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What If Medicine Disappeared? Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea See book keywords and concepts

A few moments of watching television, even so-called news programs, demonstrate that anecdotes are commonly used to "prove" just about anything related to illness and health. We ignore all such stories. Even published scientific case studies of one person, or even a few, or even a few score, interesting though they might be, are too limited in scope to help us draw conclusions. Whenever possible, we rely on statistical data. These data give us the best picture of what is happening to most people most of the time.

Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation Charles Barber See book keywords and concepts

GlaxoSmithKline cranked up an aggressive public relations campaign—an amalgam of profiles of generalized anxiety sufferers given out to local news programs, patient surveys meant to inform the populace of the hidden epidemic, expert testimony by eminent psychiatrists, a blizzard of newspaper articles, and, most pointedly, an onslaught of DTC ads on television." As part of an earlier campaign for "social anxiety disorder" ("Imagine Being Allergic to People" was the slogan), GlaxoSmithKline spent $92 million in one year to market Paxil—more than Nike spent to market its top shoes.

NewsTarget Citizen Journalism project a big success; new writers welcomed to join Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Newspapers, magazines and cable news programs remain primary information sources only for those brainwashed masses that prefer to avoid thinking for themselves. That's why we're thrilled to be able to offer a program like this Citizen Journalism project: It empowers individuals to take part in the "information democracy" that makes the internet so important for the future of human rights, free speech, government accountability, corporate ethics and so much more.

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

Witnesses also detailed how local television stations were regularly broadcasting during their news programs videos that had been created by pharmaceutical companies to promote their products secretly without scrutiny from the FDA. The companies made the videos look like the work of broadcast journalists, while concealing their own involvement. The film segments often featured articulate physicians, grateful patients, and elaborate computer-generated graphics.

He had also recently helped boost the sales of Paxil, another antidepressant, when he provided sound bites for television news programs while in the pay of the drug's maker, GlaxoSmithKline. Professor Gorman's message on that corporate speaking tour was that worrying too much might actually be a disease, one that was easily treatable with drugs like Paxil. Professor Gorman was also the editor of CNS Spectrums, a medical journal specializing in the central nervous system.

Psychiatry and disease mongering: Road Rage Disorder is latest spontaneously "discovered" disease Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Newspapers, magazines and broadcast news programs continue parroting headlines and press release handed to them by the public relations firms bankrolled by Big Pharma. There is no science here; no scrutiny, no genuine journalism and nothing resembling "evidence-based medicine." It's just plain old hucksterism dressed up to look like a mental health discovery. Got angry? You have a mental disorder. The whole thing makes me so mad that I could slam my head into the wall.

Empower yourself in 3 minutes a day: An introduction to indy media, NewsTarget.com and the online information revolution Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

While other newspapers and cable news programs defend the status quo, we challenge it and invite the Forward Five along for the ride. Ten years from now, you may not even recognize the world you live in. We believe that monumental changes will soon emerge in areas like health and medicine, renewable energy, global finance and politics. The things most people accept as "normal" today -- direct-to-consumer drug advertising, the drugging of our children with psychiatric drugs, the widespread fluoridation of public water supplies, and so on -- will someday be viewed as nothing less than insane.

Neurologist Dr. Fred Baughman talks about the fraud of ADHD and the poisoning of U.S. children Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I have observed two national news programs recently, talking about a new kind of disability that our soldiers in the Iraqi conflict are developing. I listened to hear what the new disease was. Lo and behold, it was PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder. I grant you, there are a lot of troubling visions and experiences that all men in a war are exposed to, and these cause troubling flashbacks and troubled sleep. But it's not an organic disease of the brain as psychiatry would have us believe, nor are these symptoms inevitable.

Millions of Americans affected by Television Deficiency Disorder (TDD) - (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

With their heightened cognitive function but lack of exposure to sitcoms, reality shows and shaped news programs, they are unable to interact with normal people in society." Dr. Anne Tennah suggests that victims of TDD be prescribed additional television programming. "Parents especially need to make sure their children receive at least two to three hours of television programming per day," she said. "Otherwise, they may grow up imbalanced and require medication.

