Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Senator Moves to Block Medical Ghostwriting
August 21st, 2009Via: New York Times: A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation’s top medical schools have been attaching their names and lending their reputations to scientific papers that were drafted by ghostwriters working for drug companies — articles that were carefully calibrated to help the manufacturers sell more products. Experts […]
Video Ads in Magazines
August 20th, 2009Via: Financial Times: When some readers of Entertainment Weekly open their magazines next month, they will discover characters from US television programmes speaking to them from a wafer-thin video screen built into the page. The marketing experiment – which is being conducted by CBS, the US broadcaster, and Pepsi, the soft drinks maker – recalls […]
Your Tax Dollars at Work for Michael Bay
August 19th, 2009Via: David Bordwell: Back in July, when I was watching films at Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, I managed to catch several of the films in the Frank Capra retrospective. Two of them, Dirigible (above and left) and Submarine, were surprisingly spectacular, given that at the time Columbia was still a relatively minor studio. It […]
Britain: Only 1/3 of Nurses Willing to Have Swine Flu Vaccine
August 18th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Only a third of nurses have said they are willing to have the vaccine against swine flu amid fears it has not been tested enough, a survey has found. Frontline health and social care workers will be among the first to be vaccinated in October along with people with serious underlying health problems […]
Mutated Virus from Vaccine Causing Polio Outbreaks in Africa
August 15th, 2009See The Polio Vaccine: A Critical Assessment of Its Arcane History, Efficacy, and Long-Term Health-Related Consequences by Neil Z. Miller (pdf). Via: Boston Globe: Polio, the dreaded paralyzing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is spreading in Nigeria. And health officials say in some cases, it’s caused by the vaccine used to fight it. […]
FLU: U.S. GOVERNMENT PREPARING TO FEED CHILDREN IN CLOSED SCHOOLS; “REACH PEOPLE AT WORK”
August 13th, 2009What are the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security and Education really saying here? Our agencies are working with the Department of Agriculture to make sure children will have access to healthy meals if their schools close, and with Departments of Commerce and Labor to reach people at work. This sounds like they’re […]
Massachusetts Deputizes Dentists, Others to Help with Vaccinations
August 13th, 2009Via: Boston Globe: Massachusetts health authorities took the unprecedented step yesterday of deputizing dentists, paramedics, and pharmacists to help administer vaccines against both the seasonal flu and the novel swine strain expected to make a return visit in the fall. In another emergency measure, regulators directed hospitals and clinics to provide vaccine to all their […]
Brazil TV Host Turned Politician ‘Ordered Killings to Boost Ratings’
August 12th, 2009Via: Guardian: A Brazilian politician who fronts a popular television crime show is being investigated for allegedly ordering a series of executions in a bid to boost his ratings. Wallace Souza, a former police officer who used his lunchtime television slot to rail against the violence sweeping the jungle city of Manaus, is suspected of […]
Food Crisis Could Force Wartime Rations and Vegetarian Diet on Britons
August 11th, 2009You’ll love the citation for the source of this: “A paper setting out the food security assessment…” That’s it. The The Great Rupert Murdoch Wurlitzer strikes again. Via: Times: The British people face wartime rations and a vegetarian diet in the event of a world food shortage, a new official assessment on the UK’s food […]
Unemployed? Work to Pass Obamacare, $9 to $14 per Hour
August 10th, 2009The organization behind this is called Fund for Public Interest Research. Via: Craigslist: Aug 7 – Make social change – Help Pass Obama’s Health Care Reform!!! – (Sacramento) Jul 31 – Help Pass Obama’s Health Care Reform! Earn $325-550 per week! – (Sacramento) Jul 29 – Work to Pass Obama’s Plans this Summer! Earn $9-14/hr! […]
