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The future of food fabrication, intellectual property and seeds Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I would say that there are plenty of universities and open source communities passionate about food and nutrition who would be more than willing to create these recipes and just give them away to people. This is what I call the open source food fabrication movement, which will undoubtedly unfold someday and attempt to challenge the centralized, controlled food fabrication giants. You can bet this court battle will happen someday, because the food fabrication corporations will not want this open source system to exist.

The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

To help solve this little problem, I say we make all clinical trials open source. Free the data. Let the public and the medical community read for themselves what the results are... for the "good" studies and the bad ones, too. Actually, one organization is already making great strides towards open source published studies. Check out the Public Library of Science journals, which, as far as I can tell, are the only honest medical journals in the industry.

Put an end to spam and phishing by reforming email Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It needs to cover both the open source community -- all the Linux users and the Unix users -- and of course the Microsoft and Mac world, as well. It must be an open source standard. It can't be a proprietary technology, yet it needs to be secure. It needs to be unbreakable and unhackable. There can be no back doors. The time for a move toward change is now. If we don't change, the very credibility of the email medium is at stake. If we don't change, governments are going to come in and mandate a solution that none of us want to live with. You can be sure of that.

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer Shannon Brownlee See book keywords and concepts

The VHA would require these hospitals to implement the VistA electronic medical-record system, which is open source, meaning it's free to anyone who wants to download the code. The VHA would also set the same standards it demands of its own doctors and hospitals and encourage the doctors in the Boston hospitals to practice more integrated care. Doctors would be put on the hospital's payroll, like doctors at the VHA, or they could work under contract to VistA Health.

The future of food fabrication, intellectual property and seeds Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

You can bet this court battle will happen someday, because the food fabrication corporations will not want this open source system to exist. It will be similar to the battle today between Microsoft and Linux, in which the open source community has created a fantastic operating system without the promise of financial compensation. They've done it because they're a group of smart people who want to do something productive and interesting under a freely shared goodwill system.

Omaha Shooter Robert Hawkins Had Been "Treated" For ADHD, Depression Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

What I said in that article has urgent application right now, following the Omaha shooting: A study published in the Public Library of Science Medicine (an open source medical journal) explored these same links in detail. (See Antidepressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law, by David Healy, Andrew Herxheimer, David B.

The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Take away the patents, and all medicine becomes open source. Suddenly real medicine is accessible and affordable to everyone. (It's far safer medicine, too. Herbs are orders of magnitude safer than prescription drugs.) And what about all those greedy corporations who would lose billions from lost revenues? Think about it: Pfizer, Monsanto, Merck, Eli Lilly... would anybody really mind these greedy profiteers going out of business? We'd all be better off if these corporate monstrosities were put out of business anyway.

FDA tyranny to become law: HR.2900 analysis by Richards and Adams Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The great Congressional sellout Congress had the potential to pass a really good law here -- one that would have ended direct-to-consumer advertising, banned conflicts of interest at the FDA, required the open source publication of drug trials and ended the U.S. monopoly on pharmaceuticals. Instead, Congress chose to do none of these things. It staged a song and dance about "FDA reform" while selling out the future of America's health to a tiny but powerful group of ultra-wealthy corporations that now virtually rule this country.

The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Require open source publication of all clinical trials, even the negative results Well here's an idea: let's end the secrecy of clinical trials and let the public -- and the medical industry -- see what really happens when thousands of people are dosed up on synthetic chemicals. The truth about clinical trials for prescription drugs is that most trials are a sham. The numbers and conclusions are almost universally fraudulent. They're designed to get the drug approved by the FDA for marketing, not to actually determine any level of safety of efficacy for the public.

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

The links between antidepressants and violence are well documented A study published in the Public Library of Science Medicine (an open source medical journal) explored these same links in detail. (See Antidepressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law, by David Healy, Andrew Herxheimer, David B.

New research shows vitamin D slashes risk of cancers by 77 percent; cancer industry refuses to support cancer prevention Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

If people keep donating money for the "search" for a cancer cure, why won't drug companies pledge to "open source" their patents on cancer drugs to benefit the people whose donations funded them in the first place? In other words, why do people donate money for cancer research but then get charged for cancer drugs? #3: Why does the entire cancer industry so strongly dissuade people from using sunlight exposure to dramatically reduce their cancer risk? (Hint: Follow the money to the sunscreen industry...

Influenza virus samples, vaccine patents and corporate lies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Or why don't they promise the vaccines will be "open source" and not patented at all? Because they're greedy, of course. I mean, if this were really about public safety, the drug companies would openly share all this information and allow any country in the world to manufacture its own vaccines. But that only happens in Dreamland. In the real world today, drug companies are blatantly interested in only one thing: Corporate profits.