Medicine's assault on calcium: Quack science fuels calcium bashing frenzy Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Nearly all newspapers, magazines and TV news programs have sold their souls to Big Pharma, it seems, and so they report whatever they're told to report, even if it makes absolutely no sense. Many science writers can't even decipher the basics of critical thinking. They can only copy and paste. Basic math escapes them. Here's an interesting thought on all this. Suppose this experiment was conducted on a prescription drug, not calcium. Let's call this drug "OsteoMax" (any resemblance to an actual product named "OsteoMax" is pure coincidence, I assure you).

Revealed: The original cause of bird flu, and realistic solutions for preventing a pandemic Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

That's why this has to come from people, like me, who are independent – people who don't take advertising money from drug companies, which is not something any of the newspapers, magazines or news programs can say. They're all taking this money, so of course they are not going to talk about beating the bird flu virus with herbs. They don't want to anger their advertisers. They talk about a free press, but give me a break. It's a financially controlled press. If you want to learn the real information about the bird flu, stay tuned to this channel right here.

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

I like to plug in my headset to my cordless telephone and catch up with long distance friends and family members, or watch Oprah and the evening news programs. Enlisting the help of others can be another way of multi-tasking, especially with children. People are frequently saying they'd like to spend more quality time with their children. Preparing food together can be just the opportunity.

The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles Bruce H. Lipton See book keywords and concepts

Television news programs graphically illustrated the shinning results. Footage showed members of the placebo group walking and playing basketball, in short doing things they reported they could not do before their "surgery." The placebo patients didn't find out for two years that they had gotten fake surgery. One member of the placebo group, Tim Perez, who had to walk with a cane before the surgery, is now able to play basketball with his grandchildren.

The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss Arthur Agatston, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The 6 and 11 P.M. news programs would then track their progress daily over the course of an entire month. We were excited by the idea and confident of the outcome. The series ran every day—during the sweeps period, when ratings are used to set advertising rates. Hundreds of Miamians went on the diet and lost weight. WPLG also succeeded—the station won the ratings race, moving to first place among nightly news shows, attributed in part to the South Beach Diet project.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

EPILOGUE Medicine in the Media JT ost of us find out about the latest advances in medical tests, new drugs, treatments, clinical trials, and surgical procedures from television news programs, newspapers, or magazines. Unfortunately, routine daily or weekly health care reporting in all three media ranges from uncritical to exuberant. Usually, each new development is presented as a medical breakthrough with little or no attention paid to the potential harmful consequences or whether the supposed benefits outweigh the costs.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

An alarming report issued in mid-September of 1993 by the United Nations Children's Fund should have been a lead item on the network evening news programs, but wasn't. In fact, according to the Tyndall Report, which monitors the evening network news programs, the UN report did not even make the top ten list of news subjects on the networks during the period from September 13 to October 1, 1993. According to the United Nations Children's Fund: 1) Nine out of ten young people murdered in industrialized countries are slain in the United States; 2) The U.S.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

At the time they were all the rage of the news media, talk shows, Wall Street, and morning news programs. The popular name was "fen-phen." The "fen" half was shorthand for fenfluramine, a cousin of the antidepressant Prozac. Fen was marketed under the brand name Pondimin by Wyeth. The "phen" half was phentermine, sold under its generic name. Together the two drugs altered the brain's chemistry to curb the craving for food. Linnen took the medications for less than a month. Then her health began to deteriorate.

Bottom Line's Prescription Alternatives Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA See book keywords and concepts

Another common ploy is to fund a so-called study showing that the drug works for an unlabeled use and then releasing the results of the study to the media (TV news programs such as "20/20"are favorites for this type of marketing). Another tactic they use is to find a few people who experienced a "cure" for the disease by taking the medication and then they take those stories to the media. This type of media coverage, as well as articles that are "planted" in magazines by public relations companies or departments, create what is known as patient demand.

Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies James S. Gordon, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Hardly a week goes by that there isn't a lead story in the nation's major newspapers and magazines and on TV news programs about one or another "alternative" or "mind-body" treatment. Almost every issue of every women's magazine contains a piece on "Herbs for Weight Loss," "Acupressure for Pain" or "What PNI (Psychoneuroimmunology) Can Mean to You." Every aspect of the new medicine is more visible and more widely accepted now than it was six years ago.

