Hiltzik: The FDA, the courts and the zombie ‘cure’ ivermectin
To anyone who has paid even a modicum of serious attention to COVID-19 and its treatment, ivermectin is the zombiest of zombie drugs. Used to treat parasitic diseases in animals…
Read More » Hiltzik: The oil industry and its climate deceit
The oil companies want you to see California’s newly filed lawsuit over their decades of deceit about global warming as a “hypocritical … Hollywood-and-foreign-billionaire-funded” effort to “starve the state of…
Read More » Hiltzik: The sad failure of Kristen Welker
When Chuck Todd announced in June that he would be retiring as host of “Meet the Press,” not a few people who take politics seriously breathed a sigh of relief:…
Read More » Hiltzik: The DeSantis team targets the COVID vaccine
The latest government advisories on the new monovalent COVID-19 vaccines were not much of a surprise. On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccines as safe and effective,…
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