Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Standard FDA tactics: fear and disinformation
But to understand the FDA's history on silver, you've got to look back a few years and realize how the FDA used scare tactics and disinformation to try to make people afraid of silver products. Silver is indeed a broad-spectrum antibiotic, and perhaps, just as significantly, microbes do not build up a resistance to silver. It's not a chemical antibiotic like penicillin. I've seen many cases where it wipes out drug-resistant superbugs in hospitals, and I've seen people use silver to cure colds, flus, dysentery, and all kinds of things. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The campaign by the emerging food industry against natural oils and genuinely beneficial fats such as the very popular coconut oil became fueled by a massive media disinformation that blamed saturated fats for the wave of heart attacks that suddenly started to grip a large portion of the American population. For 30 or more years, coconut oil was nowhere to be found in grocery stores and has only recently re-emerged in health food stores. Coconut oil and other healthful oils were practically replaced by cheap junk oils, including soy oil, cottonseed oil and rapeseed oil. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The Ajinomoto company, of course, wants to keep the aspartame business going for as long as possible, and that involves campaigns of disinformation like you're reading about here -- hiring "experts" to declare the ridiculous. Remember: No new research has been conducted at all. Instead, this group of experts simply reviewed previous studies, many of which were no doubt distorted and scientifically invalid because they were funded by aspartame in the first place. Looking at bad science a second time does not transform it into good science. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Having abandoned all common sense or scientific scrutiny, the media is now engaged in an organized campaign of disinformation designed to boost the profits of their largest advertisers -- the drug companies -- by spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about nutritional supplements.
Here are some of the headlines that appeared yesterday in the mainstream media. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Pushing the pro-Pharma propaganda
Sadly, the mainstream media will buy this distortion, reprint it, and thereby spread disinformation to the public which is already half scared of vitamins thanks to all the other fear tactics being pushed by today's oppressive medical system. But let's get down to reality here for a moment, shall we? Drugs have no natural place in the human body, period. There is no disease caused by a deficiency of pharmaceuticals, and most of the drugs being marketed today are pushed under the most ridiculous advertising claims and distorted medical "science. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is merely an oversight by the group, not any sort of malicious disinformation conspiracy. The EWG means well, but they remain ignorant of the nutritional impact of vitamin D. They're experts on toxicology, not nutrition, and they still suffer under the illusion that the less sunlight consumers receive on their skin, the healthier they will be (hence the EWG's insistence that sunscreen products with ineffective UV blocking are also "unsafe"). The EWG also seems to be completely unaware that the best sunscreen is internal sunscreen built from antioxidants. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There is no need for sunscreen, but the cancer industry and sunscreen manufacturers have created a fictitious need through a campaign of fear and disinformation, hypnotizing practically the entire population into believing one of the most ridiculous ideas in the universe: that sunlight is bad for human health.
Think about it. Our ancestors did not have indoor lighting; they exposed their skin to the sun regularly. They didn't run and hide from the sun, they used it as nourishment to generate a crucial vitamin that supports human health in a multitude of ways. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Environmental toxins appear to mess with normal internal signaling pathways, making it difficult for our immune cells to recognize what is foreign and what is self—a bit like a covert enemy force sending up smokescreens and spreading disinformation. Mouse studies show that even subtle signaling imbalances can predispose animals to produce antibodies against the self. In patients with lupus, for instance, certain signaling molecules that relay messages between cells and rally the production of antibodies have been shown to be present in abnormal amounts. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The FDA has used disinformation and half-truths to ban ephedra and attack kava kava, among other medicinal herbs. The agency routinely invents or exaggerates selected piece of information to justify any action it desires to take against natural medicine.
12) Thanks to lax FDA drug safety standards, U.S. citizens are now routinely treated as guinea pigs by drug companies, and the real dangers of new drugs are only realized after they harm or kill tens of thousands of patients. The FDA remains consistently slow to pull dangerous drugs off the market. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Such spin tactics are typical; the corn industry has borrowed from the disinformation playbook of the tobacco industry, who claimed for over 70 years their products were not harmful."
Insiders believe what all this ultimately boils down to is money. "Nestle, Coke, Pepsi, Cadbury Schweppes, Hershey, Kraft, ConAgra, ADM, Cargill, M&M/Mars, Tyson, Campbell's, etc.—there isn't a mainstream food company that isn't using high-fructose corn syrup," one source points out. "They're making a profit at the health expense of the consumer. |
Devra Davis
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 Judge Gladys Kessler of the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia recently detailed the seamy network on which tobacco disinformation has rested for nearly half a century. Her opinion should be required reading for anyone concerned with the ability of democratic societies to rely on expert advice. |
| As Hill knew at the time, the real difficulties of the field have been complicated by a stream of disinformation fueled by short-term economic interests of those who stand to profit from keeping matters unresolved. There is no way to know whether or not the delays in controlling cigarette smoke in the United States and Britain had anything to do with the nefarious origins of the Nazi studies on the problem in the 1930s. Certainly the German studies remained obscure. A 1931 study by the insurance analyst Frederick Hoffman found increased health risks for smokers. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 His research team was disbanded and the government never implemented any long-term testing protocol. disinformation was widely circulated. The institute and pro-biotech members of the Royal Society staged so-called peer-reviews, but didn't use all the test data, had no nutritionists doing the critique of a nutritional study and made sweeping claims that contradicted the research. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The whole fear and disinformation campaign was nothing but hogwash, as usual.
