No commentary needed. As the New C.D.C. Chief, I’ll Tell You the Truth https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/opinion/rochelle-walensky-cdc-director.html … On Jan. 20, I will begin leading the C.D.C., which was founded in 1946 to meet precisely the kinds of challenges posed by this pandemic. I agreed to serve as C.D.C. director because I believe in the agency’s mission and…

Washington Post and New York Times editorials today find the FBI’s revelations unconvincing, and call for an independent, scientific review of the evidence.

From AFP/ Raw Story: … In Finland, 79 children aged four to 19 developed narcolepsy after receiving the Pandemrix vaccine in 2009 and 2010, while in Sweden the number was close to 200, according to figures in the two countries. Both countries recommended their populations, of around five and 10 million respectively, to take part…

Another story by Greg Gordon explores the false/misleading answer the FBI provided Rep. Nadler, a House Judiciary subcommittee chairman, when he asked about the silicon content of the anthrax letters in September 2008.  It took 7 months to get the wrong answer. Nadler was told the Leahy letter contained 1.4% silicon (felt to be “naturally”…

Read it yourself.  Thank Lee Fang at The Intercept for providing this transcript of Pfizer’s recent phone call with investors.  The quote I used in the title is from page 4: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20514141-pfe-usq_transcript_2021-03-11  In case you haven’t figured it out, the worse current vaccines do against viral variants, the more frequently new vaccines can be sold…

Well-known arms control/disarmament/nonproliferation expert Jonathan Tucker died last week at 56.  Paul Walker, who follows a similar career trajectory, as arms control advocate and expert, wrote about Tucker’s life and accomplishments.  Regarding Tucker’s views on the anthrax letters case, Paul wrote the following: His intellectual and academic vigor, together with his journalistic instincts, were also…