The declining standards of FDA drug approvals

Maryanne Demassi | 17 Aug 2022 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a legal obligation to protect the public and ensure that the benefits of medicines outweigh the harms before being marketed to people. But the agency’s increasing reliance on pharmaceutical industry money has seen the FDA’s evidentiary standards for drug approvals significantly decline. The need for…

Did Pfizer, Moderna Skip Animal Trials? Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers

The Defender | 10 Aug 2022 As claims of COVID-19 vaccine makers skipping animal trials resurfaced and started trending again on social media, political commentator Kim Iversen “fact-checked the fact-checkers” in her latest episode of “The Kim Iversen Show.” As claims of COVID-19 vaccine makers skipping animal trials resurfaced and started trending again on social media, political…

Welcome to the hotez gain of function

Bad Cattitude | 11 Aug 2022 You can check out any time you like, but you still leave a paper trail i love good investigative journalism, especially when it involves looking into the sanctimonious and revealing them as frauds. and wow does this one have it all because baylor college school of tropical medicine president…

Peter Hotez Sees Aggression Everywhere But In The Mirror

Paul Thacker | 9 Aug 2022 Patrolling scientific discourse, Hotez has a knack for discovering “antiscience” in anyone who disagrees with him. Jeffrey Sachs, economics professor at Columbia University and chair of an international commission on COVID-19, charged in a wide-ranging interview last week that the National Institutes of Health and allied scientists were impeding…

New England Journal of Medicine: Unvaccinated COVID Patients Are Contagious for LESS Time Than those Vaxed or Boosted

The National Pulse | 22 July 2022 A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that people vaccinated against Covid-19 remained contagious with the virus for a longer period of time than their unvaccinated counterparts. The disparity in contagiousness was particularly pronounced between the unvaccinated and individuals who did not receive a booster shot.…