Author: Justin Lane

Below are the top stories from Ring of Fire from the past week. Medtronic Study Site Warned by FDA for Schocking Consent and Reporting Irregularities in Study of CoreValve Device by Virginia Buchanan The FDA sent a warning letter to Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington regarding serious irregularities in its study of the Medtronic CoreValve device. The device is intended for patients with severe aortic stenosis, a condition that may lead to heart failure and sudden cardiac death. …more. Republican Senator Calls Out Climate Change Hoax Creators by Alisha Mims Government officials are hard at work representing...

The Department of Justice reported yesterday that Amgen, Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $24.9 million to resolve allegations that it violated the Federal False Claims Act. This settlement is another in a series of victories that are part of the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team’s (HEAT) efforts to combat fraud under Attorney General Eric Holder. “The practice of pharmaceutical companies paying health care providers to choose a certain product over another is insidious. A provider considering his or her own personal gain over, or even at the detriment to, the well-being of their...

Below are the top stories from Ring of Fire from the past week. Porn Troll, Prenda Law, is in Hot Water Prenda Law, a firm that has targeted and sued over 20,000 users for violating copyright laws alleging they illegally downloaded pornography, plead the Fifth Amendment in court yesterday after being asked by the judge why there were no other plaintiffs besides Prenda pursuing copyright cases Conservative Rising Star Ben Carson, in Deep with Koch Groups With the Republican Party in shambles, attempting to find an identity that doesn’t scare off half of the electorate, a void has been...

Ring of Fire Host Mike Papantonio is contributing to a town hall meeting this evening in Baltimore. The panel will be discussing the controversy regarding gun control in the wake of recent gun violence and school shootings along with strategies for dealing with the epidemic of violence plaguing the nation. The panel will be taking questions from the public using the Twitter hashtag “#wbfftownhall”. Be sure to follow us @RingofFireRadio and have your voice heard. The town hall in Baltimore will be the second in the series of town halls and more information about it can be accessed here. The previous town...

Google committed a deadly sin this Easter: it confronted fundamentalists with information. For over a decade, Google has from time to time placed images that it calls “Doodles” on its homepage that coincide with a specific event in history. These ever-changing images often have the effect of introducing people to new and interesting historical information. This past Easter Sunday, Google ran an image of Cesar Chavez, the civil rights advocate, on the homepage as its doodle and started a fundamentalist frenzy. Many Google users misidentified the image of Cesar as the deceased Hugo Chavez. Their complaints came from a...