James Corbett and I sounded off about the state of the world and what to do about it

If you really want to get down in the weeds about how the FDA controls information and makes sure its advisory committees vote the way it wants them to, this is must reading. It is very long and very detailed,  discussing some aspects of how FDA hid information about the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from its advisers,…

Pertussis (whooping cough) cases are occasionally vaccine-resistant. Sometimes what looks like pertussis is a related disease, parapertussis, and the pertussis vaccine is useless at preventing this infection.  In fact, the vaccine may actually enhance nasal carriage with parapertussis strains. Usually, vaccine-induced protection is weak and doesn’t last long. Clearly a new vaccine that is safe…

The reasons I am tremendously excited about what this 60 minute video (condensed from the 3 hr 20 min original) has to offer: 1.  It is totally accurate while it gets down into the weeds about what the Pfizer-BioNTech data that were presented to FDA and its sister agencies in Europe and Japan show and…

U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor said at a Justice Department news conference, “We regret that we will not have the opportunity to present evidence to the jury.” Everybody else regrets it too–since what came out today was another pastiche of innuendo and circumstantial evidence, with an awful lot of holes. Time for the FBI to present…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006291X0401839X In vitro inhibition of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus by chloroquine Author links open overlay panelElsKeyaertsLeenVijgenPietMaesJohanNeytsMarc VanRanst https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.08.085Get rights and content Abstract We report on chloroquine, a 4-amino-quinoline, as an effective inhibitor of the replication of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in vitro. Chloroquine is a clinically approved drug effective against malaria. We tested…

Here is the first half of a wonderful piece by Professor Donald Light on the mess at FDA, which misguides the process of drug evaluation and approval.  The entire piece can be found here: A forthcoming article for the special issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (JLME), edited by Marc Rodwin and supported by the Edmond J….