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Stanford Broke Funding Laws With Experiment Involving Aborted Babies – Watchdog Group Medical ethics nonprofit alleges Stanford University broke federal law Image Credit: Email A medical ethics nonprofit is alleging that Stanford University broke federal law with a research project involving aborted babies. The White Coat Waste Project — a non-profit organization working to stop “wasteful,” publicly funded animal testing — filed a complaint with the National Institute of Health alleging that Stanford University repeatedly violated federal law by failing to disclose how much taxp...

Suppressing Information Might Work in China, but We Should Not Stand for It | Opinion Newsweek 4/6/2021 © Lucas Schifres/Getty Images The Chinese flag flaps in the wind. It has been over a year since the COVID-19 virus detected in and around Wuhan, China started a pandemic. The exact origins of the virus still remain a mystery. That is not entirely an accident. The virus emerged in one of the world's most closed societies ruled by a ruthless authoritarian regime that has no tolerance for truth or transparency. The recently released World Health Organization (WHO) report on COVID-19's ori...

Sen. Ernst to Introduce Bill Mandating Tracking White House, Executive Branch Carbon Emissions Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) says she is introducing legislation that would require the federal government to track and make public the carbon emissions produced by President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and executive branch departments and agencies. “What I’ve done is put forward some new legislation which will track the carbon emissions of White House and executive branch officials,” Ernst told reporters on March 17 during a digital news conference to mark Sunshine Week. Sunshine Wee...

Sen. Ernst Demands Agencies Stop End-of-Year Spending Sprees She expects a repeat of that performance come September. “The federal government ends every fiscal year with a mountain of unspent money. The total for last year added up to more than $800 billion! And 2021 is expected to be nearly the same, with all of that taxpayer cash sitting idle and for no purpose,” Ernst said in a statement naming the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the latest recipient of her monthly Squeal Award. She selected OMB because it refuses to make public the annual spending requests and justifi...