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  • Former FDA chief predicts flu season will be a ‘whopper’

    09/22/2021 9:28:00 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 66 replies
    NY Post ^ | 09/22/2021 | Yaron Steinbuch
    Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned Wednesday that “we’re in for a whopper” of a flu season due to a lack of immunity in the US population. Gottlieb, who helmed the FDA under President Donald Trump and serves on Pfizer’s board of directors, made the chilling prediction during an interview on CNBC about workplace safety amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “We haven’t seen a flu season last year — we’re in for a whopper because we haven’t put immunity into the population in at least one and maybe now two years. When the flu does come...
  • Japan puts whale burger on menu

    06/23/2005 7:58:31 AM PDT · by Willie Green · 5 replies · 331+ views
    BBC News ^ | Thursday, 23 June, 2005 | Jonathan Head
    For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. A small chain of restaurants in northern Japan has started serving whale burgers. The chain said it hoped to increase whale meat's popularity among locals. The new dish coincides with Japan's failure to overturn a ban on commercial whale hunting at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Japan has said it will double the number of whales it kills for scientific research, a move that was opposed by an IWC vote on Wednesday. The chain of restaurants, on the island of Hokkaido, said the burgers were selling well. A...
  • Ex-U.N. Inspector Questions News Timing (Scott Ritter "It's All a Conspiracy" Alert! )

    01/23/2003 2:27:27 PM PST · by Timesink · 45 replies · 353+ views
    Associated Press ^ | January 23, 2003
    Ex-U.N. Inspector Questions News Timing ALBANY, N.Y. - Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, a harsh critic of the Bush administration's push toward war with Iraq, suggested that recent news reports of his arrest in an Internet sex sting last year were part of an attempt to silence him. He said the publicity forced him to cancel a trip to Baghdad, where he said he would have offered an alternative to military action. "The timing does stink. I was supposed to be on an airplane yesterday to Baghdad," he said. "Let's not forget, we're on the verge of a major...
  • Train spills mayo, molasses in Beaver County

    01/06/2003 8:48:51 AM PST · by Willie Green · 19 replies · 266+ views
    The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Monday, January 06, 2003 | The Associated Press
    <p>Two boxcars full of mayonnaise were part of a 33-car train derailment yesterday, and thousands of jars of mayo spilled onto the tracks in Beaver County.</p> <p>Other boxcars containing corn kernels and plastic pellets also lost their loads, as did a tanker filled with molasses.</p>