While a great deal of misinformation is being foisted into the arena by proponents of Proposition B, very little attention has been given to one “side effect” of the Humane Society of the United States-backed effort to shut down dog breeders in the Show-Me State: An increase in the importation of dogs from overseas. If [...]
Prop B Passage Will Lead to More Imported Puppies
October 21st, 2010 · 6 Comments
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Report: U.S. Failing to Address Urgent Biothreat
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
The United States is failing to address its most urgent threat—biological proliferation and terrorism—concluded a report issued today by the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. In a news release yesterday, the commission also felt the Obama Administration has given appropriate high-level attention to the nuclear threat but [...]
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Memo Exposes Mind-Numbing Actions of CDC
September 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Copyright © 2009 Bob McCarty. All rights reserved. Reprint permission required. Recently, I received a copy of a memo outlining a handful of conversations about hand sanitizer products that took place in 2007 and involved a senior representative of a U.S.-based cleaning products manufacturer and an official at the Centers for Disease Control. After reading [...]
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University of Michigan Places Restrictions on Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Due to Flammability
September 1st, 2009 · 7 Comments
If other colleges and universities across the country choose to follow the University of Michigan’s lead, a recent decision by officials at the Ann Arbor school could put a huge dent in the bottom lines of several companies in the $100-million hand sanitizer industry. It could also make centers of higher education across the country [...]
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CDC Recommends Against Multi-Dose Vials, But Opts to Use Them for Swine Flu Vaccinations
August 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment
After reading in a news report that Tom Gottlieb, the head of Australia’s top infectious disease organization, has serious reservations about the way H1N1 vaccine will be administered to people in his country, I became curious as to how officials in the United States plan to administer the vaccine. Not surprisingly, I learned that officials [...]
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Does Your Baby Have an Alcohol Problem?
July 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments
A rather odd question came to mind after I began investigating the role of hand sanitizer in combating bacteria, germs and viruses amidst media-stoked fears that a 1918-like flu outbreak could surface this fall: “Does your baby have an alcohol problem?” Why? Because, when applied per instructions, the ethyl alcohol contained in the vast majority [...]
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TB Attorney Suing CDC for Invasion of Privacy
April 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta-area attorney whose fame as a carrier of a drug-resistant tuberculosis earned him attention in, including this one and this one, between June and September 2007, is back in the news tonight. Why? Because, according to Associated Press, he’s suing the Centers for Disease Control for invading his privacy.
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