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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 only truly honest, independent, peer-reviewed medical journal operating today is plos medicine, an open-source journal that takes no money from drug companies. Notice that the autism/mercury link study did not appear in plos medicine? No, it had to be published with a home field advantage in a pro-drug publication that maintains a strong bias in favor of pharmaceuticals and chemicals.

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs Melody Petersen See book keywords and concepts

There is increasing concern that in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims," he wrote in the journal plos medicine. "However, this should not be surprising. It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false." Executives at Novartis liked to say that Ritalin was the "most studied of any drug for children." Novartis had been selling Ritalin since 1955.

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Michael Pollan See book keywords and concepts

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.

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

Notice that the autism/mercury link study did not appear in plos medicine? No, it had to be published with a home field advantage in a pro-drug publication that maintains a strong bias in favor of pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Junk science and faulty conclusions Aside from these obvious and worrisome conflicts of interest, the conclusions being made about autism and vaccines in the mainstream media are simply not supported by the study. The (distorted) logic we're hearing goes like this: Yes, vaccines used to contain mercury. And yes, all those little kids were injected with mercury.

Kevin Miller's New "Generation Rx" Documentary Exposes Mass Betrayal of Children by FDA, Big Pharma Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Note of hope: There is one peer-reviewed medical journal that remains honest and publishes good medical science: plos medicine, an open-source journal that accepts no advertising from drug companies...) The simple truth, as the film reveals, is that money buys everything in this modern economy. It buys media coverage, it buys distorted science, it buys legislation, and it even buys the very definitions of disease.

Are antidepressant drugs an accomplice in the Virginia Tech shootings? (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Or, as described in shocking detail in the plos medicine study mentioned above, a 12 year old boy was being drugged with antidepressants when the following took place. As reported: (emphasis added) The independent forensic report on the case notes CP as saying that that night: "something told me to shoot them". He had initially reported this to be hallucinations and then said he thought it was his own thoughts. When asked to specifically describe what the experience was like, he said it was "like echoes in my head saying 'kill, kill', like someone shouting in a cave".

Study summary: Here's the summary of the study, mentioned above, published in PLoS Medicine: Recent regulatory warnings about adverse behavioural effects of antidepressants in susceptible individuals have raised the profile of these issues with clinicians, patients, and the public. We review available clinical trial data on paroxetine and sertraline and pharmacovigilance studies of paroxetine and fluoxetine, and outline a series of medico-legal cases involving antidepressants and violence.

Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels See book keywords and concepts

The journal launched here in the fall of 2004, plos medicine, also has big aspirations, as it plans to "challenge the status quo" by providing free web access to all of its scientific articles. What's more, unlike virtually every other leading medical journal in the world today, this journal will not accept any drug company advertisements. Nor will it publish company-funded studies that are considered to be marketing dressed up as science. The aim, say its editors, is to break "the cycle of dependency" that has formed between medical journals and the pharmaceutical industry.

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