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NewsTarget readers demand retractions from major media outlets over erroneous reporting of antioxidant study Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Either we will see corrections printed in these media outlets, or our requests will be ignored. I personally have no idea which way these organizations will go with this item, but I am deeply curious to find out. I have no desire to publicly embarrass these media outlets. Rather, I hope to simply wake them up to the fact that intelligent readers won't put up with lazy journalism that refuses to ask fundamental questions before reporting the "facts" on significant scientific studies.

But I tend to think that media outlets at least try to print the truth, and with this issue, I believe they were simply suckered by the AMA. They trusted the AMA to tell them the truth, and they reprinted the AMA's biased opinion with blind faith, believing the AMA would never distort an important scientific study. But I believe they were wrong. I believe the AMA intentionally distorts such information in order to achieve its aim of discrediting nutritional supplements, thereby eliminating the competition for high-profit prescription drugs. Remember, the AMA has already been found guilty by U.

Please join me in taking action now to contact these media outlets and demand a retraction of their original reporting on this antioxidant study.

Contact the media outlets listed below and demand a retraction, correction or clarification on the story in question. You may use the sample letter below. 2. If you get a reply, email the reply to us at antioxidants@newstarget.com Here are the stories that were published on this topic: FoxNews.com: "Study: Antioxidants Do Not Protect High-Risk Women from Heart Disease, Death" http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293159,00.html Contact details: For FOX News Channel comments write to yourcomments@foxnews.com For FOXNews.com comments write to foxnewsonline@foxnews.

Today, NewsTarget announces a grassroots action campaign to demand retractions, corrections or clarifications from major media outlets -- Fox News, ABC News, CNN, Reuters, WebMD and more -- all of which printed incorrect, incomplete or misleading statements concerning the results of an antioxidant study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study clearly showed that women who took vitamins E and C experienced a statistically significant and rather remarkable reduction in risk of heart attacks (22 percent reduction), strokes (31 percent reduction) and other cardiovascular events.

According to virtually all the headlines printed in major media outlets, this study found vitamins E and C to be utterly worthless in preventing cardiovascular disease and stroke. And yet, in reality, the study proved that those women who actually took the vitamins were protected to such a high degree than almost no pharmaceutical on the market can match their success! It's true: A pharmaceutical that reduced stroke risk by 31 percent while introducing no negative side effects would be considered a medical miracle.

Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes Michael J. Panzner See book keywords and concepts

Blogs even started overtaking traditional media outlets as a source of breaking news and real-time commentary in some cases, with blogging occasionally referred to as "citizen journalism." In recent years, blogs have been one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet, providing access to a broad array of insights and tips on virtually any topic, including consumer finance and personal investing. But the explosion in content has also made it difficult to track down or isolate information that is especially useful or relevant.

Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Likewise, it pleases me that a number of astute reporters from the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and other media outlets also are covering this important story. Moreover, my fellow intrepid bloggers and self-appointed weight-loss experts Jimmy Moore, Regina Wilshire, Julia Havey, and Dana Carpender deserve more praise. I'm also especially grateful to my very dear, perceptive friend Tom Smaldone, a savvy former journalist, who eagerly read and critiqued every chapter as soon as I wrote it.

The secret history of Big Pharma's role in creating and marketing heroin, LSD, meth, Ecstasy and speed Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The only difference is that Big Pharma has been so successful at dealing drugs that it has enough funds to buy off Congress, the Food and Drug Administration and practically the entire psychiatric industry (not to mention medical schools and mainstream media outlets). Today, more than 40 percent of the U.S. population ingests FDA-approved synthetic chemicals manufactured and marketed by drug companies. Drug companies think this number is too low. Their goal is to have 100 percent of the U.S. population taking not just one drug per day, but multiple drugs every day, for life.

Incessant disease mongering turns Americans into profit-generating guinea pigs for Big Pharma (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And drug companies now exercise astonishing degrees of control over the FDA, the USDA, the DEA, medical schools, doctors, media outlets and non-profit groups. The way out How do we end this medical madness? First, we've all got to come to our senses and stop believing every mood, habit or challenge in our lives is caused by some mysterious disorder. People need to start taking responsibility for their own behavior and stop blaming fictitious diseases (or bad genes) when things don't work out the way they want.

