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Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. link Nobody seems to know what is causing the “polio-like” condition known as acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). Public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) keep stating they don’t know why healthy children are being randomly paralyzed around the country and scientists and medical doctors outside the nation’s top health agency are scratching their heads, too.

Everyone is perplexed about this mystery neurological illness that causes paralysis, mostly in children. “This is a mystery so far, and we haven’t solved it yet, so we have to be thinking broadly,” said Nancy Messonnier, MD, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Read more.

EDITORIAL COMMENT
Like abuse of free enterprise by corporate tyrants, or abuse of free speech by those who are determined to make others think as they do or to destroy the meaning of words, so there are bullies in scientific research who will do whatever is needed to be funded. In the first instance capitalism is given a black eye, in the second the urgent need for free speech is effectively discredited, but in the third, people die.