Sunday, November 29, 2015

Obama's Stake in the Heart to the Inspector General system at 70 federal agencies: "No records for you!"

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Just in case you still think the US government has a functioning system of checks and balances, the following article in yesterday's NY ...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

How Good is a Flu Shot? Likely 1-3% chance it will prevent you from getting influenza this year/Lown Institute Blog

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Written by Alan Cassels , a British Columbia drug policy researcher, via Lown Institute Weekly: “Normally, the flu vaccine is between 50 t...
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Saturday, October 3, 2015

WaPo Claims it is Too Dangerous for Presidential Candidates to Discuss the Vaccine Sacred Cow

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Several Republican Presidential candidates (Donald Trump, Dr. Ben Carson and Dr. Rand Paul) were asked in the debate September 16 about thei...
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US Airstrike bombs MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan relentlessly for an hour, despite knowing its location/ Reuters, NYT, Guardian

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UPDATE:  From the Oct 11 WaPo : The AC-130U plane, circling above in the dark, raked the medical compound with bursts of cannon fire, pot...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Were Kansas voting machines programmed like VWs to record votes incorrectly only under certain conditions?/ IVN

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We Can’t Trust Companies To Do The Right Thing, But We Trust Their Voting Machines?  by David Yee at IVN : The VW case of tampering...
Monday, September 21, 2015

China Probes Ex-Official Who Oversaw Clinical Trials for Bribery/ Bloomberg

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Drugs and devices licensed in the US often rely on data generated overseas for FDA approval.  It should come as no surprise that FDA over...