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How Independent Are Vaccine Defenders?

2008-07-25, CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/25/cbsnews_investigates/main4296175.shtml
They're some of the most trusted voices in the defense of vaccine safety: the American Academy
of Pediatrics, Every Child By Two, and pediatrician Dr. Paul Offit. But CBS News has found these
three have something more in common - strong financial ties to the industry whose products they
promote and defend. The vaccine industry gives millions to the Academy of Pediatrics for
conferences, grants, medical education classes and even helped build their headquarters. The
totals are kept secret, but public documents reveal bits and pieces. A $342,000 payment from
Wyeth, maker of the pneumococcal vaccine - which makes $2 billion a year in sales. A $433,000
contribution from Merck, the same year the academy endorsed Merck's HPV vaccine - which
made $1.5 billion a year in sales. Every Child By Two, a group that promotes early immunization
for all children, admits the group takes money from the vaccine industry, too - but wouldn't tell us
how much. Then there's Paul Offit, perhaps the most widely-quoted defender of vaccine
safety. He's gone so far as to say babies can tolerate "10,000 vaccines at once." In fact, he's
a vaccine industry insider. Offit holds in a $1.5 million dollar research chair at Children's
Hospital, funded by Merck. He holds the patent on an anti-diarrhea vaccine he developed
with Merck. And future royalties for the vaccine were just sold for $182 million cash.
Note: For an excellent report endorsed by dozens of respected doctors and nurses on the serious
risks and dangers of vaccines, click here. And read an excellent list of questions related to the
usefulness of vaccines that are almost never raised by the major media. This US government

webpage states, "Since the first National Vaccine Injury Compensation (VICP) claims were filed in
1989, 3,981 compensation awards have been made. More than $2.8 billion in compensation
awards has been paid to petitioners."

Human Guinea Pigs: At Your Own Risk

2002-04-22, Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1002263,00.html
Over the past three years, more than 60 institutions, including several of the world's most
prestigious research centers, have been criticized by the U.S. government for failing to protect
human subjects adequately. As recently as 1974 individual scientists and their financial backers
could decide for themselves what constituted ethical research. Most of the time their judgment was
sound, but there were plenty of appalling exceptions. In the 1950s Army doctors gave LSD to
soldiers without telling them what it was. In 1963 researchers injected prisoners and
terminally ill patients with live cancer cells to test their immune responses; they were told
only that it was a "skin test." In the 1950s mentally retarded children at Willowbrook, a state
institution in New York, were deliberately infected with hepatitis so that scientists could work on an
experimental vaccine. And in perhaps the most infamous case on record, doctors at Georgia's
Tuskegee Institute, starting in the 1930s, deliberately withheld treatment from syphilis-infected
African-American men for 40 years to monitor the course of the disease. Financial conflicts of
interest can extend not only to the institutions but also to the researchers themselves. Jesse
Gelsinger's death in the University of Pennsylvania's gene-therapy trial in 1999 seemed especially
scandalous [because] James Wilson, the principal investigator in the study, held a 30% equity
stake in Genovo, which owned the rights to license the drug Wilson was studying; the university
owned 3.2% of the company. When Targeted Genetics Corp. acquired Genovo, Wilson reportedly
earned $13.5 million and Penn $1.4 million.
Note: For a powerful, reliable list of astounding incidents in which government and medical
professionals used humans as guinea pigs over the past hundred years and continuing to the
present, click here. Links are provided to reliable sources for verification. For key facts on
government mind control programs, click here.

UFOs Disabling Nuclear Missiles: Former Senator Says Veterans'

Testimony is the "Smoking Gun"
2013-05-07, Wall Street Journal/PRNewswire-USNewswire
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130507-908600.html
In an interview with ABC News/Yahoo! News last Friday, former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel (DAlaska) said statements by U.S. Air Force nuclear missile launch officers regarding mysterious
aerial objects interfering with the functionality of American ICBMs make clear that top
government officials are lying to the public when they claim to have no knowledge of national
security-related UFO incidents. Gravel first gained national recognition in 1971, by placing the still-

classified Pentagon Papers which documented U.S. government malfeasance during the
Vietnam War into the public record. Gravel said the revelations by former/retired Captains
Robert Salas, Bruce Fenstermacher, and David Schindele, as well as retired Security
Policeman Sgt. David Scott, are "the smoking gun of the whole issue" of government
secrecy on UFOs. On September 27, 2010, Captain Salas co-hosted the "UFOs and Nukes"
press conference with noted researcher Robert Hastings, during which seven USAF veterans
revealed ongoing UFO activity at U.S. nuclear weapons sites during the Cold War era. That media
event was extensively and favorably covered by hundreds of news organizations worldwide,
including CNN, which streamed the proceedings live. The full-length video of the press conference
appears at http://www.ufohastings.com. The latest testimony about UFOs knocking ICBMs offline
was heard by Senator Gravel and five other former members of congress at the "Citizen Hearing
on Disclosure" organized by Stephen Bassett at the National Press Club last week.
Note: For the thorough research of Capt. Salas into the event where UFOs disabled nuclear
missiles, click here. Could UFOs disabling nuclear warheads be a message from extraterrestrial
forces for us not to play with such dangerous toys? Hundreds of military and government
witnesses have gone on record claiming a major cover-up around UFOs, including a former
chief of the CIA, the former chiefs of defense of the UK and Canada (see video), and Edgar
Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon. Why is it that so few people are aware of this and
other amazing and even inspiring facts around UFOs? For more, click here.

Scandal Exposed in Major Study of Autism and Mercury

2011-10-25, Sacramento Bee (Leading newspaper in California's capital city)
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/10/25/4005040/scandal-exposed-in-major-study.html
The Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs (CoMeD) exposes communications between Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) personnel and vaccine researchers revealing U.S. officials apparently
colluded in covering-up the decline in Denmark's autism rates following the removal of
mercury from vaccines. Documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
show that CDC officials were aware of Danish data indicating a connection between
removing Thimerosal (49.55% mercury) and a decline in autism rates. Despite this
knowledge, these officials allowed a 2003 article to be published in Pediatrics that excluded this
information, misrepresented the decline as an increase, and led to the mistaken conclusion that
Thimerosal in vaccines does not cause autism. In Denmark, Thimerosal, a controversial mercury
compound used as a preservative in certain vaccines, was removed from all Danish vaccines in
1992. The well-publicized Danish study published in Pediatrics 2003 claimed that autism rates
actually increased after Thimerosal was phased out. This study subsequently became a
cornerstone for the notion that mercury does not cause autism. However, one of the FOIA
documents obtained from CDC clearly indicates that this study omitted large amounts of data
showing autism rates actually dropping after mercury was removed from Danish vaccines.

Note: For the complete text of the article, which has been taken down from the Sacramento Bee
website, click here. Read about a key scientific study which showed that monkeys given standard
human vaccines developed autism symptoms, at this link. And an MSNBC/Associated Press report
shows that the FDA rejected limits on thimerosal and that "most doses of flu vaccine still contain
thimerosal."

Shocking History of Medical Experiments on People

2011-02-27, ABC News/Associated Press
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=13012856
Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on
disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental
patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in
Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital. Much
of this horrific history is 40 to 80 years old, but it is the backdrop for a meeting in Washington this
week by a presidential bioethics commission. The meeting was triggered by the government's
apology last fall for federal doctors infecting prisoners and mental patients in Guatemala with
syphilis 65 years ago. U.S. officials also acknowledged there had been dozens of similar
experiments in the United States. Inevitably, they will be compared to the well-known Tuskegee
syphilis study. In that episode, U.S. health officials tracked 600 black men in Alabama who already
had syphilis but didn't give them adequate treatment even after penicillin became available.
Though people in the studies were usually described as volunteers, historians and ethicists have
questioned how well these people understood what was to be done to them and why, or whether
they were coerced. In the last 15 years, two international studies sparked outrage. U.S.-funded
doctors failed to give the AIDS drug AZT to all the HIV-infected pregnant women in a study in
Uganda even though it would have protected their newborns. The other study, by Pfizer Inc., gave
an antibiotic named Trovan to children with meningitis in Nigeria, although there were doubts
about its effectiveness. Critics blamed the experiment for the deaths of 11 children and the
disabling of scores of others. Pfizer settled a lawsuit with Nigerian officials for $75 million but
admitted no wrongdoing.
Note: If the above link fails, click here. Though it appears these highly unethical studies have
stopped in the US, the article points out that many drug companies are now doing their studies in
countries where ethical codes are not strong. For an astounding list of government-sponsored
programs where humans were used as guinea pigs, click here. For a two-page summary of solid
evidence of government involvement in mind control programs, click here.

Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong

2011-01-24, Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/23/why-almost-everything-you-hear-about-medic...

If you follow the news about health research, you risk whiplash. First garlic lowers bad cholesterol,
thenafter more studyit doesnt. Hormone replacement reduces the risk of heart disease in
postmenopausal women, until a huge study finds that it doesnt. But what if wrong answers arent
the exception but the rule? More and more scholars who scrutinize health research are now
making that claim. It isnt just an individual study here and there thats flawed, they charge.
Instead, the very framework of medical investigation may be off-kilter, leading time and
again to findings that are at best unproved and at worst dangerously wrong. The result is a
system that leads patients and physicians astrayspurring often costly regimens that wont help
and may even harm you. Even a cursory glance at medical journals shows that once heralded
studies keep falling by the wayside. A major study concluded theres no good evidence that statins
(drugs like Lipitor and Crestor) help people with no history of heart disease. The study ... was
based on an evaluation of 14 individual trials with 34,272 patients. Cost of statins: more than $20
billion per year. Positive drug trials, which find that a treatment is effective, and negative trials,
in which a drug fails, take the same amount of time to conduct. But negative trials took an extra
two to four years to be published. With billions of dollars on the line, companies are loath to
declare a new drug ineffective. As a result of the lag in publishing negative studies, patients
receive a treatment that is actually ineffective. From clinical trials of new drugs to cutting-edge
genetics, biomedical research is riddled with incorrect findings.
Note: For the good of your health, the entire article at the link above is well worth reading. For lots
more on how the profit-oriented health profession puts public health at risk, click here and here.

Leading Doctor: Vaccines-Autism Worth Study

2008-05-12, CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/12/cbsnews_investigates/main4086809.shtml
Jordan King was a typical baby. His parents called him vocal and vivacious. Then just before age
2, after a large battery of vaccinations, he simply withdrew from the world. "The real scary thing
was when I noticed he wasn't looking at us any more in the eyes," Mylinda King, Jordan's mother,
said. William Mead was a Pottery Barn baby model and met all the typical milestones. Then, also
at age 2, after a set of vaccinations, William became very ill and he, too, changed forever. In both
children, batteries of tests revealed dangerous levels of the brain toxin mercury in their
systems. Their only known exposure: the mercury preservative once widely used in
childhood shots. Dr. Bernadine Healy is the former head of the National Institutes of Health, and
the most well-known medical voice yet to break with her colleagues on the vaccine-autism
question. In an exclusive interview with CBS News, Healy said the question is still open. "I think
that the public health officials have been too quick to dismiss the hypothesis as irrational," Healy
said. Healy goes on to say public health officials have intentionally avoided researching whether
subsets of children are susceptible to vaccine side effects - afraid the answer will scare the
public. CBS News has learned the government has paid more than 1,300 brain injury claims
in vaccine court since 1988, but is not studying those cases or tracking how many of them
resulted in autism.

Note: For a powerfully revealing article by Robert Kennedy, Jr. showing a major cover-up of this
issue, click here. For another suppressed article on a published University of Pittsburgh study with
strong evidence of an autism-vaccine link, click here.

The Prophet of Garbage

2007-03-00, Popular Science - March 2007 Issue
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2007-03/prophet-garbage
The Plasma Converter ... can consume nearly any type of wastefrom dirty diapers to chemical
weaponsby annihilating toxic materials in a process ... called plasma gasification. A 650-volt
current passing between two electrodes rips electrons from the air, converting the gas into plasma.
The plasma arc is so powerful, it disintegrates trash into its constituent elements by tearing apart
molecular bonds. The system is capable of breaking down pretty much anything except nuclear
waste. The only by-products are an obsidian-like glass [and] a mixture of primarily hydrogen and
carbon monoxide that can be converted into a variety of marketable fuels, including ethanol,
natural gas and hydrogen. Perhaps the most amazing part of the process is that its selfsustaining. Once the cycle is under way, the 2,200F syngas is fed into a cooling system,
generating steam that drives turbines to produce electricity. About two thirds of the power
is siphoned off to run the converter; the rest can be used on-site for heating or electricity,
or sold back to the utility grid. Even a blackout would not stop the operation of the facility. New
York City is already paying an astronomical $90 a ton to get rid of its trash. According to Startech,
a few 2,000-ton-per-day plasma-gasification plants could do it for $36. Sell the syngas and surplus
electricity, and youd actually net $15 a ton. But the decision-making bureaucracy can be slow, and
it is hamstrung by the politically well-connected waste-disposal industry. Startech isnt the only
company using plasma to turn waste into a source of clean energy. A handful of start-ups
Geoplasma, Recovered Energy, PyroGenesis, EnviroArc and Plasco Energy, among othershave
entered the market in the past decade.
Note: Why isn't this amazing, proven machine and technology making front page headlines? Read
this exciting article to find how it is already being used. For why you don't know about it, click here.
And for another amazing new energy source not yet reported in the major media, click here.

Of Mice, Men and In-Between

2004-11-20, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63731-2004Nov19.html
In Minnesota, pigs are being born with human blood in their veins. In Nevada, there are sheep
whose livers and hearts are largely human. In California, mice peer from their cages with human
brain cells firing inside their skulls. Biologists call these hybrid animals chimeras, after the mythical
Greek creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail. Chimeras are allowing
scientists to watch, for the first time, how nascent human cells and organs mature and interact ...
inside the bodies of living creatures. But with no federal guidelines in place ... how human must a

chimera be before more stringent research rules should kick in? Chimerism becomes a more
sensitive topic when it involves growing entire human organs inside animals. And it becomes
especially sensitive when it deals in brain cells. Imagine, said Robert Streiffer, a professor of
philosophy and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, a human-chimpanzee chimera endowed
with speech ... what some have called a "humanzee." Perhaps the most ambitious efforts to make
use of chimeras come from Irving Weissman, director of Stanford University's Institute of
Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine. Weissman helped make the first mouse with a nearly
complete human immune system. More recently his team injected human neural stem cells into
mouse fetuses, creating mice whose brains are about 1 percent human. Now Weissman says he
is thinking about making chimeric mice whose brains are 100 percent human.
Note: If the above link fails, click here.

Was Edison Adversary Father Of 'Star Wars'?

1986-08-10, Chicago Tribune
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-08-10/news/8602270598_1_nikola-tesla-...
Weren't we taught that radio was invented by an Italian named Guglielmo Marconi? And that the
legendary Thomas Alva Edison devised today's electrical power system? "We were taught wrong,"
said Toby Grotz, president of the International Tesla Society. Two years before Marconi
demonstrated his wireless radio transmission, [Nikola Tesla] performed an identical feat at the
1893 World's Fair in Chicago. On June 21, 1943, in the case of Marconi Wireless Telegraph
Co. vs. the United States, the Supreme Court ruled that that Tesla's radio patents had
predated those of the Italian genius. To be sure, Edison invented the incandesent light bulb. But
he powered it and all of his other projects with inefficient direct current (DC) electricity. It was Tesla
who discovered how to use the far more powerful phased form of alternating current (AC)
electricity that is virtually the universal type of electricity employed by modern civilization. There
are indications that Tesla also discovered many of the devices ... for the Pentagon's controversial
Star Wars antimissile defense system. "Tesla dreamed of supplying limitless amounts of power
freely and equally available to all persons on Earth," said Grotz. And he was convinced he could
do so by broadcasting electrical power across large distances just as radio transmits far smaller
amounts of energy. [Tesla's] tests ... caused lights to burn as much as 26 miles away,
according to news reports of the time.
Note: Tesla was written out of history texts likely because he advocated providing methods for
extremely cheap electricity available to everyone. He successfully transmitted electricity through
the air to lights 26 miles away. Yet the rich energy power brokers of his time could not stand for
this. Only the little known Supreme Court ruling mentioned above restored his claim as original
inventor of the radio. For lots more on this most fascinating genius, click on the article link above
and click here and here. For revealing major media articles showing the suppression of other
energy inventions which could transform our world, click here.

Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science

2014-03-16, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/science/billionaires-with-big-ideas-are-pri...
American science, long a source of national power and pride, is increasingly becoming a private
enterprise. In Washington, budget cuts have left the nations research complex reeling. Labs are
closing. Scientists are being laid off. Projects are being put on the shelf, especially in the risky,
freewheeling realm of basic research. Yet from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, science philanthropy is
hot, as many of the richest Americans seek to reinvent themselves as patrons of social progress
through science research. The result is a new calculus of influence and priorities that the scientific
community views with a mix of gratitude and trepidation. For better or worse, said Steven A.
Edwards, a policy analyst at the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
the practice of science in the 21st century is becoming shaped less by national priorities
or by peer-review groups and more by the particular preferences of individuals with huge
amounts of money. This is philanthropy in the age of the new economy financed with its
outsize riches, practiced according to its individualistic, entrepreneurial creed. Yet that personal
setting of priorities is precisely what troubles some in the science establishment. Many of the
patrons, they say, are ignoring basic research the kind that investigates the riddles of nature
and has produced centuries of breakthroughs, even whole industries for a jumble of popular,
feel-good fields.
Note: For more on corruption in science, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major
media sources available here.

Problems with scientific research

2013-10-19, The Economist
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21588069-scientific-research-has-change...
A simple idea underpins science: trust, but verify. Results should always be subject to challenge
from experiment. [But] modern scientists are doing too much trusting and not enough verifyingto
the detriment of the whole of science, and of humanity. Too many of the findings that fill the
academic ether are the result of shoddy experiments or poor analysis. A rule of thumb among
biotechnology venture-capitalists is that half of published research cannot be replicated. A leading
computer scientist frets that three-quarters of papers in his subfield are bunk. In [2010] roughly
80,000 patients took part in clinical trials based on research that was later retracted because of
mistakes or improprieties. One reason is the competitiveness of science. As their ranks have
swelled, to 6m-7m active researchers on the latest reckoning, scientists have lost their taste for
self-policing and quality control. The obligation to publish or perish has come to rule over
academic life. Competition for jobs is cut-throat. Every year six freshly minted PhDs vie for
every academic post. Nowadays verification (the replication of other peoples results) does
little to advance a researchers career. And without verification, dubious findings live on to
mislead. Careerism also encourages exaggeration and the cherry-picking of results. Failures to

prove a hypothesis are rarely even offered for publication, let alone accepted. Negative results
now account for only 14% of published papers, down from 30% in 1990. Yet knowing what is false
is as important to science as knowing what is true.
Note: For more on corruption in science, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major
media sources available here.

Lab Life: The Anatomy of a Retraction

2013-10-10, Scientific American blog
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/food-matters/2013/10/10/lab-life-the-anat...
An essential part of the scientific process is the critical analysis of research results by scientists
with expertise in the discipline. Because of this peer-review process, mistakes are supposed to be
caught before they propagate in the literature. Yet despite careful pre-publication scrutiny, some
reports are later retracted or, worse, widely suspected to be erroneous but never corrected. One
recent examination of 53 landmark medical studies found that further research was unable
to replicate all but six of them. How can the scientific community do better at avoiding published
errors and correcting them more quickly when they are discovered? A growing group of scientists
are addressing this question. They suggest incentives that will reward scientists to a greater
degree for producing solid, trustworthy research that others are able to replicate successfully and
then extend. Paradoxically, the same qualities trust and teamwork that are key to a
productive and harmonious laboratory environment are the same ones that can lead to an
informality that allows errors to be propagated. Despite the importance of retractions in
correcting the scientific record, there are few guidelines as to how they should be handled or how
fast self-correction should occur. To this end medical journalists Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus
created the web log Retraction Watch, which catalogs retractions as a window into the scientific
process and explores the causes of each one; it has been called one of most important recent
developments in science journalism by former Scientific American editor in chief John Rennie.
Note: For a powerful article showing how the author of the above article, Pamela Ronald, has not
been truthful in her own studies, click here. For more on corruption in science, see the deeply
revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.

Abiotic Oil: A Theory Worth Exploring

2011-09-14, US News & World Report magazine
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/energy-intelligence/2011/09/14/abiotic-oi...
[Abiotic oil theorists] hold that oil can be derived from hydrocarbons that existed eons ago in
massive pools deep within the earth's core. That source of hydrocarbons seeps up through the
earth's layers and slowly replenishes oil sources. In other words, it turns the fossil-fuel paradigm
upside down. Thomas Gold, a respected astronomer and professor emeritus at Cornell University
in Ithaca, NY, has held for years that oil is actually a renewable, primordial syrup continually

manufactured by the Earth under ultrahot conditions and tremendous pressures. As this
substance migrates toward the surface, it is attacked by bacteria, making it appear to have
an organic origin dating back to the dinosaurs, he says. That ... raises the tantalizing possibility
that oil may not be the limited resource it is assumed to be. In 2008 ... a group of Russian and
Ukrainian scientists [said] that oil and gas don't come from fossils; they're synthesized deep within
the earth's mantle by heat, pressure, and other purely chemical means, before gradually rising to
the surface. The idea that oil comes from fossils "is a myth" that needs changing according to
petroleum engineer Vladimir Kutcherov, speaking at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.
"All kinds of rocks could have oil and gas deposits." Alexander Kitchka of the Ukrainian National
Academy of Sciences estimates that 60 percent of the content of all oil is abiotic in origin and not
from fossil fuels.
Note: For more on the intriguing abiotic oil theory, click here. For key reports from major media
sources on promising energy sources, click here.

