Life

 7 Mar (NATURAL NEWS) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture has recently deregulated Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfalfa, but two weeks before the department’s chief, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, made his decision, a senior soil expert alerted USDA to a newly discovered, microscopic pathogen that had been found in high concentrations in Roundup Ready corn and soy the researchers believe could be causing infertility in livestock, (more…)

28 Feb – Following a heart attack, many people struggle to recover fully.  The huge amounts of pills these patients have to take do not seem to help.  The medication often has the opposite effect from the intended.  Patients experience a loss of vitality, a lack of drive and suffer mood swings.  Some never recover, while (more…)

3 Feb (RETRACTION WATCH) – Regular Retraction Watch readers may find the name Grant Steen familiar.  Steen has published a number of important papers on retractions, most recently in PNAS.  Recently, he approached Retraction Watch for help with what sounds like another project that is likely to increase our understanding of misconduct in science:  Steen wants to gather the st (more…)

9 Jan (KPFK Radio) – Gary Null interviews investigative reporter Celia Farber, UC Berkeley Prof. Peter Duesberg PhD, Christian Fiala MD and OMSJ Director Clark Baker for an HIV update.  Peter Duesberg PhD is professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley.  He was the first to isolate a cancer gene through his w (more…)

1 Jan – Dr. Eben Alexander, a Harvard-educated neurosurgeon, fell into a coma for seven days in 2008 after contracting meningitis.  During his illness Dr. Alexander says that the part of his brain which controls human thought and emotion “shut down” and that he then experienced “something so profound that it gave me a scientific reason to believe in consc (more…)

6 Dec (NATURE) – The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. Between 2002 and 2011, it issued around 460,000 research grants totaling almost US$200 billion.  The NIH has unquestionably propelled numerous medical advances and scientific breakthroughs, and its funding makes much of today’s scientific research possible.  (more…)

2 Oct (NYTIMES) – Last year the journal Nature reported an alarming increase in the number of retractions of scientific papers — a tenfold rise in the previous decade, to more than 300 a year across the scientific literature.  Other studies have suggested that most of these retractions resulted from honest errors. But a deeper analysis of retractions, being published this week, challenges that comforting assumption. (more…)

8 Sep (THE AUSTRALIAN) – Once upon a time, being peer-reviewed simply meant you had written something, usually a journal article, and some other people in your profession had read it and considered it fit for publication.   Not any more.  (more…)

Despite her acquittal, Casey Anthony may be the most hated woman in America.  Our skepticism of her story doesn’t stem from the lack of evidence, for there was clearly not enough evidence to convict.  The fact is that children die.  So why are some parents charged criminally, while others are not?  Why do we sympathize with some parents more than we do with others? (more…)

19 APRIL (ARGENTINA) – The fact that politics, incompetence and corruption have replaced scientific integrity is nothing new.  Researchers like C. Glenn Begley and John Ioannidis have described how junk science permeates publishied reports, which has led indirectly to efforts like Timothy Gowers boycott against publishing giant Elsevier. (more…)

Two years ago, a group of Boston researchers published a study describing how they had destroyed cancer tumors by targeting a protein called STK33.  Scientists at biotechnology firm Amgen Inc. quickly pounced on the idea and assigned two dozen researchers to try to repeat the experiment with a goal of turning the findings into a drug. (more…)

In November 1961, I was five months old.  My family had no idea why their otherwise healthy baby boy had been born with short arms, twisted hands and no thumbs.  But by the end of that month, the truth was finally out in the open. (more…)

Last year, Prof. Susan Reverby reported on the recent history of human experimention in the US and Guatemala.  Prof. Reverby wrote that virologists “knew that secrecy, and even law-breaking was sometimes necessary to further research,” quoting the father of virology who later explained: (more…)

4 Oct 2011 – SANE Vax Inc. was organized to provide medical consumers with all of the information they need to make informed choices about vaccines, HPV vaccines in particular.  Dr. Sin Hang Lee, Director of Milford Medical Laboratory Inc. has been instrumental in SANE Vax” efforts to raise consumer awareness regarding (more…)

Film maker Brent Leung digs into his hundreds of hours of footage from House of Numbers to bring you a never-before-aired documentary that unravels the Junk Science called HIV and AIDS. (more…)

They died in their sleep one by one, thousands of miles from home. Their median age was 33. All but one — 116 of the 117 — were healthy men. Immigrants from southeast Asia, you could count the time most had spent on American soil in just months. At the peak of the deaths in the early 1980s, the death rate from this mysterious problem among the Hmong ethnic group was equivalent to the top five natural causes of death for other American men in their age group. (more…)

A new study released this week in the Journal of Neuroimmunology supports the increasing body of research pointing to autism as a medical – rather than a psychological – disorder, underscoring the importance of further investigation and open debate about (more…)

While the documentary House of Numbers (2009) continues to shock audiences around the world, the pharmaceutical industry continues to attack those who promote it.  In this unedited interview, Christian Fiala MD, Ph.D. describes what HIV and AIDS has meant to his patients in Europe and Africa. (more…)

18 May|AHRP – Public Citizen has petitioned FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg MD to immediately remove Pfizer’s Alzheimer’s drug, Aricept  23 mg dose from the market because of serious (more…)

In this newly-released documenary Laciencia del Panico (2011), filmmakers Isabel Otaduy Sömme and Patrizia Monzani allow allegedly “HIV-positive” (seropositive) people to explain – in their own words – why they refuse to take HIV medication and why they attribute their health to their refusal to take HIV drugs: (more…)

10 May | VA – An Arlington jury has returned a $1.5 million verdict for a woman who alleged that she suffered a stroke because a physician was negligent in providing in vitro fertilization therapy. (more…)

ATLANTA, GA – POUL THORSEN MD Ph.D, 49, of Denmark, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud and money laundering based on a scheme to (more…)

21 March|NY Times – Women participating in a study of patients with breast cancer have been inadvertently left with hundreds of tiny particles of the heavy metal tungsten in their breast tissue and chest muscles. The particles came from a device used during surgery. (more…)