Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Cystic Fibrosis 1 in 5,000 Funding: $75 million ¦Juvenile Diabetes 1 in 500 Funding: $140 million
?Autism 1 in 150 Funding: $15 million (Dollar amounts reflect approximate annual funds raised by major private advocacy groups.)
Note: it is important to note that there is no suggestion to place an importance on one disease over another. This funding information above is only to demonstrate the disparity of funding towards autism.
AUTISTICS AGE INFORMATION: In the State of California seven out of ten Autistic individuals are under the age of 13 years.
BETTER DIAGNOSIS ? |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 In 2000, Congress passed the Physical Fitness for Progress (PFP) Bill, which allows school districts to apply for funding to implement or improve their physical fitness programs. Now called the Carol M. White Physical Education Program, bills have been passed over the last six years to increase funding for the grant programs. Even at the highest level of funding, the funds being distributed are a fraction of what is needed to address the obesity problem. Many school systems in the U.S. currently do not have the funds to implement a serious physical education program. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Part of the bill stipulated that funding by Congress for new drug evaluations had to increase by 3% per year. Since the overall funding for the FDA did not increase at 3% per year, the FDA had to actually cut funding for surveillance and research of approved drugs.
The change in law had another interesting result: The boundaries among the drug companies, the FDA, and doctors became increasingly blurred. FDA officials sometimes move to jobs in the pharmaceutical industry, which means they may not want to burn their bridges with industry. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| White Physical Education Program, bills have been passed over the last six years to increase funding for the grant programs. Even at the highest level of funding, the funds being distributed are a fraction of what is needed to address the obesity problem. Many school systems in the U.S. currently do not have the funds to implement a serious physical education program. When schools hit a financial wall and budget cuts are required, general physical education and gym programs are among the first to go. |
Dawson Church
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 Because it does not benefit a drug company, hospital, or much of the infrastructure of the current medical system, so far there has been only a tiny trickle of funding for Energy Psychology and energy medicine research.
Soul Medicine Institute has a number of studies underway or planned that need funding. Please consider making tax-deductible a donation or bequest.
For more information, go to www.SoulMedicineInstitute.org
Appendix E: Research at Soul Med Institute icine
S oul Medicine Institute is involved in a number of exciting research initiatives. |
Ann N. Martin
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 In a news release issued by Ralston Purina in May 2000, the pet food company announced that "in an effort to help university, veterinary hospitals provide optimal nutrition recommendations for dogs and cats, Ralston Purina is funding three new veterinary diet technician positions."13 The company funded $100,000 to support three new diet technician positions for the first year. (The three schools benefiting from funding for veterinary diet technician positions were Texas A8cM, University of Pennsylvania, and Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We will publicly post all funding of non-profits or grassroots campaigns so that you can see where the donation funds are going. I want you to know exactly what we're supporting and how we're making a positive difference by funding non-profit programs that make a lasting, positive impact on our world (and the people in it!).
What if every corporation acted with integrity?
Did you ever wonder what kind of world we might live in if every commercial entity acted with integrity? |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| This funding information above is only to demonstrate the disparity of funding towards autism.
AUTISTICS AGE INFORMATION: In the State of California seven out of ten Autistic individuals are under the age of 13 years.
BETTER DIAGNOSIS ? Some have suggested that autism is just being better diagnosed today versus ten years ago and that many cases of mental retardation are now being coded as autism. This would also assume that the experts diagnosing autism before did not know what they were doing. This is NOT TRUE. |
Charles Barber
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 Government funding has followed suit. funding for the National Institute of Mental Health, $90 million in 1976, reached $1.4 billion in 2006.33 And just between 1998 and 2003, that budget doubled.34
Given the special prestige that neuroscience and biological psychiatry presently occupy in our culture, it is hard to fathom that psychoanalysis enjoyed that exact same level of prestige and influence less than fifty years ago. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Brown & Williamson tobacco company7
For half a century, the tobacco industry muddied the link between smoking and cancer by funding skeptics, researching alternative explanations for lung cancer and mounting public relations campaigns to "manufacture doubt" about science.
"There's a saying in the PR business that for every PhD there's an equal and opposite PhD. And if there's not one then you can create one through funding. And if you put a lot of money into manufacturing ignorance, it can actually work," said Robert Proctor, history professor at Stanford University. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, after decades of research and tens of billions of dollars in funding, conventional medicine has cured nothing!
What have the scientists been doing all this time with all this money? Members of the public are running around in circles raising money, funding the "race for the cure," dumping their hard-earned cash into a huge financial black hole of so-called research. We're standing by waiting for cures from a scientific community that, it turns out, isn't even interested in curing disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 According to the New York State Archives, the TIRC's functions "included both the funding of research and carrying out public relations activities relating to tobacco and health." Faced with mounting evidence that smoking was harmful, "it became evident that this was not a short-term endeavor, and that it was difficult to manage both scientific research and public relations in one organization. As a result the Tobacco Institute was formed to assume the public relations functions, and the Council for Tobacco Research (CTR) was formed and incorporated to provide funding for scientific research. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| Note: it is important to note that there is no suggestion to place an importance on one disease over another. This funding information above is only to demonstrate the disparity of funding towards autism.
AUTISTICS AGE INFORMATION: In the State of California seven out of ten Autistic individuals are under the age of 13 years.