When Doctors, and Even Santa, Endorsed Tobacco

2008-10-06, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/business/media/07adco.html
People who remember when tobacco advertising was a prominent part of the media landscape ...
probably recollect that actors like Barbara Stanwyck and athletes like Mickey Mantle routinely
endorsed cigarettes. But how about doctors and other medical professionals, proclaiming the
merits of various cigarette brands? Or politicians? Or children? Even Santa Claus? Those images
some flabbergasting, even disturbing were also used by Madison Avenue to peddle tobacco
products. An exhibit ... in New York presents cigarette ads from the 1920s through the early 1950s
in an effort to demonstrate what has changed since then and what may not have. The exhibit is
the brainchild of Dr. Robert K. Jackler of the Stanford School of Medicine. The very best artists
and copywriters that money could buy would work on cigarette accounts, said Dr. Jackler. This
era of over-the-top hucksterism went on for decades, he added, and it was all blatantly
false. The genesis of the exhibit was an ad from around 1930 for Lucky Strike cigarettes, which
shows a doctor above a headline proclaiming that 20,679 physicians say Luckies are less
irritating. The Luckies doctor was joined in Dr. Jacklers collection of about 5,000 ads by
scores of scientists and medical professionals doctors, dentists, nurses making
statements that are now known to be patently untrue. Some of the claims being made in the
ads, you did not have to be a scientist in a laboratory to dispute ... ads that smoking certain brands
does not cause bad breath or can never stain your teeth.
Note: The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) promoted cigarette ads for 20
years "after careful consideration of the extent to which cigarettes were used by physicians in
practice." Will people, even highly respected members of society, bend the truth and even lie when
paid enough? This article seems to answer that with a resounding yes. Is that still true today? For
excerpts from many highly revealing articles showing it's as true now as ever, click here and here.

EPA silences employees

2008-07-29, Los Angeles Times/Associated Press
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-epagag29-2008jul29,0,585...
The Environmental Protection Agency is telling its pollution enforcement officials not to talk with
congressional investigators, reporters and even the agency's own inspector general, according to
an internal e-mail provided to The Associated Press. The June 16 message instructs 11 managers
in the EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, the branch of the agency charged
with making sure environmental laws are followed, to remind their staff members to keep quiet. "If
you are contacted directly by the IG's office or GAO requesting information of any kind . . . please
do not respond to questions or make any statements," reads the e-mail sent by Robbi Farrell, the
division's chief of staff. Instead, staff members should forward inquiries to a designated EPA
representative, the memo says. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility obtained the email and provided it to the AP. The group is a nonprofit alliance of local, state and federal
professionals. Jeff Ruch, its executive director, said ... the e-mail reinforces a "bunker
mentality" within EPA under the Bush administration. "The clear intention behind this move
is to chill the cubicles by suppressing any uncontrolled information." The Office of Inspector
General said it did not approve of the language in the e-mail. "All EPA officials and employees are
required to cooperate with OIG," the statement said. "This cooperation includes providing the OIG
full and unrestricted access to EPA documents, records, and personnel."
Note: For many revealing reports on government secrecy from major media sources, click here.

UCSF study questions drug trial results

2007-06-05, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/05/DRUGS.TMP
Money talks -- and very loudly -- when a drug company is funding a clinical trial involving one of its
products. UCSF researchers looked at nearly 200 head-to-head studies of widely prescribed
cholesterol-lowering medications, or statins, and found that results were 20 times more likely to
favor the drug made by the company that sponsored the trial. "We have to be really, really
skeptical of these drug-company-sponsored studies," said Lisa Bero, the study's author and
professor of clinical pharmacy and health policy studies. The trials typically involved comparing the
effectiveness of a drug to one or two other statins. UCSF researchers also found that a study's
conclusions -- not the actual research results but the trial investigators' impressions -- are
more than 35 times more likely to favor the test drug when that trial is sponsored by the
drug's maker. Bero said drug companies fund up to 90 percent of drug-to-drug clinical trials for
certain classes of medication. The researchers found other factors that could affect trial results.
For example, pharmaceutical companies could choose not to publish results of studies that fail to
favor their drugs, or they could be designed in ways to skew results. The study found the most
important weakness of trials was lack of true clinical outcome measures. In the case of statins,
some trials focused on less-direct results such as lipid levels but failed to connect the results with

key outcomes such as heart attacks or mortality. "None of us really care what our cholesterol level
is. We care about having a heart attack," Gibson said. "For the drug to be worthwhile taking, it has
to be directly related to prevent a heart attack."
Note: For lots more reliable information about corruption in the pharmaceutical industry, click here.

Bribes offered to scientists

2007-02-03, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia's leading newspaper)
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/bribes-offered-to-scientists/2007/02/0...
Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one
of the world's largest oil companies to undermine the UN climate change report. Letters sent
by the American Enterprise Institute, an ExxonMobil-funded think tank with close links to the Bush
Administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of the report.
Travel expenses and additional payments were also offered. The institute has received more than
$1.6 million from ExxonMobil - which yesterday announced a $50 billion annual profit, the biggest
ever by a US company - and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush
Administration. A former head of ExxonMobil, Lee Raymond, is the vice-chairman of the institute's
board of trustees.
Note: Why wasn't this important story covered by any major media in the U.S.? For an
answer, click here.

US scientists reject interference

2006-12-14, BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6178213.stm
Some 10,000 US researchers have signed a statement protesting about political
interference in the scientific process. The statement, which includes the backing of 52
Nobel Laureates, demands a restoration of scientific integrity in government policy.
According to the American Union of Concerned Scientists, data is being misrepresented for
political reasons. It claims scientists working for federal agencies have been asked to change data
to fit policy initiatives. The Union has released an "A to Z" guide that ... documents dozens of
recent allegations involving censorship and political interference in federal science. Campaigners
say that in recent years the White House has been able to censor the work of agencies like the
Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration because a Republican
congress has been loath to stand up for scientific integrity. Michael Halpern from the UCS said the
statement of objection to political interference had been supported by researchers regardless of
their political views. "This science statement that has now been signed by the 10,000 scientists is
signed by science advisers to both Republican and Democratic administrations dating back to
President Eisenhower, stating that this is not business as usual and calling for this practice to
stop."

Journals 'regularly publish fraudulent research

2006-05-03, The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,1766642,00.html
Fraudulent research regularly appears in the 30,000 scientific journals published worldwide, a
former editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) said today. Even when journals discover that
published research is fabricated or falsified they rarely retract the findings, according to Richard
Smith, who was also chief executive of the BMJ publishing group. Writing in the latest edition of
the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr Smith called on editors to blow the whistle on bad
research and to use their clout to pressure universities into taking action against dodgy
researchers. The former BMJ editor said it was likely that research fraud was "equally common" in
the 30,000 plus scientific journals across the globe but was "invariably covered up". His call for
action comes in the wake of several high profile cases of fraudulent research, including the Korean
scientist Hwang Woo-suk who fabricated stem cell research that it was claimed would open up
new ways to treat diseases like Parkinson's. Dr Smith criticised the failure of scientific institutions,
including universities, to discipline dodgy researchers even when alerted to problems by journals.
"Few countries have measures in place to ensure research is carried out ethically," he said.
"Most cases are not publicised. They are simply not recognised, covered up altogether or the
guilty researcher is urged to retrain, move to another institution or retire from research."
Note: For reliable information on the collusion of industry, government, and research facilities who
place profits above advances in public health: http://www.WantToKnow.info/healthcoverup

Out of Control: AIDS and the corruption of medical science

2006-03-01, Harper's Magazine
http://harpers.org/archive/2006/03/0080961
HIV tests detect footprints, never the animal itself. These footprints, antibodies ... were limited to
two in 1984 ... but over the years expanded to include many proteins previously not associated
with HIV. A majority of HIV-positive tests, when retested, come back indeterminate or negative. In
many cases, different results emerge from the same blood tested in different labs. There are
currently at least eleven different criteria for how many and what proteins at which band density
signal positive. The most stringent criteria (four bands) are upheld in Australia and France; the
least stringent (two bands), in Africa, where an HIV test is not even required as part of an AIDS
diagnosis. Africa ... has become ground zero of the AIDS epidemic. The clinical definition of AIDS
in Africa, however, is stunningly broad and generic, and was seemingly designed to be little other
than a signal for funding. The Bangui definition of AIDS ... requires neither a positive HIV test nor
a low T-cell count, as in the West, but only the presence of chronic diarrhea, fever, significant
weight loss, and asthenia. These happen to be the symptoms of chronic malnutrition, malaria,
parasitic infections, and other common African illnesses. The statistical picture of AIDS in Africa,
consequently, is a communal projection based on very rough estimates ... extrapolated across the
continent using computer models and highly questionable assumptions. More than 2,300 people,

mostly scientists and doctors, including Nobelists in chemistry and medicine, have signed
the petition of the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis, which
calls for a more independent and skeptical approach to the question of AIDS causality.
Note: If you want to be educated about the details of how rampant corruption has become in the
medical research industry, read this well researched article. For a concise description of unbridled
corruption in the health care industry by one of the most respected doctors in the world, click here.

CIA Brainwashing Suit Settled

1988-10-05, Chicago Tribune
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24835384.html?dids=24835384...
Eight elderly Canadians who were victims of CIA-funded brainwashing experiments in the 1950s
reached a tentative out-of-court settlement Tuesday in their multimillion-dollar damage suit against
the U.S. spy agency. The Canadian plaintiffs, who say they suffered permanent mental and
physical damage as a result of the bizarre experiments performed on them at a Montreal
psychiatric hospital, will divide a $750,000 payment among them, according to their attorney,
James Turner. The Canadians, all patients of the late Dr. Ewen Cameron at Montreal's Allan
Memorial Institute in the late 1950s, were injected with repeated doses of mind-altering
LSD, deprived of sleep, subjected to massive electroshock treatments and forced to listen
to thousands of repetitions of taped messages taken from the most sensitive moments of
their therapy sessions.
Note: Dr. Cameron was once President of the American and World Psychiatric Associations. For
more on the severe abuses of doctors in serving the CIA's mind control programs, click here. For
lots more reliable, verifiable information on CIA mind control experiments and programs, click here.
The link above provides this abstract of the complete article, which can be accessed by payment
of a small fee.

What is medicines 5 sigma? by Lancet Chief Editor Richard Horton

2015-04-11, The Lancet (One of the world's top medical journals)
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736%2815%2960696-1.pdf
[A] symposium on the reproducibility and reliability of biomedical research, held at the Wellcome
Trust in London last week touched on one of the most sensitive issues in science today: the
idea that something has gone fundamentally wrong. The case against science is
straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue.
Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant
conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious
importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. In their quest for telling a compelling story,
scientists too often sculpt data to fit their preferred theory of the world. Journal editors deserve
their fair share of criticism too. We aid and abet the worst behaviours. Journals are not the only

miscreants. Universities are in a perpetual struggle for money and talent, endpoints that foster
reductive metrics. National assessment procedures ... incentivise bad practices. And individual
scientists, including their most senior leaders, do little to alter a research culture that occasionally
veers close to misconduct. Part of the problem is that no-one is incentivised to be right.
Instead, scientists are incentivised to be productive. The conclusion of the symposium was
that something must be done. The good news is that science is beginning to take some of its worst
failings very seriously. The bad news is that nobody is ready to take the first step to clean up the
system.
Note: The Lancet is considered by many to be the most prestigious medical journal in the world. If
the editor-in-chief of the Lancet is making these comments, who can we trust? Read a powerfully
revealing essay by former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine Marcia Angell on
how the drug companies blatantly manipulate science for profit.

Research misconduct often unreported in published studies

2015-02-09, NBC/Reuters
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/56951863#.VOheuSyeaZk
When U.S. health regulators find serious problems with how medical researchers collect their data,
the researchers final reports often dont mention it, a new analysis suggests. Out of 78 published
papers reporting on clinical trials in which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found
very serious issues, only three mentioned any violations, the new report says. These are
major things, said Charles Seife, a journalism professor and the studys author. Using documents
and data from 1998 to 2013, Seife and his students at New York University in New York City
identified 57 clinical trials that received an official action indicated violation - the most serious
type of violation for trials - for reasons including poor record keeping, false information and poor
patient safety. The problems that weren't reported were sometimes egregious. One paper, for
example, said all patients reported improvement, but in fact, the FDA found that one patient had a
foot amputated two weeks after receiving the treatment. In another case, the entire clinical trial
was considered unreliable by the FDA - but the published paper didn't mention that. In another,
researchers falsified data, which led to one patients death. Data on these violations are not readily
available. So it's impossible to say how often tainted data are published and how often the
violations are noted, Seife said.
Note: Read an informative article with much more detail about the egregious conduct of the FDA.
This article raises the question, "Why does the FDA stay silent about fraud and misconduct in
scientific studies of medicine?" For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply
revealing science corruption news articles from reliable major media sources.

Bogus science paper reveals peer review's flaws

2013-10-14, CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bogus-science-paper-reveals-peer-review-s-f...

A bogus scientific paper about a new anti-cancer compound was accepted by more than half of
300 scientific journals it was submitted to in the past year, despite having obvious and serious
scientific flaws. Science journalist John Bohannon reported the results of his experiment in the
journal Science. Bohannon, who holds a PhD in molecular biology and is a visiting scholar at
Harvard Universitys program in ethics and health, ... concluded [that] a huge proportion of the
journals were not ensuring their papers were peer reviewed. Even in cases where peer review
happened, it didnt always function correctly. For example, the Ottawa-based International Journal
of Herbs and Medicinal Plants clearly sent the paper out to be reviewed by real scientists, who
pointed out some flaws, Bohannon recalled. Even so, when Bohannon submitted a revised version
of the paper without correcting any of the flaws, it was accepted. Bohannon said peer review is
crucial so that readers of a scientific paper know it has at least passed muster with a couple of
experts who are in a position, hopefully, to judge. It could be the whole peer review system is just
failing under the strain of the tens of thousands of journals that now exist. He added that if peer
review isnt working, then people with what amounts to fraudulent scientific credentials and
publication records are slowly filling university departments and government offices,
making important science-based policy decisions. In addition, terrible science is
polluting the global pool of knowledge."
Note: For more on the corruption of science, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major
media sources available here.

Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks

2013-02-14, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-deni...
Conservative billionaires used a secretive funding route to channel nearly $120m (77m) to more
than 100 groups casting doubt about the science behind climate change. The funds, doled out
between 2002 and 2010, helped build a vast network of thinktanks and activist groups working to a
single purpose: to redefine climate change from neutral scientific fact to a highly polarising "wedge
issue" for hardcore conservatives. The millions were routed through two trusts, Donors Trust and
the Donors Capital Fund. Donors Capital caters to those making donations of $1m or more. By
2010, the dark money amounted to $118m distributed to 102 thinktanks or action groups which
have a record of denying the existence of a human factor in climate change, or opposing
environmental regulations. The money flowed to Washington thinktanks embedded in
Republican party politics, obscure policy forums in Alaska and Tennessee, contrarian
scientists at Harvard and lesser institutions. And it was all done with a guarantee of
complete anonymity for the donors who wished to remain hidden. "The funding of the denial
machine is becoming increasingly invisible to public scrutiny. It's also growing. Budgets for all
these different groups are growing," said Kert Davies, research director of Greenpeace, which
compiled the data on funding of the anti-climate groups using tax records. "These groups are
increasingly getting money from sources that are anonymous or untraceable. There is no
transparency, no accountability for the money. There is no way to tell who is funding them," Davies
said.

Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on scientific corruption and
climate change, click here and here.

As drug industrys influence over research grows, so does the potential

for bias
2012-11-24, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/as-drug-industrys-influence-ov...
Arguably the most prestigious medical journal in the world, the New England Journal of Medicine
regularly features articles over which pharmaceutical companies and their employees can exert
significant influence. Over a year-long period ending in August, NEJM published 73 articles on
original studies of new drugs, encompassing drugs approved by the FDA since 2000 and
experimental drugs. Of those articles, 60 were funded by a pharmaceutical company, 50 were
co-written by drug company employees and 37 had a lead author, typically an academic,
who had previously accepted outside compensation from the sponsoring drug company in
the form of consultant pay, grants or speaker fees. The New England Journal of Medicine is
not alone in featuring research sponsored in large part by drug companies it has become a
common practice that reflects the growing role of industry money in research. Years ago, the
government funded a larger share of such experiments. But since about the mid-1980s, research
funding by pharmaceutical firms has exceeded what the National Institutes of Health spends. Last
year, the industry spent $39 billion on research in the United States while NIH spent $31 billion.
When the company is footing the bill, the opportunities for bias are manifold: Company executives
seeking to promote their drugs can design research that makes their products look better. They
can select like-minded academics to perform the work. And they can run the statistics in ways that
make their own drugs look better than they are. If troubling signs about a drug arise, they can steer
clear of further exploration.
Note: To read an excellent summary of a book written by a former editor in chief of the NEJM
exposing major corruption by the pharmaceuticals which poses a great threat to public health, click
here. For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on corruption in the
pharmaceutical industry, click here.

Canadian government is 'muzzling its scientists'

2012-02-17, BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16861468
Speakers at a major science meeting being held in Canada said communication of vital research
on health and environment issues is being suppressed. Prof Thomas Pedersen, a senior scientist
at the University of Victoria, said he believed there was a political motive in some cases. The
Canadian government recently withdrew from the Kyoto protocol to reduce carbon dioxide
emissions. The allegation of "muzzling" came up at a session of the AAAS meeting to discuss the
impact of a media protocol introduced by the Conservative government shortly after it was elected

in 2008. The protocol requires that all interview requests for scientists employed by the
government must first be cleared by officials. A decision as to whether to allow the interview
can take several days, which can prevent government scientists commenting on breaking
news stories. Sources say that requests are often refused and when interviews are granted,
government media relations officials can and do ask for written questions to be submitted
in advance and elect to sit in on the interview. Andrew Weaver, an environmental scientist at
the University of Victoria in British Columbia, described the protocol as "Orwellian". Professor
Weaver said that information is so tightly controlled that the public is "left in the dark"."The only
information they are given is that which the government wants, which will then allow a supporting
of a particular agenda," he said.
Note: For lots more from major media sources on government corruption, click here.

Killer Cars? Auto Computer Systems Open to Malfunction, Hackers

2012-01-25, U.S. News & World Report
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/01/25/killer-cars-auto-computer-syst...
As auto manufacturers imagine a future of self-driving and always-connected cars, they'll need to
worry about something elseelectronic malfunctions and cyberattacks, according to a report
released by the Transportation Research Board. "Automobiles today are literally 'computers on
wheels,'" says the report. Current auto software uses more than a million lines of code. In the
coming years, onboard computers will become even more important. Like a computer, a car's
internal software can be infected with a virus or hacked. Last year, researchers at the
University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, proved that computers could
be hacked with either physical access to the car or wirelessly using technology such as Bluetooth.
A hacker could then disable the brakes, stop the engine, or worse. According to the report,
"automotive manufacturers have designed their networks without giving sufficient attention to such
cybersecurity vulnerabilities because automobiles have not faced adversarial pressures."
Note: A New York Times article goes into more detail. The article doesn't mention the obvious
possibility that the FBI, NSA, or other intelligence agencies could hack into any car's computer
system and cause an accident. There is even a term, "Boston Brakes," for staged car wrecks,
allegedly because the CIA first started experimenting with this in Boston. For an article delving into
this, click here. Could this be what happened to courageous reporter Michael Hastings and others?
For more on intelligence agency corruption, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major
media sources available here.

How to brand a disease -- and sell a cure

2010-10-11, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/10/11/elliott.branding.disease/

If you want to understand the way prescription drugs are marketed today, have a look at the 1928
book, Propaganda, by Edward Bernays, the father of public relations in America. For Bernays, the
public relations business was less about selling things than about creating the conditions for things
to sell themselves. When Bernays was working as a salesman for Mozart pianos, for example, he
did not simply place advertisements for pianos in newspapers. That would have been too obvious.
Instead, Bernays persuaded reporters to write about a new trend: Sophisticated people were
putting aside a special room in the home for playing music. Once a person had a music room,
Bernays believed, he would naturally think of buying a piano. As Bernays wrote, "It will come to
him as his own idea." Just as Bernays sold pianos by selling the music room, pharmaceutical
marketers now sell drugs by selling the diseases that they treat. The buzzword is "disease
branding." To brand a disease is to shape its public perception in order to make it more
palatable to potential patients. Once a branded disease has achieved a degree of cultural
legitimacy, there is no need to convince anyone that a drug to treat it is necessary. It will
come to him as his own idea. It is hard to brand a disease without the help of physicians, of
course. So drug companies typically recruit academic "thought leaders" to write and speak about
any new conditions they are trying to introduce.
Note: This key topic is discussed in great depth in the BBC's documentary "Century of the Self"
available here. And for a top doctor's analysis that the cholesterol scare was largely manufactured
for profit, click here.

Horrific medical tests of past raise concerns for today

2010-10-01, MSNBC
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39463624/ns/today-today_health
The astounding revelation that U.S. medical researchers intentionally gave Guatemalans
gonorrhea and syphilis more than 60 years ago is so horrifying that we want to believe that what
happened then could never happen today. A report from the United States Department of Health
and Human Services noted that roughly 80 percent of drug approvals in 2008 were based in part
on data from outside the U.S. Susan Reverby, a distinguished historian at Wellesley College in
Massachusetts, has ... long researched the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the experiment
where poor, black men in rural Alabama were deliberately left untreated for syphilis by government
researchers. The study, somehow, was allowed to run from 1932 to 1972. More recently, Reverby
came across documents that showed that Dr. John C. Cutler, a physician who would later be one
of the researchers involved in the Tuskegee study, was involved in a completely unethical research
study much earlier in Guatemala. Cutler, who went to his grave defending the Tuskegee
experiment, directly inoculated unknowing prisoners in Guatemala with syphilis and also
encouraged them to have sex with diseased prostitutes for his research from 1946-48. His
work was sponsored by lauded organizations such as the United States Public Health Service, the
National Institutes of Health with collaboration of the Pan American Health Sanitary Bureau (now
the Pan American Health Organization), and the Guatemalan government.

Note: The author of this commentary is Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the
University of Pennsylvania. For many other examples of government-sponsored experimentation
on human guinea pigs, click here.

Explosive News
2010-02-22, Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/22/inside-the-beltway-70128635
A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has
political implications: How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A
thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a
new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade
Center. "In order to bring down this kind of mass in such a short period of time, the material must
have been artificially, exploded outwards," says Richard Gage, a San Francisco architect and
founder of the nonprofit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Mr. Gage, who is a member of the
American Institute of Architects, managed to persuade more than 1,000 of his peers to sign a new
petition requesting a formal inquiry. "The official Federal Emergency Management [Agency] and
National Institute of Standards and Technology reports provide insufficient, contradictory and
fraudulent accounts of the circumstances of the towers' destruction. We are therefore calling for a
grand jury investigation of NIST officials," Mr. Gage adds. "The implications are enormous."
Note: To read statements questionig the official account of the events of 9/11 by hundreds of
professors, government officials and professionals, click here and here. For our 9/11 Information
Center, click here.

