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Military Court Acquits Soldier in OMSJ Case

17 May (Fort Bragg, NC) – After more than 200 days in custody, a US Army sergeant was released this week after a federal court acquitted him of four HIV-related criminal against him. (more…)



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  • Harvard To Be Tried for Research Fraud

    11 May (AHRP) – The US Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit has overturned a summary judgement by a lower court ordering a whistleblower lawsuit filed by Dr. Kenneth Jones against Harvard Medical School, its teaching hospitals, Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts (more…)

  • Vaccinated Baby Monkeys Develop Autism Symptoms

    7 May (NaturalNews) - If vaccines play absolutely no role in the development of childhood autism, a claim made by many medical authorities today, then why are some of the most popular vaccines commonly administered to children demonstrably causing autism in animal primates? (more…)

  • DSM 5 Begins Its Belated Retreat

    3 May – Sigh of relief. The DSM 5 website announced this morning that two of its most controversial proposals have finally been dropped. We have dodged bullets on Psychosis Risk and Mixed Anxiety Depression. Both are now definitively rejected as official DSM 5 diagnoses and instead are being exiled to the appendix. And one other piece of good news-the criteria set for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder has been tightened (not enough, but every little bit helps). (more…)

  • VA Nurses Scrutinized After Patient Deaths in Two States

    3o April – (PRO PUBLICA) - After a patient died last year at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Manhattan, federal inspectors discovered nurses in his unit had a startling gap in their skills:  They didn’t understand how the monitors tracking vital signs worked. (more…)

  • Four Medical Implants That Escaped FDA Scrutiny

    3o April (PRO PUBLICA) - Medical devices sustain and improve the quality of life for millions of Americans. But as the over $100 billion-a-year industry pushes thousands of devices to market every year, reports of faulty devices, repeat surgeries, and recalls (more…)

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  • Hospital, Child Services Forces Family to Flee

    30 April (MEMPHIS, TN) – Shortly after midnight on a weekday last winter, Morris Scott parked his car at the curb of a rainy suburban street in Memphis, Tennessee.  He ducked his head as he approached his brother’s home as several other cars and a moving van quietly parked beneath the (more…)

  • WTO Promotes Junk Science in Argentina

    19 APRIL (ARGENTINA) – The fact that politics, incompetence and corruption have replaced scientific integrity is nothing new.  Researchers like C. Glenn Begley and John Ioannidis have described how junk science permeates publishied reports, which has led indirectly to efforts like Timothy Gowers boycott against publishing giant Elsevier. (more…)

  • My Year as an HIV Patient

    I was 25 when I was “diagnosed” with HIV last year.  It happened at a clinic during a regular checkup.  I swabbed my mouth, answered some routine questions and returned to the lobby to await my ELISA test results.  I don’t remember her name but, a few minutes later, a serious-looking clinician called me back into her office.  I could tell she had prepared to tell me something serious that she was about to lay something heavy on me.  (more…)

  • Drug Data Shouldn’t Be Secret

    10 April - IN the fall of 2009, at the height of fears over swine flu, our research group discovered that a majority of clinical trial data for the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu — data that proved, according to its manufacturer, that the drug reduced the risk of hospitalization, serious complications and transmission — were missing, unpublished and inaccessible to the (more…)

  • Polio Gone but Vaccines Will Continue

    9 Apr (New Delhi) - India was taken off the list of polio-endemic countries by the World Health Organization (WHO) two months ago, but the polio eradication campaign will have to be continued in some format forever. (more…)

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  • The Real CSI

    17 Apr - This is how I — a journalism graduate student with no background in forensics — became certified as a “Forensic Consultant” by one of the field’s largest professional groups.  One afternoon early last year, I punched in my credit card information, paid $495 to the American College of Forensic Examiners International Inc. and registered for an online course.  After about 90 minutes (more…)

  • FDA Failures Continue to Put Patients at Risk

    5 Apr – In 1957, the Upjohn Company launched the antibiotic Panalba.  The drug was administered to thousands of Americans for more than a decade.  By 1968, Panalba sales totaled $18 million.  After years of complaints related to the drug, FDA Commissioner Herbert Ley Jr., reported that roughly one in five patients who received it suffered a serious allergic reaction – a blood reaction that killed twelve patients.  Although several (more…)

  • Positively False – The Movie

    15 March – Positively False – Birth of a Heresy (2012) traces the challenge over the past 25 years to the scientific orthodoxy which maintains that HIV is the cause of AIDS.  Investigative journalist Joan Shenton reaches back to 1987 through her extensive archive of broadcast and non-broadcast video material and combines it with (more…)

  • CBS Exposes Phylogenetic Scam

    12 FEB – CBS News – Five years ago, Duke University announced that it had an advanced, experimental treatment that would match chemotherapy to a patient’s own genetic makeup – a declaration hailed as the holy grail of cancer care. (more…)

  • Hank Wilson on Poppers, KS and HIV

    In 1994, LGBT activist Hank Wilson (1947-2008) collaborated with HIV researchers in this report, which examined the possible connections between HIV, AIDS and the heavy use of amyl nitrate inhalents (i.e. poppers) among promiscuous gay men and (more…)