DOD’S Current Policy on Exemptions from Anthrax Vaccine

The media have reported that some biodefense scientists said Ivins couldn’t produce the powdered anthrax found in the letters, but at least one scientist said he could. One problem is that the public does not know how the letters’ anthrax was produced, nor whether it contained an additive that promoted dispersion. Anthrax is produced in…

The people who are in a position to know the most about the Covid vaccines, the staff at the federal health agencies, are less likely to be vaccinated than the general public. Furthermore, none of the 3 agency heads (Tony Fauci, Peter Marks and Rochelle Walensky, sadly all MDs) were willing to perjure themselves, and…

Greg Gordon and Stephen Engelberg continue their important series of reports for McClatchy and ProPublica, here focusing on the inadequate security at USAMRIID and potentially wide access to Ivins’ anthrax spores by 419 or more people: The Army laboratory identified by prosecutors as the source of the anthrax that killed five people in the fall…

“With litigation pending over the mandate, here are five healthcare organizations that are suspending mandates: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/5-health-systems-suspending-vaccination-mandates.html 1. Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health is suspending its COVID-19 team member vaccination requirement because of the temporary halt of the CMS mandate, Sandy Dees, media relations coordinator at the health system, wrote in a statement shared with Becker’s. She said…

McClatchy’s Greg Gordon has written another excellent piece on the anthrax letters. The focus this time is on the silicon and tin added to the spore prep, and how the FBI resolutely failed to investigate them as a means of solving the case: The existence of the silicon-tin chemical signature offered investigators the possibility of…

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…