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Everything you need to know about medical aspects of the pandemic and COVID treatment: the Ron Johnson event today
COVID-19, a Second Opinion. Get educated. Best 5 hours you may ever spend. And it’s free. Senator Ron Johnson hosted a panel discussion yesterday, January 24, on all things COVID. It was amazing. All the experts from yesterday’s rally, and more, were present in one Senate room, and everyone had a chance to speak. Okay,…
Research Advisory Committee on GW Illness Chairman explains how Institute of Medicine was Made to Perform Studies Whose Conclusions Were Predetermined
Jim Binns, chairman of VA’s Research Advisory Committee on GW Veterans’ Illnesses since its inception, authored a detailed memo, with supporting documents, to show how Congress’ statutory charge to the IOM was changed to exclude animal studies and raise the bar for granting presumptive disabilities to ill Gulf War veterans. Jim deserves enormous thanks for…
Not enough COVID? Hospitals complain there are too many beds unfilled and they’re losing money
Rather remarkable article. We had a huge COVID surge in January, but apparently this corresponded to fewer admissions. Inpatient revenue declined 19%. I thought that was a good thing: the huge Omicron wave was relatively mild. Also, some patients have stopped trusting the medical system. Hospitals won’t admit that yet. Not that there are lots…
NY Times “Postscript” to Scott Shane’s article on Ivins of Jan 4, 2009
A two-paragraph article in today’s NY Times, sans byline, appears to end discussion of the so-called “chemical signature” said to identify the source of water used to grow the anthrax letter spores: On Tuesday at an American Society for Microbiology conference in Baltimore, an F.B.I. scientist, Jason D. Bannan, said the water research ultimately was…
ACIP: Flu vaccine shot for everyone, every year/ LA Times
The LA Times reports that what I expected to occur has now happened. The CDC’s ACIP used the swine flu pandemic to gin up flu anxiety and activity. They don’t seem to care that Tamiflu was found to be an “Emperor’s New Clothes” story, nor that the data to support vaccinating everyone (let alone the…
FBI Apologizes–CBS News
See what power reporting has? It can solidify a tower of Bullshit, or cause it to collapse. The bloggers deserve a lot of credit for transforming the Ivins reportage, via impressive investigations and and logical thinking. Their work may have turned this case from one of conviction by innuendo — into one that will receive…