DRUGMAKERS’ ROYALTY PAYMENTS TO NIHers EXPLODED AFTER PANDEMIC: OpenTheBooks.com reports more than $710 million in drugmakers’ secret royalty payments went to NIH scientists, executives and researchers in 2022 and 2023.
That’s more than double the total of all such known payments between 2009 and 2021. Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose NIAID crew got $690 million of the $710, will be asked about these payments today by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
In addition, a preprint of a new study among nearly 50,000 employees at an Ohio clinic, posted last month, says that those who received more than one dose of the covid jab were found to be more rather than less likely to contract the illness. –
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE: Just the News is reporting that Holden Thorp, who oversees news, research and opinion for the Science family of journals, repeatedly told the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic that he and his peers fell short by failing to better explain to the public that science is a “work in progress” and that scientists are “opinionated” but should change their minds “when we see new data.”
USELESS AGAINST VIRUSES? Neosporin ointment in the nose may help fight off respiratory viruses. “Lab animals whose noses were treated using neomycin — the main ingredient in over-the-counter Neosporin ointment — mounted a robust immune defense against both the COVID-19 virus and a highly virulent strain of influenza, researchers found.”
I remember mockery of doctors who prescribed Azithromycin for Covid.
Senator Markwayne Mullin utterly demolishes smug eco-zealot's ill-informed crusade against plastics, in one of the most epic, one-sided verbal beatdowns yet witnessed.
I remember the days when even smart people believed scientific reports. Maybe my grandchildren will live long enough to see trustworthy science be the only science again. I’d like to believe that.
Checking the Fridge for Leftovers 