Mike Adams
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 In a society that truly honored health freedom, even if a parent believed that prayer alone was the best medicine for cancer, then that parent should be allowed to practice that system of medicine and avoid conventional cancer treatments, which are themselves highly toxic and largely based on junk science.
Under a system of health freedom, we would be able to choose natural treatments, including Ayurvedic medicine, Western herbal medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, mind-body medicine, energy medicine, or any other system of medicine that we believed would be helpful to us. |
| But the advertisements, which were legalized under the irrational justification that they would only provide "public education" and not actually promote such drugs, began making all sorts of junk science claims and associations that simply were not true. In 2004, a study carried out by the Institute of Evidence-Based Medicine in Germany found that an astonishing 94 percent of the statements contained in promotional literature sent to doctors by drug companies had no basis in scientific fact. |
| It's all a self-reinforcing orgy of junk science, disease marketing, and drug pushing, with an inexcusable disregard for nutrition and disease prevention.
When you agree to believe something communicated to you by an individual or organization, it's important to understand the difference between those who act with obvious conflicts of interest and those who have only altruistic motives. That's why I've placed myself in a position of receiving absolutely no financial gain from this book or the products mentioned in it. |
Michele Simon
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 For example, bona fide research that soda is linked to obesity is often dismissed by soda-industry lobbyists as "junk science."
Licensing: When owners of certain copyrights sell their rights to other companies. For example, when Disney sells a license to McDonald's to market movie-related toys.
Local control: The excuse used by multinational companies such as Coca-Cola for why it opposes state legislation to get soda out of schools. If you hear the argument for local control, ask who is making the argument and what interests they represent. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 Shari Lieberman, a certified nutrition specialist and author of The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book, calls them "junk science." She says, "Show me where the amount of picolinate used in those hamster cell studies has any bearing whatsoever on what a human being would consume if they took chromium picolinate in the ranges we're recommending." Dr. C. Leigh Broadhurst, who worked with Dr. Richard Anderson on the development of chromium picolinate at the USDA, agrees. Others are more cautious. "I'm about 99.9 percent sure that chromium picolinate is safe," says Dr. Harry Preuss. |
Michele Simon
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| In dismissing CSPI's work as media driven and reliant upon "junk science" (a favorite derisive term for any research that inconveniently goes against corporate interests), CCF's aim is to scare people into believing that the group is trying to take away their God-given right to eat whatever they want. I have been closely following CSPI for many years, and have found that, unlike some other groups, CSPI backs up every claim it makes and is actually quite cautious about its scientific conclusions. Does CSPI use the media effectively? Absolutely. |
| And the number-one issue on its junk science hit list is obesity. There is a notable split within the food industry on the question of whether or not to dispute obesity science directly. Most food companies have shied away from explicitly disavowing the existence of an obesity epidemic (probably out of an awareness of how the denial tack backfired on Big Tobacco). Instead, some have formed advisory bodies to
"study" the matter. Food manufacturers are leaving the task of dismissing the obesity issue altogether to trade associations and front groups like CCF. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Most people are easily fooled into conventional treatments by drug ads, junk science and disease mongering. But for the rest, there's always Gunpoint Medicine.
Coming soon: Pharmaceutical ammo
What's next for conventional medicine? It's not enough to demand the mass medication of the public by dripping toxic fluoride into public water supplies. Why not mass-medicate the entire population with pharmaceutical-tipped ammo?
Prozac-coated bullets would make cops' jobs much easier: After you shoot patients, they actually feel better and are far less likely to sue! |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 His press release stated that polycarbonate bottles are safe and that the public should not listen to the "junk science" of the people that brought us the alar scare. Not only was alar proven to be as toxic as claimed, but Koop's argument in favor of polycarbonate bottles is wrought with contradictions.
The government doesn't test chemicals for safety. Nor do they regulate by the scientific standards that are possible today. Old regulations and laws govern the production and use of most chemicals and products on the market today. Each attempt at legislation is usually thwarted by industry. |
| When industry gets really scared they debunk any negative claim as being "junk science."
The estrogenic properties of bisphenol-A (BPA) was known as early as 1936, yet children now have their teeth coated with plastic containing BPA. The ADA denies any problem and goes on coating teeth. Food and drink cans are lined with it. Some plasfic baby bottles contain it and other plasticizers. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 If ADHD was meant as a way merely to identify a set of behaviors with no inference of it being a neurological abnormality, that would be one thing (and still an insult to children), but the insistence that it exists in the same physical and provable realm as real diseases is a perversion of science, without even enough credibility to rise to the level of pseudo science or junk science. It is an outright lie. [8]
What happened to Matthew Smith and his parents is not an isolated case. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 In reality the Danish Adoption Study is junk science and does not prove schizophrenia is inheritable at all. But the study has been cited as the study so many times by so many textbooks and articles that it is hard even to believe that it is a hugely flawed study. That helps explain the strong reaction of one psychiatrist who researched and wrote about the Danish study:
When I located the original 1975 summary report on the Danish study by Kety and his colleagues in the book Genetic Research in Psychiatry, I was shocked by what I found. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These entirely bogus junk science pseudoscientific labels are a barcode on the forehead of a child, and once the label gets in their record, it sticks. They can't get rid of it. If a child or an adult gets one of these labels, this stigmatizes that individual. They are going to have more trouble getting health care insurance and trouble finding employment. The armed services will not take children who have been on these drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The term "junk science" is used by defenders of conventional medicine to discredit everything outside conventional medicine, regardless of whether or not it is based on sound scientific ground.
