A report from investigative group Open the Books found that scientists with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were paid around $710 million from big pharma groups during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It was an unusually warm day in the seaside town of Portoroz, and Leida Ruvina was growing suspicious. The doctoral program she had been enrolled in for weeks had all the signs of a sham—the campus was a small, shabby building rented out from a tourist school and the French translation for “Euro-Mediterranean” in the university’s seal was misspelled.
Ruvina raised her hand to ask the university’s president what was going on, and he assured her that everything was in order. He then complimented her on her fluent English and offered to advise her on her dissertation thesis. “If you want, I can be your mentor,” she recalled him telling her in an awkward exchange as he steered the conversation away from questions about the university’s legitimacy.
Data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) suggests that border crossings between British Columbia and Washington are set to quadruple from 2021.
Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared in front of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability in January to testify on COVID-19, the transcripts of which were recently released.
A Texas elementary school teacher has been caught filming inappropriate videos inside her classroom and posting them on social media and is now under investigation.
