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From the Washington Times: Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency’s voracious appetite for spying. By permitting one section of the Patriot Act to expire and by replacing it with the USA Freedom Act, the federal government is taking credit for taming beasts of its own…

There is a lot of published evidence that surgical masks, which are equivalent to dust masks, and are basically the same as the cloth masks we are now wearing, provide little or no protection to the wearer against respiratory viruses.Current dogma is that they are supposed to protect others from your exhaled viruses and secretions….

From AFP: But a year on, questions linger as to whether a decision by the World Health Organization to declare swine flu a pandemic, thereby unleashing the slew of health measures, was over-dramatic or even tainted by commercial interests “It’s a decision which costs huge amounts of money, which frightened people throughout the world unnecessarily,”…

From Infectious Disease News. It may be that media-induced fears and intellectual arguments have ‘maxed out’ the number of Americans choosing to be vaccinated. Perhaps the only way to increase vaccine ‘demand’ in future will be through mandatory vaccinations. School mandates make vaccines a requirement for children, but so far there are no adult mandates,…

<iframe id=”4dd4d242ee0fe” name=”4dd4d242ee0fe” src=”http://d.thelocal.com/w/1.0/afr?auid=19633&cb=1478387141″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” width=”468″ height=”90″><a href=”http://d.thelocal.com/w/1.0/rc?cs=4dd4d242ee0fe&cb=1478387141″ ><img src=”http://d.thelocal.com/w/1.0/ai?auid=19633&cs=4dd4d242ee0fe&cb=1478387141″ border=”0″ alt=””></a></iframe> From Sweden’s English language online paper, The Local: Ninety-three people in Sweden, most of them children, have been diagnosed with narcolepsy since taking the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix last winter, according to figures from the Swedish Medical Products Agency (Läkemedelsverket). In 88…

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…