Friday, June 09, 2006

Effect Measure has moved!

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We have moved the blog, at the invitation of the folks at ScienceBlogs , publishers of Seed Magazine . ScienceBlogs.com is fast becoming th...

Reader beware

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When you read news reports, you have to be circumspect. There are some excellent reporters on flu but most don't know much about it and ...

Banned in China

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Indonesia is a known problem spot for bird flu. An impotent central government, infected poultry everywhere, a huge but far flung population...
Thursday, June 08, 2006

Transgenic chicken paradox

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Maybe if I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about bird flu and chickens I wouldn't have noticed this. But I did, so I bring it to...

In defense of Juan Cole (as if he needs it)

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I'm an academic and a blogger. So I feel compelled to come to the defense of another academic and blogger, the estimable Juan Cole of In...
Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Chrome plated fraud

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In December we posted on a Wall Street Journal article about how a high priced corporate consultant (I hesitate to say, scientist) essenti...

WHO, part V: end of the beginning

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[This is the last post in the series about WHO ( part I , part II , part III , part IV ). We try to sum up where the story has (unexpectedly...
Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Next question

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This is what WHO is up against in Indonesia. The largest bird flu cluster to date occurred in North Sumatra, Medan, Karo regency in Kubu Sim...

WHO, part IV: one door closes, another door opens

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[This is the fourth of several posts ( part I , part II , part III , part V ) giving some background to the place of WHO in the internationa...
Monday, June 05, 2006

Public-private default

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In today's post about WHO we mention public-private partnerships, one of the ways WHO was accommodating to a world stage that had more ...

WHO, part III: the world changes

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[This is the third of several posts ( part I , part II ) giving some background to the place of WHO in the international system. I am trying...
Sunday, June 04, 2006

WHO, part II: Westphalian public health

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[This is the second of several posts ( Part I here ) giving some background to the place of WHO in the international system. I am trying to ...

Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: post deathbed conversion

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Chicago Democratic ward healers used to confer voting rights on the deceased, and lately Republicans have revived the practice (although not...
Saturday, June 03, 2006

Vaccine vaporware?

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There is no effective vaccine for H5N1 at the moment but there is a lot of activity. Whoever makes a vaccine will have a ready market if th...

WHO, part I: 300 years old at birth

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[This is the first of several posts giving some background to the place of WHO in the international system. I am trying to explain some thin...
Friday, June 02, 2006

Behind the Indonesian curtain

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The curtain is being pulled back on the Indonesian bird flu control program and it reveals there is nothing there. In the last few days seve...

Indonesia "releases" the sequence data (sort of)

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In a curious statement, Indonesia's director-general of disease control and environment at the Indonesian Ministry of Health, I. Nyoman ...
Thursday, June 01, 2006

New rules in a dangerous game

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Declan Butler, senior correspondent for the scientific journal Nature , also has a blog and he used it to amplify on his piece in the jour...

Another thought on the sequences

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Andrew Jeremijenko, the physician formerly in the influenza surveillance branch of NAMRU2 in Jakarta, has raised an interesting question abo...
Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Australia's best laid plans

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Australia had a great pandemic flu plan. On paper. Now paper is confronting reality and reality is winning. Like a number of other places, i...

Message to WHO: there is no barn door to close

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I try hard to be fair to WHO. They've got an exceedingly tough job and not much to work with. Every time I write an opinion or criticize...
Tuesday, May 30, 2006

What to expect next in Indonesia

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What I think we can expect from Indonesia over the coming weeks is a fair amount of confusion. Sporadic cases of bird flu continue to be rep...

Revere's prep

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If the SHTF, I am ready to go on blogging, thanks to this 1935 beauty from modern mechanix (h/t Boingboing):
Monday, May 29, 2006

Orent gets it (mostly) right

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I've been tough on journalist Wendy Orent here because I thought her widely read op-ed pieces on bird flu were wrong-headed, inaccurate...