Archive for April, 2014
Supreme Court Allows More Private Money in Election Campaigns
April 4th, 2014Via: CNN: If you’re rich and want to give money to a lot of political campaigns, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that you can. The 5-4 ruling eliminated limits on how much money people can donate in total in one election season. However, the decision left intact the current $5,200 limit on how much an […]
Threatened Pandemics and Laboratory Escapes: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
April 3rd, 2014Via: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: The public health danger from the escape, from laboratories, of viruses capable of causing pandemics has become the subject of considerable, well-merited discussion, spurred by “gain of function” experiments. The ostensible goal of these experiments— in which researchers manipulate already-dangerous pathogens to create or increase communicability among humans—is to develop […]
Leaders of Teaching Hospitals Have Close Ties to Drug Companies
April 3rd, 2014Via: ProPublica: Pharmaceutical company payments to doctors extend far beyond rank-and-file clinicians — and deep into the leadership of America’s teaching hospitals, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center examined the boards of the 50 largest drug […]
DARPA: Biological Technologies Office
April 3rd, 2014I saw this trailer for The Machine a couple of weeks ago, and I couldn’t resist including it with this news from DARPA. Via: DARPA: Technology, like biology, constantly evolves. It is DARPA’s mission to stay ahead of the shifting technology curve by making critical, early investments in areas that cut across fields of research […]
Terrifying Mental and Physical Health Consequences of Taking Statins
April 1st, 2014Madness. Via: Mercola: Related: France: Half of Drugs Prescribed Useless or Dangerous – Statins “Completely Useless”
NATO Suspends Russia Co-Operation
April 1st, 2014Via: BBC: Nato foreign ministers have agreed to suspend all practical civilian and military co-operation with Russia. In a strongly worded statement, they condemned Russia’s “illegal” annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region and praised the Ukrainian government’s “restraint”. Moscow is believed to have massed tens of thousands of troops on Ukraine’s eastern border in recent days, […]
Dr. Michael F. Holick Vitamin D Presentation
April 1st, 2014Via: TheIHMC:
Du Pont Family Heir Convicted of Raping Daughter Sentenced to… (Wait for It) Probation – Also Accused of Abusing Son
April 1st, 2014Is the judge in on it? Compromised in some way? From The News Journal: A Superior Court judge who sentenced a wealthy du Pont heir to probation for raping his 3-year-old daughter noted in her order that he “will not fare well” in prison and needed treatment instead of time behind bars, court records show. […]
