INVESTIGATOR: Australian Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Doherty is leading an investigation into Australia’s baffling spike in severe side-effects from flu jabs.  From Perth Now: SEASONAL flu shots can trigger febrile fits in young children at nine times the expected rate and should not be given to healthy under-fives this winter, the Chief Medical Officer…

 Protests hit Athens and Paris over new coronavirus restrictions, vaccine mandates A woman holds an anti-vaccination placard in response to new coronavirus curbs in central Paris on July 14. The sign, written in French, reads: “The liquid of the dictatorship will never enter my body.” (Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP/Getty Images) By  Erin Cunningham  and  Isabelle…

The first legal cases (outside the secret FISA court and post Snowden) questioning the legality of NSA spying come to the forefront next week.  See the US News piece here. The first case seeks a broad preliminary injection against “some NSA surveillance programs” and will be heard Monday, Nov 18.  It is a class action…

But FBI’s report, documents and accompanying information (only pertaining to Ivins, not to the rest of the investigation) were released on Friday afternoon… which means the FBI anticipated doubt and ridicule. And the National Academies of Science (NAS) is several months away from issuing its $879,550 report on the microbial forensics, suggesting a) asking NAS…

Why is the country practically bankrupt and mired in corruption? Can the parts of our economic culture that enable huge government giveaways be identified? We certainly don’t know about how most decisions are made at the federal level, nor do we have any idea how much money changes hands and how.  But there are some…

Many healthcare institutions are imposing mandates on staff for flu vaccinations, with penalties ranging from wearing masks throughout the workday (even for those with no cough or sneeze–which demonstrates the lack of scientific basis for this measure, since merely breathing on someone has never been demonstrated to transmit influenza) to blanket firings of employees who refuse to…