Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Following yesterday's announcement of a new study showing the phenomenal benefits of antioxidants for preventing heart disease in women, the mainstream media rallied behind a blatantly false distortion of the study designed to convince the public that vitamins E and C are somehow useless. The popular press, which maintains an incestuous relationship with the pharmaceutical industry, once again demonstrates it is little more than a mouthpiece for the pro-pharma propaganda machine. |
Anne Harrington
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 Discussions of the Alexander approach to psychosomatic medicine also began to appear in the popular press, from Reader's Digest to Ladies' Home Journal. And in 1950, this approach had a kind of milestone moment in terms of its penetration into the wider culture: it became the basis of a hit number, "Adelaide's Lament," in Frank Loesser's Broadway musical Guys and Dolls. Adelaide is a cabaret dancer of a certain age who has been unable, after thirteen years, to persuade her ne'er-do-well gambler fiance to marry her. |
| Lynch's book hit a nerve, certainly in the popular press.35 In short order, he was being interviewed on television talk shows and in popular magazines. U.S. News & World Report identified him as "an authority on the ways and misfortunes of the world's lonely people."36 The medical community, it is true, was more ambivalent about him: the book was not widely reviewed in the professional medical literature. |
Erich Grotewold
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Plant-derived foods that are rich in flavonoids are regularly touted in the popular press for their benefits in ameliorating age-related diseases. A majority of these reports focus on the antioxidant characteristics of flavonoid-rich diets and their enhancement of cardiovascular health. However, a growing number of reports in the pharmacology literature characterize flavonoid interactions with cellular components implicated in neurological pathologies and cancer. |
Anne Harrington
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| In 2000, after late-night television host David Letterman underwent surgery for heart disease, a piece appeared in the popular press entitled "David Letterman's Cynical Heart." The writer, Robert Wright, put the matter to his readers straight:
What is wrong with David Letterman's heart? The official reason for his quintuple bypass last month was atherosclerosis—clogged arteries. Some observers, such as People magazine, go deeper in search of the explanation, citing "Type A," workaholic behavior. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 To the popular press, which pounced on the published paper, Benveniste had discovered 'the memory of water', and his studies were widely regarded as making a valid case for homeopathy. Benveniste himself realized that his results had repercussions far beyond any theory of alternative medicine. If water were able to imprint and store information from molecules, this would have an impact on our understanding of molecules and how they,'talk' to one another in our bodies, as molecules in human cells, of course, are surrounded by water. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 The letter announced: "Recent publicity in the popular press has led the public to believe that there is a widespread and unrecognized occurrence of hypoglycemia in this country. Furthermore, it has been suggested repeatedly that the condition is causing many of the common symptoms that affect the American population. These claims are not supported by medical evidence.
"Hypoglycemia means low blood sugar," the letter continued. |
Anne Harrington
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| In the popular press, it was her work specifically on so-called accident-proneness (a term she coined) that had the most resonance. As late as August 1969, an article in Family Weekly highlighted Dunbar's work in the context of a call for more attention to be given to accidents as "one of the nation's major health problems." Chronic repression of anger and guilt, the article intoned, "can be as dangerous as faulty brakes or a broken step." Becoming aware of these "human factors," however—and seeking psychiatric help if necessary—could help more people avoid dangerous mishaps. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Wikipedia is a good thing -- the fact that the media bashes it should tell you that it's actually a very important competitor in the information monopoly that used to be held by the popular press.
Old school newspapers -- the kind printed on dead trees -- are dinosaurs. Even TIME Magazine is slashing staff these days, and readers are abandoning printed newspapers in a steady march towards online information. Thumbs up to Wikipedia, the Public Library of Science (PLoS journals) and other open-source projects that engage readers and decentralize information rather than trying to dictate it. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 In medical journals and the popular press, doctors suggested that water birthing was dangerous, filled with unacceptable risks of infection and drowning. It wasn't until 1999, when Ruth Gilbert and PatTookey of the Institute of Child Health in London published a serious study showing that water birth was at least as safe as conventional methods, that all these predictions of doom and gloom were shown to be largely baseless.
