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

I was hoping to avoid joining the Andrew Wakefield/Lancet fray, but so many inaccurate statements have been published in the last few days that I had to jump in. There is clearcut evidence for a syndrome of brain injury (and sometimes death) occurring after measles vaccine (and not after rubella or mumps vaccines). Who discovered…

My maternal grandfather died in 1968 of what was almost certainly a fulminant Hepatitis B infection (causing rapid liver failure, occurring in just 1% of acute cases). He probably acquired it working part-time in a deli, slicing meat. In med school a few years later, I learned that butchers had increased risk. You get Hepatitis…

Graphic only from https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/what-makes-an-effective-diy-mask Coronavirus: 0.1μm (the speck on the far left) Pore size of N95: 0.1 -0.3 μm (0.1-0.3 microns) Pore size of standard surgical mask: 0.3-10 μm I like this graphic.  For a mask to work, it needs to filter out particles.  This requires that the pore size of the mask be smaller than the…

Even the anthrax emergency declaration is still in force, at least until the end of 2022.  Even though there has not been an anthrax emergency (apart from spills at CDC and Army facilities) since the Act was passed in 2005.  So, if you are a member of the military or a scientist or anyone else…

The French performed a meta-analysis of the effectiveness and safety of flu vaccines containing MF59 for elderly recipients. Local and systemic adverse reactions were higher with vaccines containing MF59, but mortality rates were unimproved. Here is the abstract: Prescrire Int. 2004 Dec;13(74):206-8. Influenza vaccine with squalene adjuvant: new preparation. No better than available products. [No…

No proof has surfaced to assign blame for Syria’s sarin attack of August 21.  The US government document that was supposed to lay out the proof was simply a litany of assertions, absent any evidence.  Robert Parry discussed the details, or lack thereof.  He points out that Bush’s Iraq war ‘dodgy dossier’ had a lot…