NOW that the World Health Organization (WHO) has retreated quietly on the issue of a so-called “pandemic” (their term) of swine flu, all without even the first blush of an apology, might we re-appraise the bird flu ìpandemicî and some of its attendant myths?

In passing, we might note that the first quarter profits of GlaxoSmithKline, one of Big Pharma’s big armory, were up by 16 percent, largely