Wikipedia biased on medicine - Health Supreme NewsGrabs Sunday, 16 May 2010
Wikipedia has a "neutral point of view" policy that restricts what is deemed acceptable information. If it isn't in the mainstream's publications, it can't enter Wikipedia. Nutritional medicine, evidently, is considered unacceptable by Wikipedia's pharma friendly editors. 'Neutral' in this case seems to have been interpreted to mean 'conservative'.What a pity that the on line encyclopedia has become a defender of the status quo rather than a source of varied and unbiased information.
The Hidden Wikipedia: How to Find Deleted Material about Nutritional Medicine
"The photograph I posted was removed. Provable, referenced facts, with dates and places, all suddenly became 'claims,' even quotes from no less than Nobel Laureate Albert Schweitzer, M.D., who famously said: 'I see in Dr. Max Gerson one of the most eminent geniuses in medical history.' Dr. Schweitzer and his wife were patients of Dr. Gerson, making this a first-hand account from a rather reliable source.""All my links, references and citations were removed. They were replaced by links to the American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute, which offer only criticism of the Gerson Therapy. Even quotations from published scientific papers were removed. Attempts to rectify these actions were immediately overwritten."
Paul Anthony Taylor, a supporter of Dr. Rath, comments: "Instead of providing free access to the sum of all human knowledge, as is its supposed aim, Wikipedia would appear to be just another way of supporting the scientific, political and social status quo. In a sense, however, the game is already up for Wikipedia. The official exams watchdog in the UK, Ofqual, recently stated that schoolchildren should avoid it as it is not 'authoritative or accurate' and in some cases 'may be completely untrue'."
The Wikipedia page for this physician has been deleted. Why? Because Dr. Cathcart "does not meet notability criteria..."
"Possibly, just possibly, the real reason Dr. Cathcart is deleted from Wikipedia has much more to do with his outspoken advocacy of very high doses of vitamin C to treat viral illnesses."
A First Glance at Vitamin C
I'd like to take credit for being some sort of expert on the topic or really knowing much at all about it, but really it was an alert reader mentioned to me that I should look into the findings of Dr. Klenner. You see after 4 years of medical school, internship, residency and years at the FDA, my knowledge of vitamin C was basically that it prevented scurvy, had a role in preventing oxidation of biologically important molecules and Dr. Linus Pauling, likely the greatest chemist of his age, had some really eccentric views about large doses of vitamin C...
Researchers discover additional benefit of vitamin A
Vitamin A is critical to maternal health and child survival, yet in most developing countries Vitamin A deficiency is a leading cause of blindness and increased child mortality. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has long been a leader in vitamin A research, and scientists at the School recently discovered a link between offspring lung function and maternal vitamin A supplementation."Children of mothers who received vitamin A supplementation before, during and after pregnancy had significantly improved lung function when compared to those whose mothers received beta-carotene supplementation or placebo," said lead author of the study, William Checkley, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School's Department of International Health.
MSG - A Slow Poison
(link from stephentvedten.blogspot.com - blog censored by Blogger. Check out his other site at http://www.stephentvedten.com/ )
I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive obesity epidemic, and so did a friend of mine, John Erb. He was a research assistant at the University of Waterloo in Ontario , Canada , and spent years working for the government. He made an amazing discovery while going through scientific journals for a book he was writing called The Slow Poisoning of America .In hundreds of studies around the world, scientists were creating obese mice and rats to use in diet or diabetes test studies. No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese, so scientists have to create them. They make these creatures morbidly obese by injecting them with MSG when they are first born.
European Medicines Agency Urged to Release Side Effect Reports
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) recently refused to release documents containing suspected adverse reactions caused by Accutane...And so European Ombudsman Nikiforos Diamandouros yesterday vigorously disagreed with the EMEA argument that transparency rules do not apply to these reports. “EMEA plays a crucial role in the approval and monitoring of medicines placed on the market,” he said in a statement. “Since its work has a direct impact on the health of European citizens, it is of utmost importance for EMEA to give the widest possible access to documents and also to pursue a pro-active information policy for the benefit of citizens.”
The EMEA had argued that EU transparency rules don’t apply to suspected serious adverse reaction reports and their release wouldn’t benefit citizens because circulating such data could be misleading or unreliable.
American Cancer Society Trivializes Cancer Risks: Blatant Conflicts of Interest
The ACS's indifference to cancer prevention reflects major industry funding. ACS has received contributions in excess of $100,000 from a wide range of "Excalibur Donors," many of whom continue to manufacture carcinogenic products. These include:Petrochemical companies, Industrial waste companies, Junk food companies, Big Pharma, Biotech companies, Cosmetic companies and Auto companies.
Nevertheless, in spite of this long-standing track record of flagrant conflicts of interest, as reported in the December 8, 2009 New York Times, the ACS responded that it "holds itself to the highest standards of transparency and public accountability."
World Health Organization to impose billions in internet and other taxes
The World Health Organization is moving full speed ahead with a controversial plan to impose billions of dollars in global consumer taxes on such things as Internet activity and everyday financial transactions like paying bills online — while its spending soars and its own financial house is in disarray.What it all means is that a major lobbying effort could soon be underway to convince rich governments in particular to begin taxing citizens or industries to finance a drastic restructuring of medical research and development on behalf of poorer ones.
The scheme would leave WHO in the middle, helping to manage a "global health research and innovation coordination and funding mechanism," as the experts' report calls it.