An even more recent Italian study, published in 2005, has confirmed the safely of water birthing—and demonstrated some stunning advantages. |
Roberta Bivins
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 In the popular press, the British public read tales of Chinese medicine and technology, set in the context of an obstinate and autocratic government. Perhaps even worse, at least for perceptions of Chinese medicine, they were told that Britain's generous attempt to negotiate had been blocked by a Chinese doctor.
China during this period gallingly persisted in regarding itself as self-sufTicient, and culturally superior. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Once studies were published and word of the results reached the popular press, I was contacted by a number of people who had developed psychiatric side effects after taking Accutane. One family from Missouri was particularly desperate to talk to me. They drove all the way from their home state to Georgia to meet with me. The entire family, including the parents, two sisters, and the young boy who had taken the Accutane, filed into my office. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 You've also learned that you may be saddled with hunger genes, sometimes labeled "thrifty genes" by the popular press. You may even feel powerless to oppose their instructions and blame them for your weight problems, abandoning hope of ever gaining the upper hand. The good news is that you're wrong. Your genes are just following your current instructions and will follow new instructions that you'll learn shortly. In Part Two, you'll learn how to stop communicating these incorrect messages to your genes, as the first step to taking control of your health, your weight, and your life. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 In the two years preceding Paxil's approval, fewer than fifty stories on social anxiety disorder had appeared in the popular press. Hardly anybody even knew what social anxiety was. By the time the FDA had approved the drug for social anxiety, and SmithKline had unleashed its direct-to-consumer ad campaign, which could now link social anxiety to its cure, Paxil, hundreds of stories about the illness had cropped up in U.S. publications and on broadcast programs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Not anymore: Twisted science combined with a pro-Pharma agenda and limitless influence on the mainstream media has turned the popular press into a nutrient attack dog, and ominous stories about the extreme dangers of taking vitamins or supplements are now published at regular intervals (just to remind the citizens to keep taking drugs, of course).
The insanity of Allopathia is actually our own. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Two papers that fueled the controversy appeared in 1986 and caused a stir in the popular press and in the scientific community. In a fascinating, but brief, letter to The Lancet, Blundell and Hill [155] reported that the ingestion of aspartame caused an increase in hunger ratings in human subjects, and in another paper, Stellman and Garfinkel [156] reported that women who consumed the sweetener saccharin were more likely to gain body weight than nonusers of saccharin. |
Alex Steffen
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 Alley (Princeton University Press, 2000) "The climate-change community is so much more confident of global warming than is the popular press," warns Greenland ice-core expert Richard Alley, one of the key scientists in the early 1990s who discovered that the last ice age ended abruptly, in a span of only three years. The Two-Mile Time Machine tells the story of global climate change through annual readings of the Greenland Ice Sheet, a fascinating and important story that informs the climate we live in today, and how we will proceed tomorrow. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Now you know how drug companies, the FDA, the popular press and many doctors lie with this numerical shell game. It's a clever way to promote the minuscule benefits of pharmaceuticals while discrediting the enormous healing effects of natural remedies.
Now, do you want to hear some real statistics on cancer? I’ll share a few. Out of every 100 women who might get breast cancer, 50 of them can avoid breast cancer by simply getting adequate levels of vitamin D in their body, and that’s available free of charge through sensible exposure to natural sunlight, which produces vitamin D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We've seen this in the studies and finally, after years and years of pounding this issue, some of it has started to come out in the popular press. We're seeing a lot of warnings now about antidepressant drugs and their ability to cause violent behavior. We're seeing some of these drugs pulled off the market. And slowly we're beginning to see the general public recognizing the link between antidepressant drugs in our youth and violent behavior, including school shootings.
