Mark Schapiro
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 As Kirschener told me: "These guys have spent their careers thinking creatively about how to solve problems, come up with new ideas, and put them into action." But questioning the potentially toxic chemical properties of all those components they'd been working with was something that their training had never required. It was the end of the era in which what was contained in those products was of no consequence, compared to what they could do. Now someone in Brussels was telling them what to put in the machines they'd spent their careers inventing—or more precisely, what to take out of them. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 These professional cheaters risk their income and careers to excel in their sports because there are millions of dollars and fame at stake. Cheating on this level is done deliberately with ample consideration of what to take, how to take it, what the effects will be and how to avoid detection from drug testing.
One of the most susceptible groups, who want to emulate the super athlete mentality, are teenage athletes. |
| If you like certain celebrities and want to follow their careers and fantasize about being rich and famous, go for it. Just don't buy products and services solely because a celebrity endorses them.
Money-Back Guarantee, Or Guaranteed Not To Get Your Money Back?
IVIany products offer a money-back guarantee to entice people to purchase. The reason these offers are possible is that few people actually take the time to return them, especially when they have to disassemble the product, re-pack it and then make a trip to the post office. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Many went back for additional training in order to pursue more-lucrative second careers as specialists. Anesthesiology has proved particularly attractive as a second-career specialty because it offers high pay and regular hours. Some primary care doctors fled to Wall Street to work as biotech and medical stock analysts; others took jobs as medical directors with insurance companies.
When medical students look ahead toward the day when they will enter practice, the picture for primary care must look bleak indeed. |
Jack Challem
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 He knew he could not easily change careers. Over the last five years, Harold had gained more than fifty pounds, had developed severe hypertension (200/110 mmHg), and had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a condition characterized by extreme fatigue and achy muscles. "Sure, I'm overweight—who wouldn't be with this damn lifestyle!" he said.
Harold felt boxed in, and it wasn't clear that his lifestyle would allow him to make substantial improvements. To our pleasant surprise, though, he began to follow a protein-rich, low-carb eating plan. |
Devra Davis
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 In some cases, scientific research was stopped in its tracks, and many careers, like Hueper's, were derailed.10
In retrospect it seems clear that Frank Press was correct about many things. It's not enough to write the right book. The world has to be ready to listen. I'm certainly not the first person to try to shine light on the lopsided nature of the effort against cancer, nor am I unique in commenting on the arrogance of environmental policies. But there are signs that the world may be more ready to listen. |
| Their oddly parallel careers raise the question, Whose purposes should science serve?
Born into an impoverished family, Hueper was drafted into the German army prior to World War I. He dodged residues of poison gas that wafted back onto German troops during that conflict. After his discharge, he became a pacifist and a critic of religion and reactionary politics. In 1923, while in his mid-twenties he arrived in the United States as a married physician. |
Melody Petersen
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 Each doctor would write prescriptions worth millions of dollars during their careers. The drugmakers ranked the physicians according to their lifetime prescribing potential.
"Segment physicians according to their value," instructed Dr. David Lefkowitz, a consultant to the industry, in an article in 2003, "and focus resources on those with the greatest worth."
Those "resources" included offers of cash, travel, and entertainment. |
Devra Davis
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| Many of Kehoe's students at Kettering would go on to distinguished careers in industrial hygiene, including Eula Bingham, who became director of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1976, and Paul Kotin, who became the first director of the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences in 1968 and later worked for the asbestos industry. The impressive new facilities at the University of Cincinnati became a major center for studies requested by industry, providing private advice to companies and never releasing results unless given permission to do so. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| From Little League baseball players to high school seniors looking at possible scholarships and professional sports careers, these kids are pressured by parents and coaches to perform better. They are told to lose weight, gain weight, increase muscle mass, be faster and stronger than the competition. In seeking quick fixes, they can seriously and permanently injure their bodies. Health and fitness professional Charles Damiano makes the observation, "Our culture today fosters unreasonable physical expectations for young athletes both male and female. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Many journalists today are merely looking for the attention-getting headline (byline) or 2-minute soundbite that will advance their careers.
