America (Part Two)
America needs to face this uncomfortable fact: Technology has left a large percentage of the country in the dust. Millions of people in the
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Doug Neckers
- May 26
- 4 min
Patents and Vaccines
The answer to the patent question is -- yes. Vaccines are legally seen as ‘intellectual property,” creations of the mind invented by scient
Doug Neckers
- May 25
- 4 min
Extremism is No Virtue
I’m one of a decreasing few that heard Barry Goldwater bellow “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” when he accepted the Republi
Doug Neckers
- May 5
- 1 min
Antiviral Strategies Against Human Coronaviruses
There were several publications beginning in 2003 predicting potential issues with corona viruses after the discovery of the SARS virus. The
Doug Neckers
- Apr 29
- 4 min
Cheeseburgers or Fish and Chips?
Then the great leveler, or at great destroyer, COVID-19 showed up. And for months, we blew it. No matter how much some deny it, our failure
Angeles Farran Morales
- Apr 28
- 4 min
Spain is Different! COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN SPAIN
It has been almost a year since the pandemic started. It really took everybody by surprise although there were some warning signs that were
Doug Neckers
- Apr 12
- 1 min
Advice from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical...
Advice from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on isotopically labelled chemicals...
Doug Neckers
- Apr 9
- 4 min
My Boy Bill
Back in the old, old days when I was in grade school -- the late 1940s and early 50s -- we were taken as a class to the doctor’s office whe
Doug Neckers
- Mar 14
- 4 min
Suzanne
My wife, Suzanne, is severely and permanently ill. Taking care of her is a total responsibility. After 61 years of marriage, her health has
Doug Neckers
- Mar 1
- 5 min
Penicillin
Penicillin was discovered by accident, or better by a prepared mind able to discern when something accidentally happened that might be usefu
Doug Neckers
- Feb 9
- 3 min
IF
If NVI had existed, would we now be in the second year SARS-COVID-2 of perhaps the greatest human and economic disaster since the Great Depr
Doug Neckers
- Feb 6
- 3 min
Kaptur Introduces Resolution Calling for the Establishment of National Institute of Viral Diseases
Washington, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, introduced a House Resolut
Doug Neckers
- Nov 10, 2020
- 5 min
Changing Times
The pandemic of 2020 has been painful for the world, and in more ways than just the number of persons worldwide that have taken ill, or by t
Doug Neckers
- Oct 30, 2020
- 1 min
Medical Models Through Biosolar LLC.
Biosolar LLC offers printed 3d medical models for a variety of applications to be used by medical professionals. Using real CT and/or MRI da
Doug Neckers
- Oct 19, 2020
- 3 min
Leadership and the Virus
Science -- namely, the Manhattan Project that led to the atom bomb -- had a lot to do with ending World War II when it did. The Japanese sig
Doug Neckers
- Oct 19, 2020
- 3 min
National Health Board
When I hear the word ‘science’ it sometimes takes me back to the 9th grade, and my little hometown in upstate New York in the early 1950s.
Doug Neckers
- Oct 19, 2020
- 4 min
Scientific and Medical Editors Oppose Trump
For as long as I’ve been a scientist -- almost 60 years -- new issues of the major
academic journals have been anxiously anticipated because
Doug Neckers
- Oct 13, 2020
- 3 min
Pills
You may be wondering -- why is there no “pill” to stop the coronavirus?
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