Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Meanwhile, the wider scientific community has come on board as multiple studies at other institutions around the world have supported Harley and James's original findings. One recent study supporting the link between Epstein-Barr and lupus shows that African Americans who test positive for Epstein-Barr are five to six times more likely to have lupus. Not surprisingly, genes play a specific role in the connection between Epstein-Barr and lupus as well. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Animal feeding studies overlook most potential problems
Although animal studies have been used for decades to assess the safety of drugs, pesticides and other materials, companies conducting GMO assessments seem to ignore the protocols used and lessons learned by the scientific community.
Judy Carman "Some of these experiments used some very unusual animal models for human health, such as chickens, cows, and trout. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 In fact, people in the scientific community are now calling on researchers to stop spending money on vitamin-supplement trials because we know these products are either useless or harmful in terms of health. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Within the scientific community, debate rages about what science means and how conflicting theories provide alternative explanations about how the natural world works.
SCIENCE AS COMPETING IDEAS
As quantum mechanics developed in the early- to mid-twentieth century, it became clear that it had to be joined with relativity theory if it was going to go the distance in describing nature. This was accomplished through QED, which grounds itself in Schrodinger's wave equation, which describes waves as having both quantum and relativ-istic properties. |
Mark Lynas
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 Many scientists have already recognised this similarity, which is why the event now known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) has attracted such widespread attention from the scientific community. Indeed, almost every academic study published about the PETM in recent years mentions that it can be seen as a natural version of whatever human-caused global warming might have in store. |
Elaine Magee
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 How could this popular antioxidant increase such risks, much less fail to offer hoped-for protection? The scientific community is still trying to find answers to that question, but some point to the fact that many of the studies used alpha-tocopherol supplements, which are one particular form of vitamin E. Apparently, alpha-tocopherol supplements decrease levels of another form of vitamin E, gamma-tocopherol, which some researchers suspect may play a big role in many processes in the body. |
Mark Lynas
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| However, the scientific community is far from united on the El Nino issue. Some studies do indeed show a shift towards a near-permanent El Nino state in the future, with warmer temperatures in the eastern Pacific and rain-bearing clouds shifting closer to the Peruvian coast. One recent study, however, draws exactly the opposite conclusion, predicting weaker El Nino events in a warmer world. |
| Hurricane warning in the South Atlantic
With all the headlines about hurricanes hitting the United States, there is one storm that stands out above all others in the way that it caught the scientific community off guard. It wasn't Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and killed over a thousand people. It wasn't Rita, another Category 5 monster which reflooded parts of the city only a month after Katrina struck. Nor was it Hurricane Wilma, which bombed in a single day from being a minor tropical storm into the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| The very idea that by killing off the fugitive T cells that cause type 1 diabetes damage you could encourage a healthy pancreas to regenerate was considered so far-fetched that Faustman's team was met with scathing skepticism from most of the scientific community. Scientists throughout the world openly questioned her claims. Despite her breakthrough, Faustman could not convince drug companies or major diabetes foundations to offer research funding. |
| Another recent study caused a stir within the scientific community by finding that even the low level of mercury used in vaccines preserved with thimerosal can trigger irregularities in immune-system cells in test-tube experiments. Even so, if there is an interplay with mercury, top scientists in the autoimmune-mercury field caution that there is probably no one single environmental trigger that is causing autism, just as there is no one single gene that is causing it. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 After ten years of painstaking work, the scientists came out of their labs to find out that their map was only a starting point. The scientific community might as well have said, "Thanks for the map. Now can you tell us which roads are open and which roads are closed so we can make some use of it?"
Of course, epigenetics doesn't really make the Human Genome Project worthless—to the contrary, a map of the epigenome has to begin with a map of the genome. And sure enough, work has begun to make one. In the fall of2003, a group of European scientists announced the Human Epigenome Project. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Although the scientific community was originally skeptical of the claims that a high-protein, high-fat diet could cause a weight loss, controlled studies clearly confirmed the effectiveness of a diet high in protein and low in carbohydrate to produce a reduction in body weight [99, 172-185].
The skepticism by the more orthodox nutritionists stemmed from four arguments. First, the deleterious health effects of eating a diet high in fat, particularly high in saturated fat, are well known. Second, foods containing large amounts of protein are usually accompanied by large amounts of fat. |
| 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. |
| Much work would have to be done in order to elicit a sufficient consensus in the scientific community to make the use of such indices persuasive, but lacking that effort, the field has no good way to assess the multiplicity of system effects that is characteristic of nutrients. Such indices for vitamin D and calcium seem a good place to start since their components represent already established end points. Thus, experimentation with the index will be a test of the concept, not a test of the nutrient (i.e. |
Pam Montgomery
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 Lucid dreaming is more colorful and seemingly more real than waking time; it is more fantastic, more memorable, and can even be described as a spiritual experience—all of which is shamanic in nature. The scientific community has recognized lucid dreaming as verifiable and continues to explore this dreamtime phenomenon.
Daydreams
Daydreaming is another way of accessing the spirits of the plants and is the most natural avenue to other dimensions, yet it is the least commonly used. Unfortunately, in Western culture daydreaming has become demonized. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And just because something is called quackery or rejected by the scientific community doesn't mean it isn't true. It could simply mean that a sufficient number of old school scientists haven't died yet to make room for these new observations or theories.
Remember, current scientific "truth" is defined and guarded by a committee of the most powerful people and organizations in the scientific community (it's called "peer review"). Anyone who has ever worked on a committee knows real progress under such systems is slow and painful. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Lavoisier's critique had a decisive effect on the scientific community on both sides of the English Channel. Phlogiston was dead—long live oxidation.
