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Central Figure in CDC Vaccine Safety Studies Investigated for Fraud

Tony Isaacs
NaturalNews
Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00 UTC
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One of the central figures in the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) claims about vaccine safety is reported to be under investigation by Danish police after almost $2 million turned up missing that was supposed to have been spent on research. Dr. Poul Thorsen, one of the researchers involved in two highly publicized autism reports published in the influential New England Journal of Medicine, was accused of fraud last month by Aarhus University in Denmark.

According to reports, Thorsen's fraud was uncovered as the result of an investigation by the university where he worked and CDC. The investigation found that Thorsen had falsified documents and, in violation of university rules, was accepting salaries from both the Danish university and Emory University. At Emory University, which is located in Atlanta near CDC headquarters, Thorsen led research efforts to defend the role of vaccines in causing autism and other neurological disorders.

Thorsen was a leading member of a Danish research group that wrote several key studies supporting CDC's claims that the MMR vaccine and other mercury-laden vaccines were safe for children. Thorsen's 2003 Danish study concluded that mercury could not be the culprit behind the increase in autism. In the study, Thorsen noted a 20-fold increase in autism in Denmark after that country banned mercury based preservatives in its vaccines.
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Glutathione: The Mother of All Antioxidants

Dr. Mark Hyman
Huffington Post
Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:47 UTC
It's the most important molecule you need to stay healthy and prevent disease - yet you've probably never heard of it. It's the secret to prevent aging, cancer, heart disease, dementia and more, and necessary to treat everything from autism to Alzheimer's disease. There are more than 89,000 medical articles about it - but your doctor doesn't know how address the epidemic deficiency of this critical life-giving molecule ...

What is it? I'm talking about the mother of all antioxidants, the master detoxifier and maestro of the immune system: GLUTATHIONE (pronounced "gloota-thigh-own").

The good news is that your body produces its own glutathione. The bad news is that poor diet, pollution, toxins, medications, stress, trauma, aging, infections and radiation all deplete your glutathione.

This leaves you susceptible to unrestrained cell disintegration from oxidative stress, free radicals, infections and cancer. And your liver gets overloaded and damaged, making it unable to do its job of detoxification.
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Unusual Appetite: A look at a mysterious disorder

Marc Mooney
In Session
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:22 UTC
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Kalamazoo, Michigan- A doctor testified that Calista Springer likely had pica, a disorder in which a person eats non-food substances.

Pica comes from the Latin word for "magpie," a bird known to eat nearly anything. Cravings can include dirt, chalk, ashes and paint. Children with pica normally grow out of it, but its effects can be shocking. An In Session viewer wrote to us about caring for a child with pica. She said the child "ate nearly an entire couch cushion."
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FDA Will Review Safety of Common Antibacterial in Soap, Toothpaste


The Huffington Post
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:41 UTC
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The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing the safety of a widely used chemical found in antibacterial soap, toothpaste and other consumer goods.

The agency said Thursday in an online statement it is looking into recent studies showing the chemical triclosan can alter hormone levels in animals. Other studies suggest the chemical increases bacterial resistance to antibiotics.

The FDA says it currently has no evidence that triclosan is hazardous to humans and does not recommend consumers avoid it. However, the agency said there is no evidence that soap with triclosan is superior to soap without the ingredient.
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Behind Bullying: Why Kids Are So Cruel

Stephanie Pappas
LiveScience
Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:52 UTC
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According to reports by fellow students, the last few months of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince's life were filled with unrelenting torment.

Classmates at the Irish immigrant's Massachusetts high school called Prince a "whore" and an "Irish slut," students said. They defaced her school photo with obscene drawings, sent her threatening text messages and whispered - or shouted - insults in school hallways. On Jan. 14, witnesses say, she was taunted by a group of classmates in the library and hit with a can of Red Bull thrown from a moving car. That afternoon, Prince went home and hanged herself with a scarf.

Nine students have now been charged with harassment and other bullying-related crimes, spurring national debate about the role of the justice system and the culpability of the school administration. But Prince's case raises another, more elemental question: Why are kids so cruel?
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You Want Chicken Poop With That Steak? Why FDA Should Ban Feces From Feed

David Kirby
legal-sleaze.com
Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:05 UTC
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One of the most revolting things I learned while researching my new book Animal Factory is that some cattle are fattened on rations that include chicken manure. Poultry excrement is loaded with urea, which bovine stomachs are adept at converting into lean, ready-to-grill protein.

We feed chicken manure to cattle because it's cheap; and because we produce far too much of it to properly dispose of as fertilizer.

