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

From Matt Appuzzo at the AP, published in the Washington Post, comes this amusing piece: WASHINGTON — In his 2009 speech to the Muslim world, President Barack Obama announced a new effort to eradicate polio, which persists in three Muslim countries. One of the biggest hurdles had been persuading some local leaders that vaccination campaigns…

An excellent piece was published by Agence France Presse.  The article below is by MARIA CHENG, The Associated Press-Washington Post, March 10, 2011: LONDON — An expert panel commissioned by the World Health Organization to investigate its handling of the swine flu pandemic has slammed mistakes made by the U.N. body and warned tens of…

From Dr. Stephen Frost, one of the doctors making this request of the Attorney General: I am one of the doctors who have been fighting for an inquest into the suspicious death of Dr David Kelly in July 2003, pointing out that due process of the law has been subverted by four successive UK governments,…

The CDC website posts information for each of the last 14 flu seasons on the effectiveness of each year’s flu vaccine.  Averaged out, the effectiveness of flu vaccines is 40.5%. Figure. Effectiveness of Seasonal Flu Vaccines from the 2004-2018 Flu Seasons While that may not sound too bad, it means that 60% or 3 out of every…

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,”…

There are many federal advisory panels, often comprised of those with vested interests. This panel did as expected, calling for precipitous vaccine approval. The Wall Street Journal reports: In the U.S., a federal advisory panel said the FDA should move ahead to approve or license the new H1N1 vaccine without waiting to receive data from…