Swine flu was as elusive as WMD. The real threat is mad scientist
syndrome
2010-01-14, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/14/swine-flu-elusive-as-wmd
Remember the warnings of 65,000 dead? Health chiefs should admit they were wrong yet again
about a global pandemic. Let me recap. Six months ago [the] BBC was intoning nightly statistics
on what "could" happen as "the deadly virus" took hold. The happy-go-lucky virologist, John
Oxford, said half the population could be infected, and that his lowest estimate was 6,000 dead.
The chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, bandied about any figure that came into his head,
settling on "65,000 could die", peaking at 350 corpses a day. The media went berserk. The World
Health Organisation declared a "six-level alert" so as to "prepare the world for an imminent attack".
If anyone dared question this drivel, they were dismissed by Donaldson as "extremists".
When people started reporting swine flu to be even milder than ordinary flu, he accused them of
complacency and told them to "wait for next winter". He was already buying 32m masks and
spending more than 1bn on Tamiflu and vaccines. It was pure, systematic governmentinduced panic in which I accept that the media played its joyful part.

Note: For lots more on the gross profiteering and fear mongering of swine flu scare, click here.

Former CDC head lands vaccine job at Merck

2009-12-21, Reuters News
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2124506920091221
Dr. Julie Gerberding, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was
named president of Merck & Co Inc's vaccine division. Gerberding, who led the CDC from 2002 to
2009 and stepped down when President Barack Obama took office, will head up the company's $5
billion global vaccine business that includes shots to prevent chickenpox, cervical cancer and
pneumonia. She had led CDC from one crisis to another, including the investigation into the
anthrax attacks that killed five people in 2001, the H5N1 avian influenza, the global outbreak
of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, and various outbreaks of food poisoning. She
may be charged with reigniting flagging sales of Merck's Gardasil vaccine to prevent cervical
cancer by protecting against human papillomavirus or HPV. After an encouraging launch Gardasil
sales have been falling and were down 22 percent in the third quarter at $311 million.
Note: So the head of the CDC now is in charge of vaccines at one of the biggest pharmaceutical
companies in the world. Could this be considered conflict of interest? Could this possibly be
payback for supporting the vaccine agenda so strongly for years? For more on the risks and
dangers of vaccines, click here.

Medical Editors Push for Ghostwriting Crackdown

2009-09-18, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/business/18ghost.html
The scientific integrity of medical research has been clouded in recent years by articles that
were drafted by drug company-sponsored ghostwriters and then passed off as the work of
independent academic authors. Yet the leading medical journals have continued to rely largely
on an honor system of disclosure to detect such potential bias, asking authors to voluntarily report
any industry ties or contributors to their manuscripts. But now, in light of recently released
evidence that some drug makers have gone to great lengths to turn scientific articles into
marketing vehicles for their products, some influential medical editors are cracking down on
industry-financed ghostwriting. These editors are demanding that journals impose tougher
disclosure policies for academic authors and that the journals enforce their own rules by actively
investigating the provenance of manuscripts and by punishing authors who play down extensive
contributions by ghostwriters. Calling for a zero tolerance policy, the editors of the medical journal
PLoS Medicine, from the Public Library of Science, called for journals to identify and retract
ghostwritten articles and banish their authors. Authors found to have not declared such interest
should be banned from any subsequent publication in the journal and their misconduct reported to
their institutions. In the past, researchers have raised allegations of ghostwriting in articles about

quality-of-life drugs like antidepressants, painkillers and diet pills. But the situation has become
more serious this year after a few editors said they had discovered ghostwriting in manuscripts
about life-and-death products like cancer and hematology drugs.
Note: For background on the prevalence of ghostwriting in major medical journals, click here and
here and here.

Are Our Leading Pediatricians Drug Industry Shills?

2008-07-13, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/12/IN7G11L6TL.DTL
Most parents have never heard of him, but Joseph Biederman of Harvard may be the United
States' most influential doctor when it comes to determining whether their children are normal or
mentally ill. In 1996, for example, Biederman suggested that drugs like Ritalin might serve 10
percent of American kids for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. By 2004, one in nine 11-yearold boys was taking the drug. Biederman and his team also are more responsible than anyone for
a child bipolar epidemic sweeping America (and no other country) that has 2-year-olds on three or
four psychiatric drugs. The science of children's psychiatric medications is so primitive and
Biederman's influence so great that when he merely mentions a drug during a presentation, tens of
thousands of children within a year or two will end up taking that drug, or combination of drugs.
This happens in the absence of a drug trial of any kind - instead, the decision is based upon word
of mouth among the 7,000 child psychiatrists in America. That's why [the] recent revelation that
Biederman did not declare $1.6 million in drug company consulting fees is so important, scary and
tragic. American medicine, with psychiatry the most culpable, has fallen back to a time more than
100 years ago. Now once again, drug company money is corrupting medical practice and
the maintenance of our country's health. Virtually all doctors who receive drug company
money say they are not influenced, but every independent study examining the effects of
such money says they are.
Note: For lots more on health issues from reliable, verifiable sources, click here.

FDA Science and Mission at Risk

2007-11-00, FDA Subcommittee on Science and Technology
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/AC/07/briefing/2007-4329b_02_01_FDA%20Report...
The nation is at risk if FDA science is at risk. In recognition of this threat, in December 2006, FDA
Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach, MD requested that the Science Board, which is the
Advisory Board to the Commissioner, form a Subcommittee to assess whether science and
technology at the FDA can support current and future regulatory needs. This report is the product
of that assessment. The Subcommittee concluded that science at the FDA is in a precarious
position: the Agency suffers from serious scientific deficiencies and is not positioned to
meet current or emerging regulatory responsibilities. The FDA cannot fulfill its mission

because its scientific base has eroded and its scientific organizational structure is weak. The FDA
cannot fulfill its mission because its scientific workforce does not have sufficient capacity and
capability. FDA does not have the capacity to ensure the safety of food for the nation. The FDA
science agenda lacks a structure and vision, as well as effective coordination. The FDA has an
inadequate and ineffective program for scientist performance. Recommendations of excellent FDA
reviews are seldom followed.
Note: The above excerpts are all taken from the chapter headings in the initial table of contents
and the second page of the initial overview.

Air Force pursuing antimatter weapons

2004-10-04, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/04/MNGM393GPK1.DTL
The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power
source -- antimatter, the eerie "mirror" of ordinary matter -- in future weapons. The most powerful
potential energy source presently thought to be available to humanity, antimatter is a term normally
heard in science-fiction films. But antimatter itself isn't fiction. During the Cold War, the Air Force
funded numerous scientific studies of the basic physics of antimatter. Following an initial inquiry
from The Chronicle this summer, the Air Force forbade its employees from publicly
discussing the antimatter research program. Still, details on the program appear in
numerous Air Force documents distributed over the Internet prior to the ban. It almost defies
belief, the amount of explosive force available in a speck of antimatter. One millionth of a gram of
positrons contain as much energy as 37.8 kilograms (83 pounds) of TNT. A simple calculation,
then, shows that about 50-millionths of a gram could generate a blast equal to the explosion ... in
Oklahoma City in 1995. Officials at Eglin Air Force Base initially agreed enthusiastically to try to
arrange an interview with ... Kenneth Edwards, director of the "revolutionary munitions" team at the
Munitions Directorate at Eglin. "We're all very excited about this technology," spokesman Rex
Swenson [said] in late July. But Swenson backed out in August after he was overruled by higher
officials in the Air Force and Pentagon. Reached by phone in late September, Edwards repeatedly
declined to be interviewed. His superiors gave him "strict instructions not to give any interviews
personally. "I'm sorry about that -- this (antimatter) project is sort of my grandchild."

Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection

2003-11-09, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)
http://articles.sfgate.com/2003-11-09/opinion/17517477_1_eugenics-ethnic-clea...
Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a
so-called Master Race. But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race
didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California,
decades before Hitler came to power. Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk
had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the

Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. They
were all in league with some of America's most respected scientists from such prestigious
universities as Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Princeton. These academicians espoused race
theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics' racist aims. Stanford
President David Starr Jordan originated the notion of "race and blood" in his 1902 racial epistle
"Blood of a Nation," in which the university scholar declared that human qualities and conditions
such as talent and poverty were passed through the blood. The Rockefeller Foundation helped
found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in
before he went to Auschwitz.
Note: Josef Mengele's US-funded eugenics research laid the foundation for his experimentation
on human subjects before and during World War II. He went on to participate in CIA-funded mindcontrol experimentation after that war. For more on Mengele, click here.

Canada Will Pay '50s Test Victims

1992-11-19, New York Times
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9E0CE7DD173AF93AA25...
Canada has agreed to compensate victims of psychiatric experiments carried out mainly in the
1950s and financed in part by the Central Intelligence Agency. An institute at McGill University in
Montreal, headed by Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, a psychiatrist, ... was one of the centers where such
experiments were carried out. Now, the Canadian Government says the 80 or so patients who
underwent the so-called "psychic driving" treatment in Montreal ... can receive almost $80,000
each. The patients at the Allan Memorial Institute at McGill were put into a drugged sleep for
weeks or months, subjected to electroshock therapy until they were "de-patterned," knowing
neither who or where they were, and forced to listen repeatedly to recorded messages broadcast
from speakers on the wall or under their pillows. Linda Macdonald, 55 years old, an employment
counselor now in Vancouver, is one of those who sued for compensation. "I walked through those
doors with a husband on one arm and a guitar on the other and was a healthy person and
coherent," she said. She spent 86 days in the "sleep room" and was subjected to 109 shock
treatments and megadoses of barbiturates and other drugs. When she got out of the
experiment, she could not read or write, had to be toilet-trained and could not remember
her husband, her five children or any part of the first 26 years of her life. John Marks, a
former State Department official whose 1979 book, The Search For the Manchurian Candidate,
called attention to the experiments, said that a C.I.A. front called the Society for the Investigation of
Human Ecology funneled more than $60,000 to Dr. Cameron for the studies. Ottawa gave him
more than $200,000.
Note: Dr. Cameron was once President of the American and World Psychiatric Associations. For a
concise summary of the CIA's mind control experiments, click here.

Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher

2015-02-21, New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/ties-to-corporate-cash-for-climate-chang...
For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their
arguments by pointing to the work of a handful of scientists who claim that greenhouse gasses
pose little risk to humanity. One of the names they invoke most often is Wei-Hock Soon, known as
Willie, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He has often appeared on
conservative news programs, testified before Congress and in state capitals, and starred at
conferences of people who deny the risks of global warming. But newly released documents show
the extent to which Dr. Soons work has been tied to funding he received from corporate interests.
He has accepted more than $1.2 million in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade
while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers. At least 11 papers
he has published since 2008 omitted such a disclosure, and in at least eight of those cases, he
appears to have violated ethical guidelines of the journals that published his work. The documents
show that Dr. Soon, in correspondence with his corporate funders, described many of his
scientific papers as deliverables that he completed in exchange for their money. He used
the same term to describe testimony he prepared for Congress. Dr. Soon has found a warm
welcome among politicians in Washington and state capitals who try to block climate action. United
States Senator James M. Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican who claims that climate change is a
global scientific hoax, has repeatedly cited Dr. Soons work over the years.
Note: One of Dr Soon's primary funding sources is Donors Trust, a secretive organization found to
have orchestrated a vast climate denial conspiracy. For more along these lines, see concise
summaries of deeply revealing science corruption news articles from reliable major media sources.

Scientists' hidden links to the GM food giants

2014-03-14, Daily Mail (One of the UK's largest-circulation newspapers)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581387/Scientists-hidden-links-GM-fo...
The authors of a study calling for GM crops to be fast-tracked into Britains farms and
kitchens all have links to the industry. The report was presented as the work of
independent scientists and was published on [March 13] by a government advisory body.
It was used to support a bid to speed up the development of the controversial crops in the UK, but
it has emerged that all five authors have a vested interest in promoting GM crops and food and
some are part-funded by the industry. Critics of GM [have] described the report as biased and
downright dangerous, and accused the biotech giants and the Government of mounting a crude
propaganda campaign to overturn public opposition. The academics behind the study were chosen
by the Council for Science and Technology, the body that advises the Prime Minister on science
policy issues. They include Professor Sir David Baulcombe, from Cambridge University, who works
as a consultant for GM firm Syngenta, which gives his department research funding. Syngenta is
behind a genetically modified maize or corn, called GA21, which could go into UK farms as early
as next spring, making it Britains first commercially grown GM crop. Also on the list is Professor
Jonathan Jones, of the Sainsbury Laboratory, which is at the centre of Britains GM research. It is

part-funded by former Labour science minister, Lord Sainsbury, who is one of the countrys biggest
supporters of the technology. Another co-author was Professor Jim Dunwell, of the University of
Reading. He was a founder member of CropGen, which describes its mission as to make the case
for GM crops and foods
Note: For more on government corruption, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major
media sources available here. For an excellent summary of the risks and dangers from GMO
foods, click here.

Smelling a rat: GM maize, health and the Sralini affair

2013-12-07, The Economist
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21591159-study-suggested...
Genetically modified maize causes cancer: that was the gist of one of the most controversial
studies in recent memory, published in September 2012 by Food and Chemical Toxicology. [But]
on November 28th the journal retracted it. The article was by Gilles-Eric Sralini of the University
of Caen, in France, and his colleagues. It described what happened to rats fed with NK603 maize,
a variety made resistant to a herbicide called glyphosate by a genetic modification made by
Monsanto. Monsanto also discovered glyphosates herbicidal properties. It sells it under the trade
name Roundup. In Dr Sralinis experiment, rats fed with the modified maize were reckoned
more likely to develop tumours than those which had not been. Females were especially badly
affected: their death rates were two or three times as high as those of control groups. The
article was explosive. Jean-Marc Ayrault, Frances prime minister, said that if its results were
confirmed his government would press for a Europe-wide ban on NK603 maize. Russia suspended
imports of the crop. Kenya banned all GM crops. Though the paper has been retracted, that is
unlikely to be end of the matter. The journals publisher said there was no evidence of fraud
or intentional misrepresentation of the data, which are the usual justifications for
retraction. Scientific opinion runs strongly against the conclusion that GM foods are harmfulbut
not universally so. A group called the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental
Responsibility backed Dr Sralini.
Note: Over 100 scientists have signed a pledge to boycott Elsevier, the publisher of the journal
which retracted the GMO study, as you can see at this link. For an excellent video review of the
study, click here. For more on the health risks of GMO foods, see the deeply revealing report
available here.

Scientists Seek to Rein In Diagnoses of Cancer

2013-07-29, New York Times
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/report-suggests-sweeping-changes-to-...

A group of experts advising the nations premier cancer research institution has recommended
changing the definition of cancer and eliminating the word from some common diagnoses as part
of sweeping changes in the nations approach to cancer detection and treatment. The
recommendations, from a working group of the National Cancer Institute, were published [in] The
Journal of the American Medical Association. They say, for instance, that some premalignant
conditions, like one that affects the breast called ductal carcinoma in situ, which many doctors
agree is not cancer, should be renamed to exclude the word carcinoma so that patients are less
frightened and less likely to seek what may be unneeded and potentially harmful treatments that
can include the surgical removal of the breast. The group, which includes some of the top
scientists in cancer research, also suggested that many lesions detected during breast, prostate,
thyroid, lung and other cancer screenings should not be called cancer at all but should instead be
reclassified as IDLE conditions, which stands for indolent lesions of epithelial origin. The
impetus behind the call for change is a growing concern among doctors, scientists and
patient advocates that hundreds of thousands of men and women are undergoing needless
and sometimes disfiguring and harmful treatments for premalignant and cancerous lesions
that are so slow growing they are unlikely to ever cause harm. Once doctors and patients are
aware a lesion exists, they typically feel compelled to biopsy, treat and remove it, often at great
physical and psychological pain and risk to the patient.
Note: Isn't it interesting that a diagnosis which might not even be accurate can so change a
person's life? For more on promising cancer cures which are being suppressed by the medicalindustrial complex, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available
here.

Sugar industry's secret documents echo tobacco tactics

2013-03-08, CBC News (Canada's public broadcasting company)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/03/08/f-vp-crowe-big-sugar.html
When Cristin Couzens went on the hunt for evidence that Big Sugar had manipulated public
opinion, she had no idea what she was doing. She was a dentist, not an investigative reporter. But
she couldn't let go of the nagging suspicion that something was amiss. Her obsession started in an
unlikely place, at a dental conference in Seattle in 2007 about diabetes and gum disease. When
one speaker listed foods to avoid, there was no mention of sugar. "I thought this was very strange,"
Couzens said. She quit her job, exhausted her savings and spent 15 months scouring library
archives. Then one day she found what she was looking for, in a cardboard box at the Colorado
State University archives. What Couzens found was something food industry critics have been
seeking for years documents suggesting that the sugar industry used Big Tobacco tactics to
deflect growing concern over the health effects of sugar. "So I had lists of their board reports,
their financial statements, I had names of their scientific consultants, I had a list of research
projects they funded, and I had these memos where they were describing how their PR men
should handle conflict of interest questions from the press," she said. As Couzens sorted through

the documents, the full extent of that campaign to forge public opinion emerged. The
documents describe industry lobby efforts to sponsor scientific research, silence media
reports critical of sugar, and block dietary guidelines to limit sugar consumption.
Note: Cristin Couzens publicized secret sugar industry documents in a magazine article titled "Big
Sugar's Sweet Little Lies." For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on
corporate corruption, click here.

White Coats, White Lies: How Honest Is Your Doctor?

2012-02-09, Time Magazine
http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/09/white-coats-white-lies-how-honest-is-yo...
Is your doctor telling you the truth? Possibly not, according to a new survey in Health Affairs of
nearly 1,900 physicians around the country. The researchers found that 55% of doctors said that in
the last year they had been more positive about a patients prognosis than his medical history
warranted. And 10% said they had told patients something that wasnt true. About a third of the
MDs said they did not completely agree that they should disclose medical errors to
patients, and 40% said they didnt feel the need to disclose financial ties to drug or device
companies. Nearly 20% of the doctors admitted that they didnt disclose a medical error to
their patients because they were afraid of being sued for malpractice. Doctors fear of
malpractice suits may often be misplaced. Studies suggest that in cases where physicians are
open about their mistakes, patients are more likely to be understanding and refrain from suing. So
how can doctors learn to be more honest with their patients? More training about how to
communicate with people about their health is critical especially when it comes to delivering bad
news. Patients also need to be clear and firm about how honest they want their doctors to be.
Communication is a two-way street, after all, even in the doctors office.
Note: For key reports from reliable sources on important health issues, click here.

Report condemns swine flu experts' ties to big pharma

2010-06-04, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jun/04/swine-flu-experts-big-pharmace...
Scientists who drew up the key World Health Organisation guidelines advising governments to
stockpile drugs in the event of a flu pandemic had previously been paid by drug companies which
stood to profit. An investigation by the British Medical Journal and the Bureau of Investigative
Journalism, the not-for-profit reporting unit, shows that WHO guidance issued in 2004 was
authored by three scientists who had previously received payment for other work from
Roche, which makes Tamiflu, and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), manufacturer of Relenza.
Pharmaceutical companies banked more than $7bn (4.8bn) as governments stockpiled
drugs. "The tentacles of drug company influence are in all levels in the decision-making process,"

said Paul Flynn, the Labour MP who sits on the council's health committee. Although the experts
consulted made no secret of industry ties in other settings, declaring them in research papers and
at universities, the WHO itself did not publicly disclose any of these in its seminal 2004 guidance.
Note: For wide coverage from reliable sourcesof the swine and avian flu "fake pandemics"
designed for corporate profit, click here.

Advisers on Vaccines Often Have Conflicts

2009-12-18, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/health/policy/18cdc.html
A new report finds that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did a poor job of screening
medical experts for financial conflicts when it hired them to advise the agency on vaccine safety.
Most of the experts who served on advisory panels in 2007 to evaluate vaccines for flu and
cervical cancer had potential conflicts that were never resolved, the report said. Some were
legally barred from considering the issues but did so anyway. In the report ... Daniel R.
Levinson, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, found that the
centers failed nearly every time to ensure that the experts adequately filled out forms confirming
they were not being paid by companies with an interest in their decisions. The report found that 64
percent of the advisers had potential conflicts of interest that were never identified or were left
unresolved by the centers. Thirteen percent failed to have an appropriate conflicts form on file at
the agency at all, which should have barred their participation in the meetings entirely, Mr.
Levinson found. And 3 percent voted on matters that ethics officers had already barred them from
considering.
Note: For lots more on corporate and government corruption from reliable sources, click here and
here.

Prozac, used by 40m people, does not work say scientists

2008-02-26, The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/26/mentalhealth.medicalresearch
Prozac, the bestselling antidepressant taken by 40 million people worldwide, does not work and
nor do similar drugs in the same class, according to a major review released today. The study
examined all available data on the drugs, including results from clinical trials that the
manufacturers chose not to publish at the time. The trials compared the effect on patients
taking the drugs with those given a placebo or sugar pill. When all the data was pulled together,
it appeared that patients had improved - but those on placebo improved just as much as
those on the drugs. The only exception is in the most severely depressed patients, according to
the authors - Prof Irving Kirsch from the department of psychology at Hull University and
colleagues in the US and Canada. But that is probably because the placebo stopped working so
well, they say, rather than the drugs having worked better. "Given these results, there seems little

reason to prescribe antidepressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients,
unless alternative treatments have failed," says Kirsch. "This study raises serious issues that need
to be addressed surrounding drug licensing and how drug trial data is reported." The paper,
published today in the journal PLoS (Public Library of Science) Medicine, is likely to have a
significant impact on the prescribing of the drugs. The National Institute for Health and Clinical
Excellence already recommends that counselling should be tried before doctors prescribe
antidepressants.
Note: For many key reports on health issues from reliable sources, click here.

A way to squeeze oil and gas from just about anything

2007-12-00, Popular Science magazine
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2007/innovator_2.html
Everything that goes into Frank Pringles recycling machine a piece of tire, a rock, a
plastic cup turns to oil and natural gas seconds later. Ive been told the oil companies
might try to assassinate me, Pringle says without sarcasm. The machine is a microwave
emitter that extracts the petroleum and gas hidden inside everyday objects. Every hour, the first
commercial version will turn 10 tons of auto waste tires, plastic, vinyl into enough natural gas
to produce 17 million BTUs of energy (it will use 956,000 of those BTUs to keep itself running).
Pringle created the machine about 10 years ago after he drove by a massive tire fire and thought
about the energy being released. He went home and threw bits of a tire in a microwave emitter
hed been working with for another project. It turned to what looked like ash, but a few hours later,
he returned and found a black puddle on the floor of the unheated workshop. Somehow, hed
struck oil. Or rather, he had extracted it. Petroleum is composed of strings of hydrocarbon
molecules. When microwaves hit the tire, they crack the molecular chains and break it into its
component parts: carbon black (an ash-like raw material) and hydrocarbon gases, which can be
burned or condensed into liquid fuel. If the process worked on tires, he thought, it should work on
anything with hydrocarbons. The trick was in finding the optimum microwave frequency for each
material. In 2004 he teamed up with engineer pal Hawk Hogan to take the machine commercial.
Their first order is under construction in Rockford, Illinois. Its a $5.1-million microwave machine
the size of small bus called the Hawk, bound for an auto-recycler in Long Island, New York. Oil
companies are looking to the machines to gasify petroleum trapped in shale.
Note: For many exciting breakthroughs in new energy technologies, click here.

