7 February 2024

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines: Lessons Learned from the Registrational Trials and Global Vaccination Campaign. I missed this when it came out a few weeks ago. It contains this statement, which is amazing to be seen in an American medical journal, instead of in some foreign journal, or as a Letter to the Editor in the BMJ:
Given the extensive, well-documented SAEs and unacceptably high harm-to-reward ratio, we urge governments to endorse a global moratorium on the modified mRNA products until all relevant questions pertaining to causality, residual DNA, and aberrant protein production are answered.
And this Korean doctor gets it right.
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Five sneaky things the Oregon Legislature always does. But Congress does this, too, not just Oregon.

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Tina Kotek is unhappy with the PSU report that homelessness in Oregon has increased. But then the Legislature proposes this: free pizza and fries for the homeless.

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Ed Diehl looks good on paper. But will he deliver?

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How dare they run a preschool downtown right in front of Portland's favorite drug abuse site? How thoughtless of you, Portland.

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Is this Satoshi Nakamoto?

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The East Coast's Kate Brown (Gov Hochul) wants to fast-track migrants for government jobs: 'Get this moving quickly', she says. Meanwhile, this is what the criminals are now doing. They area stealing phones, using it to empty their bank accounts, then selling the electronics to Europe for scrap. Are they just looking for a better life?
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The A.I. Math Olympiad has some serious brainpower on their advisory board.

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Could excessive dietary folate be the cause of the increase in colon cancer? Wow, folate is regarding as generally safe, and many doctors are not afraid to prescribe more than is probably necessary to pregnant women and those with anemia caused by hemolysis. But apparently excess folate promotes gene methylation, which is important in suppressing gene expression. And when an important gene like MLH1 is suppressed, you get cancer.

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Feeling stressed? Here are two ways to get quickly get back in control. One requires the Internet, one doesn't

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Now Regence Blue Cross is wrangling with Legacy Health. The terms of how it settled with Providence were not disclosed to the public, but I bet Providence hospitals patients will know about it soon. I'm beginning to think that the problem is with Regence, and perhaps Providence hospitals and Legacy Health should have negotiated with Regence together, instead of separately.

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