Governments pay scientists to produce results that suit their public policy agendas; corporations must then commission defensive studies.
Category Archives: Healthcare
Junk Science 2015: Public health’s scary century
Public health advocates have transformed society in their zeal to promote the greater good. Continue reading Junk Science 2015: Public health’s scary century
Why doctors aren’t shocked that mumps have hit the NHL
Mumps outbreaks occur continually, most of them small and unreported. They’re attracting attention today only because NHL players are involved. And they’re certain to attract attention in future.
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Free the pharmaceutical market
Rolling back the government advantages given vaccines would level the R&D playing field and help end the drought in pharmaceutical breakthroughs.
Don’t rush to hand out the Ebola vaccine
Mistakes in novel areas of science inevitably happen, and especially in highly politicized periods where public panic can run high and governments are under the gun.
Crippling medical research
The medical-industrial-governmental complex spends more and more but has less and less to show for it.
We’re more vulnerable to diseases
Our bodies have changed in the last generation, making us more susceptible than we were a scant few decades ago.
More parents in California are refusing to vaccinate their kids
Why are parents opting out?
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Merck has some explaining to do over their MMR vaccine claims
Pharma giant Merck faces at least two lawsuits alleging wrongdoing over its Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine — hearings made all the more explosive given the introduction of race into the mix. Continue reading Merck has some explaining to do over their MMR vaccine claims
The future of vaccines will be personalized
Because different gene sequences determine how different vaccines at different doses affect us, vaccines in the ideal should be customized to the individual.
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