National Whistleblower Appreciation Day is tomorrow, July 30. To celebrate the long history of individuals coming forward to speak up about misconduct, we’re sharing a brief history of whistleblowing in America and why those who “blow the whistle” have been and are so crucial to shaping ...
four years after the WHO set up its office in Beijing. Its first phase (1985–1988) involved imported cases in coastal cities: mostly foreigners and overseas Chinese [10]. In the earlier period of the pandemic, HIV/AIDS in China was largely constructed or demonized as a ‘Western disease...
More concretely, Bill Thorpe has engaged Tom Rodgers, a Washington lobbyist who was a key whistleblower in the 2006 case against Jack Abramoff, the D.C. power broker sent to prison for defrauding Native American tribes. Rodgers, a member of the Blackfeet tribe in Montana...
’s book on Dr. Anthony Fauci details that man’s role in the AIDS crisis, although I haven’t yet read it, and the additional connection of Dr. Judy Mikovits emerging early on as a “debunked” whistleblower in the PHEIC pandemic indicates similar strategies may have been used to ...
This claim is said to be based on unpublished data provided by two members of staff at the Tavistock, described as whistleblowers. On Twitter/X the evidence is presented in screenshots of extracts from the records of Tavistock Board meetings and other documents. These variously refer to suicides...
Paying the IRS whistleblower: a critical analysis of collected proceeds.(Introduction to I. History of the Whistleblower Program D. Administrative Challenges for the Whistleblower Program, with footnotes, p. 77-88)DavisNozemack, KaneWebber, Sarah...
His iconic turns as rough cop Bud White in Curtis Hanson’s L. A. Confidential (1997), as Big Tobacco whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand in Michael Mann’s The Insider (1999), as Roman general Maximus in Ridley Scott’s sword-and-sandals epic Gladiator (2000), and as mentally-ill mathematical...
In 1996, Dr. David Franklin, an employee of the drug company Parke-Davis, filed the lawsuit under federal whistleblower statutes alleging that the company was illegally promoting a drug called Neurontin for so called "off-label" uses. Under federal law, once the FDA approves a drug, a ...
saying that he misspoke. It turns out that he was in Nebraska. In addition, a whistleblower has come forward to the House Oversight Committee about concerns over Walz’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party. There are some definite questions surrounding Walz’s ties with China that need...
Sherron Watkins, a vice president at Enron, wrote a letter to Lay in August 2001 warning that the company could implode in a wave of accounting scandals; a few months later, Enron had collapsed. Watkins’ role as awhistleblowerin exposing Enron’s corporate misconduct led to her being recogn...