In effect, the plan amounts to a pharmaceutical version of the U.N.-sponsored climate-change deal that failed to win global approval at Copenhagen last December.
Genetically modified cotton has created major pest problems in China
(link from stephentvedten.blogspot.com - blog censored by Blogger. Check out his other site at http://www.stephentvedten.com/ )
But a 10-year field study of crops in northern China, where 95 per cent farmers grow Bt cotton, has revealed that the use of Bt cotton has led to an explosive growth in the population of Mirid bugs (Heteroptera: Miridae), previously only a minor pest in the area.Because the Mirid bugs eat a wide variety of plants, Yanhui Lu and his colleagues at the academy say the pests are emerging as a threat to other crops, including grapes, apples, peaches, and pears, for the first time in China.
Genetically modified foods shouldn't be labeled, U.S. argues
The US FDA and Dept. of Agriculture are adamant: no labels for GM foods. Their reason is that labeling would make people think that GM foods are somehow different from other foods. Hello?
FDA Needs to Stop Using "Biomarkers" to Judge Safety of Food and Drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is stuck using crude tools to measure the benefits of food, drugs and supplements and needs a whole new set of standards, a panel of experts said on Wednesday.Relying on so-called biomarkers is confusing the entire process of drug development, the public and doctors alike, they said.
Drugs to treat diabetes are often approved simply because they lower blood sugar and heart drugs can win FDA approval because they lower cholesterol. But the report said this does not mean they make patients healthier.
Anticonvulsant medications and the risk of suicide, attempted suicide, or violent death
Preliminary Communication on a study, published on April 14, 2010 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)Objective To evaluate the risk of suicidal acts and combined suicidal acts or violent death associated with individual anticonvulsants.
Conclusion This exploratory analysis suggests that the use of gabapentin, lamotrigine, oxcarbazepine, and tiagabine, compared with the use of topiramate, may be associated with an increased risk of suicidal acts or violent deaths.
Selling Diseases
The process of selling what industry calls a disease state begins many years before a drug is submitted to the FDA for approval. Specific marketing messages for a product may be developed seven to ten years before a drug goes on sale. Pre-approval marketing messages assigned to opinion leaders might emphasize the under-diagnosis of a targeted condition, stress the serious consequences of delayed treatment, or trumpet the importance of a new receptor or novel mechanism of action.
A classic way to expand the market for a drug is to invent a disease state or exaggerate the importance or prevalence of an existing condition. Here’s a fictitious example...
America's Gone Nuts on Prescription Drugs
If you're sitting at the blackjack table wearing an adult diaper with a face the size of Elvis's ass and a four-hour erection, maybe it's time to cut down on the pills.
Book: Fear of the Invisible
An Investigative Journey into a reckless and contaminated Medical Industry
The author, an investigative journalist who researched and produced investigative films for the BBC, American and Australian television, was asked by parents with children severely ill after vaccination to discover if the medical authorities were hiding anything from them. (I should add this was Jabs!) She agreed, but had no idea how long this search would take or how it would change her ideas. She expected at best to uncover a small degree of contamination.On the ensuing decade-long journey of discovery, she found top government scientists report alarmingly, at meetings between scientists, that it is impossible to purify vaccines. They stated that the childhood vaccines of today are contaminated with viruses from chickens, humans and monkeys, with RNA and DNA fragments, with "cellular degradation products," and possibly "oncogenes and prions."
Does AIDS "Cause HIV"?
A single unique particle, (originally called LAV, then HTLV-III, then rechristened HIV) gets into the body via semen or blood exchange; it gravitates somehow to the white blood cells called T-Cells; it opens the cell door, somehow, and copies itself into the genome, using an enzyme called Reverse Transcriptase. These cells are then impaired, and die, supposedly. This weakens the body over time and other illnesses occur.That’s the official narrative. But only more or less...
Five False Predictions of the AIDS Establishment
Talk about it. Promote open discussion of the definition of AIDS and the critical appraisal of HIV testing. And most of all, be kind to people given the false "HIV positive" diagnosis - given the opportunity, many can recover through a variety of means, once the medical infrastructure stops telling them that they're doomed to die "no matter what," just because of a lousy test result.
Climate change: Peer review is no better than in-house reports
“He [Rajendra Pachauri, head of IPCC] . . . defended the principle of using non-peer-reviewed materials, such as the WWF report wherein the Himalayan error originated, which said the mountain range’s glaciers could disappear by 2035. ‘I’d like to highlight what non-peer-reviewed literature constitutes: reports from the International Energy Agency, the OECD, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and organisations of this nature. ‘There are some highly prestigious NGOs that are doing detailed academic work, and you cannot ignore this.’ But, he observed, people working on assessment had to follow scrupulously the procedures on when and how to use such material and occasionally, as with the Himalayan episode, human error had crept in. . . .
Academics urge radical new approach to climate change
The UN process has failed, they argue, and a global approach concentrating on CO2 cuts will never work.They urge instead the use of carbon tax revenue to develop technologies that can supply clean energy to everyone.
Its central message is that climate change can be ameliorated best by pursuing "politically attractive and relentlessly pragmatic" options that also curb emissions.
These options include bringing a reliable electricity supply to the estimated 1.5 billion people in the world without it using efficient, low-carbon technologies.
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Sunday May 16 2010
updated on Friday November 26 2010URL of this article:
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