The political economy of fear

[S]ince love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. — Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513 All animals experience fear—human beings, perhaps, most of all. Any animal incapable of fear would have been hard pressed to survive, regardless of its size, speed, or […]
Researchers say the new immunotherapy drugs can target two types of evasive cancer-driving proteins

Scientific research has shown that new immunotherapy drugs can target two types of evasive cancer-driving proteins.
Scientists clone endangered American animal for the first time

Meet Elizabeth Ann, the ferret
Pfizer launches COVID-19 vaccine trial in pregnant women

Pfizer and BioNTech will jab approximately 4000 pregnant women with their experimental COVID-19 vaccines in an effort to understand the vaccine’s effects. Globally, millions have already received shots of the vaccines authorized for emergency use.
Oxford study finds asthma treatment Budesonide reduced COVID-19 symptoms, sped up recovery

It reduced the likelihood of requiring urgent care, emergency department consultation or hospitalization.
37% of measles cases analyzed in the US in 2015 were caused by the MMR vaccine

By Arjun WaliaSeptember 12, 2020 What Happened: A study published in 2017 in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology found that “During the measles outbreak in California in 2015, a large number of suspected cases occurred in recent vaccinees. Of the 194 measles sequences obtained in the United States in 2015, 73 were identified as vaccine sequences…” The authors developed […]
Infection fatality “estimates” for COVID-19 via CDC: 0.003%, 0.02%, 0.5% & 5.4%

The CDC has released “scenarios” based on a set of numerical values for biological and epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 illness, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The emphasize they are are not predictions of estimated impact.
CDC admits that 94 percent of “COVID-19 deaths” had other causes and conditions

By Arjun Walia, Collective Evolution What Happened According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), out of all the deaths that have been labelled as a COVID-19 death in the United States so far, for 6% of them “COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned” and for 94% of the deaths, there were other causes and […]