Prevention's Healing With Motion: An All-New Approach to Health and Healing Based on Simple Mind and Body Exercises The Editors of PREVENTION See book keywords and concepts

You can practice speech reading while watching just about any show—excluding, of course, cartoons. But news programs are a good bet since they usually provide an unobstructed view of the anchors' faces. Find the sitar. The next time you give the Beatles' White Album a whirl on the CD player, try picking out the sitar. Or keep an ear out for the trumpet in the overture to Handel's "Water Music." Picking out the sounds of a particular instrument when you listen to music can help you sharpen your auditory focusing skills, says Dr. Painton. If necessary, close your eyes to lessen distraction.

Natural Cures Michael Castleman See book keywords and concepts

During Nixon's visit, television news programs broadcast astonishing footage of Chinese patients undergoing major surgery while fully conscious—their only anesthesia provided by a few acupuncture needles in their ears and feet. New York Times columnist James Reston accompanied Nixon and witnessed acupuncture anesthesia firsthand. While in China, he had to have an emergency appendectomy and decided to try acupuncture instead of narcotics to control his postsurgical pain. In his column, Reston wrote, "I've seen the past, and it works.

Prescription Alternatives, Third Edition: Hundreds of Safe, Natural Prescription-Free Remedies to Restore and Maintain Your Health Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Another common ploy is to fund a so-called "study" showing that the drug works for an unlabeled use and then releasing the results of the study to the media (TV news programs such as "20/20" are favorites for this type of marketing). Another tactic they use is to find a few people who experienced a "cure" for the disease by taking the medication and then they take those stories to the media. This type of media coverage, as well as articles that are "planted" in magazines by public relations companies or departments, create what is known as patient demand.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

Newspapers and network television news programs have lost many thousands-—perhaps millions—of readers and viewers as recorded by circulation figures and television ratings. So many so that there is an industry term for the phenomenon: they call it "The Vanished." However, it is still not too late to attempt to affect some change; we have an abiding faith in the will of the American people to want to know what is really happening in society, and, when so informed, to pressure politicians to do something about it.

The American public was well-informed about these events by their daily newspapers, newsweekly magazines, and network news programs. But there were other stories of major significance that did not receive the same mass media coverage. THE TOP TEN CENSORED STORIES OF 1976 —And What Has Happened to Them Since 1. Jimmy Carter and the Trilateral Commission (TLC) 1976 SYNOPSIS: In the election year of 1976, Jimmy Carter ran a successful campaign for the presidency which was based on his image as an "out-side-of-the-Beltway," peanut-farming, ex-governor of the state of Georgia.

In fact, according to the Tyndall Report, which monitors the evening network news programs, the UN report did not even make the top ten list of news subjects on the networks during the period from September 13 to October 1, 1993. According to the United Nations Children's Fund: 1) Nine out of ten young people murdered in industrialized countries are slain in the United States; 2) The U.S. homicide rate for young people ages 15 to 24 is five times greater than that of Canada, its nearest competitor; 3) The U.S.

The Politics of Cancer Revisited Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

On October 17, 1997, the news programs and the newspapers made frequent mention of new evidence from three studies supervised by Sir Richard Doll, and originally published in the British Medical Journal, which purent time, he is researching organophosphate pesticides, factory farming, and the history of alternative cancer therapies in Britain. This article is reprinted with permission from The Ecologist, March/April 1998. ported to show that "passive smoking" caused lung cancer.1 That same day, in London's High Court, Mrs.

Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Healing Herbs and Spices John Heinerman See book keywords and concepts

The Ultimate Aphrodisiac During early 1995, several national network news programs featured interesting research recently conducted by scientists in Chicago. Allen Hersch and his team, who are affiliated with the Smell and Taste Research Institute, discovered that certain smells dramatically increased the penile flow in healthy male volunteers more than other aromas did. Lavender flowers and pumpkin seed oils gave 40% more erections in men between the ages of 20 and 39 when they were told to sniff small swatches of material containing tiny amounts of either oil.

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