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

According to the LA Times and echoed by many other outlets,  “France’s foreign ministry says deadly sarin gas used in a chemical attack in Syria this month that killed 87 people “bears the signature” of President Bashar Assad’s government. A six-page report by French intelligence services claims the nerve agent came from hidden stockpiles of chemical…

Healthcare is highly valued by our society, yet it seems that many of our pundits and politicians are willing to create a new healthcare system from whole cloth. In other words, let’s consider this or that experiment, and the winner will be the compromise melange that gets passed by Congress. (Definition of melange: a collection…

From Reuters and the NY POst: Prosecutors will ask a judge to dismiss all charges in the [criminal] sexual assault case against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn at a court hearing on Tuesday, the New York Post reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources.   The Manhattan district attorney’s office will file a motion recommending the…

FDA’s VRBPAC advisory committee meets Tuesday, October 26 to advise FDA on the authorization of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for children between 5 and 12 years old. One week later, On November 2-3, the CDC’s advisory ACIP committee will meet to approve a rollout of the vaccine for this age grooup. We anticipate that plenty of…

Professor David Salisbury, the Director of Immunisation for the UK Department of Health, wrote to colleagues/stakeholders on March 16 suggesting that routine pneumococcal immunisation in the over-65 age group be ended, and asking for their views before making a final decision on the program.  Ending routine vaccinations in the elderly is the recommendation of the…

Doctors in the UK and Australia have been instructed not to give flu vaccines this year to children under five years old.  As reported by the Telegraph: The letter to all GPs from Prof David Salisbury, said: “Epidemiological information from Australia indicates that there has been a higher than expected increase in febrile convulsions in…