Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine reviewed one hundred and eighteen authors who published thirty-one clinical trials in JAMA and NEJM in 2017 and declared that they were not financially interested.

In fact, it turned out that pharmaceutical companies paid a total of $7.48 million to the participants in these publications. Of the one hundred and six authors who received payments (almost 90% of the total), eighty-six (81%) did not receiving payments from pharmaceutical companies.

Fees ranged from $6.36 million to $1.49 million. Pharmaceutical companies paid for travel, meals, speeches, and consulting services for study authors.

According to the decision of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), researchers must provide information on financial disinterest and payments received in the last three years before the publication of the article. However, most authors do not.

Nice.

The natural decline in the population of Russia in 2021 amounted to 1.04 million people, according to Rosstat.

According to the agency, in January-December 2021, the death rate in Russia increased by 15.1% and amounted to 2.445 million people (in 2020 - 2.124 million people). The birth rate for the same period decreased by 2.3% and amounted to 1.4 million people (against 1.43 million last year).

In 2020, the natural decline in the population of Russia amounted to 688.7 thousand people.

Numbers similar to war years.

Rising prices for raw materials, logistics and packaging components are forcing baby food manufacturers to raise prices as well. The largest player in the Progress segment (FrutoNyanya brand), with a market share of over 30%, notified chains of an average price increase of 15.5% in February. The company's example will be followed by competitors, analysts are sure. Kommersant has a copy of the letter from the company's CEO Natalya Medunova to retailers. She attributes the indexation to the continued rise in prices for key raw materials due to the shipping crisis, market expectations amid the pandemic, and adverse weather conditions for crop production.

According to Ms. Medunova, prices for fruit concentrates increased by 26.8-33.3% on average. Fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables went up by 30.9%, raw milk - by 20%, buckwheat, oats and rice - by 19%. Also, the cost of tin lids more than doubled, prices for cardboard and corrugated board increased by 50%, aluminum and plastic - by 25-100%. Finally, shipping costs rose by up to 30%, the letter says.

Being colony, despite energy prices, all big corporations are managed such way that they send 80% of money back to US and EU via offshores intermediaries. Such way it is also possible to devalue currency, so local citizens won't be competitive and such good reason arises to move lot of produced food and goods into land of real owners.

Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist at the American Enterprise Institute, was one of the primary proponents of this structural argument in the WSJ essay, which cited his 2016 book "Men Without Book". As he explains, overall labor force pariticpation rate has been declining since 2000, when it peaked at about 67%.

Eberstadt believes that if the US had maintained the ratio of employment-to-population from 2000, we would have 13M more people working today, more than enough to fill the record number of open jobs.

So, if they're not working, where are all these working-age men and what are they doing? Are they volunteering or channeling their energies into worship or civil society? Not at all. From all we can tell, it looks like they're mostly sitting at home. "By and large, nonworking men don’t 'do' civil society," Eberstadt says. "Their time spent helping in the home, their time spent in worship—a whole range of activities, they just aren’t doing." For a source on this, Eberstadt pointed to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey, which compiles respondents’ self-reported habits.

Turns out, working age men were increasingly "staying at home a lot" even before the pandemic.

In fact, it is desired behavior, such way good amount of people are minimizing their energy (especially fuel) usage. So, it is not random, it is allrelated to that elites want from masses.