Friday, February 25, 2011

New review of anthrax case discussed by review committee vice chair, Stanford bioterrorism expert

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David Relman, vice chair of the National Academy of Science committee that reported on the FBI's anthrax letters research last week, did...
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WHO statement on narcolepsy and Pandemrix vaccine

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WHO Statement on Narcolepsy and Vaccination 8 February 2011 Since August 2010, following widespread use of vaccines against influenza (...
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4/5ths of Medical Devices recalled by FDA were not approved using standard procedures/ Archives of Internal Medicine

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Steve Nissen et al. hit another homer; the authors examine why bad medical devices (those eventually recalled) were initially approved by FD...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Answers in 2001 anthrax attacks are still elusive/ WaPo editorial

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Today the Washington Post called for an independent commission on the anthrax letters: RESOLUTION OF THE 2001 anthrax attacks continues to...
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Muddying the waters: contradictory NAS Report interpretations, and how the report itself asks to be read

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Professor Paul Keim, an anthrax genetics expert at Northern Arizona University and FBI contractor, is claiming the NAS report supports the F...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

My earlier posts on this case: highlights

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1.  The FBI's anthrax letters investigation:  points to consider November 30, 2010   2.  My summary of unresolved issues in the anthrax...

In depth discussion of anthrax case by Glenn Greenwald/ Salon

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Glenn Greenwald (Salon) talks about the origins of this story.  He covers the media response to the FBI's case in 2008, when calls for ...
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FBI ducks and dodges NAS anthrax conclusions/ WaPo

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From today's Washington Post : FBI continues to claim Ivins misled them with his original anthrax sample, although NAS pointed out tha...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Rush Holt reintroduced legislation today to establish an anthrax investigative commission

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From the LA Times : ... Rep. Rush D. Holt, a Democrat from New Jersey, the site of the postal box where the letters were mailed, reintrodu...
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NAS Report and press conference pull rug out from under FBI's "case closed"

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There is no getting away from the NAS report conclusions, as reported worldwide:  the science does not support FBI's claims that Ivins ...
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Anthrax report casts doubt on scientific evidence in FBI case against Bruce Ivins/ WP

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From Jerry Markon at the Washington Post : A panel of prominent scientists is casting new doubt on scientific evidence that was a key part ...
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

I broke my right humerus, so posts will be limited for a few weeks

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Associating vaccines and subsequent diseases

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WHO noted that narcolepsy has never before been associated with vaccines.  When there is no prior association, odd diseases occuring in te...
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Friday, February 4, 2011

GlaxoSmithKline not liable to pay Pandemrix damages/ Helsinki Times

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UPDATE :  On Feb 8, WHO acknowledged that at least 12 countries were reporting cases of narcolepsy associated with swine flu vaccinations. ...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Ninefold risk of developing narcolepsy after Pandemrix vaccine for Finnish children/ AP

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Finland's National Narcolepsy Task Force released its preliminary report today, and GSK's swine flu vaccine is implicated.  From the...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

HPV Mandates failing

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Merck developed a clever scheme for marketing HPV vaccine :  it would lobby for laws that would add the vaccine to state Medicaid entitlemen...
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Finland's Chief Medical Officer: Had I known of potential consequences, I would not have vaccinated 5-20 year olds for swine flu/ YLE

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From YLE: The Chief Medical Officer of Finland's National Public Health Institute has conceded that children and young people shoul...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

David Kelly: 5 items found on his body had no fingerprints! / Daily Mail

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It might not be murder, but there was definite hanky panky at the scene of David Kelly's death.  Not only did the knife, the water bottl...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Breast Implants Are Linked to Rare but Treatable Cancer, F.D.A. Finds/ NY Times

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Autoimmune disorders encompass a large variety of illnesses, the fourth-largest general category of disease, it is said.  A rare lymphoma, o...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Scientists fear MMR link to autism/ MailOnline

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UPDATE:   This is a 2006 article.  Sorry. Too bad we have to get our science from the Mail, but in the era of Conflicts of Interest, maybe...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

1300 cases of vaccine-related brain damage compensated in US courts/ CBS News

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From CBS News in September : ... occasionally, vaccines cause injury or death. Very rarely, patients are left with what's known as ...

25 Tons of Bombs Wipe Afghan Town Off Map/ Wired

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Shades of Vietnam:  we had to destroy this village to save it.  And the  US plans to spend $1,000,000 to rebuild it.  Of course no civilia...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Confused vaccine messages in the UK/ Telegraph

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The UK's Telegraph is on a tear about flu vaccine.  Two weeks ago, the Telegraph complained that the UK government had dropped its flu...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

"Complete Revamp" of country's drugs regulatory system promised by French Health Minister/ BBC

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BBC News reports that "France pledges reform after diabetes drug scandal":   Mr Bertrand said it was his duty to rebuild t...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Wakefield Witch Hunt: What's Up?

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The BMJ, a medical journal that is more open to controversial subjects than most, just published an investigative piece and editorial clai...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

Research links rise in Falluja birth defects and cancers to US assault/ The Guardian

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• Defects in newborns 11 times higher than normal • 'War contaminants' from 2004 attack could be cause  By Martin Chulov at the Gu...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Iraq Wants the U.S. Out/ WSJ

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From an exclusive interview with the WSJ : BAGHDAD— Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ruled out the presence of any U.S. troops in Iraq after ...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Kleptocracy Nation: Retired Generals and Admirals working for defense contractors/ Boston Globe

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From Bryan Bender at the Globe : Former officers and specialists say the defense industry’s political might is getting a new boost from an ...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Kleptocracy Nation: Lawmakers seek cash during key votes/ WaPo

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From Carol D. Leonnig and T.W. Farnam at the Washington Post : Numerous times this year, members of Congress have held fundraisers and col...
Friday, December 24, 2010

Making the unacceptable "legal" (in this case, indefinite detention without trial) via Executive Order (but it's still unconstitutional)/ HuffPo

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Bill Quigley (Loyola University Law Professor) and Vince Warren (both associated with the Center for Constitutional Rights) discuss Obama...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Monitoring America/ Washington Post

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The Washington Post team of Dana Priest and William Arkin have again pushed the envelope on what the mainstream media report on US governme...