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China urges Pentagon to open up about ‘biolabs’ in Ukraine

RT | March 8, 2022 China’s foreign ministry has called on the US to disclose information on the Pentagon’s alleged biological laboratories in Ukraine “as soon as possible”. On Monday, the Russian military said Ukrainian authorities had been destroying pathogens studied at its laboratories. Moscow claimed that 30 US-financed Ukrainian biolabs have been actively cooperating […]

One Word Sums Up “Public Health” in 2022

By James Lyons-Weiler |  Popular Rationalism | February 15, 2022 There are a lot of words that could characterize “Public Health” in 2022. Some that come to mind: -Not credible -Misleading -Wrong-focused -Myopic The one word that sums up “Public Health” in 2022? “Untrustworthy” “Public Health” has suffered from increasing and now severe vaccine myopia […]

Data Show FDA Process for Emergency Authorization of Pfizer, Merck COVID Pills Not Based on Science

By John Droz, Jr., M.S. | The Defender | March 7, 2022 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December 2021 granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to two COVID-19 early treatment oral drugs: Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck’s molnupiravir. This was a major milestone, as until then, there were no FDA-endorsed pharmaceutical pill options for people diagnosed with COVID-19. The standard […]

Cutting Ties: The West, Ukraine, and the Russian Academy

Working with Russian academics and institutions.  The attack upon Ukraine by Russia. These are two features playing out heavily in university discussions.  As typifies such chitchat, nuance features rather less than cant and sanctimony. As writer and lecturer Paolo Nori of Milano-Bicocca University stated after discovering that his course on Fyodor Dostoevsky would be cancelled […]