Antioxidants, bad science and failure of the press to tell the truth Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It's as if these media outlets just can't wait to be spoon-fed the latest propaganda from drug company collaborators and then parrot it out to the public as fact. The distortion in question concerns the assessment of women who participated in a nine year trial measuring the effects of vitamins E and C. According to the results published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, women who took these vitamins on a regular basis experienced a remarkable and statistically significant reduction in stroke risk (31 percent) and heart attack risk (22 percent).

Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes Michael J. Panzner See book keywords and concepts

In the blink of an eye, media outlets around the country, which only months earlier had heralded a long-term property boom, suddenly turned cautious and reported all sorts of bad news. In places like Nevada, Colorado, and Florida, once the hottest real estate markets in the country, sentiment turned abruptly sour as vacancies, inventories, mortgage arrears, and foreclosures soared. Stories also circulated about would-be speculators who walked away from hefty down payments because of falling prices.

Depression, Osteoporosis Correlation Misreported by Junk Science Media, Ill-Informed Health Researchers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The more idiotic media outlets are even reporting that depression causes osteoporosis. See this article in The Hindu: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200711281321.htm Note that the study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine makes absolutely no causal relationship between depression and osteoporosis. It only points out a correlation. Leaping to the conclusion that one disease actually causes another disease is a common error of intellectually challanged journalists who have no understanding of basic logic or the difference between causation and correlation.

The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

Mike Adams—a consumer advocate and investigative health journalist for whom I have enormous respect— launched a grassroots campaign by readers to demand retractions, corrections, or clarifications from major media outlets "all of which," he says, "printed incorrect, incomplete, or misleading statements concerning the results [of the study]." "If you're going to count the results of all the women who don't take the supplements, why not simply launch the study, give vitamins to no one, then announce the conclusion that vitamins don't work?" asks Adams.

What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Monsanto Falls on Its Posilac Sword The Monsanto press release announcement was low-key—mailed to dairy farmers and a few agricultural media outlets on Friday, December 19th, 2003. It certainly was not the news Monsanto wanted to herald. The biotechnology giant said it was "accepting no new customers," anticipating a 15% "shortfall" of Posilac (rBGH) supplies for the next "several months." That meant dairy farmers could expect to receive no more than 85% of what they had previously used on a monthly average.

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

Similarly, there are no legal requirements for them, or for the media outlets in which they appear, to disclose the link with the drug manufacturer, even though the public may sometimes be misled into thinking the star is independent.51 Until the health regulators awake from their dreamy slumbers, these star-studded marketing campaigns will continue to dazzle consumers around the world, and the complexity of the science will continue to get lost under the bright lights.

Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

The information you see and hear on TV and radio, and read in newspapers and magazines, is in effect coming directly from the sponsors of those media outlets. The majority of money received by these media outlets is from the pharmaceutical industry and the food industry. Folks, you are being brainwashed; you are being lied to; you are being deceived. A good example of this is I had an ABC news crew come to my house at 7:00 a.m., unannounced. They banged on my door, and they made it appear that I was unwilling to answer the door and answer their questions or give them an interview.

More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

These media outlets are controlled by the drug industry, the food industry, and the oil companies. It has been proven repeatedly that the information coming from the media is biased and slanted because of the financial conflicts of interests that exist. You cannot believe doctors, medical clinics, or hospitals. Doctors are only trained in drugs and surgery. They are trained by the drug companies and pharmaceutical industry itself. They are legal drug pushers. They only tell you what they know. Most importantly, they only tell you what they sell!

I have heard with my own ears how Big Pharma, the food industry, and the oil industry are working together with governments and media outlets around the world. I have been in over sixty countries, yet there are no stamps of evidence in any of my passports. I have been to Area 51 in Nevada. (This top secret military installation is still denied to exist by the U.S. government.) This is where much of our technology has been developed. Area 51 houses most extraterrestrial artifacts, including a working spacecraft and dead alien bodies. I've seen these things with my own two eyes.