AIDS drug therapy connected to death

2004-12-15, Houston Chronicle/Associated Press
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/2949734.html

Joyce Ann Hafford died without ever holding the son she had tried to save from contracting AIDS
by taking an experimental drug regimen administered by government-funded researchers during
her pregnancy. But even before her stunned family could grieve, the 33-year-old's death was
reverberating among the government's top scientists in Washington. They quickly realized the
drugs the HIV-positive woman from Memphis, Tenn., was taking likely caused the liver failure that
killed her. Hafford's family members say they were never told NIH had concluded that the
experimental drug regimen likely caused her death until the Associated Press gave them
copies of NIH's internal case documents this month. They were left to believe Hafford had
died from AIDS complications. "They tried to make it sound like she was just sick. They never
connected it to the drug," said Rubbie King, Hafford's sister. NIH officials acknowledge that
experimental drugs, most likely nevirapine, caused her death. The study during which Hafford died
recently led researchers to conclude that nevirapine poses risks when taken over time by certain
pregnant women. The family says Hafford seemed unaware of the liver risks. They even kept the
bottle of nevirapine showing it had no safety warnings.
Note: If you want to understand just how corrupt and deceitful medical research doctors can be,
read the stunning article on this case at this link. This article mentions the little-known fact that "a
majority of HIV-positive tests, when retested, come back indeterminate or negative. In many cases,
different results emerge from the same blood tested in different labs."

Scientists 'kept body parts of 1953 nerve gas victim'

2004-07-18, The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3343201/Scientists-kept-body-parts-of-19...
Government scientists secretly removed body parts from a national serviceman who died after
taking part in nerve gas experiments, a new inquest has been told. Up to 200 separate samples
were taken from 20-year-old Ronald Maddison's brain, spinal cord, heart and skin - without his
family's permission - days after he died at Porton Down, Wiltshire, the government top-secret
chemical warfare research base, in 1953. The body parts have since been used in a number of
experiments by scientists researching the effects of toxic chemical agents on human tissue. The
original inquest, held in secret in 1953, found that Leading Aircraftman Maddison's death was
accidental, but the new inquest will examine fresh evidence and decide whether the original verdict
still stands. Mr Maddison ... was among hundreds of national servicemen who volunteered in
the 1950s and '60s to take part in tests at Porton Down in the belief that they were helping
scientists find a cure for the common cold. The airman died less than an hour after 200mg
of the highly toxic Sarin nerve agent was placed on layers of cloth on the inside of his arm.

The mysterious lab off New York's shore

2004-04-02, CNN News
http://articles.cnn.com/2004-04-02/entertainment/lab.257_1_plum-island-lab-ge...

Oops. That's the word that comes to mind when reading Michael Carroll's thoroughly nervewracking book, "Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory" ...
about the federal germ facility on Plum Island. The island [is] home to some of the deadliest
microbes festering on the planet. According to Carroll's book, the island -- and laboratory -- are
also home to slipshod construction, poor safeguards, and lax security. "Lab 257" claims errors at
the facility caused Lyme disease outbreaks and health problems for the local population -claims disputed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which ran the facility until recently. Carroll
[said] that the point of the book was to expose the potential hazards of a poorly run institution; he
has nothing against better-run, more secure institutions. "You have to know how things interact,
germs, bacteria, etc. You [just] don't need to create millions of them to know how to create them
and make them more virulent. Like other government scientific facilities, it's had an aura of
mystery: Plum Island earns a mention in "The Silence of the Lambs," and thriller writer Nelson
DeMille set a novel there. Much of Carroll's research was done through interviews with nearby
residents, as well as documents and reports. While the government was "cooperative at the
outset," Carroll said ... he was later denied access to the facility. Carroll isn't the first to offer
criticism. In 2002, after a power outage on the island, New York's WABC-TV did a story on
whether containment procedures worked; several employees questioned the lab's safety. In
2003, the General Accounting Office listed security problems on the island, partially prompted by a
whistleblower, Jim McCoy, who protested the management of a private concern.
Note: At the northernmost tip of Long Island, Plum island sits directly across from the town of
Lyme, Conn., famous as the epicenter of the Lyme disease outbreak. For a powerful, multiple
award-winning film showing shocking ignorance and even political corruption on the part of the
medical community about the Lyme disease epidemic spreading across the US and even around
the world, click here. It shows evidence that Lyme may be even the cause of many cases of ALS,
Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's disease.

Live rats driven by remote control

2002-05-05, The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,708454,00.html
Scientists have turned living rats into remote-controlled, pleasure-driven robots which can be
guided up ladders, through ruins and into minefields at the click of a laptop key. The project ... is
funded by the US military's research arm. Animals have often been used by humans in combat
and in search and rescue, but not under direct computer-to-brain electronic control. The advent of
surgically altered roborats marks the crossing of a new boundary in the mechanisation, and
potential militarisation, of nature. In 10 sessions the rats learned that if they ran forward and turned
left or right on cue, they would be "rewarded" with a buzz of electrically delivered pleasure. Once
trained they would move instantaneously and accurately as directed, for up to an hour at a time.
The rats could be steered up ladders, along narrow ledges and down ramps, up trees, and into
collapsed piles of concrete rubble. Roborats fitted with cameras or other sensors could be
used as search and rescue aids. In theory, be put to some unpleasant uses, such as
assassination. [For] surveillance ... you could apply this to birds ... if you could fit birds with

sensors and cameras. Michael Reiss, professor of science education at London's Institute of
Education and a leading bioethics thinker ... said he was uneasy about humankind "subverting the
autonomy" of animals. "There is a part of me that is not entirely happy with the idea of our
subverting a sentient animal's own aspirations and wish to lead a life of its own."
Note: Remember that secret military projects are almost always at least a decade in advance of
anything you read in the media. For lots more on this little-known subject, click here.

Scientists Urge Study Of Ufos

1998-06-30, Chicago Tribune/Boston Globe
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-06-30/news/9806300086_1_scientific-ex...
Nine scientists from major universities and research institutions in the U.S. and Europe have
reviewed a variety of UFO reports and concluded that there is no proof the reports have anything
to do with extraterrestrial intelligence, but that the subject deserves far more attention. The first
such review by a scientific panel in 28 years, the report ... was critical of scientists for their
lack of curiosity about a subject that has attracted such widespread public interest. It also
criticized scientific journals for a reluctance to publish research on the topic. But the report
had high praise for the French government, which for 21 years has had a panel devoted to
collecting scientific evidence related to new sightings. "Whenever there are unexplained
observations, there is the possibility that scientists will learn something new by studying those
observations," the panel said in its report, published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. The
journal specializes in publishing reports by legitimate scientists on topics considered too
controversial for many other scientific journals. "It may be valuable to carefully evaluate UFO
reports to extract information about unusual phenomena currently unknown to science," the group
wrote. The panel met last fall for four days to hear various UFO investigators present their "best
case" evidence. It focused on reports where there was some kind of physical evidence:
photographs, radar recordings, damaged soil or plants or physical symptoms suffered by
witnesses.
Note: For lots more on the excellent French report (The Cometa Report), which revealed
fascinating, solid evidence of ET visitation, click here. For other key resources on UFOs, see our
UFO Information Center.

Why being 'overweight' means you live longer: The way scientists twist
the facts
2015-04-10, The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/why-bein...
Many medical "facts" are simply not true. By definition, being "overweight" must be bad for your
health or we wouldn't call it overweight. But we do not define overweight as being the weight
above which you are damaging your health; it has an exact definition. To be overweight means

having a BMI of between 25 and 30. In 2009, a German group did a painstaking meta-analysis of
all studies on overweight and obesity that they could find. As with most other researchers, they
found that being overweight was good for you. Of course, they didn't phrase it in this way. They
said: "The prevailing notion that overweight increases morbidity and mortality, as compared to socalled normal weight, is in need of further specification." In need of further specification? An
interesting phrase, but one that hints at the terrible problems researchers have when their findings
fail to match prevailing dogma; if the prevailing consensus is "if your BMI is between 25 and 29, it
is damaging your health and you should lose weight", then you challenge this at your peril.
Despite the fact that study after study has demonstrated quite clearly that "overweight"
people live the longest, no one can bring themselves to say: "Sorry, we were wrong. A BMI
between 25 and 29 is the healthiest weight of all. For those of you between 20 and 25, I say,
eat more, become healthier." Who would dare say such a thing? Not anyone with tenure at a
leading university, that's for sure.
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The untold story of how the sugar industry shaped key government
research about your teeth
2015-03-11, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/11/the-sneaky-way-the...
The powerful U.S. sugar industry skewed the government's medical research on dental
care. Sugar industry leaders advocated for policies that did not recommend people eat less sugar.
The government listened, according to a new report published in the journal PLOS Medicine. In the
1960s, amid a national effort to boost cavity prevention, the U.S. government spearheaded a
research program, known as the National Caries Program (NCP), which aimed to eradicate tooth
decay. But instead of turning to an obvious solution having people eat less sugar the
government was swayed by industry interests that pushed alternative methods, such as [using]
vaccines for fighting tooth decay. [The] committee that was set up by the government to set
research priorities for the NCP included many doctors and scientists who were also ... part of
another group called the International Sugar Research Foundation, which was established by the
sugar industry. Rather than recommending that people reduce sugar intake, governmentfunded research focused on interventions that wouldn't advise Americans to lower their
sweets consumption. For instance, the research encouraged the wider use of fluoride. More
recently, the industry attempted to influence the ongoing debate about changes to the Food and
Drug Administration's nutrition facts label. One of the key changes currently being mulled is the
inclusion of an "added sugar" label, which is meant to communicate how much of any given food's
sugar content was added during processing. The industry is vehemently opposed.

Note: "When you take on Big Sugar, you take on a huge political money operation," Rep. Mark
Steven Kirk from Illinois said while fighting Big Sugar back in 2007. For more along these lines,
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Full scale of plastic in the world's oceans revealed for first time
2014-12-10, The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/10/full-scale-plastic-worlds-...
More than five trillion pieces of plastic, collectively weighing nearly 269,000 tonnes, are
floating in the worlds oceans, causing damage throughout the food chain, new research has
found. Data collected by scientists from the US, France, Chile, Australia and New Zealand
suggests a minimum of 5.25tn plastic particles in the oceans, most of them micro plastics
measuring less than 5mm. The volume of plastic pieces, largely deriving from products such as
food and drink packaging and clothing, was calculated from data taken from 24 expeditions over a
six-year period to 2013. The research, published in the journal PLOS One, is the first study to look
at plastics of all sizes in the worlds oceans. We saw turtles that ate plastic bags and fish that
ingested fishing lines, said Julia Reisser, a researcher based at the University of Western
Australia. But there are also chemical impacts. When plastic gets into the water it acts like a
magnet for oily pollutants. Its hard to visualise the sheer amount, but the weight of it is more
than the entire biomass of humans." The research, the first of its kind to pull together data on
floating plastic from around the world, will be used to chart future trends in the amount of debris in
the oceans. But researchers predict the volume will increase due to rising production of throwaway
plastic, with only 5% of the worlds plastic currently recycled.
Note: Ocean acidification was number one on 2014's top 25 stories subjected to press censorship.

Insights challenging science's unshakable 'truths'

2014-06-29, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/29/five-insights-challenging-scie...
We have come to think that if something is "in our genes", it is our inevitable destiny. However, this
is a gross oversimplification. We have each inherited a particular set of genes, but the outcome of
that inheritance is not fixed. Our environment, diet and circumstance flood our bodies with
molecules that switch the genes on or off. The result can make a huge difference to our destiny
and that of our descendants. One example of these "epigenetic" changes occurs when a bundle of
carbon and hydrogen atoms known as a methyl group attaches itself to the DNA and changes the
way its instructions are carried out. Methyl groups often come from what we eat. Lack of food
seems to have an epigenetic effect, too. A study of Dutch women starved by the Nazis during the
second world war ... found elevated levels of schizophrenia, breast cancer and heart disease. The
data suggest that the alterations to which genes are turned on or off survive at least two
generations: the one that suffered in the womb during the famine, and their children. They may go

much further. A 2011 study published by researchers at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California,
demonstrated epigenetic mutations that lasted for at least 30 generations in plants. What you eat,
what your mother ate, the age when your grandfather started smoking, the amount of
pollution in your neighbourhood these factors have all been linked to epigenetic changes
that get passed down through the generations. Armed with this new insight, we can take far
more control of our health and the health of future generations.
Note: For a truly engaging and revolutionary book on this topic, read The Biology of Belief by
Bruce Lipton, a top researcher in the field of cell biology. For more on this, see concise summaries
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Five insights challenging science's unshakable 'truths'

2014-06-28, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/29/five-insights-challenging-scie...
1. Lifestyle can change genes. We have each inherited a particular set of genes, but the
outcome of that inheritance is not fixed. Our environment, diet and circumstance flood our bodies
with molecules that switch the genes on or off. The result can make a huge difference. What you
eat, what your mother ate, the age when your grandfather started smoking, the amount of pollution
in your neighbourhood these factors have all been linked to epigenetic changes that get passed
down through the generations. 2. The mind can affect the body. What used to be dismissed by
science as superstition or old wives' tales ... has a palpable effect on our bodies. 3. Quantum
effects exist in biology. Plants, for instance, use quantum theory to harvest energy from the sun
[by] using "superposition". This trick effectively searches all possible [solar energy delivery] paths
[through the organism] simultaneously, and finds the quickest and thus most energy-efficient route.
That means the energy reaches the plant's storage centre before it dissipates. There are also hints
that smell is a quantum sense. The fact that these things happen in the warm, wet world of
biological material suggests that we are missing a trick. 4. The universe is a computer (and we
are the programmers). The universe ... behaves exactly like a computer [and] we, by our
conscious and unconscious actions, are playing the role of that computer's programmers. 5.
Human beings are nothing special. Researchers know of only a handful of genes unique to
humans; it's thought that, when the count is finished and the numbers are totted up, fewer than 20
of our 20,000 genes will be exclusively human.
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Lancet Editor Richard Horton Tweets Dark View of Contemporary

Medicine
2012-01-27, Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2012/01/27/lancet-editor-richard-hort...
One brief message at a time, Lancet editor Richard Horton is tweeting his dark view of the
contemporary medical establishment. If you have any interest at all in peeking behind the
curtain to see what really goes on behind the scenes of top medical organizations then you
need to follow Richard Hortons Twitter feed. In sudden bursts of candor, humor, and cynicism,
Horton has been tweeting thoughts that dont often see the light of day. Heres his unvarnished
opinion of the World Health Organization, for instance: "WHO is no longer a science-based
organisation. WHO believes that scientists within the agency should be anonymous bureaucrats."
The thread of tweets that prompted this post [is] about an ongoing editorial battle with authors and
another highly respected journal. The significance of these remarks is considerable. As Horton
remarks at the end, the episode appears to lend evidence to the manipulation of journals by
industry: "The mother of all authorship disputes has broken out. When papers get salami sliced
and divided between NEJM and us, it gets complicated. And sometimes nasty. And today, even
threatening. From Principal Investigator: Approval [of the drug in question] has already occurred in
the US, yet private insurers are slow to place it on their formulary. A major publication is typically
how this occurs in the US, and it is important to be in a journal typically recognised by US-based
companies. This publication is critical to (company A's) ability to market their product. Lancet ...
will aid (company Y) quite nicely.
Note: The Lancet is considered by many to be the most prestigious medical journal in the world. If
the editor-in-chief of the Lancet readily admits to for-profit collusion between medical journals,
insurers and big pharma, who can we trust for accurate health information? To learn more, read a
powerfully revealing essay by former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine
Marcia Angell on how the drug companies blatantly manipulate science for profit.

Fraud Case Seen as a Red Flag for Psychology Research

2011-11-03, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/health/research/noted-dutch-psychologist-st...
A well-known psychologist in the Netherlands whose work has been published widely in
professional journals falsified data and made up entire experiments, an investigating
committee has found. Experts say the case exposes deep flaws in the way science is done in a
field, psychology, that has only recently earned a fragile respectability. The psychologist, Diederik
Stapel, of Tilburg University, committed academic fraud in several dozen published papers, many
accepted in respected journals and reported in the news media, according to a report released ...
by the three Dutch institutions where he has worked. The journal Science, which published one of
Dr. Stapels papers in April, posted an editorial expression of concern about the research online.
The scandal, involving about a decade of work, is the latest in a string of embarrassments in a field
that critics and statisticians say badly needs to overhaul how it treats research results. In recent
years, psychologists have reported a raft of findings on race biases, brain imaging and even
extrasensory perception that have not stood up to scrutiny. Outright fraud may be rare, these

experts say, but they contend that Dr. Stapel took advantage of a system that allows
researchers to operate in near secrecy and massage data to find what they want to find,
without much fear of being challenged.
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click here.

Five survivors found from shocking U.S. human experiments

2011-08-30, CBS News/Associated Press
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/30/scitech/main20099438.shtml
Guatemala has tracked down five survivors from a shocking US government research project on
sexually transmitted diseases that killed scores of its people. On [August 29], a presidential panel
disclosed new details of the medical experiments done in Guatemala in the 1940s, including a
decision to re-infect a dying woman in a syphilis study. The Guatemala experiments are already
considered one of the darker episodes of medical research in U.S. history, but panel
members say the new information indicates that the researchers were unusually unethical,
even when placed into the historical context of a different era. "The researchers put their
own medical advancement first and human decency a far second," said Anita Allen, a
member of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. From 1946-48, the U.S.
Public Health Service and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau worked with several Guatemalan
government agencies to do medical research - paid for by the U.S. government - that involved
deliberately exposing people to sexually transmitted diseases. The researchers apparently were
trying to see if penicillin, then relatively new, could prevent infections in the 1,300 people exposed
to syphilis, gonorrhea or chancroid. Those infected included soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners and
mental patients with syphilis. The commission revealed ... that only about 700 of those infected
received some sort of treatment. Also, 83 people died.
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U.S. scientists knew 1940s Guatemalan STD studies were unethical,

panel finds
2011-08-29, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-scientists-knew-1940...
U.S. government researchers who purposely infected unwitting subjects with sexually transmitted
diseases in Guatemala in the 1940s had obtained consent a few years earlier before conducting
similar experiments in Indiana, investigators reported [August 29]. The stark contrast between
how the U.S. Public Health Service scientists experimented with Americans and
Guatemalans clearly shows that researchers knew their conduct was unethical, according to
members of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. These researchers

knew these were unethical experiments, and they conducted them anyway, said Raju
Kucherlapati of Harvard Medical School, a commission member. At least 5,500 prisoners, mental
patients, soldiers and children were drafted into the experiments, including at least 1,300 who were
exposed to the sexually transmitted diseases syphilis, gonorrhea and chancroid, the commission
reported. This is a dark chapter in our history. It is important to shine the light of day on it. We owe
it to the people of Guatemala who were experimented on, and we owe it to ourselves to recognize
what a dark chapter it was, said Amy Gutmann of the University of Pennsylvania, the
commissions chairwoman.
Note: For a long list of verifiable information on experiments where human were used a guinea
pigs, click here.

Ethical rules needed to curb 'Frankenstein-like experiments' on animals

2011-07-22, The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8652093/Ethical-rules-needed-...
Scientists are in danger of turning animals into monsters unless an ethical watchdog is appointed
to prevent Frankenstein-like experiments, the Academy of Medical Sciences has warned. A new
report into experiments which transplant human cells into animals for medical purposes said
scientists may not be far from giving apes the ability to think and talk like humans.
Concerns about the creation of talking apes should be taken seriously along with "what
one might call the 'Frankenstein fear' that the medical research which creates 'humanised'
animals is going to generate monsters", it was claimed. A regulatory body is needed to closely
monitor any experiments that risk creating animals with human-like consciousness, spawning
hybrid human-animal embryos, or giving animals any appearance or behavioural traits that too
closely resemble humans, the report said. Scientists would, for example, be prevented from
replacing a large number of an ape's brain [cells] with human cells as has already been done in
simpler animals like mice until much more is known about the potential results.
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Are U.S. government microwave mind-control tests causing TV

presenters' brains to melt down?
2011-04-02, Daily Mail (One of the UK's largest-circulation newspapers)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372538/Are-government-microwave-mind...
A bizarre spate of television presenters dissolving into on-air gibberish has sparked claims that the
U.S. military could be to blame. In four high-profile cases, the latest involving fast-talking Judge
Judy, the presenters have started off speaking properly but have then descended into
undecipherable nonsense - looking confused and unstable. The frequency of the 'attacks' - and the
fact that recorded examples of the mental meltdowns have been popular on websites - has led to
conspiracy theorists pointing the finger at shadowy government experiments. A popular theory

being circulated online blames the U.S. Militarys supposed research into using microwaves
as a mind control weapon. America has never admitted conducting such research but
proponents say the effects - produced by microwave signals stimulating the brain with fake
images and voices - exactly mimic those displayed in the recent on-air breakdowns. Serene
Branson's garbled Grammys report became an internet sensation, while WISCTV's Sarah Carlson
suffered a similar meltdown in January. Judith Sheindlin, the fast-talking judge on Judge Judy, was
taken to hospital ... after she began speaking a nonsensical string of words during a live recording
of her courtroom TV show.
Note: We don't normally use the UK's Daily Mail as a reliable source, but as the video included in
this article clearly demonstrate something highly unusual, we've included it here. Another video of
this highly strange phemomenon is available here. There is a possibility that some kind of HAARP
technologies may be used in doing this. For more, click here. For reliable, verifiable information on
secret government mind control programs, see the powerful two-page summary available here.

