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The emperor is marching around buck naked/BMJ
The validity and quality of research underpin the entire research enterprise worldwide. However, a number of studies have shown that many researchers take “shortcuts” and that perhaps 1-3% of research is grossly false, fitting into the category of research misconduct. Research misconduct has been defined in US federal law as fabrication, plagiarism and/or falsification. Identified…
Why we are still in Afghanistan: One trillion $ in minerals/NPR
Mines, like this one in Badahkshan, could lift Afghanistan out of poverty (NPR) From National Public Radio, information on how the Pentagon is working to develop business opportunities in Afghanistan for US corporations: There’s close to a $1 trillion waiting to be unearthed beneath the rocky soil of Afghanistan. The massive deposits of iron, copper,…
Tossing away swine flu vaccine in the UK and US, and storing millions of Tamiflu doses
According to the AP. in the US, “the government placed three orders last year for a combined total of nearly 200 million doses — an unprecedented amount and almost double the amount of vaccine made in recent years for seasonal flu.“ About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the U.S. public has…
British Columbia, Canada reversed itself on mandatory flu shots this season/ Globe and Mail
Canada’s first mandatory flu shot policy, announced in August 2012 for all healthcare workers, was reversed in early December, following an uproar by nurses and other health workers. The nurses’ union, the HSA and the Hospital Employees’ Union, together representing more than 100,000 health-care workers, objected to their members being forced to have a flu…
Glaxo starts testing its swine flu vaccine/ Associated Press
Excerpts from this Aug 15, 2009 story from the AP: In Europe, Glaxo is testing vaccines with an adjuvant, a chemical compound used to stretch a vaccine’s active ingredient and boost the body’s immune response. In Canada and the United States, Glaxo is testing vaccines both with and without adjuvants. Neither country has ever licensed…