Eli Lilly may be trying to settle a massive investigation into their marketing activities:
Eli Lilly and federal prosecutors are discussing a settlement of a civil and criminal investigation into the company’s marketing of the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa that could result in Lilly’s paying more than $1 billion to federal and state governments.
If a deal is [...]
Oh dear, this is not very good.
A key member of the Senate said Wednesday that a prominent diabetes expert leaked an unpublished and confidential medical journal article to GlaxoSmithKline last year, tipping the company to the imminent publication of safety questions involving the company’s diabetes drug Avandia.
The doctor, Steven M. Haffner of the University of [...]
It is now six days since Rob Hinkley of The Sporadic Chronicle went to a pub to take Lycopodium 10M powder, after a challenge.
I challenge you to phone Ainsworths Homeopathic Pharmacy and order a Lycopodium 10M powder and tell me you don’t feel ANYTHING at all after taking it! That is Lycopodium 10,000c. Lycopodium [...]
Kevin Leitch’s LEFT BRAIN/ RIGHT BRAIN is back in business.
There’s also a del.icio.us feed in my sidebar now.
But words apparently hurt the Archbishop of Canterbury just as much. So much so, that he still wishes the state to police the views of people who disagree with men in dog-collars and other religious garb. Yes, just as the blasphemy laws in the UK are about to be sent into the fiery pit of [...]
The North Korean news service has been featured here before, but it appears that the North Korean state are beyond parody now. It would be funny, if it wasn’t indicative of the most repressive and heartless regime that currently exists on earth.
The invincibility of Songun Korea ushering in the most brilliant era of prosperity in [...]
Michael Fitzpatrick puts forward the case that the medical establishment failed to create a conspiracy over MMR vaccine, when one should perhaps have existed:
Dr Wakefield and his supporters have often claimed that he is a victim of a conspiracy uniting the medical establishment, Big Pharma (the vaccine manufacturers) and the government. An irony that emerges [...]
The BBC’s iplayer will have Primo, a film about Primo Levi, online for the next six days.
Click here to watch it.
You who live safe
In your warm houses,
You who find, returning in the evening,
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man
Who works in the mud
Who does not know peace
Who fights for a scrap of [...]
A few years ago I had a chance meeting with a pharmacist when giving a talk about drug safety. He mentioned that his engineer friend, Harold Kirkham, was writing a book on the graphical presentation of data, and he was interested in the allegations of a link between autism and MMR vaccine. We started corresponding [...]