Charles Barber
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 FDA must start enforcing the law and return to a culture that places public health concerns ahead of industry profits."53
In the drug industry generally, marketing dominates science. The drug companies consistently spend almost double on marketing what they do on research.54 As omnipresent as drug ads on TV have become, expenditures on advertising make up only a very small portion of the marketing budget. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I'm nearly convinced that U.S. public health authorities have suddenly become environmentalists and they're trying to reduce the human burden on the environment by simply reducing the size of the human population. The FDA's recent approval of another dangerous diabetes drug estimated to have already killed 80,000 Americans is yet another runner up in the Population Control Award category.
Another theory is that the U.S. |
Michael Pollan
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 The lipid hypothesis is quietly melting away, but no one in the public health community or the government, seems quite ready to publicly acknowledge it. For fear of what exactly? That we'll binge on bacon double cheeseburgers? More likely that we'll come to the unavoidable conclusion that the emperors of nutrition have no clothes and never listen to them again. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These people have a responsibility to know the basics when it comes to preventing cancer with nutrition, and when they remain utterly ignorant of these simple concepts, they post a dire risk to public health. Anyone foolish enough to follow their advice will only end up a victim of chemotherapy, radiation or useless cancer surgeries.
And why do I get so riled up about this topic? Because black women are needlessly dying of a disease that's simple to prevent, that's why! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Even members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee have addressed the need for the FDA to do its job and protect public health. And with 11,500 lawsuits filed against Merck by former Vioxx users, even the public is telling the FDA to do its job correctly and protect them from dangerous drugs like Vioxx.
Vioxx was one drug -- one single drug for one single health problem. Look at the damage it caused, and is still causing today. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The Texas decision to mandate the vaccine was a notable and troubling milestone in public health policy because it is the first time a vaccine is mandated for a disease that cannot be contracted through casual contact in public schools. It also invoked "gunpoint medicine," or the threat of arrest at gunpoint for not agreeing to receive state-mandated injections. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The "free" America we all once knew is long gone, and it has been replaced with The United States of Corporate America, where police tactics are now used to enforce hazardous public health policies, and the people who run the State no longer think there's anything wrong with rounding up the population at gunpoint and performing large-scale medical experiments on their children. That's what modern vaccines are, after all: A grand medical experiment whose effects will only become known after a generation of mass poisoning has come and gone. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 CDC Diabetes public health Resource www.cdc.gov/diabetes/ Provides information for professionals and the general public about diabetes, including research, statistics, and educational publications.
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Daily Strength www. dailystrength. org This is the main page for this comprehensive health network. Free registration; sign up to be part of the type 2 diabetes support community.
Defeat Diabetes www.defeatdiabetes.org/self_management/text.asp?id=
Diabetes_Support_Gro List of diabetes support: groups and education programs by state.
Diabetes Care Journal http: //care. diabetesj ournals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The U.S. public health Service in Tuskegee, Ala. diagnoses 400 poor, black sharecroppers with syphilis but never tells them of their illness nor treats them; instead researchers use the men as human guinea pigs to follow the symptoms and progression of the disease. They all eventually die from syphilis and their families are never told that they could have been treated (Goliszek, University of Virginia Health System Health Sciences Library).
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In order to test his theory on the roots of stuttering, prominent speech pathologist Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Any person who resists such "treatments" will be branded a threat to public health -- a designation just beneath "terrorist" in the eyes of many government bureaucrats. As such, they believe there is no limit to the level of force they may use to coerce such people into submitting to Big Pharma's chemicals. Today, it's armed guards with attack dogs. Tomorrow, it might be water boarding or other torture methods. Think that's impossible? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| But we've never really expected doctors, dentists and public health officials to act rationally, have we? Dentists, for example, still insist on the mass poisoning of children through the fluoridation of public water supplies with an EPA-regulated toxic industrial byproduct chemical they incorrectly call "fluoride." Those same dentists -- all of whom should have their dental licenses revoked, by the way -- continue to place mercury into the mouths of children through the use of "silver fillings" (which, in reality, contain more mercury than silver), inducing a lifetime of mercury poisoning. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Experimental pellagra: A test of diet among institutional inmates. public health Rep. 1915;30:3117-3131.
