Health Care and Profits, a Poor Mix / NY Times
An excellent piece discusses how turning over aspects of healthcare to private industry led to greater costs without accompanying benefits, and compares the US with other first world countries.
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Ban mobile phones and wireless networks in schools, say European leaders/ The Telegraph
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…
Peter Doshi: Pfizer and Moderna’s “95% effective” vaccines—let’s be cautious and first see the full data/ BMJ
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/11/26/peter-doshi-pfizer-and-modernas-95-effective-vaccines-lets-be-cautious-and-first-see-the-full-data/ November 26, 2020 Only full transparency and rigorous scrutiny of the data will allow for informed decision making, argues Peter Doshi In the United States, all eyes are on Pfizer and Moderna. The topline efficacy results from their experimental covid-19 vaccine trials are astounding at first glance. Pfizer says it recorded 170 covid-19 cases…
The surgeon general calls on Big Tech to turn over Covid-19 misinformation data/ NY Times
This is truly frightening. Misinformation (to be controlled via tech companies) is being treated as a crime, though never defined. A bill has been introduced to give the tech companies cover to censor and turn over private data to government. In other words, Congress may ‘legalize’ censorship and criminalize first amendment rights to freedom of…
The 2008 Naval Environmental Health Center Study by Dr. Margaret Ryan et al. on anthrax vaccination during pregnancy: a critique and historical review
Comments on: Ryan, MAK, et al. Birth Defects among Infants Born to Women Who Received Anthrax Vaccine in Pregnancy. American Journal of Epidemiology; July 2008. Meryl Nass, MD April 20, 2009 Dr. Margaret AK Ryan reports that of the 95,595 military women who delivered babies between 1998 and 2004, anthrax vaccine (one dose or more)…
Obama threatens to veto greater intelligence oversight/ Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
Glenn Greenwald was a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York before becoming a writer on political affairs and constitutional law. He is arguably the most perspicacious journalist offering political commentary today. His comments on Obama’s threatened veto of the intelligence authorization bill follow. One of the principal weapons used by the Bush…
Kleptocracy Nation: Retired Generals and Admirals working for defense contractors/ Boston Globe
From Bryan Bender at the Globe: Former officers and specialists say the defense industry’s political might is getting a new boost from an accelerating flow of retired generals and admirals. The Department of Defense… runs an exclusive job service to teach soon-to-retire generals how to land jobs in the defense industry. And military firms routinely…