Comments on: Food Safety

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:31:10 +0000

There is that hope, Michael, if they don’t know it exists they may not have destroyed it.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:18:34 +0000

Most of what goes into MMWR is required to be reported by law. To the best of my knowledge, that hasn’t changed, and the Shrubbery hasn’t tried to change it. They probably don’t even know that it exists.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:15:41 +0000

It’s not a problem for me Swan, but the answer is simple – the corporate media isn’t interested in topics that might create problems for their party, the GOP. They have convinced themselves, in spite of the evidence, that the Republans are “good for business” and they don’t want to rock the boat.

That’s they way things have worked in the past, Michael, but then FEMA was very effective in 1995, and we once inspected food. There were a lot of things that once worked, but no longer seem to function, like the Justice Department and the National Institutes of Health.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:06:05 +0000

The answer to your last question is yes, at least if the kidney failure is severe enough to cause significant illness or death. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put out the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a compilation of statistics about sickness and causes of death throughout the United States each week. Along with the raw data, they also do alerts when something pokes its head above the normal distribution. AIDS first surfaced in its pages, for example.

By: Swan

Swan — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:56:23 +0000

I hope you don't mind an off-topic comment, but I think this is important: There is a great post on The Carpetbagger Report from a few days ago about the mainstream media's (specifically Time magazine's) ignoring the prosecutor purge scandal. What explains the failure of the mainstream media to cover the purge scandal for so long, and so many other scandals? Do you think somebody just set up newspaper editors to cheat on their wives, and threatened to tell if the editors wouldn’t play ball when they come back some day and ask for something? It wouldn’t be that hard to do, when you think about it. People wouldn’t talk about it.