My interview with Kevin Barrett on April 1

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…

You may wonder why I keep harping on inadequate testing and safety concerns. In addition to my experience treating patients who became ill following vaccinations, I have reviewed medical literature on vaccine safety. There are many stories of vaccines that appeared safe, but were later found to be dangerous. The Edmonston-Zaghreb “high titre” measles vaccine,…

No commentary needed. As the New C.D.C. Chief, I’ll Tell You the Truth https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/opinion/rochelle-walensky-cdc-director.html … On Jan. 20, I will begin leading the C.D.C., which was founded in 1946 to meet precisely the kinds of challenges posed by this pandemic. I agreed to serve as C.D.C. director because I believe in the agency’s mission and…

Noah Schactman has an extremely detailed, useful piece on the anthrax mailings in Wired.  Noah did his homework.  The 72 comments are also interesting. UPDATE:  Podcast with Noah here.  Extracts of the magazine story follow: In February 2003, anthrax became part of the rationale for invading Iraq. Colin Powell went to the United Nations Security…

From the Baltimore Sun: A measure requiring further federal investigation into the 2001anthrax attack that killed five people was approved Thursday by the House of Representatives. It was proposed by two skeptics of a recently closed FBI probe that blamed the deadly attacks on Bruce Ivins, a microbiologist at the Army biodefense lab at Fort…