6 Elvehjem CA, Madden RJ, Strong FM et al. Relation of nicotinic acid and nicotinic acid amide to canine black tongue. J Am Chem Soc 1937;59:1767-1768.
7 Wilder RM. A brief history of the enrichment of bread and flour. JAMA 1956;162:1539-1541.
8 Spies TD, Aring CD, Gelperin J, Bean BW. The mental symptoms of pellagra. Am J Med Science 19385196:461.
9 Evans VL. Pellagra with psychosis and minimal symptoms. JAMA 1939;112:1249-1250.
10 Green G. Subclinical pellagra. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Next, parents who refuse to subject their children to the chemical pharmaceuticals proposed by Big Pharma will be criminalized, rounded up and incarcerated for "refusing to comply with public health policy." This is all being done by the State in the name of "protecting the children" from their own natural health parents. (Insane, isn't it, to think that protecting your child from toxic chemicals is now a criminal act in the United States?)
The end game of all this is to apply Gunpoint Medicine tactics to everyone: Adults and senior citizens included. |
Charles Barber
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| Since even one previous attempt multiplies suicide risk by 38 to 40 times, and suicide is the fourth leading cause of death for adults, a proven way to prevent repeat attempts has important public health implications," said the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel.18
CBT has some highly practical applications. Researchers in the physiotherapy department at King's College, London, administered a cognitive-behavioral pain management program for patients experiencing chronic pain after cancer treatments such as surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The Environmental Working Group is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of information to protect public health and the environment. They recently completed a study of the toxic chemical and its presence in name-brand canned goods, finding that 50% of those canned goods contained bisphenol A. To make matters worse, the FDA states about 20 percent of the U.S. diet comes from this form of food packaging. Even so, there are no current government safety standards that regulate how much BPA is allowed in canned foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Corporations now have taken over the practice of family farming and have developed cost-saving mass-production strategies that are not only dangerous to public health, but are also cruel to the animals being processed.
Animal factories, also known as large confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), go against traditional farming practices by treating the animal simply as a machine or production unit. These farms are more like an assembly line system of animal harvesting than anything resembling a genuine farm or ranch. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The White House, it seems, is heavily influenced by Big Pharma, and this effort by the White House to keep Americans ignorant of the results of important drug trials seems to be just the latest effort to appease the pharmaceutical industry at the expense of public health.
The core question: Should clinical trial results be made public?
Of course they should. No reasonable person would argue otherwise (unless, of course, he was on the Big Pharma payroll or making money from today's pharmaceutical racket). Drug companies should no longer be allowed to operate in secret. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| After each test, Army agents pose as public health officials to test victims for effects and take pictures of the unwitting test subjects. These experiments result in a high incidence of fevers, respiratory distress, stillbirths, encephalitis and typhoid among the two cities' residents, as well as several deaths (Cockburn and St. Clair, eds.).
(1957)
The U.S. military conducts Operation Plumbbob at the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| REPPED: The public health Council in New Jersey has voted to require all children attending preschool or daycare to be injected with not just one vaccine, but four different vaccines. If this rule goes into effect -- and political momentum is certainly in its favor -- New Jersey would be the first U.S. state to make the vaccination of children required by law. This means that those parents who refuse to participate in such vaccination programs would be labeled "criminals" and arrested at gunpoint. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 By threatening to imprison parents who object to the supposed health benefits of vaccinations, these state officials are effectively conspiring to cause thousands of children to be separated from their parents -- a move that would create a humanitarian and public health disaster. This thought has not deterred Attorney General Glenn F. Ivey, who said, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way, but it's got to get done." That's the kind of quote that might be uttered by a corrupt police officer pointing a gun in your face and demanding that you do something you don't want to do. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Even so, environmental concerns, even ones that are known causes of cancer, are beyond the mission of the public health establishment.
