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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008The start of the Reagan Administration in 1981 was supposed to bring us something known as trickle down economics whereby giving large tax breaks to the wealthy and large corporations would trickle down to the rest of us and make our lives better. While I don’t want to get into a political debate here, what […]
Bye, Bye Dr. Jarvik
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008In one of my earlier blogs, I talk about the insipid ads put out by Pfizer that use Dr. Robert Jarvik to tout its best selling drug Lipitor. I’ve blogged before about who this guy really is and how he should not be the spokesperson as he never practiced medicine and he is no expert […]
Combinational Toxicity – The Toxic Soup Within Our Bodies
Monday, March 3rd, 2008In an article published in the British journal, New Scientist, author Bijal Trivedi reports on how combinations of the toxic effects of the toxins within our bodies can be far greater than the sum of the toxins. Say if the lethality of each of 8 chemical toxicant by themselves was .01 on a scale of 0-5, […]
Chemicals Found In Children – No Problem If You Believe Professional Denier
Friday, February 29th, 2008Elizabeth Whelan, the President of the American Council on Science and Health said in response to a report by CNN about levels of dangerous chemicals being found in children “My concern about this trend about measuring chemicals in the blood is it’s leading people to believe that the mere ability to detect chemicals is the […]
Don’t Use Nalgene Bottles
Thursday, February 28th, 2008According to researchers at the University of Cincinnati, Nalgene bottles will leach the chemical bisphenol A into water at room temperature. I had previously warned people at my lectures to avoid hot water and Nalgene but now it looks like even normal water temperatures will cause leakage. Read this report from the Environmental Working Group.
Pesticides and Autism – More Data Supporting My View on the Effect of Toxins
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008At the AutismOne conference back in 2005, I was in room #2 talking about the link of multiple toxins and autism. In room #1 was Dr. Rasheed Buttar who was all about mercury. I told my audience that one day, the multiple toxin theory was going to be in room #1 eventually, maybe not with […]
Prozac – A Failure to Heal
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008In an article published in PLoS Medicine by Drs. Kirsch and colleagues shows that the drug Prozac is no better than placebo in treating depression. Given that placebo has no side-effects, this means that Prozac is not only worthless, but dangerous. By including unpublished, negative studies, the authors found out that the drug is a […]
Cholesterol Lowering Drugs are Worthless in Most Cases – Part Three
Monday, February 25th, 2008Before I get into today’s discussion on inflammation, please go to this link put up by Chance News, a group dedicated to reviewing information about the use of statistics in the news. They review the cholesterol news and and the statistics behind it. Go down halfway down the page to see the report. Inflammation. That is the […]
What is the FDA Thinking?
Sunday, February 24th, 2008The drug Avastin, has just been approved by the Federal Drug Administration for the treatment of breast cancer despite it having shown no benefits over exisiting drugs in prolonging life or improving the quality of life of women taking the drug. What is the point of taking a drug that doesn’t benefit the patient aside […]
Cholesterol Lowering Drugs are Worthless in Most Cases – Part Two
Monday, February 18th, 2008In one of my blogs last week, I talked about the issues with Lipitor® and the lack of the association between high cholesterol and coronary heart disease. Now let’s talk about real problems that come up by taking this drug. Say the side-effect rate is 3-5% (which is the pharmaceutical industry line) which means that given […]
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