Similarly, the term "quackery" or "quack" is also used by the defenders of conventional medicine to describe anything outside the realm of conventional medicine. If it's not something they control, own the intellectual rights to, or profit from, the defenders of conventional medicine call it quackery, regardless of its merit as a genuine healing therapy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Rich people, even in 1922, were just as gullible as rich people today when it comes to trading their wealth for medical procedures based on junk science.
Despite the astonishing death rate, patients couldn't get enough of Cotton's cutting-edge treatments, and they were willing to fork over top dollar to subject themselves to various organ lobotomies in the hopes of curing mental illness that was most likely caused by simple nutritional deficiencies. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Both Kennedy and Scarborough state that the idea that this is safe is "junk science." They state that it is fraudulent. You are reading this right. Both Kennedy and Scarborough are stating what I had been stating for years. That the tobacco industry, the oil industry, and the pharmaceutical industry all do the same thing. They create their own fake and fraudulent studies. They pay off government politicians to perpetuate lies. They use the news media to make us believe that these things are safe, when in fact they're not safe, and in fact are causing disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Flu shots contain toxic heavy metals
Like many things in conventional medicine, flu shots are largely based on junk science combined with a blatant financial motivation by vaccine manufacturers. Heavy marketing (and, some say, engineered shortages) result in heightened vaccine demand in the general public. Yet people are never told what's really found in vaccines.
Flu shots contain mercury. Dr. Russell Blaylock, author of Excitoxins, explains, "Flu vaccines contain 25 units of organic mercury. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Aside from all the junk science, corruption, fraud, collusion, conflicts of interest and intellectual dishonesty that characterizes modern medicine, there's one more all-important thing to consider: The results. If modern medicine really worked, and wasn't just pretend, wouldn't we be the healthiest population in the world?
Seriously. We Americans pay more for health care, per capita, than any nation in the world. We take more drugs, undergo more surgical procedures, and log more hospitals visits than anyone else. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Our current system of conventional medicine is so far from nature and is so steeped in the mythology of junk science, that simple, basic truths of disease prevention don't even occur to its practitioners. Now, granted, there are good doctors out there; there are people who know this stuff. My hat is off to you, especially if you're working to educate your patients about this. But you are the exception, not the rule.
The vast majority of the physicians, researchers, med school teachers, and university professors still teach people that they need to avoid the sun because it will kill them. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 To say that Americans are being diagnosed with high blood pressure simply because they are chronologically aging is truly junk science. They're getting high blood pressure because their diets are getting worse and they're avoiding physical exercise. It's happening because people are eating more processed foods and they're being dosed up with more prescription drugs that actually cause destructive side effects in their bodies.
Of course, it is true that Americans are getting fatter, and it's no secret why. |
Peter Pringle
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 One correspondent claimed the paper was "junk science that shouldn't have made it past rudimentary peer review process."21 An early criticism came from a "Mary Murphy" who attacked Chapela for being on the board of directors of Pesticide Action Network, a group trying to reduce the use of pesticides, and so, claimed Murphy, "not exactly what you'd call an unbiased writer."
Murphy's posting was followed by a message from "Andura
Smetacek. |
Joseph Glenmullen, M.D.
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 Noting that "it remains anything but certain that clinical depression is, in fact, caused by a decrease in serotonin," he denounced the junk science of serotonin deficiencies and biochemical imbalances as "uncertain gropings for proof of a fanciful theory."
Unfortunately, the din in the general media drowned out the few reasoned voices. As Prozac rocketed up the charts, it became the number-two best-selling drug in America. Zoloft and Paxil rank almost as high. More than 60 million prescriptions for the drugs were written in 1998. Annual sales of the three exceed $4 billion a year. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 AIM's newsletter gleefully published quotes from the ACS memo in an article with the banner headline: "Junk Science on PBS." The article opened with "Can we afford the Public Broadcasting Service?" and went on to disparage Koughan's documentary on pesticides and children. "In Our Children's Food ... exemplified what the media have done to produce these 'popular panics' and the enormously costly waste (at PBS) cited by the New York Times."
When Koughan saw the AIM article he was initially outraged that the ACS was being used to defend the pesticide industry. |
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
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 Hazleton further charged that the American economy and justice system had been corrupted by "junk science.... Having successfully attacked silicone breast implants," he lamented, "plaintiff's attorneys now have their sights set on another health care product: Norplant™."9
To help free American corporate "litigation targets" from attack by what he called "Litigation, Incorporated," Hazleton advanced a series of congressional recommendations for which he pledged to lobby. These included:
• The exclusion of biomaterials suppliers from litigation brought against medical device manufacturers. . . |
John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
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 Edward Bernays, Ivy Lee and John Hill all worked on PR for tobacco, pioneering techniques that today remain the PR industry's stock in trade: third party advocacy, subliminal message reinforcement, junk science, phony front groups, advocacy advertising, and buying favorable news reporting with advertising dollars.
Prior to World War I, smoking cigarettes was considered unrefined for women and effeminate for men, who either smoked cigars or stuck to tobacco of the chewing variety. |
Peter Radetsky
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 Gots contends.
Donnay considers all that pure bunk. "It's such a shame that the myth is still out there that there's nothing to this disease," he declares. "The myth dates to the late eighties and early nineties, when a few medical societies issued negative opinions that were strongly influenced by their anti-MCS expert witness members, who pushed for these statements so they could use them in court. People like Gots.
"But one of the first things I did when I got this job was a literature search. |
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