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Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: same tactics, different chemicals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

With Big Tobacco we saw the suppression of studies that said nicotine was addictive, or of studies linking the inhalation of tobacco smoke to lung cancer. In the pharmaceutical industry, we see even worse distortions of clinical studies. We see studies that are designed to minimize the appearance of negative risks associated with these drugs, such as heart attacks, stroke, mental disorders, suicide attempts, and violent behavior. Even after studies are completed, the results are highly distorted as well. Drug companies pick and choose which studies they want to publish.

The big vitamin scare: American Medical Association claims vitamins may kill you (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

To pull this one off, they simply eliminate all previous studies that showed positive results for vitamins, and include only previous studies that showed negative results. Then they run a statistical analysis on all the studies they hand-picked and declare – surprise! – those vitamins are dangerous! Many of the studies on vitamin E, by the way, were conducted on dying heart patients who were only expected to live two weeks, regardless of what they took. A third way to distort the science is to confuse people with statistical obfuscation.

New "Juice Feasting" Emerging as Phytonutrient-Rich Disease-Fighting Nutritional System Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Evidence that fruit and vegetable consumption protects human health is accumulating from large population (epidemiological) studies, human feeding studies, and cell culture studies. Listed below are a few selected population studies from the literature linking fruit and vegetable consumption to health. For an excellent review concerning vegetables, fruit and cancer prevention, see Steinmetz and Potter, Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1996;96:1027.

Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: same tactics, different chemicals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We see studies that are designed to minimize the appearance of negative risks associated with these drugs, such as heart attacks, stroke, mental disorders, suicide attempts, and violent behavior. Even after studies are completed, the results are highly distorted as well. Drug companies pick and choose which studies they want to publish. They may do twelve different studies on a particular drug, and if six of them say the drug is safe and effective, while the other six studies say the drug is dangerous and useless from a medicinal point of view, they pick the six they want and bury the others.

The big vitamin scare: American Medical Association claims vitamins may kill you (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

To pull this one off, they simply eliminate all previous studies that showed positive results for vitamins, and include only previous studies that showed negative results. Then they run a statistical analysis on all the studies they hand-picked and declare – surprise! – those vitamins are dangerous! Many of the studies on vitamin E, by the way, were conducted on dying heart patients who were only expected to live two weeks, regardless of what they took. A third way to distort the science is to confuse people with statistical obfuscation.

Drug companies discredit negative studies and blacklist honest researchers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We've seen in many cases how these companies have attempted to suppress the publication of these studies or have threatened the careers of scientists who have administered studies that produced negative findings. Drug researchers know if they don't produce positive results, they are very likely to find themselves out of work. You either play the game as a drug researcher and produce the results your employer wants, or you start looking for a new job. You may, in fact, be blacklisted from the entire industry if you dare reveal that drugs might actually be dangerous.

Plant-based diet greatly reduces risk of cancer, say studies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Because, let's face it, even in the published studies when people talk about eating fruits and vegetables, a lot of the data come from self-reported surveys. And the things that people consider to be fruits are not necessarily healthy fruits. For example, eating apple pie is counted as a fruit in clinical trials. Personally, I wouldn't count that as a fruit. It's a cooked, sugary apple pie made with hydrogenated oils, refined white flour and refined sugar in the crust. To me, that's not fruit. That's junk food. But medical studies call that "fruit.

If you had people eating raw blueberries, nuts, green leafy vegetables, salads, and consuming whole drinks made from vegetable concentrates, then the results would be vastly different from what you're seeing in these published studies. You'd see diseases like cancer literally vanishing in the group. And yet even these mainstream studies using unhealthy people on minimal plant diets are showing positive results. It goes to show you that even people who have poor dietary habits can dramatically reduce their risk of cancer by consuming a few fruits and vegetables along with their unhealthy foods.

Analysis: Senate committee approves drug safety bill, but FDA still runs on Big Pharma money - UPDATE 1 Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Currently, drug companies hide the studies they don't want you to see, and they only publicize the (fraudulent) studies that produce the results they like. We need to change this and shine some light on the results of ALL clinical trials to let doctors, patients and everyone else examine the science for themselves. (The pharmaceutical industry argues venomously against this. They think drug studies should be kept secret.) 5) End conflicts of interest at the FDA.

Plant-based diet greatly reduces risk of cancer, say studies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

But getting back to the JAMA studies, we at least now know that eating more plants -- even small portions of those plants -- will vastly improve the health of most people (even diseased people). That much is clear. And if you actually eat real fruits and vegetables instead of processed ones, you'll benefit even more.

The aloe vera miracle: A natural medicine for cancer, cholesterol, diabetes, inflammation, IBS, and other health conditions Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

These benefits have yet to be proven in studies, but just because the studies haven't been done doesn't mean the aloe isn't already providing these benefits to those who take it. Since there's no money to be made from studing aloe vera, the science will lag behind reality by several decades. Most of the best healing benefits of herbs remain unstudied because there's no profit motive to fund such studies. So don't expect scientists to be leaping at the opportunity to "prove" that aloe vera has all these health benefits. Just eat it yourself and observe your own health improvements.

Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: same tactics, different chemicals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Even after studies are completed, the results are highly distorted as well. Drug companies pick and choose which studies they want to publish. They may do twelve different studies on a particular drug, and if six of them say the drug is safe and effective, while the other six studies say the drug is dangerous and useless from a medicinal point of view, they pick the six they want and bury the others. They forward the six they want to the FDA. The FDA looks at those six and says, "This sure is scientific!", and they approve that drug application. I'm not making this up.

