April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. T.S. Eliot: The Waste-Land In August 1914, the First World War took shape.  In August 1939, the Second World War was in preparation with Germany launching the first attacks on September 1. At […]

  This post follows on from last weeks Vaccine Rag or Vaccine Tango. In the photo above, appropriately in the centre, we have Nicolás Vaquer, the plenipotentiary to Argentina of a Big American Power (Pfizer).  On the left of the photo, to the right of the Boss of Bosses, is Dr. Fernando Polack, the head […]

Starting in August 2020, i-Trials, a company owned by Fernando Polack, his family, and colleagues, set up to run clinical trials on a commercial basis, recruited 5,768  of the 43,548 volunteers randomized to either BNT162b2 or placebo in what is usually called Pfizer’s trial, although the trial was actually set up, run by and supervised […]