Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Doctors who were paid $12-16 million pimped for Medtronic's poor quality spinal fusion material / NY Times

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Finally, members of my profession are fighting back against corrupt doctors and the companies who pay lavishly for their undeserved testimon...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? / NY Review of Books

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This June 23, 2011 article by Marcia Angell , a former NEJM editor and a Harvard professor of medicine, is a must-read .  Actually, this art...
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Memo reveals intelligence chief wrote dossier on Iraqi WMD knowing that "in terms of WMD Iraq is not that exceptional"/ Guardian

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From the Guardian, an article provides new information on how Tony Blair's administration lied to make the case for war in Iraq. What d...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Use of Psychological Profile to Infer Ivins's Guilt Is Problematic/ Clinical Psychiatry News

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Dr. Annette Hanson penned the following piece on the ethically impaired "Expert Behavioral Analysis Panel" paid for by FBI: In ...
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FDA Anger over Australian flu vaccine investigation/SMH

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From the Sydney Morning Herald comes this piece that says our FDA found CSL's "investigation" of why so many children had sei...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

What DHHS proposes to tell parents about giving anthrax vaccine to their children

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In order to meet the requirements of 45 CFR 46.407 , a federal advisory panel must review the proposed pediatric research, agree that it ...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Fukushima lesson: You can't rely on govt or industry when a real crisis comes along/ NY Times

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Most detailed look yet at the flawed decision-making and terrible information sharing between TEPCO, government bureaucrats, political leade...
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F.B.I. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds/NYT

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More on America's widening surveillance state from the NY Times : The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new power...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

Attorney General Dominic Grieve refuses to order an inquest on death of David Kelly

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After David Cameron recently said a full inquest into David Kelly's death was unnecessary, it was no surprise that his Attorney General ...
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Monday, June 6, 2011

Why we are still in Afghanistan: One trillion $ in minerals/NPR

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More on the bureaucratic challenges of injecting children " with no clear benefit" with anthrax vaccine/DHHS

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See here for a detailed discussion of the expanding anthrax vaccine stockpile, vaccine maker Emergent Biosolutions, and the illegality of s...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

WHO: Radiofrequency radiation from cell phones and other sources a possible carcinogen

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From the Washington Post : “After a weeklong meeting on the type of electromagnetic radiation found in cellphones, microwaves and radar, th...
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Monday, May 30, 2011

Germany: Nuclear power plants to close by 2022/ BBC

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From the BBC : Germany's coalition government has announced a reversal of policy that will see all the country's nuclear power pla...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

The anthrax killings: A troubled mind/ LA Times

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In a lead-up to the release of his book in June, David Willman writes about Bruce Ivins' eccentricities and threats of violence.  The pr...
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Narcolepsy cases rising after swine flu vaccine/ THE LOCAL

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Emergent expects large anthrax vaccine order/ Business Week

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The US government, according to the anthrax vaccine maker, has promised to spend a billion ...

Is a repeat flu shot needed? This fall, maybe not/AP

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Most Americans who got flu vaccine last year don't need it again.  But CDC and manufacturers are confident of their maarketing prowess, ...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Rep. Nadler presses FBI for anthrax information/ McClatchy

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Another story by Greg Gordon explores the false/misleading answer the FBI provided Rep. Nadler, a House Judiciary subcommittee chairman, wh...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

David Kelly: Stolen Dental Records???

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David Kelly's dental records went missing for several days, then reappeared, according to his dentist.  It now turns out there were seve...

Male Congressmembers' Favorite Target: Intelligent, Competent Women

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Who is the person in the Obama administration who has been most firmly pro-consumer and staunchly in favor of strict banking regulations? ...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

FBI lab reports on anthrax attacks suggest another miscue/ McClatchy

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McClatchy's Greg Gordon has written another excellent piece on the anthrax letters. The focus this time is on the silicon and tin added...
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Victory for Veterans/ NY Times Editorial

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From the NY Times ' editorial page: The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ordered an overhaul of mental health care ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was pushing for increased bank regulations and more even income distribution worldwide/ Washington Post

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UPDATE:  Dominique Strauss-Kahn is "not in a position to run" the International Monetary Fund after his arrest over an alleged se...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

Cores Damaged at 3 Reactors/ WSJ

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Partial meltdowns of three reactors and breaches of the containment vehicles are finally acknowledged by TEPCO on May 15.  From the WSJ : S...

Ban mobile phones and wireless networks in schools, say European leaders/ The Telegraph

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I attended the European Bioelectromagnetics meeting in Helsinki in September 2001, and discovered then that there were dueling bodies of evi...