Sunday, July 26, 2009

'A Whole Industry Is Waiting For A Pandemic'

One of the best takes I’ve ever seen on this issue - by none other than Thomas Jefferson from the Cochrane Collaboration. Read the whole article - it is well worth the time.

The world has been gripped with fears of swine flu in recent weeks. In an interview with SPIEGEL, epidemiologist Tom Jefferson speaks about dangerous fear-mongering, misguided, money-driven research and why we should all be washing our hands a lot more often.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,637119,00.html

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