Finally, our third question: who makes money by keeping us healthy?
Alas, there is no one.
APPENDIX A
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
In 1971, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made a secret trip to China, a country with which the United States had no diplomatic (and hardly another ties) at the time. One of the few reporters in the Kissinger entourage was James Reston of the New York Times. |
Anne Harrington
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 Even as these new debates within public health and epidemiology were playing out, the range of ways in which people told stories about healing ties was getting more complex. A new variation was emerging that was concerned less with the health benefits of community and more with the health benefits of something altogether more romantic: intimacy, or even (dare a scientist use that word?) love.
In 1977, University of Maryland psychiatrist and stress researcher
James J. Lynch published a book titled The Broken Heart that did dare to use the word. |
| Perhaps what was needed instead, she suggested, was a more "public health" minded approach to the question, one that studied the effects of social connections in large populations across the life cycle.51
Another possibility, of course, is that healing ties are more effective for some disorders than they are for others. Maybe boosting social support cannot do much, if anything, to repair an already damaged heart; but maybe it can fortify an immune system and in this way enhance a person's ability to rid his or her body of, say cancer. |
| In an article from 1986, the psychologists George Solomon and Lydia Temo-shok were blunt about the potential public health stakes of this kind of societal intolerance: "To the extent that these stresses are immunosuppressive, then they may be involved in the increased vulnerability of these groups to AIDS."75 In other words, a generation of young men was dying not just from the HIV virus but from the chronic stress of living with the rejection and disdain of society. |
Andreas Moritz
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 In 1995 a study conducted by the U.K.'s public health Laboratory Service and published in the Lancet showed that children given the measles/mumps/rubella shot were three times more likely to suffer from convulsions than those children who didn't receive it. The study also found that the MMR vaccine increased by five times the number of children suffering a rare blood disorder.
It is interesting to note that the mortality rate from measles declined by 95 percent before the measles vaccine was introduced. |
| In the late 1990s, the U.S. public health Service and the American Academy of Pediatrics petitioned drug companies to remove thimerosal from vaccines intended for children. Why? Well, in one study that examined CDC statistics, researchers found evidence that children who receive just three vaccines containing thimerosal are 27 times more likely to develop autism, compared to children who get vaccinations containing no thimerosal. That's a 2,700 percent increase. Who needs more proof than that? Apparently, the current (2007) administration of the U.S. government does. |
| Max Essex, a highly respected and leading AIDS expert from the Harvard University School of public health, found that some 85 percent of Africans who tested HIV positive with the Western Blot test later tested negative.
Another source of false-positive results from HIV tests is the large variety of antibodies which people produce after undergoing blood transfusions, or when exposed to foreign semen and virus material during homosexual activity, and after taking drugs. Drug users and homosexuals are known to make many more antibodies than the average person does. |
| It is up to everyone to protect themselves and their families against the careless policies and practices of those in charge of public health. Not allowing your children to drink soft drinks is one of the most important things you can do for their safety and good health. The same applies to sport drinks, which according to a report issued by the University of Californian in Berkeley can raise body weight a stunning 13 pounds each year if only one 20-ounce bottle is consumed each day. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| For now, we suggest that the principal contribution to the decline in mortality was the improvement in public health, particularly improvements in the quality of food and sanitation.
In the nineteenth century, there were no dramatic changes in working-class living conditions, but there were advances in water purification and sewage control. Beginning in 1900, there were great improvements in food hygiene, especially in the quality of milk. |
| No doubt: synthetic narcotics are a threat—a growing threat at that—to the public health. Unfortunately SAMHA's analysis lead us away from facing the problem, let alone finding a solution.
TRENDS
We need to throw out some numbers.
As Jonas Salk was putting the final touches on his vaccine in 1954, most drugs were sold over-the-counter (OTC). The best selling were Bufferin (Johnson & Johnson) and Geritol (Merck). By 2005, more than 100,000 preparations with 1,000 active ingredients were sold OTC. Annual sales exceeded $17 billion.4
Maybe there is something to be said for the 1950s nostalgia! |
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