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My testimony to New Hampshire’s Education Committee on 11/16/21 re: an amendment to a bill that would ban Covid vaccine mandates everywhere in the state
I’d guess 500 people came out to support this amendment, while I counted 14 sitting in the masked section of the room who spoke against. My personal favorite quote came from someone who told the committee, “New Hampshire’s motto is “Live Free or Die.” If you won’t follow it, send it to DeSantis in Florida!” …
Scientific impossibility: Did FBI get their man in Bruce Ivins?
“Bruce Ivins was a cold-blooded murderer, a deranged psycho-killer, who in the fall of 2001, cooked up a virulent batch of powdered anthrax, drove to Princeton, N.J., and mailed letters loaded with the lethal mix to five news organizations and two U.S. senators. At least, that’s what the FBI says. The letters infected 22 people,…
FDA disqualifies advisory committee member due to “intellectual conflict of interest”/ NJ.com
Sidney Wolfe, MD, is a well-known drug safety advocate and founder/ director of the organization Public Citizen’s Health Research Group. FDA finally blessed the quality of his work and reputation by inviting him to join its Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee in 2008. But suddenly FDA has disqualified him from full voting membership…
In 2019, FDA’s head of Epidemiology explained the FDA’a pharmacovigilance systems. These safety systems disappeared after Covid vaccines appeared
Below I have linked to a talk by Steve Anderson, PhD, the Direct or Epidemiology and Biostatistics at FDA’s Center for Biologics (vaccines etc.) Steve is the sorry scientist who “didn’t get a signal” from his systems in June despite the fact that his systems reported that myocarditis in vaccinated male teenagers was occurring at…
Do drug companies spend the most money to promote the most useless drugs?/ CMAJ
Drug companies spent the most money to promote the most useless drugs, according to the following study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal: The relation between promotional spending on drugs and their therapeutic gain: a cohort analysis Joel Lexchin MSc MD Abstract Background: Whether drug promotion helps or hinders appropriate prescribing by physicians is debated. This study…
Statins and cardiovascular conflicts of interest / HealthNewsReview.org
by Brian McFadden for Daily Kos A compendium of comments on the new statin guidelines from Gary Schwitzer at Health News Review: I’d like to see a public survey of comprehension of the recent splash of news about new guidelines for heart disease prevention and statin drug use. Heads must be spinning.Here are some of the pieces…