Thought Police: Germany Conducts Mass Raids over Online ‘Insults’ Against Politicians/ Breitbart

Adjuvants stimulate increased, nonspecific immunity and are included in many “killed” vaccines. Until October 16, all adjuvants in licensed vaccines in the US were aluminum salts. They are included in tetanus, Hepatitis A and B, anthrax and other killed vaccines. Thimerosal is a compound composed of 50% mercury which has been included in many killed…

Potential vaccine recipients are very fortunate that Sheryl Gay Stolberg is still on this beat at the NY Times, after twenty years.  Emergent BioSolutions is a biodefense boondoggle barely pretending to be a pharmaceutical firm.  No one in their right mind would want to be injected with one of their products. A friend reminded me…

Former NY Times journalist and non-practicing physician Elisabeth Rosenthal’s new book, An American Sickness, lists 10 economic “rules” of US medicine that are guaranteed to make money, but not to improve outcomes: More treatment is always better. Default to the most expensive option. A lifetime of treatment is better than a cure. Amenities and marketing…

From Mike Whitney at Counterpunch, what we all should consider, as we seek to understand the craziness of the last several months :  “Trump wants to fundamentally change Washington’s  approach to policy, that is, he wants to abandon the destabilizing wars and regime change operations that have characterized US policy in the past and work collaboratively with countries…

What a Catch 22: Once the US Government designates someone as a terrorist, it becomes illegal to provide the designee with legal assistance challenging the terrorist designation! The Obama administration announced to the world that it had the right to assassinate an American (Anwar al-Awlaki) citizen without any charges or trial last April. According to…

DNA is just another anthrax clue, not clincher: Its use in distinguishing bacteria is limited. Some scientists want to know what else implicated Bruce ivins. By Faye Flam, Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer DNA evidence alone wasn’t a smoking gun in the case against Bruce Ivins as the perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks, say microbiologists…