J P Sears parodies the CDC Director. 4 minutes

 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK560886/ Refusal of Care Benjamin D. Pirotte; Scarlet Benson. “A patient’s right to the refusal of care is founded upon one of the basic ethical principles of medicine, autonomy. This principle states that every person has the right to make informed decisions about their healthcare and that healthcare professionals should not impose their own beliefs or…

In 1993 the US Government knew that silicon was used to enhance dispersal of powdered microbial agents and toxins.  OTA produced some very useful research, but the agency no longer exists. U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Technologies Underlying Weapons of Mass Destruction, OTA-BP-ISC-115 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 1993). CHEMICAL ADDITIVES The…

I think this is a must-read.  I have been avoiding the many Eisenstein pieces sent to me by friends and fellow travelers, due to their length.  My life is one “cut to the chase” after another.  But our predicament now is how to understand and deal with the ocean of people who are seemingly brainwashed. …

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/11/flattening-curve-coronavirus/ While this idea at first seems geeky or counter-intuitive, the intent is to reduce the speed of transmission so the healthcare system does not get overwhelmed, and more time is gained to develop drugs, herbs, traditional Chinese medicines, vaccines for Coronavirus.  While the epidemic will last longer if the “curve is flattened”, we might…

Excellent discussion of what we know, don’t know, and may be assuming incorrectly–by Marc Lipsitch, PhD, professor at Harvard School of Public Health. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/opinion/coronavirus-immunity.html

This long piece meanders from the H1N1 pandemic and the billions spent to save us from a flu much less malign than usual, to the marketing of Tamiflu (a dangerous drug for influenza whose efficacy may be zero) to the problems with industry control of research on all drugs in our pharmacopeiea.  The points may…