We seem to have turned the corner on this latest wave, with cases and hospitalizations trending down

First, I got about 250 new subscribers since my last post (not even 24 hours ago) on my case and the suppression of doctors, and 34 new paid subscribers—more than for any one post previously. I am now over 25,000 subscribers and I am tremendously grateful to everyone for reading and spreading the information I…

Let’s draw a stupid line in the sand. Let’s fire employees who refuse a seasonal flu vaccine made up of antigens for 3 strains of flu that do not happen to be circulating in the US right now, and may never circulate. Check out the CDC’s graph detailing the flu strains found in the US…

Sidney Wolfe, MD, is a well-known drug safety advocate and founder/ director of the organization Public Citizen’s Health Research Group.  FDA finally blessed the quality of his work and reputation by inviting him to join its Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee in 2008. But suddenly FDA has disqualified him from full voting membership…

Here, the WaPo goes into the tawdry story of how DHHS’ Preparedness group and BARDA got prototypes for a machine to produce reusable N95 masks, then dropped the ball despite their $1.5B yearly funding for ‘preparedness.’ From  the NY Times: Few in the protective equipment industry are surprised by the shortages, because they’ve been predicted for…

Why is oil so cheap these days?  Maybe part of the answer is that the US government absolutely had to stop fracking– because it finally admitted the resulting earthquakes could not be tolerated, nor could the poisoned water be ignored any longer. Like so much else in our modern USA, the profits derived from fracking…

Well-known arms control/disarmament/nonproliferation expert Jonathan Tucker died last week at 56.  Paul Walker, who follows a similar career trajectory, as arms control advocate and expert, wrote about Tucker’s life and accomplishments.  Regarding Tucker’s views on the anthrax letters case, Paul wrote the following: His intellectual and academic vigor, together with his journalistic instincts, were also…