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Human Rights in Ireland
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offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

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offsite link UK Employment Tribunal Awards Compensation to Man For Having Disease Which Doesn?t Exist Wed Dec 17, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
A UK employment tribunal has awarded compensation to a man for having Rejection Sensitivity Disorder, i.e., not liking criticism. Sounds more like Not Being Able To Do Your Job Properly Syndrome, says Steven Tucker.
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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Dec 17, 2025 01:45 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Jimmy Lai?s Conviction Shows How Far Hong Kong Has Fallen Tue Dec 16, 2025 19:00 | Kwai Lou
Handpicked judges, retrospective laws, implied crimes and the abandoning of juries in case they might "pervert the course of justice" ? the conviction of Jimmy Lai shows how far Hong Kong has fallen, says Kwai Lou.
The post Jimmy Lai’s Conviction Shows How Far Hong Kong Has Fallen appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link New Homes Must be Bird-Friendly Despite Reeves War on ?Green Tape? Tue Dec 16, 2025 17:30 | Will Jones
New homes will have to include special bricks for endangered birds such as swifts under Labour's new planning rules, despite?Rachel Reeves?s?war on "green tape".
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offsite link At Tommy?s Carols Tue Dec 16, 2025 15:30 | Chris Larkin
Tommy Robinson's Whitehall Christmas carol service was met with a chorus of pre-condemnation from C of E bishops. But Chris Larkin came away impressed, uplifted and encouraged. Tommy is taking his new faith seriously.
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Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

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Pharmaceutical industry and psychiatrists manipulate their publications

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Tuesday October 23, 2012 22:42author by Consuelo Report this post to the editors

The Ross article includes a review of companies in the business of medical writing, including Scientific Therapeutics of New York. Ross’s research uncovered one of their memos to Merck dated 1999 in which the status of eight separate reports was mentioned.

One of those eight reports was targeted for publication in JAMA. When it was completed, it was indeed published in JAMA in January 2002. At publication, the paper listed two outside academic physicians acting as co-principal investigators and the lead author was identified as a Merck employee. There was no mention of the role Scientific Therapeutics played in writing the paper.
The JAMA editorial notes that editors of these journals bear some responsibility by allowing companies, such as Merck, to manipulate their publications.
Putting Merck in even more hot water is a second article in Wednesday’s JAMA that is based on some of the same documents Ross reviewed. Written by Drs. Bruce Psaty and Richard A. Kronmal, both of the University of Washington, the paper claims Merck was not fully candid when submitting data for review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during the time before Vioxx was recalled.
Calling the Psaty/Kronmal analysis misleading, Merck says the FDA knew of cardiovascular risks linked to Vioxx and was involved with on-going discussion of the matter with Merck.
Source: NYT

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