Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

The Coming School Opening Covid Train Wreck

Covid warning for the fall: assume the brace position.

Waste Watch: UK Enacts Right to Repair Rules

UK enacts right to repair rules, which should make spare parts for some electrical devices and large household appliances more widely available.

Amid Pandemic-Driven Liquid Oxygen Shortage, Orlando Asks Residents to Slash Water Use or Face Boil Alert

Florida state officials seek to punish school administrators who impose mask mandates; meanwhile, lack of oxygen threatens Orlando’s supply of potable water.

Biden Administration to Withhold Medicare and Medicaid $ from Nursing Homes Not Having Fully Vaxxed Staff

The Biden Administration thinks it can coerce badly paid workers in nursing homes who’ve held out to take the jab. That’s not a great wager.

Pfizer CEO to Public: Just Trust Us on the Covid Booster

“All of this has sown a sense of confusion about what exactly will work, and when.”

Is Western U.S. Experiencing a ‘Megadrought’?

The U.S. West may be in a climate-fueled megadrought, but willingness to admit that, let alone address it, is awfully slow in coming.

Climate Activists Target Banks’ Greenwashing in Nationwide #DefundLine3 Protests

Banks fund new oil pipelines that will generate climate pollution for decades. They are greenswahing their loans as ‘sustainability’ measures

National Academies’ Report Took Pharma-Friendly Stance After Millions in Gifts From Drugmakers

The National Academy of Science has been caught out repeatedly for not disclosing Big Pharma ties as it issues cronyistic reports

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Seven: Despite Staggering Losses, the Uber Propaganda Train Keeps Rolling

How Uber keeps pumping hot air into a financially flaccid business.

The Best Policies to Fight Pandemics: Five Lessons from the Literature So Far

Mining various studies on pandemic interventions to see which look most effective.

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Six: With No Hope of Real Profits, Uber and Lyft Double Down on Fake Profit Metrics

Uber continues to hemorrhage cash and rack up impressive negative operating margins, yet the press eats up its accounting misdirection.

Eric Topol Discusses Covid Vaccines Not Meeting Expectations, Breakthrough Cases Sicker

The data on US Covid cases and deaths are bad enough that members of the science establishment like Eric Topol are questioning the vaccines

Call to Ban Pesticides in UK Gardens to Protect Insects, Bees, Other Wildlife, and Human Health

UK biology professor Dave Goulson launches petition to ban spraying of chemical pesticides in public spaces and home gardens.

Hoisted from E-Mail: Covid Death Undercounts, but How Large?

Yet another Covid data failure.

Biotechnology Greed Is Prolonging the Pandemic. It’s Inexcusable.

Government is failing when it stands pat in the face of “your money or your life” level corporate greed, now on display in this pandemic.