Today's "broiler" chickens are raised at record speed in massive, mechanized barns that cram tens of thousands of birds into a single confinement. Broilers live just eight weeks. But in that short time, their endless fecal droppings (birds don't urinate) mix into a bedding of wood chips and other material, yielding a thick "cake" of litter that's scraped from the barn after each flock is removed.
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SOTT Focus: How We Can Make Mass Global Enlightenment Happen For Real

Sott Editors
Sott.net
Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:44 UTC
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A rather funny thing happened at the beginning of this month that involved a fictitious article penned by the little known but much loved Igantious O'Reilly for publication on April Fool's Day. The article, Sudden Mass American Enlightenment Puzzles Congress and Causes National Security Alert, very quickly became a hugely popular editorial that was picked up by thousands of alternative news websites, forums and discussion groups around the world.

What was it about this article that resonated with so many people?

In times such as these, the powers that be seem to be getting even more desperate to hold onto control and keep the wool pulled over our eyes. A message of hope that the world CAN change is a powerful one, provided that as many of us as possible wake up to the reality of the lies we have been told. We CAN collaborate by sharing our knowledge and joining together to form new communities that no longer feed the greedy, power-hungry ambitions of the psychopaths who are world leaders, financial oligarchs, and run or own multinational conglomerates.

To protect ourselves, what needs to be done is to wake up as many other people as possible. Only when a sufficient number of people are awake will they be able to awaken those around them. Then, and only then, will it be possible to form a united movement to simply remove all support from the psychopaths that have taken over our world and begin planning for the future of OUR children - rather than the offspring of the ruling psychopaths.
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Empathy and Violence Have Similar Circuits in the Brain


PhysOrg
Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:00 UTC
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© Alan CleaverEmpathy and violence have similar circuits in the brain.
Researchers from the University of Valencia, Spain, have resumed the brain structures involved with empathy, in other words the ability to put oneself in another person's position, and carried out a scientific review of them. They conclude that the brain circuits responsible for empathy are in part the same as those involved with violence.

"Just as our species could be considered the most violent, since we are capable of serial killings, genocide and other atrocities, we are also the most empathetic species, which would seem to be the other side of the coin", Luis Moya Albiol, lead author of the study and a researcher at the UV, tells SINC.

This study, published in the most recent issue of the Revista de Neurología, concludes that the prefrontal and temporal cortex, the amygdala and other features of the limbic system (such as insulin and the cingulated cortex) play "a fundamental role in all situations in which empathy appears".
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EPA Tightens Rules on Pesticide Linked to Deaths

Mike Stark
The Associated Press
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23 UTC
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© KSL-TV 5A 4-year-old Rebecca Toone and her 15-month-old sister died from complications with exposure to a pesticide in their Layton home.
Federal officials have moved quickly to clamp down on the use of potent rodent-killing pesticides after one was linked to the deaths of two Utah girls earlier this year.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said aluminum and magnesium fumigants can no longer be used near homes. The agency added other regulations about where they can be used outside and what kinds of warnings must be posted when the fumigants are applied.

EPA officials said Thursday they had planned to review the pesticides in the coming years as part of normal procedures.

"Obviously this tragedy in Utah kicked us into high gear," said Marty Monell, EPA's deputy director in the office of pesticide programs.
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FDA Finally Admits That Asthma Drugs Can Actually Cause Serious Asthma Attacks

Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews
Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00 UTC
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued new restrictions for four popular long-acting asthma drugs. Novartis AG's Foradil, GlaxoSmithKline's Serevent and Advair, and AstraZeneca's Symbicort, all contain an ingredient that relaxes airway muscles in the lungs which can cause asthma-related death. If not accompanied by other asthma drugs to offset this life-threatening side effect, the consequences could be fatal.

These drugs have long contained a label that reads, "increases risk of asthma-related death", but apparently this warning is not enough for this extreme class of medications. Known as long-acting beta-agonists (LABAs), these asthma drugs are used by roughly six million asthma sufferers to combat asthma symptoms. Ironically, LABAs are so dangerous that, if not combined with other asthma drugs, can actually cause an asthma attack.

It defies logic to try to figure out how asthma drugs that can kill people by causing severe asthma attacks are considered to be useful and effective medicine. Instead of pulling these dangerous drugs from the market entirely as it should, the FDA is ordering that stronger labels be affixed to warn doctors and physicians about the extreme risks associated with taking the drugs. It is unclear from the agency's press release exactly how it intends to strengthen the drugs' current death warning.
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