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Colleague Rebuts Idea That Suspect’s Lab Made Anthrax in Attacks/ NY Times
The New York Times’ Scott Shane reports on the testimony of Henry E. Heine, former Ivins colleague, at the National Academy of Sciences panel reviewing the FBI’s science at its meeting today. … Asked by reporters after his testimony whether he believed that there was any chance that Dr. Ivins, who committed suicide in 2008,…
The testing mess–UPDATE, and how government is cutting out the middleman (the healthcare system) in Covid testing and vaccinations
Let me start by explaining that an antigen test, performed by (minimally trained) personnel in a nursing home, homeless shelter, or other congregate living setting, rather than in a lab, is often the basis for a diagnosis of Covid. The test does not need to be ordered by a doctor. It is possible that the…
Anthrax Redux: Did the Feds Nab the Wrong Guy?/ Wired
Noah Schactman has an extremely detailed, useful piece on the anthrax mailings in Wired. Noah did his homework. The 72 comments are also interesting. UPDATE: Podcast with Noah here. Extracts of the magazine story follow: In February 2003, anthrax became part of the rationale for invading Iraq. Colin Powell went to the United Nations Security…
Eliot Spitzer: A Secret Scandal/ Slate
Half the US GDP was loaned to banks with no collateral. Recall that (former NY Attorney General and Governor) Eliot Spitzer was investigating the Wall Street banks at the time his indiscretions with call girls led to his resignation, ending any hopes of seeking the presidency. Not only American, but many foreign banks were bailed…
CDC inexplicably deletes and changes another metric, after disingenuously promising improved transparency.
The NY Times has published a graphic with 4 separate graphs on it daily, since close to the start of the pandemic. It received all the information in the graphs (and probably the graphics themselves) from the CDC. The graphs provided the number of cases, ordinary hospitalizations, tests performed and deaths. Months ago, a useful…
Finland: 1 in 30 soldiers had EKG evidence of myocarditis 1-2 weeks after smallpox and DTP vaccination/ Annals of Clinical Research 1978
Ann Clin Res. 1978 Oct;10(5):280-7. Myocardial complications of immunisations E P Helle, K Koskenvuo, J Heikkilä, J Pikkarainen, P Weckström ABSTRACT Immunisation may induce myocardial complications. In this pilot study clinical, electrocardiographic, chemical and immunological findings have been studied during a six weeks’ follow-up after routine immunisation (mumps, polio, tetanus, smallpox, diphtheria and type A meningococcal disease) among 234 Finnish…