Standard practice in burn wards
Now then, moving on to bandages. People in burn wards have known for a very long time that soaking bandages in a low concentration silver solution inhibits infection in burn victims; it literally saves their skin. In severe cases, it can even save their lives. Burn wards know this, and silver has long been used as an anti-infection agent with bandages or other medical supplies all around the world, especially in Russia, China, Japan, and Germany. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's the machine of American disinformation and commerce, and it's everywhere. You can't turn on the TV, fly on an airplane, drive down the highway or even take a leak in the men's restroom without being bombarded with commercial content parading as news.
Why the NewsTarget Network is exploding in popularity
Personally, I refuse to participate in the system described above. To date, I have not taken a single dime from any product manufacturer I've covered in my articles and commentary. |
Mike Adams
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 Freely read and learn about alternative and natural therapies for curing diseases like cancer without the campaign of fear and disinformation propagated by organized medicine
5. Visit any qualified healer you choose (Western, Chinese, naturopathic, spiritual, etc.) and qualify for insurance coverage
Stop the insanity. Just say no to prescription drugs. Reform the FDA. End the system of organized crime that's pretending to be a system of health care. As a nation, we deserve better.
Government is supposed to be our servant, not the other way around. |
| This encroachment on the freedom of speech will no doubt continue because the drug companies, the FDA, and all the promoters of conventional medicine realize that as long as people are free to tell the truth on the internet, they cannot win their war of oppression, disinformation, and censorship. They must ban health information from appearing on the internet if they are going to complete their domination of the health consumer.
If they succeed, then someday it may not only be illegal to sell broccoli sprouts; it might also be illegal to state that broccoli sprouts actually prevent cancer! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Propaganda, misinformation, disinformation -- all designed to keep you buying as a consumer. Keep consuming, folks! Help the economy! Be a good American!
Yeah, make sure that every penny of your monthly paycheck goes out for something; drug companies, home loan, home mortgage, auto insurance, new clothing, personal care products or high-priced (over-priced) food products. They want to make sure that every penny you earn gets spent on something that makes them money. That's the agenda out there.
But I say there's another way. I say there's a totally different way to live. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These are pure disinformation, designed to boost the profits of Big Pharma at the expense of your health. Be a skeptical consumer.
Today, it's amazing what passes for "scientific" medicine. Under the guise of so-called science, medical researchers can come up with any conclusion they want. The vitamin E studies are a perfect example of this: they were carefully constructed with gerrymandered statistical curves to create the illusion that vitamin E is somehow bad for your health.
With the right motivation, researchers can design a study to say anything they want. |
Robert Anton Wilson
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 Since disinformation Systems have multiplied like bacteria in our increasingly clandestine world, any perception psychologist who looks into modern politics will recognize that quantum logic, probability theory and strong doses of zeteticism make the best tools to employ in estimating if the President has just told us another whooping big lie or has just uttered the truth for once.
After all, even those who create disinformation Systems have themselves swallowed disinformation Systems devised by their rivals. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
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 However, such goals should not be achieved through disinformation, or at the expense of an important natural, simple and low caloric source of carbohydrate. We ask that you be guided by the most current scientific evidence and government statements and that your writings and comments be reflective of them. We also ask that you be more precise and accurate in your definitions and cease making misleading or false statements regarding sugar or the sugar industry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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Tanya Harter Pierce
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 To go into the details of these physicians' ordeals would be beyond the scope of this book, but simply researching the history of any American practitioner of Laetrile will show this to be true.
The disinformation put out about Laetrile was focused around two general issues: (1) that Laetrile is too toxic for people to use because it contains cyanide; and (2) that it is simply not effective in treating cancer. The "toxic" argument is laughable. |
| These tactics involved outright harassment of physicians who administered it as well as intentional dissemination of disinformation (outright lies to the public as to its effectiveness). Every physician in the United States who attempted to help their patients with Laetrile was harassed by various agents of the cancer industry. This included physicians being arrested, hauled into court for no good reason, sometimes thrown in jail, and eventually having their medical licenses taken away. |
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
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 Leaders like Stokely Carmichael who warned "the white establishment" to "move on over or we'll move on over you," and appealed to blacks across the land to "take over" through violence, were attacked like King with death threats and disinformation campaigns designed to discredit them.1416
In an effort to maximize effectiveness and prevent wasted effort, as the Nixon administration took office in the spring of 1968, Hoover set "long-range goals" for the Black Nationalist COINTELPRO, and instructed his agents to:
1. Prevent the coalition of militant black nationalist groups. |
Richard Leviton
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 In effect, this group drew up a comprehensive shopping hit list of those practices, products, remedies, substances, and individuals in the alternative medicine world—known to them as the realm of "health fraud" requiring
"strategic enforcement"—that they deemed worthy of "investigation and evaluation" and FDA harassments, interdictions, propaganda, disinformation, and armed raids. The list was virtually an inventory of everything alternative medicine had to offer: acupuncture ("unproven"), megavitamin therapy ("a nutritional scam"), chelation therapy ("dangerous . . . |
| Its word list for holistic practices fulminates with barbs and darts: worthless, worms, scams, mischief, blatant hucksterism, disinformation, nostrums, fraud, bogus, most absurd, vague, troublesome, kooky, purported panaceas, untested, bizarre, dubious, unproven. AIDS patients are warned against being "ready prey for hundreds of quack doctors peddling half-truths and false hopes," while AIDS activists are exhorted to "step up the war on the fools and rascals waiting to exploit them. |
Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H.
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 Consistent with our head-in-the-sand approach to international matters in general, we have ignored or purposively degraded through disinformation campaigns the experiences of other countries (e.g., Canada). No foreign health care system is perfect, but the developed countries do cover everybody, and they do spend a fraction of what we spend—while we fail to cover over 40 million Americans and expose even more to financial ruin should they be so unlucky as to incur a serious illness or injury. |
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