Nature: Silicon highlights remaining questions over anthrax investigation
Nature discusses weaponization and silicon, but not much new yet.
Medical research is necessary: there are innumerable unanswered questions about how to best treat patients. When lives are at stake, answering the questions is very important. Modern medicine was built on the back of medical research, built on clinical research that must rely on the goodwill of human volunteers. Volunteers participate as research subjects under…
Is someone trying to reduce the supply of hydroxychloroquine? According to the Taiwan English News: An explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in Taoyuan City left two injured and caused a fire early this afternoon, December 20… Liberty Times reported that the factory produces hydroxychloroquine APIs, and is the world’s second largest HCQ raw material supplier. Another…
The NY Times reports that after 2 months of wide use, there are no worrying patterns of adverse reactions found for swine flu vaccine, according to CDC. No increase in Guillain Barre cases has been identified. However, 5 children did die soon after vaccinations; the deaths are being investigated.
Finally some good news! Legalizing pot may have large, unpredicted benefits, according to NBC and this Reuters article: In states that legalized medical marijuana, U.S. hospitals failed to see a predicted influx of pot smokers, but in an unexpected twist, they treated far fewer opioid users, a new study shows. Hospitalization rates for opioid painkiller…
Note: despite retiring from the military 17 months ago, John Grabenstein supervised the following study. Also note that a physical exam cannot identify Gulf War Syndrome (this has been widely acknowledged, and is one reason the existence of GWS was denied) or anthrax vaccine side effects 99% of the time–you need specialized tests for both….
UPDATE June 23: WHO removed it pediatric Covid vaccine guidance a day after posting it. Heads must be rolling in Geneva. Then ACIP had a god-awful meeting the next day, not only minimizing the troublisng issue of myocarditis, but putting out a call for boosters in the very near future, even without data! Below is…
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“But Jacobsen and others say the fact that the FBI has apparently failed to produce a powder to match the attack material suggests it must be very difficult to make.”
Or that the FBI is really incompetent. Which judging from their performance in the investigation seems to be the more likely hypothesis.