A guarded welcome for the regulators of medicine warning against useless drugs. The MHRA is funded by Big Pharma and rarely challenges their exaggerated claims.
The warning comes sugar-wrapped in soothing euphemisms. Drugs that have never been tested on children are been used on children in their millions. There is no proof that they do any good, the MHRA said. Neither is there any proof that they do not harm.
This is the beginning of a confession that the MHRA have been neglectful for decades in allowing untested drugs to used in their millions by infants.
Childhood infections are dealt with naturally by our human bodies with their array of subtle defences. They will clear up without drug interventions. The MHRA should have made clear that there is no a pill for every ill. But their paymasters would not have appreciated that.
Lazy Peoples' Peers
Under an FOI revelation to an Independent on Sunday journalist comes news of lazy peers.
Fourteen out of forty of the People's Peers miss 90% or more of votes in the House of Lords. The choice of the Peoples' Peers is as big a parliamentary farce as the Cones Hotline. The Committee that selected them was chaired by Lord Stevenson.
He is one of the banksters that we have recently seen on television wriggling before the Treasury Committee. He was chairman of HSBOS when they lost £10 billion. He now doles out honours on behalf of the Queen.
His expertise in selecting new Lords was not influenced by his lack of contact with the place. When we cross-examined him om PASC last year, he has not made a speech in the Lords or asked a question since 2000. No wonder his choice of peers were all establishment people. Stevenson's committee reproduced itself.
Bad enough that the People's Peers are establishment figures. Worse that they are not doing their work.
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Posted by: phoenix home security systems | February 18, 2011 at 10:31 AM
The benefit is that spraying titles around to banksters, future criminals and othr nonentities further discredits the corrupt honours system, Graham.
Posted by: Paul Flynn | March 01, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Of all the puerile, pointless ideas Auntie Tony had, I think "People's Peers" was just about the daftest: typical New Labour codswallop - appoint people wuith lots of money and a high profile who might vaguely connect with "the project". Nobody left-wing, of course, so as not to frighten the horses - people who could be relied upon to massage Blair's ego and perhaps could be a good contact to enhance his bank balance in retirement.
Am I imaginiong it, or did even Louise Casey, former "homeless zsar" and now "respect agenda zsar" not get an enoblement: a lady so full of respect she once gave a speech interlarded with expletives?
Posted by: Graham Marlowe | March 01, 2009 at 06:59 AM