• NIH Scientists Broke Rules, Panel Says, , Rick Weiss, 6/23/2004.
• USA: The Pharmaceutical Industry Stalks the Corridors of Power, The Guardian Unlimited, Julian Borger, 2/13/2001.
• NIH Seeks Consulting Ban, , Ted Agres, 9/27/2004.
• British Medical Journal Blasts FDA on Lotronex, , Reuters, 5/18/2001.
• Dangerous Drugs Approved by the FDA, Public Campaign, 09/29/1999. |
Melody Petersen
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| They had come to the conference to network and learn the secrets that would propel their careers. Many of them already knew part of the story of Detrol and eagerly waited to learn more.
As Wolf, a bearded man with graying hair, took the stage inside the ballroom, the audience quieted. The first slide of his presentation appeared on the large screen. It held the title he had selected for his speech: "Positioning Detrol (Creating a Disease)."
"We wanted people to see something in Reader's Digest," he said, "and go to the doctor and say, 'I have this condition.' |
Kevin Trudeau
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 If it is proven beyond any doubt with this new DNA technology that these people that they prosecuted are in fact innocent, it could ruin these prosecutors' careers; therefore, the prosecutors do not want this test run. This is the most unbelievable and outrageous thing I've ever heard. There are people in jail whose lives are destroyed because these prosecutors put them there. The prosecutors do not care if the person is guilty or innocent; they just want the person to stay in jail because if the person was innocent their own careers could be adversely affected. |
Anne Harrington
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 When Charcot died in 1893, his reputation, at least in this area, was in tatters, and his students, looking to rescue their careers, scattered. In 1901, one of Charcot's previously most loyal students, Joseph Babinski, read a paper on hysteria before the Neurological Society of Paris that represented a kind of apotheosis of the skepticism toward the psychological that Bernheim's "suggestion" had spawned. The paper was a mea culpa on behalf of both himself and the whole approach of the school he had once defended. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Scientists who have built careers on a particular biological model are slow to accept evidence that their model may be flawed.
There are legions of other scientists we could name whose ideas upset the status quo and so were initially rejected, suppressed, or ignored until so much evidence was amassed as to make their theories acceptable or until the cultural climate changed in their favor. |
Michael Pollan
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 Fast food is precisely the way you'd expect a people to eat who put success at the center of life, who work long hours (with two careers per household), get only a couple of weeks vacation each year, and who can't depend on a social safety net to cushion them from life's blows. But Slow Food's wager is that making time and slowing down to eat, an activity that happens three times a day and ramifies all through a culture, is precisely the wedge that can begin to crack the whole edifice. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 The goal of nature and the body, conception, is not the goal of many young women in college or out there starting their careers. That is where the pill comes in.
Oral contraceptives, including the early version refined by Pincus, provide a steady supply of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone for twenty-one days, followed by seven days of nothing (usually an inert pill) during which a woman usually has her period. (An exception is the mini pill, which provides a continuous dose of progesterone only. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Their jobs and careers are at stake.
Another outstanding source for learning more about the evils of the cancer industry is G. Edward Griffin. Click here to read our article about Griffin or click here for his website.
Click here to see his video documentary on vitamin B17
A world free from cancer and full of abundance
Personally, I believe we could create a world virtually free of cancer. We could accomplish it in two generations by taking tough action to outlaw cancer-causing chemicals and investing in genuine cancer prevention education. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Thus, they interfere not only with quality of life but with careers as well. Interestingly, essential tremors tend to stop when the affected body part is at rest.
