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It's always great to know when people are paying attention. So I was thrilled to hear this morning that a blog entry I wrote a few weeks ago about the global swine flu vaccine surplus was mentioned on examiner.com. Laura Harrison McBride has written an extremely thoughtful article which delves deeper into the way that a combination of greed, media hype and irresponsible behaviour on the part of various government and intergovernmental agencies led directly to “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century”.

From Laura's conclusion:

We could call it greed. We could call it Jeremy for that matter. But if we call it anything except what it was - willful endangerment, for profit - we will be setting ourselves up for a fall, like the sheep farmer who excused the boy for his wolf-crying antics.

If we do anything except hold the authors of this bogus cry accountable, we are as unethical as they are. And a whole lot dumber.

For an excellent update on the situation, including coverage of the Council of Europe's hearing and the World Health Organization's response, check out Niko Kyriakou's article on the Huffington Post.

From the article:

Inquiries into WHO misdoing are likely to plunge deep into the statistical methods for data collection, however, it takes no expertise to see that health agencies' data about H1N1 was wildly misleading.

In addition to bad guesses about how many would die, a study released December 7 by the Harvard School of Public Health found that the WHO also estimated the deadliness of H1N1 to be 40 to 250 times higher than it was.

Proving the drug industry squeezed WHO into selling swine flu is very difficult to establish, but the string of clues which points to this corruption is not hard to follow.

The WHO is of course steadfastly denying any wrongdoing. And links between WHO officials and the pharmaceutical industry will be difficult to uncover. But it's critical to get to the bottom of this before the next "pandemic" comes around.