Author: Justin Lane

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  If you hadn’t heard, Congress was recently banned from editing Wikipedia after a number of entries on the site were vandalized by someone on the Hill. The ban has been lifted and Congress can again edit Wikipedia. And boy, they’re right back to it. Over the past three days, more than 30 edits to wikipedia have come from IP addresses at Congress. The edits tended to be on controversial or politically charged subjects like Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning. Changes to Snowden’s profile included that he was an American traitor who defected to Russia. One of the anonymous...

  Despite Bayer and Johnson & Johnson’s best efforts, the money-maker blood thinner Xarelto has been denied the freedom to expand its use. The manufacturers were seeking to expand the blood thinner’s approved uses to include heart attacks and strokes, and death, in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), along with clogging of heart stents. The FDA denied that approval earlier this year, according to Reuters. “Drug manufacturers are often hungry for expanded uses for their drugs,” commented Ned McWilliams, a partner with the Levin, Papantonio law firm who practices in the areas of Mass Torts, product liability, and...

  New science has been coming out that points to a link between fracking and earthquakes. Friend of Ring of Fire, Thom Hartmann sits down to discuss these revelations and their possible implications with Dr. Anthony Ingraffea and Tyson Slocum. Joshua is a writer and researcher with Ring of Fire. You can follow him on Twitter...

  For men, aging is a delicate thing. Many men have some concept of their identity tied up in their physicality. With age comes change though, and for many men this means diminishing physical capacity. But fret not ye aging men! Big pharma has come up with a name for what ails you. That supposed disease is called “Low T” (low testosterone) and they have a cure, for a price, to sell you. The cover story on this month’s edition of Time is titled “Manopause?! Aging, insecurity and the $2 billion testosterone industry”. Testosterone treatments are rising and as...