They don't want to share profits with anyone, so they resort to publicly assaulting Indonesia's reputation rather than working out an honest business deal or going "open source" with the intellectual property. Make no mistake: Drug companies see a bird flu pandemic as nothing more than a profit opportunity, and they will intimidate, threaten and cajole anyone who stands in the way of more profits. Right now, Indonesia is being targeted for daring to stand up against the greed and corruption of western drug companies, and the U.S.

The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Actually, one organization is already making great strides towards open source published studies. Check out the Public Library of Science journals, which, as far as I can tell, are the only honest medical journals in the industry. #5 Ban direct-to-consumer drug advertising Drug companies whooped and high-fived each other when they convinced the FDA to legalize direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug advertising in 1997. It didn't take much convincing, actually, since the FDA guys were all getting drunk at the same party.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Open Source, p. 12.7], we can essentially turn planning into a game. This doesn't trivialize the process—the military spends billions of dollars a year war-gaming possible future conflicts, and they are dead serious about it. Making planning fun can make it more democratic, which can only make it better. Realistic budget limitations, system approaches, and societal obligations could be built in to keep everyone's feet on the ground. Imagine having a barbecue with our neighbors and playing a multiparticipant version not of SimCity but of RealCommunity.

And the open-source movement [see open source, p. 127] is providing distance-learning tools that are enabling autodidacts anywhere on earth to take the same classes—from Latin to Laser Holography—as students at elite Western universities. Cliche as it may sound, knowledge is power. If a sustainable global democracy is to emerge in the years to come, sharing that power among vastly greater numbers of people is not only more essential than ever, it's also more possible than ever.

The poster child of leapfrogging is the mobile phone, but cheap computers and open-source software [see open source, p. 127] are promising to take the leapfrogging revolution digital. In theory, with breakthroughs coming quickly in all sorts of technologies, the Global South should soon be able to leapfrog in any area of development. To better understand leapfrogging, we need to ask: "What, exactly, did industrialization buy us, here in the Global North?" To answer that question, all we need to do is to look at our own lives.

In very practical terms, that's what open source is doing in the Global South. Brazil isn't engaged in a science project: it's declaring a revolution. A5 Leapfrogging I nFra structure ¦Mi Cities are largely the products of their infrastructure. But this bit of common sense is stood on its head in emerging megacities [see Lagos, p. 279], where cities often spring up before there is any infrastructure. How will megacities meet their citizens' needs for the basics of life, like clean water and electricity? Leapfrogging [see Leapfrogging, p.

When a country goes open source (OS), though, it gets something much more important than free code: it gets a native software industry. When people learn how to install, maintain, and modify the software they're using, they aren't just getting better tools, they're learning new, highly marketable job skills and gaining the ability to create still more tools that work even better in the local context. Lastly, when a country goes OS, it changes that country's relationship to the world economy. The country is no longer just a market for developed-world know-how.

The future of food fabrication, intellectual property and seeds Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It will be similar to the battle today between Microsoft and Linux, in which the open source community has created a fantastic operating system without the promise of financial compensation. They've done it because they're a group of smart people who want to do something productive and interesting under a freely shared goodwill system. Our broken patent laws However, the biggest issue that I have is with the idea that our current patent system assigns intellectual ownership over things that were technically invented by nature, not man.

Interview with Jeanne Jennings, Online Marketing Consultant Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It has to be open source if it's going to work, right? Jennings: It seems like it. It's funny, my husband's an intellectual property attorney, and so I understand why they want their IP rights. But at the end -- and this is the impression I got from the folks at AOL and MSN -- what we all really want is a solution. I think there is going to be a little bit of negotiating back and forth, but I do think we are going to get there. We have to. Everyone pretty much agrees.

Put an end to spam and phishing by reforming email Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It must be an open source standard. It can't be a proprietary technology, yet it needs to be secure. It needs to be unbreakable and unhackable. There can be no back doors. The time for a move toward change is now. If we don't change, the very credibility of the email medium is at stake. If we don't change, governments are going to come in and mandate a solution that none of us want to live with. You can be sure of that.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

And the project is by no means limited to the developing world: the California open source Textbook Project is a plan to cut in half that state's nearly $400 million textbook budget by developing open-source textbooks. These textbooks will be collaboratively written, like Wikipedia and Wikibooks, and will be designed to meet California's educational standards. If the plan works, providing a developed-world education anywhere in the developing world will be as easy as e-mailing a few text files.

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