What a scientist didn't tell the New York Times about his study on bee
deaths
2010-11-08, CNN News
http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/08/news/honey_bees_ny_times.fortune/index.htm
Few ecological disasters have been as confounding as the massive and devastating die-off of the
world's honeybees. The phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) -- in which disoriented
honeybees die far from their hives -- has kept scientists, beekeepers, and regulators desperately
seeking the cause. The long list of possible suspects has included pests, viruses, fungi, and also
pesticides, particularly so-called neonicotinoids, a class of neurotoxins that kills insects by
attacking their nervous systems. For years, their leading manufacturer, Bayer Crop Science, a
subsidiary of the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG (BAYRY), has tangled with regulators
and fended off lawsuits from angry beekeepers who allege that the pesticides have disoriented
and ultimately killed their bees. A cheer must have gone up at Bayer on Thursday when a frontpage New York Times article, under the headline "Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery,"
described how a newly released study pinpoints a different cause for the die-off: "a fungus tagteaming with a virus." The Bayer pesticides, however, go unmentioned. What the Times article
did not explore -- nor did the study disclose -- was the relationship between the study's lead
author, Montana bee researcher Dr. Jerry Bromenshenk, and Bayer Crop Science. In recent
years Bromenshenk has received a significant research grant from Bayer to study bee
pollination.
Note: Read the full, revealing article to learn how money often corrupts science. For lots more
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Big Oil money can influence research, study claims

2010-10-15, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/14/BAHR1FSR2B.DTL
Research universities that accept millions of dollars from oil companies have failed to shield
themselves from corporate influence, according to a new study that faults UC Berkeley, UC Davis,
Stanford and seven others. Such cozy relationships give energy companies too much control in
deciding what research to fund and what faculty should study, says the report from the Center for
American Progress, "Big Oil Goes to College". The contracts ... give more control to companies
that foot the bill than to researchers, argues the report's author, Jennifer Washburn. "We want to
see university research translate into commercial technology, but we don't want the
research itself to be directed by individual corporations," she told The Chronicle. "They
shouldn't turn California's flagship universities into the research arm of a private
corporation." The report found that industry control over research is "poorly defined" in UC Davis'
long-term contract with Chevron Technology Ventures. It says industry shares control with faculty
at UC Berkeley, and control is fully corporate at Stanford. The report also says none of the three
California contracts "requires peer review when selecting faculty research projects."
Note: For lots more from major media sources on corporate corruption, click here.

Startled by the power of placebos, doctors consider how to use them as

real treatment
2010-05-09, Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/05/09/the_magic_cure/
Youre not likely to hear about this from your doctor, but fake medical treatment can work
amazingly well. For a range of ailments, from pain and nausea to depression and Parkinsons
disease, placebos--whether sugar pills, saline injections, or sham surgery--have often
produced results that rival those of standard therapies. As evidence of the effects power
mounts, members of the medical community are increasingly asking an intriguing question:
if the placebo effect can help patients, shouldnt we start putting it to work? In certain
ways, placebos are ideal drugs: they typically have no side effects and are essentially free. And in
recent years, research has confirmed that they can bring about genuine improvements in a
number of conditions. An active conversation is now under way in leading medical journals, as
bioethicists and researchers explore how to give people the real benefits of pretend treatment. But
any attempt to harness the placebo effect immediately runs into thorny ethical and practical
dilemmas. To present a dummy pill as real medicine would be, by most standards, to lie. To
prescribe one openly, however, would risk undermining the effect. And even if these issues were
resolved, the whole idea still might sound a little shady--offering bogus pills or procedures could
seem, from the patients perspective, hard to distinguish from skimping on care.
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Contestants turn torturers in French TV experiment

2010-03-16, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia's leading newspaper)
"The Game of Death" has all the trappings of a traditional television quiz show, with a roaring
crowd and a glamorous and well-known hostess urging the players on under gaudy studio lights.
But the contestants did not know they were taking part in an experiment to find out whether
television could push them to outrageous lengths, and which has prompted comparisons with the
atrocities of Nazi Germany. "We were amazed to find that 81 percent of the participants
obeyed" the sadistic orders of the television presenter, said Christophe Nick, the maker of the
documentary for the state-owned France 2 channel. "They are not equipped to disobey," he
added. The game: posing questions to another "player" and punishing him with up to 460 volts of
electricity when he gets them wrong -- even until his cries of "Let me go!" fall silent and he appears
to have died. Not knowing that the screaming victim is really an actor, the apparently reluctant
contestants yield to the orders of the presenter and chants of "Punishment!" from a studio
audience who also believed the game was real. Nick said 80 percent of the contestants went all
the way, zapping the victim with the maximum 460 volts until he appeared to die. Out of 80
players, just 16 walked out. "When it decides to abuse its power, television can do anything to
anybody," said Nick. "It has an absolutely terrifying power."
Note: For more on this powerful and disturbing phenomenon, click here.

Libel gag on talk of 'medical hurricane'

2009-12-20, Times of London
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6962816.ece
A healthcare firm is seeking to silence a Danish academic from expressing doubts about
one of its products by using Englands draconian libel laws. Two years ago in a conference
room in the Randolph hotel in Oxford, Henrik Thomsen ... one of Europes leading radiologists,
revealed how patients treated at his hospital had subsequently contracted a rare and potentially
fatal disease. Thomsen and other doctors at his Copenhagen University hospital were baffled as to
why 20 kidney patients who had been given routine scans were afflicted by a disorder
nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) in which the skin gradually swells, thickens and tightens.
Some sufferers were confined to wheelchairs. At least one died. There was no known cure. It was
confirmed that all those who had fallen ill with NSF had been given the same drug in advance of a
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. Omniscan was used to enhance the images produced by
the scan. The product was sold around the world and was manufactured by GE Healthcare, a
subsidiary of General Electric, one of the worlds largest corporations. Thomsen ... now refuses to
speak anywhere in England on the possible risks of Omniscan. The reason is that he faces
another kind of storm: GE Healthcare is suing him in the High Court for libel. GE has already
racked up costs of more than 380,000 pursuing the respected academic. Thomsen will have
to pay the firms costs if he loses the case.
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You cant handle the truth

2009-12-13, Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/12/13/you_cant_handle_t...
In the United Kingdom ... the countrys top drug adviser was recently fired for publicly criticizing his
own governments drug laws. The adviser, Dr. David Nutt, said in a lecture that alcohol is
more hazardous than many outlawed substances, and that the United Kingdom might be
making a mistake in throwing marijuana smokers in jail. His comments werent the idle
musings of a reality-insulated professor in a policy job. They were based on ... a scientifically
compiled ranking of drugs, assembled by specialists in chemistry, health, and enforcement,
published in a prestigious medical journal two years earlier. The list, printed as a chart with the
unassuming title Mean Harm Scores for 20 Substances, ranked a set of common drugs, both
legal and illegal, in order of their harmfulness - how addictive they were, how physically damaging,
and how much they threatened society. Overall, alcohol is far worse than many illegal drugs. So is
tobacco. Smoking pot is less harmful than drinking, and LSD is less damaging yet. Nutt says he
didnt see himself as promoting drug use or trying to subvert the government. He was pressing the
point that a government policy, especially a health-related one like a drug law, should be grounded
in factual information.
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DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show

2009-08-18, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18dna.html
Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining
the credibility of what has been considered the gold standard of proof in criminal cases. The
scientists fabricated blood and saliva samples containing DNA from a person other than the donor
of the blood and saliva. They also showed that if they had access to a DNA profile in a database,
they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that
person. You can just engineer a crime scene, said Dan Frumkin, lead author of the paper,
which has been published online by the journal Forensic Science International: Genetics. Any
biology undergraduate could perform this. Dr. Frumkin is a founder of Nucleix, a company
based in Tel Aviv that has developed a test to distinguish real DNA samples from fake ones that it
hopes to sell to forensics laboratories. The planting of fabricated DNA evidence at a crime scene is
only one implication of the findings. A potential invasion of personal privacy is another. Using some
of the same techniques, it may be possible to scavenge anyones DNA from a discarded drinking
cup or cigarette butt and turn it into a saliva sample that could be submitted to a genetic testing
company that measures ancestry or the risk of getting various diseases. Tania Simoncelli, science
adviser to the American Civil Liberties Union, said the findings were worrisome. DNA is a lot
easier to plant at a crime scene than fingerprints, she said. Were creating a criminal
justice system that is increasingly relying on this technology.

Note: For lots more on government threats to civil liberties, click here.

The science of happiness

2008-09-08, Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-happy8-2008sep08,0,3855201.story
If recent scientific research on happiness -- and there has been quite a bit -- has proved anything,
it's that happiness is not a goal. It's a process. Although our tendency to be happy or not is
partly inborn, it's also partly within our control. And, perhaps more surprising, happiness
brings success, not the other way around. Though many people think happiness is elusive,
scientists have actually pinned it down and know how to get it. Sonja Lyubomirsky, a professor of
psychology at UC Riverside and author of The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting
the Life You Want led controlled studies to determine what behaviors positively affect happiness,
and has come up with at least 12 strategies that measurably increase levels. For instance, one
strategy she's tested is the practice of gratitude. In her gratitude study, she had a group of 57
subjects express gratitude once a week in a journal. A second group of 58 expressed gratitude in a
journal three times a week. And a control group of 32 did nothing. At the end of six weeks, she
retested all three groups and found a significant increase in happiness in the first one. She and
other researchers also recommend practicing forgiveness, savoring positive moments and
becoming more involved in your church, synagogue or religious organization. "Not every strategy
fits everyone," she says. "People need to try a few to find which ones work." Although Lyubomirsky
likes to let people define happiness for themselves, clinically, she describes it as "a combination of
frequent positive emotions, plus the sense that your life is good."

Scientists muzzled, Congress told

2007-03-21, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia's leading newspaper)
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/scientists-muzzled/2007/03/20/11741530...
The Bush Administration has run a systematic campaign to play down the dangers of climate
change, demanding hundreds of politically motivated changes to scientific reports and muzzling a
pre-eminent expert on global warming, the US Congress has been told. The testimony ... painted
the Administration as determined to maintain its line on climate change even when it clashed with
the findings of scientific experts. The Administration has moved to exercise control over
environmental agencies by installing political appointees including a former oil industry lobbyist,
Philip Cooney, as chief of staff of the Council on Environmental Quality. In 2003 Mr Cooney and
other senior appointed officials made at least 181 changes to a strategic plan on climate
change to play down the scientific consensus on global warming. They made a further 113
alterations to minimise the human role in climate change. "These changes must be made," a note
in Mr Cooney's handwriting says. Under heated questioning, Mr Cooney admitted the changes
were all intended to cast doubt on the impact of global warming. Control from the White House
became the norm, [NASA's Dr. James] Hansen told the committee. "Scientific press releases were
going to the White House for editing," he said. "It's very unfortunate that we developed this

politicisation of science. The public relations office should be staffed by expert appointees otherwise they become offices of propaganda." Hansen was also restrained from giving press
interviews by a junior political appointee, George Deutsch. Mr Deutsch left NASA early last year
after it emerged he had falsified his CV.

Exposed: the secret corporate funding behind health research

2006-02-07, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1703694,00.html
Academics and the media have failed dismally to ask the crucial question of scientists' claims: who
is paying you? In the 1990s, [Arise] was one of the world's most influential public-health groups. It
described itself as "a worldwide association of eminent scientists who act as independent
commentators". Its purpose ... was to show how "everyday pleasures, such as eating chocolate,
smoking, drinking tea, coffee and alcohol, contribute to the quality of life". "Scientific studies show
that enjoying the simple pleasures in life, without feeling guilty, can reduce stress and increase
resistance to disease". Between September 1993 and March 1994 ... [Arise] generated 195
newspaper articles and radio and television interviews, in places such as the Wall Street Journal,
the International Herald Tribune, the Independent, the Evening Standard, El Pas, La Repubblica,
Rai and the BBC. In 1998 [tobacco] firms were obliged to place their internal documents in a public
archive. Among them ... is a memo from ... Philip Morris - the world's largest tobacco company.
The title is "Arise 1994-95 Activities and Funding". This showed that in the previous financial
year Arise had received $373,400: ... over 99% - from Philip Morris, British American
Tobacco, RJ Reynolds and Rothmans. The memo suggests Arise was run not by eminent
scientists but by eminent tobacco companies. How much more science is being published in
academic journals with undeclared interests like these? How many more media campaigns ... have
been secretly funded and steered by corporations?
Note: If you want to understand how corporate interests secretly manipulate both scientific results
and public perception, this excellent article is well worth reading.

Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him

2006-01-29, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/earth/29climate.html?ex=1296190800&...
After [a] speech and the release of data by Dr. Hansen on Dec. 15 showing that 2005 was
probably the warmest year in at least a century, officials at the headquarters of the space
agency repeatedly [warned] Dr. Hansen that there would be "dire consequences" if such
statements continued. Hansen, longtime director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space
Studies, said in an interview that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs staff
to review his coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for
interviews from journalists. Dean Acosta, deputy assistant administrator for public affairs at the
space agency, said...the restrictions on Dr. Hansen applied to all [NASA] personnel. "This is not

about any individual or any issue like global warming," he said. Dr. Hansen strongly
disagreed...saying such procedures had already prevented the public from fully grasping recent
findings. Dr. Hansen said that nothing in 30 years equaled the push made since early December to
keep him from publicly discussing what he says are clear-cut dangers from further delay in curbing
carbon dioxide. The fight between Dr. Hansen and administration officials echoes other recent
disputes. At climate laboratories of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for
example, many scientists who routinely took calls from reporters five years ago can now do so only
if the interview is approved by administration officials in Washington, and then only if a public
affairs officer is present or on the phone.

Scientists Find Ways to Make Us Slaves

2004-10-17, WantToKnow.info/London Times
http://www.WantToKnow.info/monkeydrones
Scientists have discovered a way of manipulating a gene that turns animals into drones that do not
become bored with repetitive tasks. The experiments, conducted on monkeys, are the first to
demonstrate that animal behaviour can be permanently changed, turning the subjects from
aggressive to "compliant" creatures. The genes are identical in humans and although the
discovery could help to treat depression and other types of mental illness, it will raise images of the
Epsilon caste from Aldous Huxley's futuristic novel Brave New World. The experiments... involved
blocking the effect of a gene called D2 in a particular part of the brain. This cut off the link between
the rhesus monkeys' motivation and reward. Instead of speeding up with the approach of a
deadline or the prospect of a "treat," the monkeys in the experiment could be made to work just as
enthusiastically for long periods. The scientists say the identical technique would apply to humans.
[They] found that they could make the monkeys work their hardest and fastest all the time, without
any complaint or sign of slacking, just by manipulating D2 so that they forgot about the expectation
of reward. Methods of manipulating human physical and psychological traits are just around the
corner, and the technology will emerge first as a lucrative add-on available from in vitro fertilization
clinics. "There's no doubt we will be able to influence behaviour," said Julian Savulescu, a
professor of ethics at Oxford University.
Note: For lots more reliable information on how human behavior is already being manipulated,
click here.

America's Deep, Dark Secret

2004-05-02, CBS 60 Minutes
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/29/60minutes/main614728.shtml
Starting in the early 1900s, hundreds of thousands of American children were warehoused in
institutions by state governments. And the federal government did nothing to stop it. The
justification? The kids had been labeled feeble-minded, and were put away in conditions that can
only be described as unspeakable. A large proportion of the kids who were locked up were not

retarded at all. They were simply poor, uneducated kids with no place to go, who ended up in
institutions like the Fernald School in Waltham, Mass. The Fernald School, and others like it, was
part of a popular American movement in the early 20th century called the Eugenics movement.
The idea was to separate people considered to be genetically inferior from the rest of
society, to prevent them from reproducing. Eugenics is usually associated with Nazi
Germany, but in fact, it started in America. Not only that, it continued here long after Hitler's
Germany was in ruins. Few of the attendants [at Fernald] showed any kindness. And ... there
was sexual abuse. The place was tailor made for it. The school [also] allowed them to be used as
human guinea pigs. In 1994 Senate hearings, it came out that scientists from MIT had been giving
radioactive oatmeal to the boys ... in a nutrition study for Quaker Oats. All they knew is that they'd
been asked to join a science club. The boys were recruited with special treats [like] extra milk. But
they forgot to mention the milk was radioactive, says David White-Lief, an attorney who worked on
the state task force investigating the science club. These experiments, because of the lack of
informed consent, violated the Nuremburg Code established just 10 years earlier, says White-Lief.
Note: The extreme racism of the Nazis was quite popular among certain groups in the U.S. For
lots more on how these ideas came to pervade some groups in U.S. intelligence services, click
here. For a powerful list of military and government sponsored experiments on human guinea pigs
with links for verification, click here.

Tesla: The Missing Papers

2004-04-01, PBS
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_mispapers.html
One of the more controversial topics involving Nikola Tesla is what became of many of his
technical and scientific papers after he died in 1943. Just before his death at the height of World
War II, he claimed that he had perfected his so-called "death beam." So it was natural that the FBI
and other U.S. Government agencies would be interested in any scientific ideas involving
weaponry. The morning after the inventor's death, his nephew Sava Kosanovic hurried to his
uncle's room at the Hotel New Yorker. By the time he arrived, Tesla's body had already been
removed, and Kosanovic suspected that someone had already gone through his uncle's
effects. Technical papers were missing as well as a black notebook he knew Tesla kept a
notebook with several hundred pages, some of which were marked "Government." Just after World
War II, there was a renewed interest in beam weapons. Copies of Tesla's papers on particle beam
weaponry were sent to Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. An operation code-named
"Project Nick" was heavily funded and placed under the command of Brigadier General L. C.
Craigie to test the feasibility of Tesla's concept. Details of the experiments were never published,
and the project was apparently discontinued. But something peculiar happened. The copies of
Tesla's papers disappeared and nobody knows what happened to them.
Note: For more on this amazing man, click here and here.

Biotech critics at risk : Economics calls the shots in the debate

2004-01-11, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/11/INGH...
Between 1999 and 2001, unbeknownst to the others, each [of four scientists] made a simple but
dramatic discovery that challenged the catechism of the same powerful industry -- biotechnology -that by then had become the handmaiden of industrial agriculture and the darling of venture
capitalists. When he was the principal scientific officer of the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen,
Scotland, Hungarian citizen Arpad Pusztai fed transgenically modified [GMO] potatoes to rodents
in one of the few experiments that have ever tested the safety of genetically modified food. Almost
immediately, the rats displayed tissue and immunological damage. After he reported his
findings, which eventually underwent peer review and were published in the United
Kingdom's leading medical journal, Lancet, Pusztai's home was burglarized and his
research files taken. Soon thereafter, he was fired from his job at Rowett, and he has since
suffered an orchestrated international campaign of discreditation. [Read full article for the
other three distrubing stories of scientific suppression] These four men were not attacked because
of flawed or imperfect experiments but because the findings of their work have a potential
economic effect. The sad part is that the academies and other allegedly independent institutions
that once defended scientific freedom and protected employees like Hayes, Chapela, Losey and
Pusztai are abandoning them to the wolves of commerce, the brands of which are being engraved
over the entrances to a disturbing number of university labs.
Note: Big money is clearly stifling good science and keeping the public in the dark about genetic
modifications in the food we eat. To educate yourself on this most important topic, click here.

NIH Scientist Says He's Paid To Do Nothing

2003-07-04, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A6791-2003Jul3
Edward McSweegan ... has an office in Bethesda, a job title -- health scientist administrator -- and
an annual salary of about $100,000. What McSweegan says he does not have -- and has not had
for the last seven years -- is any real work. He was hired by the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases in 1988, but says his bosses transferred the research grants he administered
to other workers eight years later, leaving him with occasional tasks more suitable for a typist or
"gofer." McSweegan used to be NIH's program officer for Lyme disease but was removed from the
post in June 1995 after a dispute over his repeated criticism of a politically influential support group
for sufferers and his allegations that NIH had been too accommodating of the group. He had
publicly described the Lyme Disease Foundation as "wacko" because he disagreed with its
theories about the disease. The dispute led to his suspension without pay for two weeks for
insubordination. According to NIH, McSweegan is director of the U.S.-Indo Vaccine Action
Program, and has traveled to countries such as Russia representing the agency. He has also
"produced reports and other work products." But McSweegan said he has never been told he was
director of the program. McSweegan said he struggles to fill his eight-hour workdays by reading,

exercising and writing fiction. He has self-published a bioterrorism thriller and a science fiction
novel. But he says his six-page job description is the ultimate work of creative writing and
describes his position as "a bizarre, surreal situation -- part Orwell, part Kafka and part
Dilbert."

Big oil is pressuring scientists not to link fracking to earthquakes in

Oklahoma
2015-04-03, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/03/big-oil-is-pressuring-sc...
Many Oklahomans can still vividly recall the day they experienced their first earthquake. Ever since
2009/2010, earthquakes in the state have increased exponentially leading to what are called
seismic swarms. In 2000 there was not a single earthquake, but in 2014 we experienced 585
quakes of magnitude three or larger. For some time now, scientists have wondered whether
fracking-related activities, such as wastewater injection, might be the source of increased seismic
activity in Oklahoma. In May of last year, the Oklahoma Geological Survey, an affiliate entity
of the University of Oklahoma, released a statement in conjunction with the United States
Geological Survey, saying that wastewater injection was a likely contributing factor the
increase in earthquakes. Not long after this statement, David Boren, president of the university,
summoned the Oklahoma Geological Surveys lead seismologist Austin Holland, who was also
one of the authors of the statement, to a meeting with Harold Hamm, CEO of ... one of Oklahomas
largest oil and gas exploration and production companies. Boren facilitated the meeting despite the
fact that he also serves as a member of the Continental Resources board of directors. In July
2014, Continental Resources released a presentation positing an alternative theory for the seismic
swarms and downplaying the influence of induced seismicity. One can only imagine the pressure
this meeting must have brought upon Holland and his team of scientists.
Note: Jason W Murphey, an Oklahoma State Representative, wrote the above. For more on this,
read this informative New York Times article titled "As Quakes Rattle Oklahoma, Fingers Point to
Oil and Gas Industry." For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing
news articles about corruption in science.