Even though these French scientists had used muriatic acid as a prime example to help disprove phlogiston theory, they still could not explain what exactly was going on in the manganese—muriatic acid reaction. Acids seemed to behave like othet chemicals whose actions occur in the presence of oxygen. On that basis, they mistakenly assumed that the gas of muriatic acid contains oxygen. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| Grains of Delusion "The main agenda for golden rice is not malnutrition but garnering greater support and acceptance for genetic engineering amongst the public, the scientific community, and funding agencies. Given this reality, the promise of golden rice should be taken with a pinch of salt. |
Mark Lynas
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| Despite the continued popular media interest, amongst the scientific community the 'Gulf Stream shutdown' scenario has in recent years actually been falling out of favour. As Science magazine reported in October 2005: 'Lately, the most sophisticated and realistic model simulations of a warmer world have failed to drive the MOC anywhere near collapse.' One model had slowed the MOC down by 25 to 30 per cent, but only after a century or two of sustained future greenhouse gas emissions. That reduction, as the modeller pointed out, 'is not a collapse'. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| One of the primary missions of our colleges and universities has historically been to produce unbiased research and share results among the scientific community This mission has been compromised by the influx of corporate dollars. Universities now compete for pharmaceutical funding, and consequently have prostituted their works for the almighty dollar.
If the medical professionals who leave these "hallowed halls" have not been well-corrupted by the time their medical training is complete, ample opportunity remains after graduation. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 And unfortunately, its role has been overexaggerated by the scientific community, as well as the media. In fact, millions of people in this country are on cholesterol-lowering drugs, but frankly, I don't think they need it.
A look at my youth and medical training will help you to understand how I arrived at my conclusions about sugar's role in heart disease and other illnesses.
My Awareness of Sugar's Dangers and Diabetes Began in Childhood
As a young child, I first began to witness the dangers of too much sugar and wide blood sugar fluctuations. |
Bill Sardi
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 Three follow-up studies using oral-dose vitamin C performed by Mayo Clinic researchers between 1979 and 1985 then misled the scientific community and the public and vitamin C was dismissed as an anti-cancer agent. The Mayo Clinic doctors failed to make a distinction between oral and intravenous vitamin C treatment.
The flawed RDA
Mixed in with the research on cancer and vitamin C were studies conducted by National Institutes of Health scientists that falsely claimed that high-dose oral vitamin C is excreted and produces nothing more than "expensive urine. |
| The biases and prejudices of the scientific community were further revealed in response to Dr. Clark's study. Researchers were quick to warn of the potential toxic side effects of selenium rather than its proven benefit. This, in spite of the fact the 200-mcg dose used in the study is the "Estimated Safe and Adequate Daily Intake" set by the National Academy of Sciences for everyone.
One reviewer said: "At levels of about 1,000 meg -or I mg - a day people start to lose their hair, they lose their fingernails, and they get gastrointestinal problems. |
| Millions more people will likely die prematurely of cancer while the scientific community continues to debate the role of blood thinners in the prevention and treatment of metastatic cancer.
You don't have to wait for that dreaded phone call from the doctor that you had better get your affairs in order because your body is filled with tumors in many locations. You can use natural blood thinners to prolong your life and increase survivability before you have been diagnosed with cancer. |
Stacy Malkan
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 There is broad agreement in the scientific community that higher exposure to estrogens over a woman's lifetime leads to a higher risk of developing breast cancer. For example, girls who menstruate before age 12 are 50% more likely to develop breast cancer than girls who menstruate after age 16, in part because of the increased lifetime exposure to estrogen. Early breast development is also clearly associated with an increased breast cancer risk. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Most studies are ignored by the scientific community. A few become quite important. The more prestigious the journal, the greater the likelihood that its contents will become part of generally accepted knowledge—part, in other words, of standard practice. Journals that are official publications of scholarly or professional societies are also influential. Even more important than articles are editorials, which carry the official imprimatur of the journal. It is to these editorials that we turn to if and when they are available. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Consequently, the scientific community's interest in discovering the mechanism for how the body cures itself of cancer remains almost nil. These "miracle cures" seem to happen most frequently in certain types of malignancies: kidney cancer, melanoma (cancer of the skin), lymphomas (cancers of the lymph), and neuroblastoma (a nerve cell cancer that affects infants). |
Roberta Bivins
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 Mahendralal's defection was revealing in another way: he was, and continued after his homeopathic turn to be, a vocal proponent of science and 'scientific' medicine, founding in 1867 the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science to promote the growth of an indigenous scientific community, and the creation of scientific knowledge by and for Indians.25 He promoted homeopathy through the Calcutta Journal of Medicine he founded a year later, as a scientific and modern system. |
Stacy Malkan
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| This view is out of step with the entire scientific community. Size matters at the nano-scale. Nano is best understood to mean "fundamentally different." Kimbrell feels strongly that the FDA must act quickly if the agency hopes to avoid past regulatory failures such as asbestos, DDT and PCBs.
More environmental health studies are urgently needed. Only 4% of the $9 billion dedicated to nanotechnology research in 2006 went to environmental and health research. "What we're left with are early studies that raise warning flags and no follow-up," Kimbrell said. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Remember, current scientific "truth" is defined and guarded by a committee of the most powerful people and organizations in the scientific community (it's called "peer review"). Anyone who has ever worked on a committee knows real progress under such systems is slow and painful. Real scientific progress usually comes from determined, outcast scientific rebels who are viciously attacked by old guard defenders of the current scientific community. You might recognize a few of their names: Einstein, Semmelweis, Copernicus, Tesla, and more than a few others. |
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