Where There's PR Smoke, There's Grassfire.org, Dude
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Columnist Dimitri Vassilaros received a news release about a grassroots "petition to stop climate alarmism" and attacking Al Gore's work.
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Pill Shills and Marketing Ills
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
"Prozac Nation: Revisited," a show that aired on U.S. National Public Radio member stations, "featured four prestigious medical experts discussing the controversial link between antidepressants and suicide. ... All four said that worries ...
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Heartland Takes their Skepticism North of the Border
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Industry Encourages More Regulation, USDA Declines
Submitted by Judith Siers-Poisson on
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been criticized for not totally banning "downer" cows -- animals "too sick or hurt to stand for slaughter" -- from the food supply. So "when a coalition of major industry groups reversed their position and joined animal advocates and several lawmakers in calling for an absolute ban," why wouldn't the USDA agree?
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Painting Bottled Water Green
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
"Suppose, for example, that you own a company that sells bottled water," which is "shipped, in its little plastic bottles, ten thousand miles from the bottling plant to the consumer," writes Steve Burns. "Could you possibly 'brand' such a product as eco-friendly?" If the company is FIJI Water, you'll try.
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The Fudge on Sludge
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
David Lewis, a University of Georgia professor and former Environmental Protection Agency scientist, is suing officials at his university for publishing allegedly fraudulent research funded by the federal government.
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Unhealthy Practices at Public Hospitals
Submitted by Bob Burton on
At an inquiry into the problems facing cash-strapped public hospitals in New South Wales, Australia, neurologist Dr Suzanne Hodgkinson explained that doctors sought financial support of drug companies. "I had insufficient clerical support and so as to try and remedy that I approached a company to help me with that on a temporary, part-time basis. ... Quite a few senior doctors do try to raise money to help with the provision of services," she said. Hodgkinson raised A$20,000 for the position, but would not name the drug company funder.
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Ultraviolet Without the Sunlight
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
A review article published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) suggested that tanning at the beach or an indoor tanning booth can help avoid the dangers of vitamin D deficiency. However, the NEJM didn't disclose that the article's author, Michael Holick, has received more than $150,000 in research funding from the artificial tanning industry.
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Scientists Speak out Against Government Interference
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So Much for Feeding the World
Submitted by Judith Siers-Poisson on
The biotechnology industry has invoked the need for genetically modified (GM) crops to meet the growing global food crisis.
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