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CDC Swine Flu Histrionics

July 2, 2009 11:27 PM EST

The CDC is sayingU.S. demand for swine flu vaccine could reach 600 million doses. "That's in case two doses are required for children and adults under 50, CDC representatives said," according to CNN. Really? If people over 50 didn't need...
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Well, Goodbye Mary Lou (Forbes)

June 30, 2009 11:00 AM EST

Mary Lou Forbes, an institution, an editor, and a friend, is gone. She died of cancer at age 83 and worked until the end. I was her colleague when I worked at the Washington Times in 1987, where I also...
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Swine flu about one-eighth as fatal as seasonal flu - and what it means for WHO's avian flu death rate

June 25, 2009 05:17 PM EST

With its updated estimate of how many Americans have actually contracted swine flu versus those actually identified, the CDC has given us a death rate of 0.012%. That compares to the seasonal flu death rate normally put at 0.1%. Specifically,...
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Results from WashPost Swine Flu Naming Contest!

June 20, 2009 07:28 PM EST

The Washington Post has named winners in its swine flu naming contest that seem to suggest a certain skepticism about the WHO labeling it a pandemic - a well-founded skepticism, as I've written. Among the winners: - "CNN Flu" -...
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The WHO Fabricates a Pandemic

June 15, 2009 01:29 AM EST

For five years now, the WHO has been crying that a flu pandemic is a "when, not an if." Now it can boast it was right. Problem is, the mildest pandemics of the 20th century killed at least a million...
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Obama Encourages "Swine Flu as Bioweapon" Kookiness

June 8, 2009 01:38 PM EST

"The latest bioterrorism attack by the New World Order is likely a beta test," according to the conspiracy website "New World Liberty." It continues, "Yes, it is a bioterrorism attack. It was a hybrid strain created from human, swine, and...
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Recent Articles

WHO's Convenient “Pandemic” (The Los Angeles Times, June 14, 2009)

A Pandemic Over A Piglet (Forbes Online, May 15, 2009)

Mayday! ... Never Mind (Forbes Magazine, May 25, 2009)

The Price Of A Porcine Panic (Forbes Online, May 1, 2009)

Raptor Program Must Keep Flying (Defense News, February 23, 2009 )

Barack Obama and the FDR-Great Depression Myth (Human Events, November 26, 2008)

“Remembering” When al Anbar was “Lost” (Human Events, September 10, 2008)

A Myth that Kills: AIDS Industry Feeds on Fear (The New York Post, July 3, 2008)

Unions' Big Columbia Lie (The New York Post, April 28, 2008)

A Debt that Can Never Be Repaid: Michael Monsoor is Awarded the Medal of Honor (The Weekly Standard, April 21, 2008)

Article Archive

Blast from the Past

Read Michael Fumento's Afghanistan blog entries and view his Afghanistan photo set. Read Michael Fumento's Iraq blog entries and view his Fall 2006 photos, Spring 2006 photos and Spring 2005 photos detailing his activities Iraq.

The New Band of Brothers (The Weekly Standard, June 19, 2006)

Return to Ramadi (The Weekly Standard, November 27, 2006)