War on Science Persists Within Biden EPA as Staffers Allege Chemical Reports Altered
Whistleblowers charge that Trump-style doctoring of scientific reports is continuing under Biden.
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How Intel Financialized and Lost Leadership in Semiconductor Fabrication
Intel is the poster child of how stock buybacks come at the cost of technological innovation.
Read more...A Quick Comment on China Stomping on Chinese Stock Listings in the US
Another big and costly dustup over Chinese listings in the US. But now Chinese officials signal they want broad-scale change.
Read more...Aducanumab Approval, Part 2: Dirty Drug Dealings
Yves here. We’re doing a bit of catchup by featuring some significant stories that were still crowded out a bit due to the competing news plus the Fourth of July tuneout. One is on the super dodgy approval of the big ticket, very dubious effectiveness Alzheimer’s drug Aducanumab. And “big ticket” is no understatement; the […]
Read more...Democrats Prepare to Privatize Medicare, Using Medicare Advantage as Their Opening Wedge (and New York Unions?)
The Democrat plan to privatize Medicare by expanding the private, for-profit Medicare Advantage program
Read more...Biden Administration Issues Interim Rule Barring Surprise Billing
The health care grift knows as surprise billing is about to be largely stamped out.
Read more...Amazon Arrogance Backfires, Tries to Smear Incoming FTC Chair Lina Khan as Needing to Recuse Herself Because She Knows Them Too Well
Amazon looks to be having a meltdown over new FTC chief Lina Khan. Good.
Read more...Health Insurance Tricks and Traps: Using Cheap at Home Colon Cancer Test Exposes Insureds to Big Colonoscopy Bill
Why colonoscopy testing looks an awful lot like neoliberal rent extraction, as least as practiced in the US.
Read more...NZ to Ban Some Single Use Plastics, Following a Familiar Distressing Pattern
NZ to ban some single-use plastics, in three stages, beginning from next year and through July 2025.
Read more...J & J Agrees to Pay New York $230 Million to Settle Opioids Lawsuit; Global Settlement Soon?
New York State and J & J Agree on an opioids settlement, which should increase pressure for a global, multi-state settlement with the opioids industry.
Read more...Blackout Risk And Electricity Prices Are Spiking In California
California energy tsuris are set to get worse.
Read more...The 2021 Corporate Bamboozle On World Food Systems
Mega-corporations are set to win control of global governance of food and agriculture at the UN Food Systems Summit later this year.
Read more...Biden Taps Lina Khan to Chair the FTC
Hours after the Senate confirmed her nomination to the FTC, Biden tapped noted Big Tech critic Lina Khan to chair the agency.
Read more...Store Drop-Off: Another Recycling Fail
WalMart’s misleading claims about recycling set back efforts to shift away from unnecessary plastic packaging and single-use plastics.
Read more...Is the Only Green Thing about Cannabis the Almighty Dollar?
Cannabis has an enormous carbon footprint when grown indoors, with a utopian proposal for growing it outdoors.
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