WARNING SIGN
A "pill-rolling" finger gesture is a unique sign of Parkinson's disease.The tremor looks like the thumb and forefinger are rolling a pill between them.This repetitive gesture can occur as often as 3 times per second. It is most noticeable when the hand is at rest or the person is under stress. |
Alex Vilenkin
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 Finally, by the mid-1950s neither Gamow nor Alpher and Herman were actively working on the big bang theory: Gamow was increasingly attracted to biology, where he suggested important insights into the genetic code, while Alpher and Herman left ac-ademia and moved on to careers in private industry. One cannot help thinking that lack of appreciation of their work must have played a role in those decisions. By the mid-1960s, when Penzias and Wilson were taking data from their antenna, the work of the Gamow group was all but forgotten. |
Gregg Braden
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 If we want to identify what our true beliefs are, we need look no further than the world around us to see their reflections in our relationships, careers, abundance, and health. If we hope to change those things, we need a way to transcend the limits of the beliefs that created them. From the viewpoint of beliefs as programs, this is where the miracle patch and the logic patch come in.
The Logic Patch
For a logic patch to work, the mind needs to see a flow of information that leads us to a logical conclusion—one that makes sense to us. |
Charles Barber
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 Observing here is developing the capacity to watch events in more appropriate ways, rather than either recklessly plunging into or abruptly abandoning a relationship or situation, which many people with borderline personality disorder have made careers of. Describing is "the ability to apply verbal labels to behavioral and environmental events" that are "essential for both communication and self-control."52 In other words, being able to delineate the differences between the inner and outer worlds, which can be very difficult for borderlines. |
Gregg Braden
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| When we view "life"—our spiritual and material abundance, our relationships and careers, our deepest loves and greatest achievements, as well as our fears and the lack of all of these things—we may also be looking squarely at the mirror of our truest and sometimes most unconscious beliefs.
Architects of Life
Through our beliefs, we're the bridge between reality and all that we could ever imagine. It's the power of what we truly believe about ourselves that gives life to our highest aspirations and greatest dreams, the things that make the universe as it is. |
Melody Petersen
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| And Bill Steere, who turned Pfizer into the world's largest pharmaceutical company and a marketing powerhouse that others tried to imitate, was one of the industry's many top executives who began their careers as drug sales reps.
The industry's own hiring statistics show its shift from research to marketing. Between 1995 and 2000 the number of marketing personnel at the large pharmaceutical companies in America increased by 59 percent to 87,810, according to surveys of the companies by the industry's trade group. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 For politicians who often measure careers in two- or four-year cycles, trading "free" promises involving pensions and other long-term benefits to unionized public sector workers in exchange for lower but politically palatable pay increases was usually too good an opportunity to pass up.
When the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) amended its rules in 2004, however, it created a ticking time bomb. |
Gregg Braden
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| Whether our attention is focused on a quantum particle during a laboratory experiment or anything else—from the healing of our bodies to the success of our careers and relationships—we have expectations and beliefs about what we're watching. Sometimes we're consciously aware of these preconceptions, but often we're not. It's these inner experiences that become part of what we're focused on. By "watching," we become part of what we're watching.
In the words of Wheeler, that makes us all "participators." The reason? |
| From this perspective, everything from the healing of our bodies to the peace between nations; from our success in business, relationships, and careers to the failure of marriages and the breakup of families ... all must be considered as reflections of us and of the meaning that we give to the experiences of our lives.
Historically, to suggest that what we believe in our hearts and minds can somehow have any effect whatsoever on our bodies is a very different way of seeing things, a real s-t-r-e-t-c-h. |
| The implication of both the ancient texts and quantum theory is that in the unseen worlds, we create the blueprint for the relationships, careers, successes, and failures of the visible one. From this perspective, our reality works like a great cosmic screen that allows us to see the nonphysical energy of our emotions and beliefs (that is, our anger, hate, and rage; as well as our love, compassion, and understanding) projected in the physical medium of life. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Although this spark has dimmed since the 1960s as we have raised families and embarked on careers, baby boomers are sleeping giants whose reemergence as idealists in their retirement years can make a difference at all levels of our society. Issues of equity, equality, and environment will continue to be paramount to bettering mankind. There may always be senseless wars to oppose, politicians to keep in check, an environment to protect, and important causes to fight for. |
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