Dr Paul Thomas and I discuss many different subjects including the role of vaccines in mortality in Africa, COVID, Bioterrorism. I especially liked the last 20 mins.

I attended the European Bioelectromagnetics meeting in Helsinki in September 2001, and discovered then that there were dueling bodies of evidence regarding whether electromagnetic fields from cell phones or other sources caused adverse health effects.  Things have not changed a lot since then, although the body of research has considerably expanded.  Because the research paid…

https://www.c-span.org/video/?516920-1/justices-hear-case-vaccine-test-mandate The beginning of the proceeding was muted on C-SPAN.  I am confused re whether  the Solicitor-General of Louisiana presented?  An attorney for the National Federation of Independent Business, Mr. Keller, presented first. The Justices are very verbal about the fact that a terrible epidemic is occurring with 750,000 new cases daily.  They have also…

Authors of papers published in JAMA and NEJM received millions in undisclosed payments in 2017, an analysis finds.  Natalia Mesa THE SCIENTIST, Jan 24, 2022 64   A new analysis finds that 81 percent of authors whose work appeared in [two of the world’s most prestigious medical journals–SB] the Journal of American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine in 2017 failed to disclose…

Here is a collection of CDC staffer Dr. Tom Shimabukuro’s slides from that meeting, and I elaborate on what they mean. The CDC’s Dr. Shimabukuro gave a talk on June 10, 2021 to FDA’s vaccine advisory committee (VRBPAC) discussing preliminary safety data from V-safe, VAERS and VSD. So preliminary it did not agree with what…

Go to: ABSTRACT This 2008 article (available free in full text here) described a very promising Ebola vaccine from USAMRIID: Clin Vaccine Immunol. Mar 2008; 15(3): 460–467. Published online Jan 23, 2008. doi:  10.1128/CVI.00431-07 Vaccine to Confer to Nonhuman Primates Complete Protection Against Multistrain Ebola and Marburg Virus Infection Dana L. Swenson,1 Danher Wang,2 Min Luo,2 Kelly L. Warfield,1 Jan Woraratanadharm,2 David…

Pauline Chen, MD blogs at the NY Times about what it feels like to be a doctor today.  Here she discusses a new survey of 7,000 practicing doctors, 48% of whom experienced at least one symptom of “burnout.”   Excerpts from her article follow: …Research over the last 10 years has shown that burnout –…