If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C. See book keywords and concepts

People tend to believe without question what they hear and read, not realizing that it is the food industry's savvy marketing teams, not true science that is feeding this information to the media outlets. For those of you who would like to tap into some big guns for debating this issue in an informed manner, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition is a fabulous resource written by Marion Nestle.

Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back Michele Simon See book keywords and concepts

In the end, I was disappointed that two of the nation's leading media outlets (ABC News and Time magazine, who organized the event) would orchestrate such a shameless PR opportunity for leading food companies. What was the point, exactly, of an all-industry panel with no opposing viewpoints and a "moderator" who asked no challenging questions?

Health and Nutrition Secrets Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Magazines, radio and TV ads, and other media outlets were flooded with propaganda (backed by the AHA) stating that polyunsaturated oils were much healthier than saturated fats. The government entered the arena in a big way when its scientists, working under the auspices of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, endorsed the view that saturated fats were the main culprit in heart disease. Unfortunately, these studies did not take into account the high trans fatty acid contents of the diets studied.

Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill Kelly Patricia O'Meara See book keywords and concepts

Five days after the above article was published by the Post, the paper ran another article under its "Findings" section, which contains brief news accounts by various media outlets of recent scientific discoveries. The five-paragraph news item titled "Researchers Link a Protein to Depression" is another good example of why America remains clueless about the fraud of psychiatric diagnosing.

Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back Michele Simon See book keywords and concepts

Other media outlets characterized the policy as representing a complete about-face from the ABA's earlier strenuous opposition to the idea of imposing any restrictions on in-school soda purchases. For example, an editorial in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Coca-Cola's hometown paper) opined: "The announcement this week by the American Beverage Association represents a reversal by the industry, which had been fighting legislative efforts to ban soft drinks from school vending machines.

What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Several media outlets were represented, including: WJLA-TV, CNN, WUSA-TV, FOX 5, Associated Press, Fairchild Publications, Tribune Broadcast, Christian Broadcast Network, and ADA news The video monitoring service has indicated the following broadcasts so far: 1. There were more than 200 television and radio news reports. 2. Of these 200, 75 to 80 mentioned milk as one of the 12 products listed. 3. Only four news reports expanded on milk. One discussed BGH/BST, three discussed DDT These were the NBC affiliates in Atlanta, Hartford and San Diego and the ABC affiliate in Detroit.

Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back Michele Simon See book keywords and concepts

Disturbingly, both the Sun-Times and the Oregonian identified Finn only as ACFN's chair, neglecting to reveal her group's industry biases and backing. When media outlets fail to make such corporate affiliations clear, readers are left with the misimpression that writers like Finn are speaking solely from a position of impartial, professional authority. In reading press reports, it's easy to confuse the American Council on Fitness and Nutrition with the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), another industry front group with an impressive, neutral-sounding name.

While media outlets often reference front groups without identifying their corporate backers, you can sometimes discover the flinders by simply clicking the "About Us" tab. 7. When the identities of a front group's funders remain unclear, certain key buzzwords can tip you off. The Coalition for a Healthy and Active America, for instance, is fond of slogans like "commitment to fitness," "freedom to choose," and "responsible and realistic solutions"45—phrases taken right out of the food lobby's playbook. 8.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

The Direct-To-Consumer fiasco By 1997, the FDA was poised to reauthorize direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising, allowing drug companies to invade television, magazines, newspapers, and other mass media outlets with full-page advertisements for prescription drugs aimed squarely at consumers.

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II See book keywords and concepts

In addition, the popular "got milk" campaign continues to reach children at school and through such kid-focused media outlets as Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network. These activities are far from small-scale; in 1999, "Chef Combo's Fantastic Adventures," an "educational" (marketing) set of lesson plans produced by the dairy industry, "was placed in 76% of preschool kindergarten sites nationally.

Health and Nutrition Secrets Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Despite the fact they frequently stand on very shaky scientific ground, the orthodox medical industry has also wooed the favor of the main media outlets in this country so they always get the last word in any argument. I tell my patients that every major medical journal and surgical specialty journal contains at least one nutrition-based article in virtually every issue. The problem is that doctors do not read them. Instead, they focus on articles concerning the newest surgical techniques, diagnostic tests, or expensive drug treatments.

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