How to Sell a Product That Does Not Work/ John McGowan

The article below I photographed from Science magazine, 1 week after Trump said he was taking away a grant to EcoHealth Alliance for its work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on coronaviruses. Below, the Defender today reprinted an article by Rob Verkerk published initially by the Alliance for Natural Health. I had been waiting…

Coleen Rowley, retired special agent and legal counsel for the Minneapolis field office of the FBI, and Bogdan Dzakovic, former special agent for the FAA’s security division, wrote this interesting piece:   Frustrated investigators might have chosen to leak information that their superiors bottled up, perhaps averting the terrorism attacks. If WikiLeaks had been around in…

Here is the report and it says very little. The report makes the case that a CW attack occurred.  I think by now everyone agrees it occurred.  The issue of import, however, is who did it, not whether it happened. The report also tells us, as if we didn’t already know, that Assad has chemical…

From the Palm Beach Post: … While he is legally prohibited from revealing much of what he learned and many of the court documents are sealed, Weisser said he was stunned by the lack of security at the lab. In court papers, the government conceded that before the attacks, Fort Detrick didn’t have cameras to…

Recall that FDA’s Device Center was recently shown to make political decisions re medical device approvals, and to grandfather in devices on the basis of earlier approvals of very different devices.  GAO wrote several damning reports including this one from June 2009: Shortcomings in FDA’s Premarket Review, Postmarket Surveillance, and Inspections of Device Manufacturing Establishments. …

Most Americans who got flu vaccine last year don’t need it again.  But CDC and manufacturers are confident of their maarketing prowess, and manufacturers are making 170 million doses for the US market.  Go figure.  From the Associated Press: ATLANTA (AP) — Vaccine makers said this month they plan to make a record amount of…