How Perfectly Healthy People Are Turned into Patients
Medical screening over-promises and under-delivers—dragging people with no health problems into the medical system.
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The Great Measles Misunderstanding
Medical texts described measles as a benign self-limiting childhood disease, nothing to worry about. But then the measles vaccine came out -- thus creating the Great Measles Misunderstanding.
When Half a Million Americans Died and Nobody Noticed
The number of deaths due to Vioxx may be half a million, not the 60,000 originally and semi-officially acknowledged. Alexander Cockburn brings his incisive political analysis to show that life is treated as cheap in America.
Science Is Corrupted – New Report (video)
Video based on Gaia Health’s article, Science Has Been Corrupted: Union of Concerned Scientists Claims in New Report:
Doctors’ Primary Source of Drug Info Is from Drug Sales Reps (video)
You would hope that doctors would generally take the time and trouble to do some research to find out the truth about drugs. Sadly, it's usually not the case.
It’s Happening Again – Only Now It’s Shell and a Massive Gas (Not Oil) Leak off Scotland’s Coast
"The stand-by vessel had identified the sea boiling, as it were, below the installation - suggesting there was gas coming up there and there was some kind of vapour cloud sitting on the surface of the sea."
Super Solar Flares Are Overdue: Mass Nuclear Plant Meltdowns Will Happen
This sounds like rabid fear mongering of the sort that governments are forever tossing out about influenza. But this is for real: We're overdue for massive solar flares - and they WILL cause meltdowns around the world.
Your Tax Dollars at Work Building Massive Spy Center to Control Citizens, Not Terrorists
The NSA is building a massive spy center for the sole purpose of spying on citizens.
People’s Lawyers Chosen by Judge in BP Gulf Gusher Case: Victims Sold Out
'Some deal. BP gets the gold mine and its victims get the shaft. And a few lawyers will get vacation homes–though they won’t be so stupid as to build them on the Gulf Coast.'
Government ‘may sanction nerve-agent use on rioters’, scientists fear
Is the UK planning to develop nerve agents to use against their own people? According to The Independent, scientists believe that's the plan.
The Coming Campaign Promises (cartoon)
The Coming Campaign Promises (cartoon)
The Real Meaning of Drug-Free Schools (cartoon)
The Real Meaning of Drug-Free Schools (cartoon)
The Perfect WTO Employee (cartoon)
The Perfect WTO Employee (cartoon)
The Real Victim of Marijuana (cartoon)
The Real Victim of Marijuana (cartoon)
Parasito Insurance (cartoon)
Parasito Insurance (cartoon)