What Is Morgellons? Singer Joni Mitchells Disputed Diagnosis

2015-04-01, New York Times Blog
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/what-is-morgellons-singer-joni-mitch...
Joni Mitchell, 71, was taken to a hospital in Los Angeles on Tuesday after she was found
unconscious at her Los Angeles home. In recent years, the singer has complained of a number of
health problems, including one particularly unusual ailment: Morgellons disease. People who
believe they have the condition report lesions that dont heal, fibers extruding from their
skin and uncomfortable sensations like pins-and-needles tingling or stinging. Sufferers
may also report fatigue and problems with short-term memory and concentration. But

Morgellons is not a medically accepted diagnosis. Researchers at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention studied 115 people who said they had the condition. In a report published
in 2012, they said they were unable to identify an infectious source for the patients unexplained
dermopathy. The investigators cast doubt on Morgellons as a distinct condition and said that it
might be something doctors were already familiar with: delusional infestation, a psychiatric
condition characterized by an unshakable but erroneous belief that ones skin is infested with bugs
or parasites. These patients have a reduced quality of life, the researchers concluded, but the
cause is not clear. Science one day may find that Morgellons has a physical basis, but at the
moment most experts treat it as a psychiatric disorder to the great frustration of people, like Ms.
Mitchell, who ... are afflicted with it.
Note: See this excellent article on the strange Morgellons disease, and read this one for more
information.

Food cravings engineered by industry

2013-03-05, CBC News (Canada's public broadcasting company)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/03/05/f-vp-crowe-food-addiction.html
Pat Guillet is a food addict. She has finally wrestled her addiction under control and now she
counsels other food addicts to avoid processed food. "Yeah, just the sight of the packages will
trigger cravings," she said. Craving. It doesn't just happen to food addicts. "These companies
rely on deep science and pure science to understand how we're attracted to food and how
they can make their foods attractive to us," Michael Moss said. The New York Times
investigative reporter spent four years prying open the secrets of the food industrys scientists.
"This was like a detective story for me, getting inside the companies with thousands of pages of
inside documents and getting their scientists and executives to reveal to me the secrets of how
they go at this," he said. What he found became the title of his new book, Salt, Sugar Fat: How the
food giants hooked us. "I spent time with the top scientists at the largest companies in this country
and it's amazing how much math and science and regression analysis and energy they put
into finding the very perfect amount of salt, sugar and fat in their products that will send ...
their products flying off the shelves and have us buy more, eat more and make more money
for them."
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on corporate corruption,
click here.

Study: Scientific research fraud on the rise

2012-10-01, CBS News/Associated Press
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57523932/study-scientific-research-fraud-...

Fraud in scientific research, while still rare, is growing at a troubling pace, a new study finds. A
review of retractions in medical and biological peer-reviewed journals finds the percentage of
studies withdrawn because of fraud or suspected fraud has jumped substantially since the mid1970s. In 1976, there were fewer than 10 fraud retractions for every 1 million studies published,
compared with 96 retractions per million in 2007. The study authors aren't quite sure why this is
happening. But they and outside experts point to pressure to hit it big in science, both for funding
and attention, and to what seems to be a subtle increase in deception in overall society that
science may simply be mirroring. Fraud in life sciences research is still minuscule and committed
by only a few dozen scientific scofflaws. However, it causes big problems, said Arturo Casadevall,
a professor of microbiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Casadevall is
the lead author of the study which looked at the reasons for 2,047 retractions among many millions
of studies published in journals and kept in a government database. Fraud was the No. 1 cause
of retractions, accounting for 43 percent of them. When fraud was combined with other
areas of misconduct, such as plagiarism, it explained about 2 out of 3 retractions, the study
found. "Very few people are doing it, but when they do it, they are doing it in areas that are
very important," Casadevall said. "And when these things come out, society loses faith in
science."
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on corruption in science,
click here.

Stanford faculty still taking drug firms' money

2010-12-20, San Francisco Chronicle/ProPublica
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/20/MNB51GSBQO.DTL
Last year, Stanford banned its physicians from giving paid promotional talks for pharmaceutical
companies. One thing it didn't do was make sure its faculty followed that rule. A ProPublica
investigation ["Dollars for Docs"] found that more than a dozen of the school's doctors were paid
speakers in apparent violation of Stanford policy - two of them were paid six figures since last year.
Conflict-of-interest policies have become increasingly important as academic medical centers
worry that promotional talks undermine the credibility not only of the physicians giving them, but
also of the institutions they represent. Yet when it comes to enforcing the policies, universities
have allowed permissive interpretations and relied on the honor system. That approach isn't
working. Many physicians are in apparent violation, and ignorance or confusion about the rules is
widespread. As a result, some faculty physicians stay on the industry lecture circuit, where they
can net tens of thousands of dollars in additional income. Critics of the practice say delivering
talks for drug companies is incompatible with teaching future generations of physicians.
That's because drug firms typically pick the topic of the lecture, train the speakers and
require them to use company-provided presentation slides.
Note: "Dollars for Docs" is an ongoing investigation into the influence of drug company marketing
payments on medical providers. To search for a doctor in the database, click here.

A placebo is a placebo is a placebo ... or maybe not, a new study

suggests
2010-10-18, The Los Angeles Times
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/18/news/la-heb-placebo-20101018
Many drug trials involve a placebo, a sham drug whose results are compared with the results of
the real medication. A placebo is supposed to contain a harmless substance, such as sugar or
vegetable oil, which has no significant effect on the body. In [a new] study, researchers delved into
176 studies published in reputable medical journals ... from January 2008 to December 2009 to
see if placebo contents were disclosed and if so, what they were. The study authors argue that
placebo ingredients may not always be as inconsequential as some may think. They write:
"For instance, olive oil and corn oil have been used as the placebo in trials of cholesterol-lowering
drugs. This may lead to an understatement of drug benefit: The monounsaturated and
polyunsaturated fatty acids of these 'placebos,' and their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects,
can reduce lipid levels and heart disease." Certain placebos, they add, may skew results in
favor of the active drug. The researchers referenced a trial for a drug used to treat anorexia
linked with cancer in which a lactose placebo was used. Since lactose intolerance is common
among cancer patients, the fact that some suffered stomach problems from the placebo may have
made the actual drug look more beneficial. "Perfect placebo is not the aim," they write, "rather,
we seek to ensure that its composition is disclosed."
Note: For key reports from major media sources on important issues related to health and
medicine, click here.

Cholesterol-Busting Statins: Study Raises New Concerns

2010-06-29, ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HeartHealth/cholesterol-busting-statins-study-ra...
Nearly two years ago, a study known as the JUPITER [Justification for the Use of Statins in
Primary Prevention] trial hinted at a new era in the use of statins -- one in which the cholesterolbusting drugs could be used to stave off heart-related death in many more people than just those
with high cholesterol. Now, however, researchers behind a new review that takes a second look at
the findings of the landmark study say that these results are flawed -- and that they do not support
the benefits initially reported. Not only did this second look turn up no evidence of the
"striking decrease in coronary heart disease complications" reported by investigators
behind JUPITER, but it has also called into question drug companies' involvement in such
trials, according to an article in the June 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Moreover, Dr.
Michel de Lorgeril of Joseph Fourier University and the National Center of Scientific Research in
Grenoble, France, and coauthors argue that major discrepancies exists between the significant
reductions in nonfatal stroke and heart attacks reported in the JUPITER trial and what has been
found in other research. "The JUPITER data set appears biased," Lorgeril and coauthors wrote in
conclusion. De Lorgeril and coauthors point out that nine of 14 authors of the JUPITER article
have financial relationships with AstraZeneca, which sponsored the trial.

Note: There is intriguing evidence that much of the fear around cholesterol was fabricated to sell
drugs. For more on this, see the article by one of the most respected doctors on the Internet at this
link.

Pfizer Employee Claims Company Fired Her After Infection From An

Engineered Virus
2010-03-16, Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-03/pfizer-employee-claims-company-...
A former Pfizer scientist is suing the pharmaceuticals giant after alleging she contracted an
artificial, HIV-like, virus created by a colleague. In her lawsuit, Becky McClain claims Pfizer
unlawfully dismissed her while she suffered bouts of paralysis brought on by the man-made virus.
Pfizer denies these accusations, and says McClain simply didn't come to work, and only linked her
problems to engineered-disease exposure after she was fired. According to McClain, researchers
in her lab genetically engineered an artificial lentivirus, a class of viruses that also includes
HIV. McClain believes that she became infected by the virus due to faulty safety measures,
resulting in complete body paralysis as often as 12 times every month. Most likely, we will never
know if it is Pfizer's virus that caused McClain's health problems. The court case will focus mostly
on safety procedures in the laboratory, not on what exactly from the lab caused the illness. Also,
Pfizer refuses to release the genome of the suspected virus, preventing both identification
of the disease, as well as the development of a possible cure.
Note: Isn't it interesting that Pfizer is involved in creating HIV-like viruses? How long has this been
going on?

Doctors Without Morals

2010-03-01, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/opinion/01xenakis.html
After five years of investigation, the Justice Department has released its findings regarding the
government lawyers who authorized waterboarding and other forms of torture during the
interrogation of suspected terrorists at Guantnamo Bay and elsewhere. In contrast, the
government doctors and psychologists who participated in and authorized the torture of
detainees have escaped discipline, accountability or even internal investigation. It is hardly
news that medical staff at the C.I.A. and the Pentagon played a critical role in developing
and carrying out torture procedures. Psychologists and at least one doctor designed or
recommended coercive interrogation methods including sleep deprivation, stress positions,
isolation and waterboarding. The militarys Behavioral Science Consultation Teams evaluated
detainees, consulted their medical records to ascertain vulnerabilities and advised interrogators
when to push harder for intelligence information. Psychologists designed a program for new
arrivals at Guantnamo that kept them in isolation to enhance and exploit their disorientation
and disorganization.

Note: To learn about top doctors and psychiatrists who abused their positions to forward secret
government mind control programs, click here.

C.I.A. Is Sharing Data With Climate Scientists

2010-01-05, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/science/earth/05satellite.html
The nations top scientists and spies are collaborating on an effort to use the federal governments
intelligence assets including spy satellites and other classified sensors to assess the hidden
complexities of environmental change. The collaboration ... has the strong backing of the director
of the Central Intelligence Agency. Secrecy cloaks the monitoring effort ... because the United
States wants to keep foes and potential enemies in the dark about the abilities of its spy satellites
and other sensors. Controversy has often dogged the use of federal intelligence gear for
environmental monitoring. About 60 scientists mainly from academia but including some
from industry and federal agencies run the efforts scientific side. All have secret
clearances. The C.I.A. runs the program and arranges for the scientists to draw on federal
surveillance equipment, including highly classified satellites of the National Reconnaissance
Office. Officials said the effort to restart the program originated on Capitol Hill in 2008 after former
Vice President Al Gore argued for its importance with Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of
California, who was then a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee; she became its
chairwoman in early 2009.
Note: What happens to the public perception of science if research relies increasingly on secret
data and collaboration with spy agencies? How could the results of important studies be verified by
independent researchers? For lots more on the ever-expanding world of government secrecy, click
here.

Fossils From Animals And Plants Are Not Necessary For Crude Oil And
Natural Gas, Swedish Researchers Find
2009-09-12, Science Daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090910084259.htm
Researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm have managed to prove that
fossils from animals and plants are not necessary for crude oil and natural gas to be generated.
The findings are revolutionary since this means, on the one hand, that it will be much easier to find
these sources of energy and, on the other hand, that they can be found all over the globe. Using
our research we can even say where oil could be found in Sweden, says Vladimir Kutcherov, a
professor at the Division of Energy Technology at KTH. Together with two research colleagues,
Vladimir Kutcherov has simulated the process involving pressure and heat that occurs naturally in
the inner layers of the earth, the process that generates hydrocarbon, the primary component in oil
and natural gas. According to Vladimir Kutcherov, the findings are a clear indication that the
oil supply is not about to end, which researchers and experts in the field have long feared.

He adds that there is no way that fossil oil, with the help of gravity or other forces, could
have seeped down to a depth of 10.5 kilometers in the state of Texas, for example, which is rich
in oil deposits. As Vladimir Kutcherov sees it, this is further proof, alongside his own research
findings, of the genesis of these energy sources that they can be created in other ways than via
fossils. This has long been a matter of lively discussion among scientists. There is no doubt that
our research proves that crude oil and natural gas are generated without the involvement of
fossils. All types of bedrock can serve as reservoirs of oil, says Vladimir Kutcherov.
Note: The research work of Kutcherov and others on this topic was recently published in the
scientific journal Nature Geoscience. For more reports from reliable sources on key new energy
discoveries, click here.

World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few

2009-08-26, Inside Science News/American Institute of Physics
http://www.livescience.com/culture/090826-stock-market.html
A recent analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries has revealed that the world's
finances are in the hands of just a few mutual funds, banks, and corporations. This is the first clear
picture of the global concentration of financial power, and ... the worldwide financial system's
vulnerability. A pair of physicists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich did a
physics-based analysis of the world economy as it looked in early 2007. Stefano Battiston and
James Glattfelder extracted the information from the tangled yarn that links 24,877 stocks and
106,141 shareholding entities in 48 countries, revealing what they called the "backbone" of each
country's financial market. The most pared-down backbones exist in Anglo-Saxon countries,
including the U.S., Australia, and the U.K.. The biggest fish was the Capital Group Companies,
with major stakes in 36 of the 48 countries studied. The results raise questions of where and when
a company could choose to exert this influence. Glattfelder added that the internationalism of
these powerful companies makes it difficult to gauge their economic influence. "[With] company
structures which are so big and spanning the globe, it's hard to see what they're up to and
what they're doing, he said. Large, sparse networks dominated by a few major companies
could also be more vulnerable, he said. "In network speak, if those nodes fail, that has a big
effect on the network." The results will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Physical
Review E.
Note: For a treasure trove of revelations about the realities of the global financial structure, click
here.

Obama's Science Czar Considered Forced Abortions, Sterilization as

Population Growth Solutions
2009-07-21, Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/21/obamas-science-czar-considered-for...

President Obama's "science czar," John Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions,
"compulsory sterilization," and the creation of a "Planetary Regime" that would oversee human
population levels and control all natural resources as a means of protecting the planet -controversial ideas his critics say should have been brought up in his Senate confirmation hearings
... as director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. It appears that the
senators who scrutinized him had no knowledge of the contents of a textbook he co-authored in
1977, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment. The 1,000-page course book, which
was co-written with environmental activists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, discusses and in one
passage seems to advocate totalitarian measures to curb population growth, which it says
could cause an environmental catastrophe. Holdren and his co-authors spend a portion of the
book discussing possible government programs that could be used to lower birth rates. Holdren's
office issued a statement to FOXNews.com denying that the ecologist has ever backed any of the
measures discussed in his book. Holdren's co-authors, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, said in a statement
that they were "shocked at the serious mischaracterization of our views and those of John
Holdren," caused by what they called misreadings of the book.

Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele 'created twin town in Brazil'

2009-01-21, The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/4307262/Nazi-an...
The Nazi doctor Josef Mengele is responsible for the astonishing number of twins in a small
Brazilian town, an Argentine historian has claimed. The steely hearted "Angel of Death", whose
mission was to create a master race fit for the Third Reich, was the resident medic at Auschwitz
from May 1943 until his flight in the face of the Red Army advance in January 1945. His task was
to carry out experiments to discover by what method of genetic quirk twins were produced and
then to artificially increase the Aryan birthrate for his master, Adolf Hitler. Now, a historian claims,
Mengele's notorious experiments may have borne fruit. For years scientists have failed to discover
why as many as one in five pregnancies in a small Brazilian town have resulted in twins most of
them blond haired and blue eyed. But residents of Candido Godoi now claim that Mengele
made repeated visits there in the early 1960s, posing at first as a vet but then offering
medical treatment to the women of the town. Shuttling between Argentina, Paraguay and
Brazil, he managed to evade justice before his death in 1979, but his dreams of a Nazi master
race appeared unfulfilled. In a new book, Mengele [in Spanish], the Argentine historian Jorge
Camarasa, a specialist in the post-war Nazi flight to South America, has painstakingly pieced
together the Nazi doctor's mysterious later years. After speaking to the townspeople of Candido
Godoi, he is convinced that Mengele continued his genetic experiments with twins with startling
results.
Note: For more about Josef Mengele, and his relationship with the CIA, click here.

Psychiatric Group Faces Scrutiny Over Drug Industry Ties

2008-07-12, New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/12/washington/12psych.html?partner=rssuserland...
It seemed an ideal marriage, a scientific partnership that would attack mental illness from all sides.
Psychiatrists would bring ... their expertise and clinical experience, drug makers would provide
their products and the money to run rigorous studies, and patients would get better medications,
faster. But now the profession itself is under attack in Congress, accused of allowing this
relationship to become too cozy. After a series of stinging investigations of individual doctors
arrangements with drug makers, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, is
demanding that the American Psychiatric Association, the fields premier professional
organization, give an accounting of its financing. "I have come to understand that money from
the pharmaceutical industry can shape the practices of nonprofit organizations that purport to be
independent in their viewpoints and actions," Mr. Grassley said. In 2006 ... the drug industry
accounted for about 30 percent of the associations $62.5 million in financing. One of the
doctors named by Mr. Grassley is the associations president-elect, Dr. Alan F. Schatzberg of
Stanford, whose $4.8 million stock holdings in a drug development company raised the senators
concern. Commercial arrangements are rampant throughout medicine. In the past two decades,
drug and device makers have paid tens of thousands of doctors and researchers of all specialties.
Worried that this money could taint doctors research plans or clinical judgment, government
agencies, medical journals and universities have been forced to look more closely at deal details.
Note: For many powerful reports of corporate corruption, click here.

First British human-animal hybrid embryos created by scientists

2008-04-02, The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/apr/02/medicalresearch.ethicsofscience
Britain's first human-animal hybrid embryos have been created, forming a crucial first step,
scientists believe, towards a supply of stem cells that could be used to investigate debilitating and
so far untreatable conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's and motor neurone
disease. Lyle Armstrong, who led the work, gained permission in January from the Human
Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to create the embryos, known as "cytoplasmic
hybrids". His team at Newcastle University produced the embryos by inserting human DNA from a
skin cell into a hollowed-out cow egg. An electric shock then induced the hybrid embryo to grow.
The embryo, 99.9% human and 0.1% other animal, grew for three days, until it had 32 cells.
Eventually, scientists hope to grow such embryos for six days, and then extract stem cells from
them. The researchers insisted the embryos would never be implanted into a woman and that the
only reason they used cow eggs was due to the scarcity of human eggs. Cardinal Keith O'Brien
used his Easter sermon to denounce what he called experiments of "Frankenstein
proportion" and called the bill a "monstrous attack on human rights, human dignity and
human life". Catholics object to the idea of putting human and animal DNA in the same entity and
to the notion of creating what they regard as a life for the purposes of research, a life that will then
be destroyed.

Note: For more on this important issue, click here.

Science a la Joe Camel

2006-11-26, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR20061124007...
At hundreds of screenings this year of "An Inconvenient Truth," the first thing many viewers said
after the lights came up was that every student in every school in the United States needed to see
this movie. The producers of former vice president Al Gore's film about global warming ... certainly
agreed. So the company that made the documentary decided to offer 50,000 free DVDs to the
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). It seemed like a no-brainer. In their e-mail
rejection, they expressed concern that ... they didn't want to offer "political" endorsement of the
film; and they saw "little, if any, benefit to NSTA or its members" in accepting the free DVDs. As for
classroom benefits, the movie has been enthusiastically endorsed by leading climate scientists
worldwide, and is required viewing for all students in Norway and Sweden. But there was one
more curious argument in the e-mail: Accepting the DVDs, they wrote, would place "unnecessary
risk upon the [NSTA] capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters." One of those
supporters, it turns out, is the Exxon Mobil Corp. That's the same Exxon Mobil that for more
than a decade has done everything possible to muddle public understanding of global
warming and stifle any serious effort to solve it. It has run ads in leading newspapers ...
questioning the role of manmade emissions in global warming, and financed the work of a small
band of scientific skeptics who have tried to challenge the consensus that heat-trapping pollution is
drastically altering our atmosphere. NSTA says it has received $6 million from the company
since 1996. Exxon Mobil has a representative on the group's corporate advisory board.

Slaves to American medicine

2006-09-10, London Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2338130_1,00.html
In 1972, the Tuskegee experiments on black people shocked the world. Now, a new report reveals
that the official inquiry was a cover-up. The [syphilis] "trial," conducted between 1932 and 1972,
involved 400 black sharecroppers. The Tuskegee "volunteers" were not to be treated, either with
Salvarsan or even antibiotics after their discovery. Ignorant of the true goal of the trial, the
participants were destined to be living, and dying, examples of the terrible course of the untreated
illness. Tuskegee, after its exposure in the media in 1972, thus became a byword in America for
racist medical experimentation. Soon after the Tuskegee revelations, fault was admitted, apologies
made. Yet in time, historians of medicine, sociologists and social anthropologists began to play
down the scandal. Tuskegee, they argued, was an understandable error, given the absence of
viable antidotes in the 1930s. But renewed outrage over Tuskegee is about to explode with an
investigation entitled Medical Apartheid, to be published in the US early next year. The publichealth historian Harriet Washington will reveal ... that the Tuskegee trial was even more
inhumane and morally degenerate than previously suspected. The role of Nurse Eunice

Rivers became crucial. Above all, her task, aided by the study's doctors, was to ensure that the
syphilitic men would receive no treatment, despite the extraordinary advances in treatment from
the 1940s onwards. "By 1955," according to Washington, "nearly one-third of the autopsied men
had died directly of syphilis and many of the survivors were suffering its deadliest complications."
Note: For lots more on the history humans used as guinea pigs in experiments by government:
http://www.WantToKnow.info/humanguineapigs
and
http://www.WantToKnow.info/mindcontrollers10pg#human

Medical research increasingly funded by industry

2006-03-17, Reuters/Princeton Media Associates
http://princetoncme.com/news.php?story=20060317prof001
From 1994 to 2003, medical research funded by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies
steadily increased and now surpasses research funded by government or public sources,
according to a review of the most frequently cited studies. In the new study, reported in the March
17th online issue of the British Medical Journal, the sponsorship of 289 articles...was determined.
Overall, 60% of articles had government or public funding and 36% were funded by industry.
However, this masks the dramatic rise in industry funding that occurred over time: in 1994,
roughly 30% of articles were funded by industry compared with over 50% in 2001.
Moreover, 65 of the 77 most cited randomized controlled trials involved industry funding.
"Medical research should reflect public needs more closely and the efforts of all of those involved
should be better coordinated," the authors emphasize.

