November 2010
30 posts
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Commentary: Why The Controversy? Vaccines Save Lives →
npr.org
Adam Ruben, a vaccine researcher at Johns Hopkins, weighs in. He’s also does stand-up comedy, but this isn’t funny.
WONDER-TONIC: TSA Announces Facebook Integration For Full Body Scanners →
wondertonic.tumblr.com
John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, announced yesterday that full body scanners at airports across the nation will be seamlessly integrated with Facebook next month, allowing travelers to save, tag, and share their near-naked security photos with friends,…
You know it’s really just a matter of time.
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Comic Sans Defends Itself, Admirably →
mcsweeneys.net
H/T @davemclure
Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type. Sorry some people like to have fun. Sorry I’m standing in the way of your minimalist Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest. Maybe sometime you should take off your black turtleneck, stop compulsively adjusting your Tumblr theme, and lighten the fuck up for once.
Delish Comments On Rachel Ray's BOGUS Late-Night Bacon Recipe →
foodnetwork.com
Thanks @katherinehobson and @adamfeuerstein! Made my day.
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This thing is so obviously an airplane contrail, and yet apparently all the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t find someone to stand up and say it, GlobalSecurity.org’s John Pike tells WaPo. I guess the president’s out of town.
The object, Pike said, was moving too slowly to be a missile, adding: There’s a reason that they’re called rockets.
” —Washington Post
DOJ Charges Drug Co Lawyer With Obstructing, Lying About Off-Label Marketing →
justice.gov
Curious that DOJ doesn’t name company lawyer Lauren Stevens works for/worked for. Have a call into what seems the most likely candidate GlaxoSmithKline.
The indictment alleges that, in response to the FDA’s inquiry, Stevens signed and sent a series of letters from the company to the FDA that falsely denied that the company had promoted the drug for off-label uses, even though she knew, among other things, that the company had sponsored numerous programs where the drug was promoted for unapproved uses. The indictment alleges that Stevens knew that the company had paid numerous physicians to give promotional talks to other physicians that included information about unapproved uses of the drug. According to the indictment, the company paid one such physician to speak at 511 promotional events in 2001-2002 and another physician to speak at 488 such events during that time period.
Boston Business Journal reports Stevens works for GlaxoSmithKline. And there’s a public LinkedIn page for a Lauren Stevens, vice president & associate general counsel at GSK.
OK, I’ve got more details, and you can find them on Shots here.
