Explaining the distortions in a widely circulated article which alleges many kinds of sloppiness in a 2020 clinical trial of the Pfizer vaccine, and exaggerates their significance.

If the facts in the article are accurate, most of them have no effect on the validity of the trial's conclusions. As explained here, they had a small chance of affecting some 1000 -- out of 44000 total subjects -- in the trial.

That 2020 trial is irrelevent for evaluating the Pfizer vaccine nowadays, because we now have records of hundreds of millions of people who have been vaccinated with it. That is far more evidence than the trial gathered, and shows conclusively that the vaccine does considerable good and hardly any harm.

A new US law presumes that goods produced in Xinjiang were made with forced labor unless there is proof to the contrary.

Hindu nationalists publicly support Indians accused of harassment of Muslims and Christians.

US citizens: call on the House to remove racist Rep. Boebert's committee assignments.

This needs to be done, but it is an inadequate punishment because they don't care about their punishment. They are making veiled but obvious calls to overthrow US democracy and impose forced permanent minority rule, and it is building up a movement to do exactly that.

Next rally for Assange: 2pm to 3:30pm on Dec 31 in Copley Sq, Boston.