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Gulf War Syndrome: Additional information presented to House Vets Affairs Health Subcommittee by me in 2007
I happened to stumble across this Congressional website tonight. It includes my answers to additional questions posed by the Committee after I testified on GWS in July 2007. It also includes my Senate testimony on GWS of September 2007. However, of special interest is a list of statistical analyses and informal studies conducted by the…
Large Mumps Outbreak Ongoing in Vaccinated Hasidic Jews
Snippets from Business Week. One solution being used in Orange County is to keep vaccinating with a third dose of the same vaccine, though the MMWR editor notes that no data exist to support this approach. Isn’t the appropriate answer to develop a better vaccine? According to the MMWR, “Among patients aged 7–18 years, the…
If
I had a wonderful 9th grade English teacher. He taught Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’ as something really over the top, full of self-satisfaction, lacking nuance. Until 2020 I agreed. The poem’s premise seemed totally outlandish–until now. Kipling won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907. Did he have a time capsule for 2020? IF “If…
Monkeypox name change due to Biden administration–not African nations–to “reduce stigma and racism.” New cases down to 5% of the new case rate in August
The Biden administration pushed the WHO to change the name of monkeypox to reduce racism. Hello? Are we stigmatizing monkeys? https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/who-lands-on-new-name-for-monkeypox.html The World Health Organization will rename monkeypox “MPOX” in an effort to destigmatize the virus amid growing pressure from senior Biden administration officials, Politico reported Nov. 22. The name change could be announced as…
H1N1 vaccine study investigating hints of complications from vaccine/ Washington Post
Rob Stein at the Post discusses a “hint” that swine flu vaccine may have caused increased cases of Guillain Barre Syndrome, Bell’s Pallsy and thrombocytopenia. The US CDC, unlike its counterpart in Australia, manages the news on vaccine adverse events closely, especially for swine flu. Remember that CDC hosted a meeting for invited journalists and…
WHO DREAMS UP US FOREIGN POLICY? In Syria, there is no answer that makes sense. Has our foreign policy been privatized?
from What the demise of the CIA’s anti-Assad program means Washington Post Opinion by David Ignatius July 20, 2017 “What did the CIA’s covert assistance program for Syrian rebels accomplish? Bizarrely, the biggest consequence may be that it helped trigger the Russian military intervention in 2015 that rescued President Bashar al-Assad — achieving the opposite…