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Emergent Biosolutions dropped 23% today
CorrectionGuess El-Hibry knew what he was doing when he sold 230,100 shares of the anthrax vaccine manufacturer between July 17 and August 6, since the vaccine company Emergent Biosolutions reported poor net earnings despite sales being up 88% this quarter. On sales of 230,100 shares since mid July, he earned about $3 million dollars. Note…
NSA spying programs galore: “everything you’ve ever done on the internet”–spyware–phone recordings / Le Monde, CNN
Le Monde (France’s leading newspaper) discussed spyware and various NSA programs used to obtain information. Discussing internal memos it has obtained: We discover here the proof of the existence of the GENIE programme, one of the most topical in the NSA: the remote delivery of spyware to computers… The document specifies the techniques used to…
Offline (mostly) until December 8–see you then!
Meantime, today we have had the Irish and US CDC reporting the epidemic has passed its peak, while federal health officials “fear that if they concede the flu has peaked, Americans will become complacent and lose interest in being vaccinated“; there is more tamiflu resistance appearing in both the US and Wales; Canada has had…
Bleeding occurs in 3% of recipients of adenovirus vector vaccines/ Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Low platelet counts (thrombocytopenia) lead to bleeding. Using adenovirus as a vector in gene transfer experiments consistently led to low platelet counts, according to a 2007 study. (Hat tip to Tetyana Obukhanyk). The first sentence in its abstract reads, “Thrombocytopenia has been consistently reported following the administration of adenoviral gene transfer vectors.” Update April 15: “Most…
Many medical organizations “cosign” CDC/HHS baloney about myocarditis being rare, mild. Institutional capture on steroids
This statement alone is enough to make one give up entirely on American medicine. It drips with corruption. It provides no data, no useful information. It simply tells us that our tax dollars have been used to buy all these people and the once-upon-a-time meaningful organizations they represent. Whenever the spin doctors tell you “the…
Additional questions about the H1N1 scandal/ BMJ letter
French physician and pharmacoepidemiologist Marc Girard has penned a fiery letter to the BMJ about medical experts, clinical guidelines, drug regulation and the role of Pharma in creating a market for swine flu and hepatitis B vaccines. Not to be missed, here are two excerpts: …how, during the development of a vaccine targeted against a…