prevention of…

A judge unsealed a new batch of court documents in the anthrax case on Wednesday, at http://www.usdoj.gov/amerithrax/

Many (young) soldiers have had heart attacks after anthrax vaccinations. Could the two be related? The Army Medical Surveillance Activity (AMSA) compiled data on over 300,000 recipients of anthrax vaccine, and looked at their rates of heart attacks before and after anthrax vaccinations. This data was shared with the Institute of Medicine in 2001 at…

From the Washington Times: Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency’s voracious appetite for spying. By permitting one section of the Patriot Act to expire and by replacing it with the USA Freedom Act, the federal government is taking credit for taming beasts of its own…