Pay Up or Die

When the head of the Global Health Council predicts “the big one is coming,” referring to a flu outbreak within two years where more than 300 million people around the globe would die, pay attention!  Not because any such natural threat actually exists but because the research community needs an epidemic to keep research funds flowing.

Says the former chief of the global programs at the World Health Organization: “I believe a killer flu pandemic is lurking just beyond the corner – and it coul...