The Sy Hersh effect: killing the messenger, ignoring the message

Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Allowing Release Of Biden Audio Tapes Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court on July 20 ruled against former President Joe Biden, finding that he was not entitled to an injunction blocking the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with his memoir’s ghostwriter. “Biden has not shown a likelihood of success on the merits,” Circuit Judges Sri Srinivasan and Gregory Katsas in Washington said. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, sued the government in 2024, alleging it wrongly withheld most...

FDA Grants Quick Review Psychedelic Drugs, First Approvals Could Come As Soon As Summer The FDA announced new steps to speed up research on psychedelic treatments for serious mental health conditions, following an executive order from President Donald Trump directing agencies to expand access to emerging therapies, CNBC and NBC reported this morning: In a press release Friday, FDA commissioner Marty Makary said the medications “have the potential to address the nation’s mental health crisis, including conditions like treatment resistant depression, alcoholism and other serious mental health and substance abuse conditions.”...

Germany Stops Recommending COVID-19 Vaccination For Most People Under 75 Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Germany has updated its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations, advising most people under 75 not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. A health worker at a mobile COVID-19 vaccination station in a shopping mall fills a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Ludwigsburg, Germany, on Nov. 11, 2021. Thomas Kienzle/AFP via Getty Images Germany's Standing Committee on Vaccination, which offers vaccine recommendations for the country, on July 9 said in a 33-page document that its stance on COVID-19...