Biologists Call for Halt to Gene Editing Technique in Humans

2015-03-19, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/science/biologists-call-for-halt-to-gene-ed...
A group of leading biologists on Thursday called for a worldwide moratorium on use of a
new genome-editing technique that would alter human DNA in a way that can be inherited.
Ethicists, for decades, have been concerned about the dangers of altering the human germline
meaning to make changes to human sperm, eggs or embryos that will last through the life of the
individual and be passed on to future generations. Until now, these worries have been theoretical.
But a technique invented in 2012 makes it possible to edit the genome precisely and with much
greater ease. The technique has already been used to edit the genomes of mice, rats and
monkeys, and few doubt that it would work the same way in people. Though such a
moratorium would not be legally enforceable and might seem unlikely to exert global influence,
there is a precedent. In 1975, scientists worldwide were asked to refrain from using a method for
manipulating genes, the recombinant DNA technique, until rules had been established. We asked
at that time that nobody do certain experiments, and in fact nobody did, to my knowledge, said Dr.
Baltimore, who was a member of the 1975 group. The new genome-editing approach was invented
by Jennifer A. Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, and Emmanuelle Charpentier of

Umea University in Sweden. Many ethicists have accepted the idea of gene therapy, changes that
die with the patient, but draw a clear line at altering the germline, since these will extend to future
generations.
Note: Is this voluntary moratorium enough to stay the hand of our corrupt scientific establishment?

Deception at Duke: Fraud in cancer care?

2012-02-12, CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57376073/deception-at-duke-fraud-in-can...
Chemotherapy can be a tough road for people with cancer, often debilitating and even dangerous.
Which is why five years ago, when Duke University announced that it had an advanced,
experimental treatment that would match chemotherapy to a patient's own genetic makeup, it was
hailed as the holy grail of cancer care. The scientist behind the discovery was Dr. Anil Potti, and
soon Dr. Potti became the face of the future of cancer treatment at Duke, offering patients a better
chance even with advanced disease. However, when other scientists set out to verify the
results, they found many problems and errors. Duke's so-called breakthrough treatment
wasn't just a failure -- it may end up being one of the biggest medical research frauds ever.
Dr. Potti resigned from Duke. He faces an investigation into research misconduct. These days,
he's working as a cancer doctor in South Carolina. And if you look online, you will see that he is
celebrated for "his significant contribution to the arena of lung cancer research." The websites
were created with the help of an online reputation consultant, perhaps to put the best face on the
available data.
Note: For lots more from major media sources on corruption in scientific research and publication,
click here.

Ghostwritten medical articles called fraud

2011-08-02, CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/08/02/ghostwriting-medical-legal-fra...
It's fraudulent for academics to give their names to medical articles ghostwritten by pharmaceutical
industry writers, say two Canadian law professors who call for potential legal sanctions. Studies
suggest that industry-driven drug trials and industry-sponsored publications are more likely to
downplay a drug's harms and exaggerate a drug's virtues, said Trudo Lemmens, a law professor
at the University of Toronto. The integrity of medical research is also harmed by ghostwritten
articles, he said. Ghostwriting is part of marketing that can distort the evidence on a drug,
Lemmens said. Industry authors are concealed to insert marketing messages and academic
experts are recruited as "guest" authors to lend credibility despite not fulfilling criteria for
authorship, such as participating in the design of the study, gathering data, analyzing the results
and writing up of the findings. Lemmens and his colleague Prof. Simon Stern argue that legal
remedies are needed for medical ghostwriting since medical journals, academic institutions and

professional disciplinary bodies haven't succeeded in enforcing sanctions against the practice.
Ghostwritten publications are used in court to support a manufacturer's arguments about a drug's
safety and effectiveness, and academic experts who appear as witnesses for pharmaceutical and
medical device companies also boost their credibility with the publications on their CV, Lemmens
said.
Note: For a respected doctor's powerful analysis of fraud in the pharmaceutical industry, click
here. For lots more from reliable sources on key health issues, click here.

U.S. Says Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patents

2010-10-30, The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/business/30drug.html
Reversing a longstanding policy, the federal government said on [October 29] that human
and other genes should not be eligible for patents because they are part of nature. The new
position could have a huge impact on medicine and on the biotechnology industry. The new
position was declared in a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Department of Justice ... in a case
involving two human genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer. We acknowledge that this
conclusion is contrary to the longstanding practice of the Patent and Trademark Office, as well as
the practice of the National Institutes of Health and other government agencies that have in the
past sought and obtained patents for isolated genomic DNA, the brief said. The issue of gene
patents has long been a controversial [one]. Opponents say that genes are products of nature, not
inventions, and should be the common heritage of mankind. They say that locking up basic genetic
information in patents actually impedes medical progress. Proponents say genes isolated from the
body are chemicals that are different from those found in the body and therefore are eligible for
patents. In its brief, the government said it now believed that the mere isolation of a gene, without
further alteration or manipulation, does not change its nature.
Note: This is great news. To see how patents have been used in scary ways to promote global
monopolies, watch this documentary.

Inquisition at JPL
2008-01-16, Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten16jan16,0,2608869.story
For the last four years, two robot rovers operated from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada
Flintridge have been moving across the surface of Mars, taking photographs and collecting
information. It's an epic event in the history of exploration, one of many for which JPL's 7,000
civilian scientists and engineers are responsible -- when they're not fending off the U.S.
government's attempts to conduct an intimidating and probably illegal inquisition into the intimate
details of their lives. The problem began -- as so many have -- in the security mania that gripped
the Bush administration after 9/11. Presidential Directive No. 12, issued by the Department of

Homeland Security, directed federal agencies to adopt a uniform badge that could be used by
employees and contractors to gain access to government facilities. NASA Administrator Michael
Griffin ... directed Caltech, which has a contract to run JPL for NASA, to make sure all of the lab's
employees complied. The government demanded that the scientists, in order to get the badges, fill
out questionnaires on their personal lives and waive the privacy of their financial, medical and
psychiatric records. The government also wanted permission to gather information about them by
interviewing third parties. Twenty-eight of JPL's senior scientists sued in federal court to stop
the government and Caltech from forcing them to agree to the background checks as the
price of keeping their jobs. They point out that Griffin is one of those who remain skeptical that
human actions contribute to global warming, and that some of JPL's near-Earth science has
played a critical role in establishing the empirical case to the contrary. They see the background
checks as the first step toward establishing a system of intimidation that might be used to
silence inconvenient science.
Note: For many disturbing reports on threats to our civil liberties, click here.

Science hopes to change events that have already occurred

2007-01-21, San Francisco Chronicle/New Scientist magazine
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/21/ING5LNJSBF1.DTL
Common sense tells us that influencing the past is impossible -- what's done is done, right? Even if
it were possible, think of the mind-bending paradoxes it would create. While tinkering with the past,
you might change the circumstances by which your parents met, derailing the key event that led to
your birth. Such are the perils of retrocausality, the idea that the present can affect the past, and
the future can affect the present. Strange as it sounds, retrocausality ... has been debated for
decades, mostly in the realm of philosophy and quantum physics. Trouble is, nobody has done the
experiment to show it happens in the real world, so the door remains wide open for a
demonstration. It might even happen soon. Researchers are on the verge of experiments that will
finally hold retrocausality's feet to the fire by attempting to send a signal to the past. It should all be
doable with the help of a state-of-the-art optics workbench and the bizarre yet familiar tricks of
quantum particles. If retrocausality is confirmed -- and that is a huge if -- it would overturn
our most cherished notions about the nature of cause and effect and how the universe
works.

New Publishing Rules Restrict Scientists

2006-12-13, CBS News/Associated Press
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/13/ap/tech/mainD8M075VO0.shtml
The Bush administration is clamping down on scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, the latest
agency subjected to controls on research that might go against official policy. New rules require
screening of all facts and interpretations by agency scientists who study everything from
caribou mating to global warming. The rules apply to all scientific papers and other public

documents, even minor reports or prepared talks. Some agency scientists, who until now have
felt free from any political interference, worry that the objectivity of their work could be
compromised. The new requirements state that the USGS's communications office must be
"alerted about information products containing high-visibility topics or topics of a policy-sensitive
nature." The agency's director, Mark Myers, and its communications office also must be told -prior to any submission for publication -- "of findings or data that may be especially newsworthy,
have an impact on government policy, or contradict previous public understanding." In 2002, the
USGS was forced to reverse course after warning that oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge would harm the Porcupine caribou herd. One week later a new report
followed, this time saying the caribou would not be affected.

NIH: Scientists Escape Ethics Punishment

2006-09-12, CBS News/Associated Press
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/12/ap/tech/mainD8K3IQO00.shtml
Most of the federal scientists who improperly accepted personal money from drug or
biotechnology companies walked away with reprimands or were allowed to retire
unscathed. Only two of the 44 scientists found to have violated rules governing private consulting
deals are being investigated for possible criminal activity, and they remain on the government
payroll. NIH spokesman John Burklow said his agency wanted eight others reviewed for possible
crimes, but those cases were rejected by the investigating office at the U.S. Health and Human
Services Department. The two still outstanding...both committed "serious misconduct," so grave
that they would be fired if they were civilians, NIH internal ethics reports contend. [A
Congressional] subcommittee is expected to question NIH officials about documents showing it
approved several taxpayer-paid trips for [Dr. Trey] Sunderland to attend conferences and events in
places like Hawaii and Toronto, even after recommending his firing. Of the 44 alleged
offenders...the majority received reprimands or warnings for failing to properly obtain approvals for
their outside consulting work. NIH ethics reports allege...two scientists had unauthorized,
unreported deals with drug companies -- Sunderland earning more than $600,000 over eight years
for consulting and speeches and [Dr. Thomas] Walsh more than $100,000 in five years -- and that
their consulting improperly overlapped with government duties.
Note: The Los Angeles Times later reported that Dr. Sunderland was the first NIH scientist in 14
years to be found guily of conflict of interest laws. For more vital information on major collusion
between
government
and
the
pharmaceutical
companies:
http://www.WantToKnow.info/healthcoverup.

Allegations of Fake Research Hit New High

2005-07-10, MSNBC/AP
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8474936

Doctors accused of making up data in medical studies. Allegations of misconduct by U.S.

researchers reached record highs last year as the Department of Health and Human Services
received 274 complaints - 50 percent higher than 2003 and the most since 1989 when the federal
government established a program to deal with scientific misconduct. Chris Pascal, director of the
federal Office of Research Integrity, said its 28 staffers and $7 million annual budget haven't kept
pace with the allegations. The result: Only 23 cases were closed last year. Of those, eight
individuals were found guilty of research misconduct. In the past 15 years, the office has confirmed
about 185 cases of scientific misconduct. Research suggests this is but a small fraction of all
the incidents of fabrication, falsification and plagiarism. In a survey published June 9 in the
journal Nature, about 1.5 percent of 3,247 researchers who responded admitted to
falsification or plagiarism. (One in three admitted to some type of professional
misbehavior.)

Obsession: Mr. Singh's Search for the Holy Grail

2004-10-01, Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/futurecar/19b09aa138b84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrc...
[Somender Singh] claims that his invention makes an engine cleaner, quieter and colder...while
using up to 20 percent less gas. So far, all Singhs invention has earned him is a few polite
rejection letters from presidents, professors and auto manufacturers. I am...no man with letters
after his name or fancy institutions, and what I have invented is really very simple, he admits.
Remember that the internal combustion engine is itself hardly rocket science. The internal
combustion engine (ICE) has been with us for about 200 years. The basic conceptthe boom that
turns a crankhas not really changed at all. The efficiency of that bang had stalled out at around
28 percent. The vast majority of the fuel was dissipated as engine heat or exhaust. Singh knew
that ... the combustion chamber [was where] fuel was turned to bang. He modified a motorcycle,
then a two-stroke, then a four-stroke, then a car, then 50 cars. Singh applied for a patent in
January 1999, and the U.S. Patent Office issued him No. 6237579 in May 2001. Finally he was
allowed to bring his engines and hook them to a Benz EC-70 dynamometer with a five-gas
analyzer and a Benz gravimetric fuel-measuring device. At between 2,000 and 2,800 rpm, Singhs
modified engine used between 10 and 42 percent less fuel than its unmodified twin, with no
appreciable losses in torque or power.
Note: After posting a message on a group of high-school students who achieved dramatic
improvements in car engine efficiency two weeks ago, we received emails from more than ten
people claiming to have made or know of similar inventions. The above article was sent as
evidence in one case. Dozens of other cases that could be real. For Mr. Singh's website, see
http://www.somender-singh.com. For lots more, click here.

Mistakes in Scientific Studies Surge

2011-08-10, Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB100014240527023036271045764118506665820...
It was the kind of study that made doctors around the world sit up and take notice: Two popular
high-blood-pressure drugs were found to be much better in combination than either alone.
Unfortunately, it wasn't true. Six and a half years later, the prestigious medical journal the Lancet
retracted the paper, citing "serious concerns" about the findings. The damage was done. Doctors
by then had given the drug combination to well over 100,000 patients. Instead of protecting them
from kidney problems, as the study said the drug combo could do, it left them more vulnerable to
potentially life-threatening side effects, later studies showed. Today, "tens of thousands" of patients
are still on the dual therapy, according to research firm SDI. When a study is retracted, "it can be
hard to make its effects go away," says Sheldon Tobe, a kidney-disease specialist at the University
of Toronto. And that's more important today than ever because retractions of scientific studies are
surging. Since 2001, while the number of papers published in research journals has risen
44%, the number retracted has leapt more than 15-fold, data compiled for The Wall Street
Journal by Thomson Reuters reveal. Just 22 retraction notices appeared in 2001, but 139 in 2006
and 339 last year
Note: To learn lots more of how the medical industry puts profit above public health, click here.

Japan unearths site linked to human experiments

2011-02-21, The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/21/japan-excavates-site-human-experi...
Authorities in Japan have begun excavating the former site of a medical school that may contain
the remains of victims of the country's wartime biological warfare programme. The school has links
to Unit 731, a branch of the imperial Japanese army that conducted lethal experiments on
prisoners as part of efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction. The Japanese government
has previously acknowledged the unit's existence but refused to discuss its activities, despite
testimony from former members and growing documentary evidence. Unit 731, based in Harbin in
northern China, conducted experiments on tens of thousands of mostly Chinese and Korean
prisoners, and a small number of Allied prisoners of war. Some historians estimate up to 250,000
people were subjected to experiments. According to historical accounts, male and female
prisoners, named "logs" by their torturers, were subjected to vivisection without
anaesthesia after they had been deliberately infected with diseases such as typhus and
cholera. Some had limbs amputated or organs removed. Leading members of the unit were
secretly granted immunity from prosecution in return for giving US occupation forces
access to years of biological warfare research. Some went on to occupy prestigious positions
in the pharmaceutical industry, health ministry and academia.
Note: The US granted immunity to both German and Japanese researchers involved in highly
cruel medical experiments which tortured and murdered victims in order to perfect mind control
and more. For powerful documentation on this, see our two-page summary available here, and lots
more at this link.

Nuclear Ambitions: Amateur Scientists Get a Reaction From Fusion

2008-08-18, Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121901740078248225.html
In the garage of his house, Frank Sanns spends nights tinkering with one of his prized
possessions: a working nuclear-fusion reactor. Mr. Sanns, 51 years old, is part of a small
subculture of gearheads, amateur physicists and science-fiction fans who are trying to build fusion
reactors in their basements, backyards and home laboratories. Mr. Sanns ... believes he's on track
to make fusion a viable power source. "I'm a dreamer," he says. Many of these hobbyists call
themselves "fusioneers," and have formed a loosely knit community that numbers more than 100
world-wide. Getting into their elite "Neutron Club" requires building a tabletop reactor that
successfully fuses hydrogen isotopes and glows like a miniature star. Only 42 have
qualified; some have T-shirts that read "Fusion -- been there...done that." Called fusors and
based on a 1960s design first developed by Philo T. Farnsworth, an inventor of television, the
reactors are typically small steel spheres with wires and tubes sticking out and a glass window for
looking inside. But they won't be powering homes anytime soon -- for now, fusors use far more
energy than they produce. But the allure is strong. A fusion power plant would likely be fueled by
deuterium and tritium, both isotopes of hydrogen that are in plentiful supply. Fusion advocates say
reactors would be relatively clean, generating virtually no air pollution and little long-lived
radioactive waste. Today's nuclear power plants, in contrast, are fission-based, meaning they split
atoms and create a highly radioactive waste that can take millennia to decompose.
Note: How strange that this article seems to accept table-top nuclear fusion as a fact, when
mainstream science supposedly debunked this possibility two decades ago. For lots more on
infinite energy posibilities, click here.

Engineer Society Accused of Cover-Ups

2008-03-25, Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Associated Press
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-gen/ap/National/Embattled_Engineers.html
After the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and the levee failures caused by Hurricane
Katrina in 2005, the federal government paid the American Society of Civil Engineers to investigate
what went wrong. Critics now accuse [ASCE] of covering up engineering mistakes ... and
using the investigations to protect engineers and government agencies from lawsuits. In
the World Trade Center case, critics contend the engineering society wrongly concluded
skyscrapers cannot withstand getting hit by airplanes. The Federal Emergency Management
Agency paid the group about $257,000 to investigate the World Trade Center collapse. In 2002,
the society's report on the World Trade Center praised the buildings for remaining standing long
enough to allow tens thousands of people to flee. But, the report said, skyscrapers are not typically
designed to withstand airplane impacts. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, a structural engineer and
forensics expert, contends his computer simulations disprove the society's findings that
skyscrapers could not be designed to withstand the impact of a jetliner. Astaneh-Asl, who received
money from the National Science Foundation to investigate the collapse, insisted most New York

skyscrapers built with traditional designs would survive such an impact. He also questioned the
makeup of the society's investigation team. On the team were the wife of the trade center's
structural engineer and a representative of the buildings' original design team. "I call this moral
corruption," said Astaneh-Asl, who is on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
Note: For a revealing two-page summary of many unanswered questions about 9/11 raised by
major media sources, click here.

U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Findings

2005-02-10, Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scientists10feb10,0,4954...
More than 200 scientists employed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say they have been
directed to alter official findings to lessen protections for plants and animals, a survey released
Wednesday says. More than half of the biologists and other researchers who responded to the
survey said they knew of cases in which commercial interests, including timber, grazing,
development and energy companies, had applied political pressure to reverse scientific
conclusions deemed harmful to their business.
Note: If the above link fails, click here.

CIA doctors face human experimentation claims

2009-09-02, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/02/cia-usa
Doctors and psychologists the CIA employed to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of terror
suspects came close to, and may even have committed, unlawful human experimentation, a
medical ethics watchdog has alleged. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a not-for-profit group
that has investigated the role of medical personnel in alleged incidents of torture at Guantnamo,
Abu Ghraib, Bagram and other US detention sites, accuses doctors of being far more involved
than hitherto understood. PHR says health professionals participated at every stage in the
development, implementation and legal justification of what it calls the CIA's secret "torture
programme". The most incendiary accusation of PHR's latest report, Aiding Torture, is that doctors
actively monitored the CIA's interrogation techniques with a view to determining their effectiveness,
using detainees as human subjects without their consent. The report concludes that such data
gathering was "a practice that approaches unlawful experimentation". Human
experimentation without consent has been prohibited in any setting since 1947 [with] the
Nuremberg Code, which resulted from the prosecution of Nazi doctors. In April, a leaked
report from the International Committee of the Red Cross found that medical staff employed by the
CIA had been present during waterboarding, and had even used what appeared to be a pulse
oxymeter, placed on the prisoner's finger to monitor his oxygen saturation during the procedure.

PHR is calling for an official investigation into the role of doctors in the CIA's now widely
discredited programme. It wants to know exactly how many doctors participated, what they did,
what records they kept and the science that they applied.
Note: To watch a video of a Democracy Now! segment on the PHR report, click here. For
astounding information on how MDs participated in the CIA's mind control experiments in the past,
click here.

FDA Faulted for Approving Studies of Artificial Blood

2008-04-29, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR20080428010...
A new analysis concludes that the Food and Drug Administration approved experiments with
artificial blood substitutes even after studies showed that the controversial products posed a clear
risk of causing heart attacks and death. The review of combined data from more than 3,711
patients who participated in 16 studies testing five different types of artificial blood, released
yesterday, found that the products nearly tripled the risk of heart attacks and boosted the chances
of dying by 30 percent. Based on the findings, the researchers questioned why the FDA allowed
additional testing of the products to go forward and why the agency is considering letting yet
another study proceed. "It's hard to understand," said Charles Natanson, a senior
investigator at the National Institutes of Health who led the analysis. "They already had data
that these products could cause heart attacks and evidence that they could kill." An artificial
blood substitute that has a long shelf life and does not need refrigeration could save untold lives by
providing an alternative to trauma patients in emergencies, especially in rural areas and in combat
settings. But attempts to develop such products have been marred by repeated failures and
fraught with controversy, in part because some products have been studied under rules allowing
researchers to administer them without obtaining consent from individual patients. After the
Washington-based consumer group Public Citizen sued the FDA to gain access to data submitted
to the agency, Natanson and colleagues at NIH and Public Citizen pooled data from studies
conducted between 1998 and 2007.
Note: For a treasure trove of reports from reliable, verifiable sources on government corruption,
click here.

Timeline: Porton Down Laboratory

2008-01-31, BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3744110.stm
The Ministry of Defence's announcement that it is to award 3m in compensation to 360 veterans
of chemical weapons tests has put the spotlight on the Science and Technology Laboratory at
Porton Down. 1916: Building work begins at Porton Down ... to create an experimental base for
research into chemical warfare. 1920: Large-scale expansion of the site begins, initially focusing

on the effects of mustard gas - experiments in which thousands of volunteers were to participate.
1940: After the outbreak of war, a secret group is set up at Porton Down to investigate biological
warfare. 1945: Thousands of military personnel had taken part in trials at Porton Down during
World War II. As the war ended, volunteers began participating in nerve-agent trials there - a
practice that was to continue until 1989. 1953: Leading Aircraftman Ronald Maddison
participates in chemical experiments at Porton Down. Within an hour of being given sarin,
he is dead. Military chiefs conduct an inquest in secret. Verdict: misadventure. 1989: Nerveagent trials at Porton Down cease. 2002: Ministry of Defence (MoD) helpline set up to enable
Porton Down veterans to find out more about the trials they were involved in. 2004: Fresh inquest
into the 1953 death of Ronald Maddison returns a verdict of unlawful killing. The MoD [only two
years later] admits "gross negligence". 2008: The BBC learns of a 3m out-of-court settlement
between the MoD and veterans, under which the [360] ex-servicemen will each receive 8,300 and
an apology ... without admission of liability.
Note: The military has repeatedly condoned horrendous research on live subjects. For a revealing
list of highly unethical experimentation on human over the past 75 years, click here. For a concise
summary of the government's secret quest to control the mind and human behavior no matter what
the cost, click here.

