Conflicts of Interests or Crooked Deals with Taxpayer Dollars? Do they make Democracy a pipe dream?

 According to the CDC. as of December 10, 2021: “Overall, about 237.5 million people, or 71.5% of the total U.S. population, have received at least one dose of vaccine.  About 200.7 million people, or 60.5% of the total U.S. population, have been fully vaccinated.*  About 49.9 million additional/booster doses in fully vaccinated people have been…

UPDATE:  This is a 2006 article.  Sorry. Too bad we have to get our science from the Mail, but in the era of Conflicts of Interest, maybe it isn’t so strange that we read about the flip side of pharmaceuticals from media outlets that don’t rely on pharmaceutical company advertising to survive. New American research…

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The FBI crime lab seems to have been run as an illegal enterprise to support desired convictions–evidence be damned–for decades.  Maybe justice will now be served for some of those convicted as a result of FBI criminality. This story didn’t  just come out.  There was a Justice Department review years ago… which let the original…

CDC says flu vaccines prevent flu, on average 40% of the time, but even if you do get flu, the vaccine makes it less severe.  But when these two claims were tested in Australia, neither was found to be true.  The Australian study found  that (in 17 hospitals over 7 recent flu seasons) there was no reduction…

Behind dysfunctional government, is democracy itself in decay? It took only 250 years for democracy to disintegrate in ancient Athens. A wholly new form of government was invented there in which the people ruled themselves. That constitution proved marvelously effective. Athens grew in wealth and capacity, saw off the Persian challenge, established itself as the…