Back in 1999, they blamed guns. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And it's the same story with every vitamin, mineral and herb discredited in the popular press. Every single study that says "Vitamin E has no benefit" or "Saw palmetto is useless for your prostate" is a lie. It's all based on utterly dishonest science that's carefully constructed for the sole purpose of making nutrition look bad. And the press buys right into it, reporting information that's worse than merely useless; it's downright harmful. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Over the past several decades, several chemicals have been identified in the popular press as cancer-causing agents. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What I've realized is that when there is sufficient market domination by any industry to the point where government regulators and the popular press is bought off, the traditional checks and balances of the free market are thrown out the window.
Now, I'm not dismissing the entire system of free market thinking. I still strongly believe that centrally-planned national economies are a disaster (just look at Cuba or Russia). Entrepreneurs are very, very important for productivity and growth in any national economy, and greed is in fact a powerful motivator for many. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Here's a sampling of the headlines you may have seen in the popular press:
No broad benefit from calcium found for women
- San Jose Mercury News
Back to milk: Few benefits found from calcium pills
- International Herald Tribune
Study Shows Limited Benefits From Calcium
- Houston Chronicle
Studies Question Benefits Of Calcium, Vitamin D
- CBS (affiliate, California)
Anyone who actually reads the study, however, learns that calcium was shown to produce a whopping 29% reduction in bone fractures for those actually taking the pills. |
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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 Even though he and his colleagues were attacked in the medical and popular press, largely by those with a stake in promoting bone density testing and osteoporosis drugs, the science behind their report has never been refuted. While many company-sponsored websites urge women to get their bones tested, whenever independent scientists look at the evidence behind the tests they tend to find the same thing: the tests are not good predictors of future fractures. |
Michele Simon
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 Analysts" from front groups like the CCF are often credited as bona fide research experts in the popular press, despite their lack of qualifications.
5. Don't believe the scientific views of any alleged expert without first verifying in whose name she is conducting research—no matter what high-sounding institution she hails from, be it Harvard, the American Diabetes Association, or Coca-Cola's Beverage Institute. It takes only a few seconds on the Internet to find out if a researcher has a pro-industry bias. When it's not obvious, remain skeptical until you can be sure. |
| The move also enabled soda makers to position themselves as being "responsive" to lawmakers' efforts to pass school-based soda legislation—bills that create an enormous PR headache for industry when exposed in the popular press. This point was even acknowledged by a leading food-industry publication, Vending Market Watch, which noted: "This new policy is clearly designed to counteract criticism from consumer activists and politicians who say the beverage industry is profiting at children's expense. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 Several hundred papers, abstracts, and formal presentations as well as articles which have appeared in the popular press have presented data on the many facets and implications of the use of bovine somatotropin. These presentations have placed into the public domain data to address the concerns, so that an enlightened decision on the safety and efficacy of this involved issue can be made.
This issue of labeling milk and meat from treated cows has been publicly refuted as having no scientific basis. |
Mike Adams
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 Now you know how drug companies, the FDA, the popular press, and many doctors lie with this numerical shell game. It's a clever way to promote the minuscule benefits of pharmaceuticals while discrediting the enormous healing effects of natural remedies.
Now, do you want to hear some real statistics on cancer? I'll share a few. Out of every 100 women who might get breast cancer, 50 of them can avoid breast cancer by simply getting adequate levels of vitamin D in their body, and that's available free of charge through sensible exposure to natural sunlight, which produces vitamin D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There is so much information in the popular press about how all you need is three balanced meals a day, and about how nutritional supplements are a waste of money. I mean, even the American Heart Association has now come out against vitamin E, and their stand against vitamins is legendary. How do you account for this great disparity between the medical literature and the popular line?
Dr. Strand: Well, first of all, the American Medical Association came out two years ago stating that multiple vitamins should be taken by everybody, which is a major change for them. |
Jacky Law
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 Before long, the popular press had picked up the story with headlines of stomach-friendly aspirins. And now the nocebo effect was kicking in with respect to regular aspirins and other NSAIDs. This is the opposite of the placebo effect and works to make drugs less effective if they are believed to cause harm. Arthur Barsky, a psychiatrist at Brigham and Women's hospital in Boston, for example, points to a study which found that patients warned about the gastrointestinal effects of taking aspirin were three times more likely to suffer from them. |
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