Basic Instincts: The Science of Evil

2007-01-03, ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2765416
"Primetime" wanted to know if ordinary people today would still follow orders, even if they believed
their actions were causing someone else pain. Would as many follow the seemingly dangerous
and painful orders as in the original experiment [conducted by Stanley Milgram at Yale in 1963]?
After contacting respected psychologist Jerry Burger at Santa Clara University in California, ABC
News was able to replicate Milgram's study in a modified way. Burger said, "People have often
asked the question, 'Would we find these kinds of results today?' and some people try to dismiss
the Milgram findings by saying, 'That's something that happened back in the '60s. People aren't
like that anymore.'" In ABC News' version of the Milgram experiment, we tested 18 men, and
found that 65 percent of them agreed to administer increasingly painful electric shocks
when ordered by an authority figure. 22 women signed up for our experiment. Even though
most people said that women would be less likely to inflict pain on the learner, a surprising
73 percent yielded to the orders of the experimenter. Out of the 30 people we tested with an
additional accomplice acting as a moral guide, 63 percent still inflicted electric shocks, even
though the accomplice refused to go on. Our subjects had an unusually high level of education.
22.9 percent had some college, 40 percent had bachelor's degrees and 20 percent had master's
degrees.
Note: For more on the famous Milgram experiment, click here. For powerfully inspiring information
on how we can change this and build a better world, click here.

2 Studies Point to Common Pesticide as a Culprit in Declining Bee

Colonies
2012-03-30, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/science/neocotinoid-pesticides-play-a-role-...
Scientists have been alarmed and puzzled by declines in bee populations in the United States and
other parts of the world. They have suspected that pesticides are playing a part, but to date their
experiments have yielded conflicting, ambiguous results. In Thursdays issue of the journal
Science, two teams of researchers published studies suggesting that low levels of a common
pesticide can have significant effects on bee colonies. One experiment, conducted by French
researchers, indicates that the chemicals fog honeybee brains, making it harder for them to find
their way home. The other study, by scientists in Britain, suggests that they keep bumblebees from
supplying their hives with enough food to produce new queens. The authors of both studies
contend that their results raise serious questions about the use of the pesticides, known as
neonicotinoids. I personally would like to see them not being used until more research has
been done, said David Goulson, an author of the bumblebee paper who teaches at the
University of Stirling, in Scotland. If it confirms what weve found, then they certainly
shouldnt be used when theyre going to be fed on by bees. Environmentalists say that both
studies support their view that the insecticides should be banned. The insecticides, introduced in
the early 1990s, have exploded in popularity; virtually all corn grown in the United States is treated
with them. Neonicotinoids are taken up by plants and moved to all their tissues including the
nectar on which bees feed.
Note: For many disturbing reports from reliable sources on the mysterious mass deaths of
animals, click here.

Panel Criticizes U.S. Effort on Nanomaterial Risks

2008-12-11, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/science/11nano.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pag...
In a sweeping critique ... an expert panel of the National Research Council said the federal
government was not doing enough to identify potential health and environmental risks from
engineered nanomaterials. Nanomaterials are engineered on the scale of a billionth of a meter,
perhaps 1/10,000 the width of a human hair. They are turning up in a range of items including
consumer products like toothpaste and tennis rackets and industrial products like degreasers or
adhesives. But some experts say they may pose health or environmental risks. For example,
researchers in Scotland reported this year that carbon nanotubes may pose the same
health risks as asbestos. Industry wants to run with it, said Andrew D. Maynard, chief
science adviser to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson Institute,
who was the chairman of the panel. But he added, one of the big barriers at the moment is
understanding how to use it safely. The panel analyzed the risk research strategy of the
National Nanotechnology Initiative, the program to coordinate federal efforts in nanotechnology
research and development. Its report concluded that the initiatives strategy does not present a

vision, contain a clear set of goals, have a plan of action for how the goals are to be achieved, or
describe mechanisms to review and evaluate funded research and assess whether progress has
been achieved. An informal coalition of environmental and business organizations praised the
report, saying that for three years they had been urging the federal government to do more to
assess potential health and environmental effects of nanomaterials.
Note: For many important articles on health issues from reliable sources, click here.

Plum Island Reports Disease Outbreak

2004-08-22, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/22/nyregion/plum-island-reports-disease-outbre...
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed last week that the highly contagious foot-andmouth virus had briefly spread within the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in two previously
undisclosed incidents earlier this summer. The incidents and their belated public disclosure raised
new questions about laboratory safety and communications to the public. In a letter to the
laboratory director, Beth Lautner, dated Aug. 2, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and
Representative Timothy Bishop of Southampton said they were alarmed that the two incidents had
taken place within a one-month span. A spokesman for the department, said the virus had
remained within the laboratory's sealed biocontainment area. Asked why the department did not
make a public announcement of the events, Mr. Tighe said: "It was within the laboratory
environment, safely sealed in biocontainment. This was really an operational issue." Plum
Island is the only location in the United States where research on the foot and mouth virus is
legally permitted. In 1978, a foot and mouth outbreak among animals in pens outside the
laboratory resulted in new procedures for keeping animals used in research inside the
biocontainment area. Since taking over the laboratory just over a year ago, Homeland Security had
been emphasizing its intention to keep the public informed. But department officials apparently did
not heed calls from elected officials to disclose the two incidents sooner.
Note: At the northernmost tip of Long Island, Plum island sits directly across from the town of
Lyme, Conn., famous as the epicenter of the Lyme disease outbreak. For a powerful, multiple
award-winning film showing shocking ignorance and even political corruption on the part of the
medical community about the Lyme disease epidemic spreading across the US and even around
the world, click here. It shows evidence that Lyme may be even the cause of many cases of ALS,
Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's disease.

Doctors Who Aid Torture

2010-06-08, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/opinion/08tue1.html

Disturbing new questions have been raised about the role of doctors and other medical
professionals in helping the Central Intelligence Agency subject terrorism suspects to harsh
treatment, abuse and torture. The Red Cross previously documented, from interviews with
high-value prisoners, that medical personnel helped facilitate abuses in the C.I.A.s
enhanced interrogation program during the Bush administration. Now Physicians for Human
Rights has suggested that the medical professionals may also have violated national and
international laws setting limits on what research can be performed on humans. The groups
report focused particularly on a few issues where medical personnel played an important role
determining how far a harsh interrogation could go, providing legal cover against prosecution and
designing future interrogation procedures. In the case of waterboarding, a technique in which
prisoners are brought to the edge of drowning, health professionals were required to monitor the
practice and keep detailed medical records. Their findings led to several changes, including a
switch to saline solution as the near-drowning agent instead of water, ostensibly to protect
the health of detainees who ingest large volumes of liquid but also, the group says, to allow
repeated use of waterboarding on the same subject.
Note: For lots more from reliable sources on the unlawful actions of US intelligence and military
forces in the "global war on terror," click here.

Repairing the brain: Why we're living in an age of neuroscience

2015-02-09, The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/repairin...
The endless adaptability of the human brain is summed up by the term "neuroplasticity". A few
decades ago, scientists thought the brain was relatively fixed. It was also believed that different
areas of the brain had their own specialities and didn't veer from these. Now we know that ... new
neurons do grow. New neural pathways can be formed and, when disease or damage occurs
in one part of the brain, cortical maps can be redrawn to make up for lost function. [Norman]
Doidge, a Canadian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is the master of explaining how the brain's
plasticity can be harnessed to improve the symptoms of brain-related disorders, ranging
from stroke to autism. Doidge [identifies] stages of healing [the brain]: corrections of general
cellular functions of the neurons and glia, neurostimulation, neuromodulation, neurorelaxation and
neurodifferentiation and learning. The first stage [is] about restoring brain cell health. Doidge says
that he has seen patients with depression, bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder "make
major progress by eliminating toxins and certain foods, such as sugar and grains, that they were
sensitive to". Neurostimulation is when "dormant circuits in the hurt brain" are stimulated. This is
followed by neuromodulation, where the brain is reset so that it's neither too excited nor too
inhibited. Brain disorders often leave the person exhausted, so relaxation is an important part of
recovery. Neurodifferentiation and learning is ... the stage when the brain does "what it does best"
which is, apparently, "making fine distinctions".
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Hemp fibres 'better than graphene'

2014-08-13, BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28770876
"People ask me: why hemp? I say, why not?" said Dr David Mitlin of Clarkson University, New
York, who describes his device in the journal ACS Nano. "We're making graphene-like materials
for a thousandth of the price - and we're doing it with waste. ... the leftover bast fibre - the inner
bark - typically ends up as landfill. "You can do really interesting things with bio-waste. We've
pretty much figured out the secret sauce of it," said Dr Mitlin. The trick is to tailor the right plant
fibre to the right electrical device - according to their organic structure. "With banana peels, you
can turn them into a dense block of carbon - we call it pseudo-graphite - and that's great for
sodium ion batteries," he explained. "But if you look at hemp fibre its structure is the opposite - it
makes sheets with high surface area - and that's very conducive to supercapacitors." Mitlin's peerreviewed journal paper ranks the device "on par with or better than commercial graphene-based
devices". "They work down to 0C and display some of the best power-energy combinations
reported in the literature for any carbon. Fully assembled, their energy density is 12 Wh/kg, which
can be achieved at a charge time less than six seconds. "Obviously hemp can't do all the
things graphene can," Dr Mitlin concedes. "But for energy storage, it works just as well.
And it costs a fraction of the price $500-1,000 a tonne."
Note: For more about the amazing properties of graphene, read this CNN News Article.

Livermore Lab - perception versus reality

2011-06-28, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/28/EDRD1K37RR.DTL
Look at the Department of Energy's 2012 budget request for the Livermore Lab and it becomes
apparent that PR has an inverse relationship to budget. Some 89 percent of the funds are for
nuclear weapons activities. Yet, more than 89 percent of the press releases showcase
programs like renewable energy and science that receive less than 3 percent of the
spending. This has caused many to believe that Livermore Lab is converting from nuclear
weapons to civilian science. A major consequence of the chasm between public perception and
where the money actually goes is that science at Livermore continues to exist on the margins underfunded, understaffed and at the mercy of the 800-pound gorilla of the nuclear weapons
budget. Consider the many benefits of transitioning Livermore from nuclear-weapons design to a
"green lab," focused on nonpolluting energy development, climate research, basic sciences,
nonproliferation and environmental cleanup. Livermore Lab is uniquely qualified to contribute in
these areas. The lab already employs the right mix of physicists, other scientists, engineers,
materials specialists, and support personnel for these undertakings.
Note: To learn more about how the public is being massively deceived around war and weapons
spending, read what a top U.S. general had to say about this at this link.

Military's Social Science Grants Raise Alarm

2008-08-03, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/02/AR20080802015...
The Pentagon's $50 million Minerva Research Initiative, named after the Roman goddess of
wisdom and warriors, will fund social science research deemed crucial to national security. Initial
proposals were due July 25, and the first grants are expected to be awarded by year's end. But the
Network of Concerned Anthropologists ... said dependence on Pentagon funding could make
universities an "instrument rather than a critic of war-making." In a May 28 letter to federal officials,
the American Anthropological Association said that ... its members are "deeply concerned that
funding such research through the Pentagon may pose a potential conflict of interest." David Price,
an anthropologist at St. Martin's University in Lacey, Wash., and the author of a book on
anthropological intelligence in World War II, [said] the Pentagon effort is flawed. "It sets up sort of
a Soviet system, or top-down system," Price said. "If you look at the big picture, this will
not make us smarter -- this will make us much more narrow. It will only look at problems
Defense wants us to in a narrow way." Recently, the Army's Human Terrain System has
embedded social scientists in military units in Iraq and Afghanistan with the aim of helping
commanders understand local culture and customs. The project has drawn criticism from many
academics. Two scholars have been killed. The Network of Concerned Anthropologists, which
describes itself as an advocate for ethical anthropology, said the research topics could "contribute
to creating more national and human insecurity by trafficking in the construction of . . . a
connection between Islam and violence."
Note: For many revealing reports on government corruption from reliable sources, click here.

EPA toxicologist was dismissed after industry complained

2008-02-29, San Francisco Chronicle/Los Angeles Times
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/29/MNK3VB80B.DTL
Under pressure from the chemical industry, the Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed
an outspoken scientist who chaired a federal panel responsible for helping the agency determine
the dangers of a flame retardant widely used in electronic equipment. Toxicologist Deborah Rice
was appointed chair of an EPA scientific panel reviewing the chemical a year ago. Federal records
show that she was removed from the panel in August after the American Chemistry Council, the
lobbying group for chemical manufacturers, complained to a top-ranking EPA official that she was
biased. The chemical, a brominated compound known as deca, is [commonly] used in the plastic
housings of television sets. Rice, an award-winning former EPA scientist ... has studied low doses
of deca and reported neurological effects in lab animals. The EPA is in the process of deciding how
much daily exposure to deca is safe - a decision, expected next month, that could determine
whether it can still be used in consumer products. The role of the expert panel was to review and
comment on the scientific evidence. Sonya Lunder, a senior analyst at the Environmental Working
Group, an advocacy group in Washington, said it was unprecedented for the EPA to remove an

expert for expressing concerns about the potential dangers of a chemical. "It's a scary world if
we create a precedent that says scientists involved in decision-making are perceived to be
too biased," she said. In 2004, the EPA gave Rice and four colleagues an award for what it
called "exceptionally high-quality research" for a study that linked lead exposure to
premature puberty in girls.
Note: For many revealing articles on government corruption, click here.

Medical Journal Says It Was Again Misled

2006-07-12, New York Times/Associated Press
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/health/13jama.html?ex=1310443200&en=a20364b...
For the second time in two months, The Journal of the American Medical Association says it was
misled by researchers who failed to reveal financial ties to drug companies. The latest incident,
disclosed in letters to the editor and a correction in Wednesday's journal, involves a study showing
that pregnant women who stop taking antidepressants risk slipping back into depression. Most of
the 13 authors have financial ties to drug companies including antidepressant makers, but
only two of them revealed their ties when the study was published in February.
Note: To understand how the drug companies manipulate results and even exert tremendous
influence over the U.S. Congress, see http://www.WantToKnow.info/healthcoverup

Science accuses BBC of medical quackery

2006-03-26, London Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2104024,00.html
Some of Britains leading scientists have accused the BBC of quackery by misleading viewers in
an attempt to exaggerate the power of alternative medicine. The criticisms centre on Alternative
Medicine, a series broadcast on BBC2 in January. The key critics include two scientific advisers to
the series: Edzard Ernst, professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University; and George
Lewith, director of the centre for the study of complementary medicine at Southampton University.
Lewith, an expert on the effects of acupuncture, said in an interview yesterday: The experiment
was not groundbreaking; its results were sensationalised. A [BBC] spokesman said yesterday:
We take these allegations very seriously and we strongly refute them. We used two scientific
consultants for the series, Professor Ernst and Jack Tinker, dean emeritus of the Royal Society of
Medicine, both of whom signed off the programme scripts. It seems extremely unusual that
Professor Ernst should make these comments so long after the series has aired. The
spokesman said Tinker had indicated he remained happy with the tone and content of the films,
stating: Fellow medics at the Royal Society, including one eminent professor, said it was the best
medical series they had seen on television.

Quantum Trickery: Testing Einstein's Strangest Theory

2005-12-27, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/27/science/27eins.html?ex=1293339600&en=caf5d8...
The idea that measuring the properties of one particle could instantaneously change the properties
of another one (or a whole bunch) far away is strange to say the least. The team that pulled off the
beryllium feat...hailed it as another step toward computers that would use quantum magic to
perform calculations. But it also served as another demonstration of how weird the world
really is according to the rules, known as quantum mechanics. Nary a week goes by that
does not bring news of another feat of quantum trickery once only dreamed of in thought
experiments: particles (or at least all their properties) being teleported across the room in a
microscopic version of Star Trek beaming; electrical "cat" currents that circle a loop in opposite
directions at the same time; more and more particles farther and farther apart bound together in
Einstein's spooky embrace now known as "entanglement." At the University of California, Santa
Barbara, researchers are planning an experiment in which a small mirror will be in two places at
once. Anton Zeilinger of the University of Vienna said that he thought, "The world is not as
real as we think.
Note: Consider also that top secret projects are generally at least 10 years in advance of anything
reported in the news or scientific magazines. We can only imagine what these projects might be
doing.

Junketing Judges: A Case of Bad Science

2006-06-04, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR20060602014...
Just how far will corporate lobbyists go to tilt governmental decisions in their favor? Last fall, the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Clean Air Act does not
require regulating carbon dioxide emissions that are heating up the planet at an unprecedented
rate. It turns out that two of the jurists who helped decide the case -- Chief Judge Douglas H.
Ginsburg and Judge David B. Sentelle -- attended a six-day global warming seminar at
Yellowstone National Park sponsored by a free-market foundation and featuring presentations
from companies with a clear financial interest in limiting regulation. Exxon Mobil Corp. and other
large businesses contribute to conservative think tanks to help "educate" federal judges
through seminars like the one at Yellowstone. The Code of Conduct for federal judges does not
prohibit attending such seminars -- as long as participation does not "cast reasonable doubt on the
capacity to decide impartially issues that may come before them." Leaders of Congress and the
federal courts seem to recognize that the federal judiciary ought to be out of bounds for lobbyists.
Judges are appointed for life, and allowing insider access threatens the integrity of the one branch
of government that should stand above politics. Court cases must be won by argument, not by
influence, and that means putting a stop to judicial junkets that give one side of the debate an
unfair advantage.

Steorn and free energy: the plot thickens

2006-08-19, Houston Chronicle Science Blog
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/08/steorn_and_free_1.html
Steorn has now posted a slick, five-minute video that features interviews with company
CEO Sean McCarthy as well as the company's marketing director. For more background, see
our earlier discussion. The video's slick, and not too heavy on scientific detail. But it's worth
checking out. It does begin to explain the company's motivations for choosing to issue a challenge
in the Economist. McCarthy: "The first roadblock is science. With the academic community, it might
take five to seven years before being able to get to a consensus position. As a business, that
makes absolutely no sense." The video explains that a "quiet" campaign was plan A. The direct
marketing approach currently being taken is Plan B. McCarthy: "The claim does rail against so
much thinking from ordinary people. We have to fight public opinion, we have to fight the scientific
community and we have to fight the energy industry. We couldn't pick a worse battleground."
Note: For lots more on the many who have developed similar discoveries and how they have been
either bought out or shut down, click here.

Medical Ethics Lapses Cited in Interrogations

2010-06-07, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/world/07doctors.html
Medical professionals who were involved in the Central Intelligence Agencys interrogations of
terrorism suspects engaged in forms of human research and experimentation in violation of
medical ethics and domestic and international law, according to a new report from a human rights
organization. Doctors, psychologists and other professionals assigned to monitor the C.I.A.
s use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other enhanced interrogation
techniques gathered and collected data on the impact of the interrogations on the
detainees in order to refine those techniques. But, by doing so, the medical professionals
turned the detainees into research subjects, according to the report ... published on [June 7] by
Physicians for Human Rights. There was no therapeutic purpose or intent to monitor and
collect this data, said Jonathan D. Moreno, a professor of medical ethics at the University of
Pennsylvania. You cant use people as laboratories.
Note: To read the full report from Physicians for Human Rights, "Experiments in Torture: Human
Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the Enhanced Interrogation
Program", click here.

EPA approves new pesticide despite scientists' concerns

2007-10-06, Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pesticide6oct06,0,2247860.story

Despite the protests of more than 50 scientists, including five Nobel laureates in chemistry, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday approved use of a new, highly toxic fumigant,
mainly for strawberry fields. The new pesticide, methyl iodide, is designed for growers, mainly in
California and Florida, who need to replace methyl bromide, which has been banned under an
international treaty because it damages the Earth's ozone layer. In a letter sent last month to EPA
Administrator Stephen Johnson, 54 scientists, mostly chemists, warned that "pregnant
women and the fetus, children, the elderly, farmworkers and other people living near
application sites would be at serious risk." Methyl iodide is a neurotoxin and carcinogen
that has caused thyroid tumors, neurological damage and miscarriages in lab animals. But
EPA officials said Friday that they carefully evaluated the risks and decided to approve its use for
one year, imposing restrictions such as buffer zones to protect farmworkers and neighbors.
Growers, particularly those who grow strawberries and tomatoes, have been searching for 15
years for a new soil fumigant to replace methyl bromide. Fumigants are valuable to growers
because they can be injected into the soil before planting to sterilize the field and kill a broad
spectrum of insects and diseases without leaving residue on crops. But fumigants are among the
most potentially dangerous pesticides in use today because the toxic gas can evaporate from the
soil, exposing farmworkers and drifting into neighborhoods. Methyl iodide ... will be allowed on
fields growing strawberries, tomatoes, peppers, ornamentals, turf, trees and vines.

Woman With Perfect Memory Baffles Scientists

2006-03-20, ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1738881&page=1
[AJ] remembers every day and almost every detail of her life. James McGaugh is one of the
world's leading experts on how the human memory system works. But these days, he admits he's
stumped. McGaugh's journey through an intellectual purgatory began six years ago when a
woman now known only as AJ wrote him a letter detailing her astonishing ability to remember with
remarkable clarity even trivial events that happened decades ago. Give her any date...and she
could recall the day of the week, usually what the weather was like on that day, personal
details of her life at that time, and major news events that occurred on that date. Like any
good scientist, McGaugh was initially skeptical. But not anymore. "This is real," he says. "In order
to explain a phenomenon you have to first understand the phenomenon," McGaugh says. "We're
at the beginning."
Note: The human mind and spirit are much more powerful than many scientists might imagine.

Drug Find Shocks Researchers: In Antipsychotics, Newer Isn't Better

2006-10-03, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/02/AR20061002013...

Schizophrenia patients do as well, or perhaps even better, on older psychiatric drugs compared
with newer and far costlier medications, according to a study published yesterday that overturns
conventional wisdom about antipsychotic drugs, which cost the United States $10 billion a year.
The results are causing consternation. The researchers who conducted the trial were so
certain they would find exactly the opposite that they went back to make sure the research
data had not been recorded backward. The study was requested by Britain's National Health
Service to determine whether the newer drugs -- which can cost 10 times as much as the older
ones -- are worth the difference in price. While the researchers had expected a difference of five
points on a quality-of-life scale -- showing the newer drugs were better -- the study found that
patients' quality of life was slightly better when they took the older drugs. There has been a surge
in prescriptions of the newer antipsychotic drugs in recent years, including among children. In an
editorial accompanying the British study, the lead researcher in the U.S. trial asked how an entire
medical field could have been misled into thinking that the expensive drugs, such as Zyprexa,
Risperdal and Seroquel, were much better.
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