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brilliant…

let us see those scurrilous remarks

a Wikileak from the guardian.co.uk Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 14:13 S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 05 LONDON 002198 NOFORN SIPDIS EO 12958 DECL: 09/21/2019 SUBJECT: U/S TAUSCHER’S MEETINGS WITH FS MILIBAND AND OTHER HMG OFFICIALS Classified By: Political Counselor Robin Quinville for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). … 10. (S/NF) Day […]

a “quintessential resource”…

To ghostwrite an entire textbook is a new level of chutzpah," former FDA chief David Kessler told the Times. "I’ve never heard of that before. It takes your breath away." In 1999, Dr. Charles Nemeroff, then Chairman of Psychiatry at Emory, and Dr. Alan Schatzberg, then Chairman of Psychiatry at Stanford, published Recognition and Treatment […]

toy soldiers…

ShrinkRap points us to this: Barton Compares Boehner To Eisenhower, Cantor To Omar Bradley Huffington Post by Ryan Grim 11-29-10 John Boehner is Dwight Eisenhower. Eric Cantor is Omar Bradley. And Joe Barton is George Patton. That’s according to a presentation that Barton plans to give to the committee of House Republicans Tuesday that will […]

American Exceptionalism…"> the next political “bubble?” – American Exceptionalism

I had a thought over the holidays, kind of out of the blue. "We’re in a political bubble," said my mind, apropos of nothing. Maybe it’s intuitive what my thought meant, but I thought I’d flesh it out just to see where it goes. Obviously, the "bubble" part came from all the financial bubbles that […]

for the moment…

After Condom Remarks, Vatican Confirms Shift New York Times By RACHEL DONADIO and LAURIE GOODSTEIN November 23, 2010 VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI clearly acknowledged on Tuesday that the need to prevent diseases like AIDS could outweigh the church’s long opposition to the use of condoms. It was a significant and stunning personal pronouncement […]

infallibility…

Pope’s Comments on Condoms Sow Confusion The New York Times By RACHEL DONADIO November 22, 2010 ROME — In a papacy troubled by communications missteps, Pope Benedict XVI’s unprecedented new book of interviews with a German journalist sought to clarify matters by going straight to the source. But ever since the Vatican’s official newspaper published […]

industry on parade once again…

I thought I was done with the Dr. Anil Potti story, but there’s one more piece – unfortunately all too familiar. Potti is a paid speaker for Eli Lilly and GSK [Glaxo-Smith-Klein]. Lilly makes one of the drugs being studied. In addition, Potti and Duke University are involved with CancerGuide, a company that was formed […]

overlooked…

It started slowly in July with this report that Duke Cancer researcher, Dr. Anil Potti, had padded his resume – claiming falsely that he had been a Rhodes Scholar among other questionable qualifications. Prominent Duke Scientist Claimed Prizes He Didn’t Win, Including Rhodes Scholarship The Cancer Letter By Paul Goldberg July 16, 2010 A high-profile […]

junk science on the leading edge

Duke Scientist Under Investigation Resigns Science Insider American Association for the Advancement of Science by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel 19 November 2010 A Duke University oncologist who had been the focus of a misconduct investigation has resigned from the university. Anil Potti had published papers in prominent journals identifying gene signatures in tumors that could predict how […]