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Oh dear. Folks at the British Medical Journal have released a report that slams the World Health Organization’s pandemic plan and the declaration of the H1N1 pandemic – the authors/experts appear to have conflicts of interest with vaccine manufacturers. At the same time, it questions the value of Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and Relenza (zanamivir) and notes that neither drug proved effective during FDA testing.

It’s worrisome that (a) it took a specialist journal like the BMJ to track down the conflicts of interest, (b) the WHO is circling the wagons in the face of this criticism, and (c) there’s no coverage of the story in Canadian media (as of the evening of Sunday, June 6).