BETTER DIAGNOSIS ? Some have suggested that autism is just being better diagnosed today versus ten years ago and that many cases of mental retardation are now being coded as autism. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 So-called "independent" scientific bodies are often heavily influenced by industry
William Freese "The expert bodies are often comprised mainly of plant science specialists who themselves receive research funding from biotechnology companies, or whose institutions receive such funding.... [A] common thread in the numerous expert reviews is their reliance on the opinions of national regulatory agencies, particularly the FDA, which as noted above are themselves based on 'data summaries' from the financially interested biotech companies rather than the company's full, original studies. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Since the overall funding for the FDA did not increase at 3% per year, the FDA had to actually cut funding for surveillance and research of approved drugs.
The change in law had another interesting result: The boundaries among the drug companies, the FDA, and doctors became increasingly blurred. FDA officials sometimes move to jobs in the pharmaceutical industry, which means they may not want to burn their bridges with industry. |
Roberta Bivins
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 In 1950, the Faculty of Homeopathy Act formally recognized homeopathic teaching, research, and practices, but homeopathic training—the lifeblood of any speciality—was denied public funding by the old enemy, the British Medical Association (through its offshoot, the British Postgraduate Medical Federation). In the end neither the sponsors not the sceptics of homeopathy on the NHS could have predicted the revival of homeopathy's fortunes and popularity of the 1970s and 1980s?in part due to changes in the funding of entirely orthodox general practices. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| So-called "independent" scientific bodies are often heavily influenced by industry
William Freese "The expert bodies are often comprised mainly of plant science specialists who themselves receive research funding from biotechnology companies, or whose institutions receive such funding.... [A] common thread in the numerous expert reviews is their reliance on the opinions of national regulatory agencies, particularly the FDA, which as noted above are themselves based on 'data summaries' from the financially interested biotech companies rather than the company's full, original studies. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 I would like to do a clinical trial of 100-200 people, and we hope to receive funding to do so. I feel the results you are about to see merit such attention, and I am actively working to receive the proper funding.
Explanation of the Data
FASTING BLOOD SUGAR (FBS)
This blood glucose level is taken with a monitor each morning before food is eaten, as well as three other times during the day. A range of 70 to 85 is the optimal FBS. |
Michael Pollan
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 Ludwig, "Relationship Between funding Source and Conclusion Among Nutrition-Related Scientific Articles," PLoS Medicine, Vol. 4, No. 1, eS doi:10.1371/journal. pmed.0040005.
Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms are screaming their newfound five a THE MELTING OF THE LIPID HYPOTHESIS
JL \| for us? You might think that a national fixation on nutrients would lead to measurable improvements in public health. For that to happen, however, the underlying nutritional science and the policy recommendations (not to mention the journalism) based on that science would both have to be sound. |
Bill Sardi
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 But the funding for this group is undisclosed. The head of this consumer group was formerly employed by an unnamed Fortune 500 company and had worked for various Congressional leaders. Has she been planted to head this consumer group? How would this leader represent smokers?
CT scanning has gained widespread attention, especially by ex-smokers who are fearful they will develop lung cancer and know that most diagnoses are usually made too late to effectively treat the disease. The annual scans cost about $500 each. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Despite my dispelling the hype this product generated (and remember, it all began with funding from Boots, and no one else has reproduced the results from their "study"), it can be a good serum-type moisturizer for all skin types, and the silicones make skin feel wonderfully silky. This product is sold in England under the name No7 Protect and Perfect Beauty Serum, and except for the name change is identical to the version sold in the United States and Canada. |
John Boik
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 For example, approximately 75% of all grant proposals received by the National Cancer Institute are considered to be of high quality and worthy of funding, yet limited resources allow funding for only about 9 to 20% (Urba, 1994, personal communication).4 Such fierce competition severely limits funding, particularly for studies on controversial agents or agents of limited interest. In the industrial sector, funding is also limited for agents that do not lead to patentable products. For these reasons, the U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In response, the Feds simply renamed it, refunded it from other "shadow" funding sources, and continued to build the project. It is now up and running behind the scenes here in America. (You can keep tabs on this program and other shadow government operations at the ultra-popular www.Rense.com website, which posts daily headlines on this topic.)
Increasingly, the U.S. government is operating in secret, using greatly expanded police state power to spy on its own citizens. This attempt at acquiring Amazon. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Under orders from the White House, Nord insisted that the CPSC didn't need any increase in funding, and that businesses should essentially remain unregulated. Nancy Nord, who is now widely regarded as a pro-business Bush puppet, jetted around the world on trips paid for by some of the very same wealthy corporations who don't want consumer product safety regulations.
Not surprisingly, virtually everyone following this issue is outraged at both Nancy Nord and the Bush Administration for apparently having no concern whatsoever for the safety of U.S. consumers. But why should this surprise us? |
Michael Pollan
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| One such previously cited study, published by the Public Library of Science, is "Relationships Between funding Source and Conclusion Among Nutrition-Related Scientific Articles," by David S. Ludwig, et al. See also Marion Nestle's Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health. Revised edition. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007). bake them into our vitamin-fortified bread. But I'm not sure we should put our faith in food science, which so far has not served us very well, or in evolution, either. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Members of the public are running around in circles raising money, funding the "race for the cure," dumping their hard-earned cash into a huge financial black hole of so-called research. We're standing by waiting for cures from a scientific community that, it turns out, isn't even interested in curing disease. The industry is far more interested in treating and managing disease, because that's where the profits are found.
If the US medical research companies were interested in real science, they would stop trying to research the disease and start trying to research the causes of the disease. |
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