U.S. Health Department *Retracts* Statement on Emergent (anthrax vaccine mfr) getting an Ebola contract/ Bloomberg and WaPo
(Source retracts statement cited in July 15 story.)
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My 2015 article on the IOM and Hepatitis B
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How the organized Left got Covid wrong, learned to love lockdowns and lost its mind: an autopsy/ Christian Parenti
This is a very long article. I include only the beginning. Enjoy. https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/31/left-covid-lockdowns-mind-autopsy/ Christian Parenti·March 31, 2022 It is hard to destroy your own cause and feel righteous while doing so, yet the American left has done it. After more than two centuries at the vanguard of the struggle for freedom, the American left, broadly defined,…
Advisory panel says NSA surveillance program should be ended / NBC
A second official advisory panel tells the government its NSA bulk collection of data is illegal and furthermore, has shown no benefit in fighting terrorism. From NBC: A government advisory panel said Thursday that the bulk data collection program run by the National Security Agency is illegal and should be halted. Recommendations by the…
Fined $3 Billion for Illegal Sales and Marketing of Drugs…but it’s just the cost of doing business / NY Times
From the NY Times: In the largest settlement involving a pharmaceutical company, the British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its best-selling antidepressants for unapproved uses and failing to report safety data about a top diabetes drug, federal prosecutors announced Monday. The agreement also…
Comparing measles cases by year in the US/ CDC, WaPo
This graph comes from the Washington Post. Before 1993 there were many US measles cases, mainly due to waning of vaccine-induced immunity. Then an additional MMR dose was added to the vaccine schedule in the US, and measles immunity improved. There is no endemic measles in the US, helped by the fact there is no…