Plant-based diet greatly reduces risk of cancer, say studies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

You see, modern medicine really only studies disease. That's why med school graduates are generally clueless about nutrition and disease prevention.) All this leads us to a startling realization, which is that we now have a system of medicine based on a collection of clinical evidence that was derived from studying how unhealthy, chronically diseased, malfunctioning human bodies respond to certain chemicals. That's what we have today. So when people call it evidence based medicine, it's actually not based on any realistic evidence of how healthy bodies might respond.

So if you look across the population at what people consider to be fruits and vegetables, to me it's amazing that there's any health benefit coming out of these studies at all. Because people have distorted definitions of what fruits and vegetables really are. (Some people consider strawberry ice cream to be a serving of fruits!) As a result, if you observed a group of people in a study and you made sure they ate raw fruits and vegetables and avoided all of the refined, manufactured food products, you would see phenomenal results.

Drug companies discredit negative studies and blacklist honest researchers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Obviously, if this negative information about Vioxx came out in the studies, Merck didn't want its name on it. The company likely wanted to only show the good side of Vioxx (the reduction in inflammation), and it never wanted to talk about the negative side effects of taking this drug, such as the increased heart attack risk. It also occurs to me that Merck was well aware of the dangerous nature of Vioxx years before they ultimately decided to pull it off the market, and it appears the company was engaged in a consistent, conscious effort to discredit negative information about the drug.

Across Big Pharma, what companies do is fund and design studies which are carefully constructed in a way that will only highlight the positive effects of the drugs. In those rare circumstances where reality overpowers the design of the study and the negative effects are quite apparent, many companies go out of their way to suppress or cover up those findings and distance themselves from those study results.

Merck Engaged in Blatant Scientific Fraud with Vytorin Cholesterol Study? (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The agency is happy to accept fraudulent studies from Big Pharma -- and it has done so for decades! When it comes to pharmaceuticals, the point of conducting studies is not to discover the scientifically-validated truth about a particular drug's effects on the human body, but rather to provide a sufficient amount of pseudoscientific cover to allow the FDA to approve the drug and proclaim it to be both safe and effective.

Study "Disproving" Mercury-Autism Link Published in Journal with Financial Ties to Vaccine Manufacturers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The mainstream media, which repeatedly demonstrates astonishing ignorance on issues of nutrition and health, also seems to have very little ability to interpret scientific studies and reach reasoned conclusions about what those studies do or do not prove. Was the vaccine study another example of corrupt science? Besides, this entire discussion is based on the idea that we can trust the research in the first place.

Analysis: Senate committee approves drug safety bill, but FDA still runs on Big Pharma money - UPDATE 1 Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Just because this new Senate bill would "allow" the FDA to fine drug companies for failing to conduct follow-up safety studies doesn't mean the FDA will actually do so. Much of the language in this bill assumes the FDA actually desires to regulate drug companies and protect the American public. Yet past behavior by the agency has proven the FDA has very little interest in protecting the public. Thus, any "optional" language in the bill may ultimately be useless. A good bill would require the FDA to take specific actions, levy certain fines, and oversee the necessary safety studies.

In U.S., science is distorted to promote political and corporate agendas Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

These companies go out of their way to hire scientists willing to design and run these studies to produces precisely the result that the drug companies want. This is easy to accomplish; any researcher refusing to play along with this fraudulent science game is not offered additional work. In the worst cases, they are terminated and blackballed from the industry. This manipulation of drug trials is routine today. Drug companies are able to support almost any conclusion, no matter how ridiculous or preposterous, by pumping enough money into the studies.

The false gods of scientific medicine revealed: It's a cult, not a science Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

These are supposed to be the "gold standard" of scientific study, and yet it has been well demonstrated that these studies almost always produce results beneficial to the organization providing the funding. The wishes of the study sponsors, not true scientific methods, determine the study outcomes. This is accomplished through an elaborate system of fraudulent trial design, selective reporting, dismissing study subjects who don't produce the desired outcome, statistical distortions and the application of career pressure to the researchers who carry out such studies.

Smokers pose huge burden on employers with extra sick days and lower productivity Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: Separate studies on two continents have concluded smoking is associated with decreased productivity on the job, both in the civilian and military sectors. The studies were published in the April 2007 issue of the journal Tobacco Control. "In both the civilian and military sectors, smoking has been linked to disability and job-related outcomes, including decreased productivity, increased absenteeism, and long and more frequent work breaks," reported Terry L. Conway, Ph.D. and colleagues at San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health.

The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body Andreas Moritz See book keywords and concepts

There are hundreds of studies that were intended to prove that such a relationship exists, but all they revealed was a statistical correlation between cholesterol and heart disease—quite fortunately, I might add. If there were no "bad" cholesterol molecules attaching themselves to injured arteries, we would have millions more deaths from heart attack than we already have. By contrast, dozens of conclusive studies have shown that the risk of heart disease increases significantly in people whose HDL levels decrease.

The FDA still refuses to protect the people Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The GAO report suggested that authority be given to the FDA to require drug makers to conduct safety studies on drugs already approved and on the market. Grassley also urged passage of legislation that would allow FDA researchers to conduct independent post-market studies of drugs. The FDA's response to the investigation and criticism was a statement from its Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, calling the report "well done," and saying the "conclusions reached are reasonable and consistent with actions we already have underway or planned.

The top herbs and supplements for wound healing and post-surgical recovery Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Chlorella: Japanese studies have found Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF) to be especially effective in speeding up cell growth, a major factor in the natural repair of wounds. Various other studies reveal CGF helps heal ulcers and promote bone and muscle growth. When taken internally, it also acts as an immune-booster. Topically, it functions as a protective cleansing compound for skin. Chlorella is found in numerous superfood products, including Rejuvenate! from Health Products Distributors, Inc. at http://www.IntegratedHealth.

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