Today’s NY Times wants to know if the FBI’s evidence — linking Bruce Ivins to the anthrax letters — really holds up.  Frontline/ProPublica/McClatchy last week informed us, after reviewing thousands of FBI documents obtained through FOIA, that the FBI misled us.  Ivins’ late-night hours at the lab in September-October 2001 were not really that different…

 Gardiner Harris @ the NY Times follows up on the FDA Avandia review: A federal medical advisory panel recommended Wednesday that Avandia, a controversial diabetes drug, should either be withdrawn from the market or have sales severely restricted because it increases the risks of heart attacks. The panel’s votes, taken after two days of intensive…

 From the Defense Department website: https://media.defense.gov/2019/Aug/02/2002165966/-1/-1/0/CPC%20OUTREACH%20818.PDF Biolab Opens In Ukraineby Tina RedlupJune 17, 2010 U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar applauded the opening of the Interim Central Reference Laboratory in Odessa, Ukraine, thisweek, announcing that it will be instrumental in researching dangerous pathogens used by bioterrorists.The level-3 bio-safety lab, which is the first built under the expanded…

UPDATE:  I was reminded that a fellow named Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor (formerly of Blackwater/Xe) shot two Pakistanis on motorcyces to death in February.  President Obama claimed he was “our diplomat”and insisted Pakistan grant him immunity under the Vienna Convention on diplomatic immunity of 1961.  Davis had a car full of weapons, disguises and…

Here’s a big yawn from the Infectious Disease News: Mandatory policy increased influenza vaccine uptake among Health Care Workers. The article claims that the program’s “success” was supported by “consistent communication emphasizing patient safety and quality of care, coordinated campaigns, leadership support and medical director support to talk with any employee with concerns about the…

‘Vaccine mandates, including those recently renewed by Ontario universities, are scientifically questionable, ethically problematic, and misguided,’ reads a paper featured on the University of Toronto’s law faculty website. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/university-of-toronto-hit-with-human-rights-complaint-rescinds-vaccine-mandate/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=canada TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) – Roughly a month after a group of University of Toronto faculty submitted a formal human rights complaint seeking an end to the school’s…