If All Else Fails, Just Fool Them: How One Clinic Tricks Families Into Getting HPV Vaccines

If All Else Fails, Just Fool Them: How One Clinic Tricks Families Into Getting HPV Vaccines
Trickery And Danger: How One Clinic Fools Parents Into Getting HPV Vaccine For Their Daughters There is a long history in the U.S. and elsewhere of arrogance and high-handedness on the part of doctors. Some doctors, of course, not all. But still. There is a real risk of course of intelligent people who excel in the medical field lacking the people skills to properly interact with and explain themselves to patients; and sometimes patients are no doubt just as stupid as the ones portrayed on “House M.D.”… Read the rest

Strategy Is The Key To Healthy Eating: How To Stock Your Fridge For Success

Strategy Is The Key To Healthy Eating: How To Stock Your Fridge For Success
Healthy Eating Strategies And Stocking Your Fridge For Success It’s hard to maintain a healthy diet in this go-go world, but setting yourself up for success can go a long way toward keeping a healthy weight and avoiding unhealthy snacking. Part of the reason why garbage snack foods and fast food are so tempting is of course the documented truth that food manufacturers pay chemists lots and lots of money to concoct food formulae that are literally as addicting as possible through a combination of fats, salt and sugar.… Read the rest

Quasi-Slave Labor For Migrant Workers At Agrichemical Companies’ Facilities

Quasi-Slave Labor For Migrant Workers At Agrichemical Companies’ Facilities
Near-Slave Labor Conditions Still Exist Today In The U.S.: Workers For Big Ag Open Up About Horrors The litany of complaints against Monsanto and its brethren in the big agrichemical industry is lengthy and legitimate. Of course there are the seeds that are engineered to not self-reproduce, locking farmers in a cycle of debt; there are the chemicals, glyphosate which has blanketed the earth in its poison embrace, with over 8.6 billion kilograms (18 billion pounds) of the stuff having been sprayed in the U.S.… Read the rest

Monsanto’s Links To The Tools Of War: Forget Roundup–Here Is Where The Company Shows Its True, Deadly Colors

Monsanto’s Links To The Tools Of War: Forget Roundup–Here Is Where The Company Shows Its True, Deadly Colors
Monsanto And White Phosphorus: Company Is So Much Worse Than Roundup And GMOs As the proposed merger of Monsanto with Bayer continues to draw scrutiny, there are some facts we should revisit about Monsanto. It is somewhat fashionable these days to espouse a contrarian view of the agrichemical giant, a view that is no doubt heavily fueled by the company’s army of publicity flacks, both overt and hiding in plain sight in chat rooms and comment boards.… Read the rest

Mylan Reaps The Whirlwind: Senator Says EpiPen Scam Has Bilked Government Health Plans Out Of Hundreds Of Millions

Mylan Reaps The Whirlwind: Senator Says EpiPen Scam Has Bilked Government Health Plans Out Of Hundreds Of Millions
Billion Dollar Babies: EpiPen Company Mylan Made Over A Billion From Government Health Plans There’s a famous old book you may have heard of that has a line about sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind, meaning that which you put out in the world will come back to you a thousand-fold. That seems to be what is currently happening to the infamous Mylar corporation, the makers of the EpiPen.… Read the rest

In A Sea Of Unhealthy Choices, Some Are Worse For You Than Others: Foods To Avoid At All Cost

In A Sea Of Unhealthy Choices, Some Are Worse For You Than Others: Foods To Avoid At All Cost
Swimming In Unhealthy Food Choices, But Here Are Some Things To Avoid To Keep From Drowning It’s almost laughable how horrible for you the food is in a typical western diet. Or at least it would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic. You can’t drive down a main street in any U.S. town without being inundated with brightly colored signs advertising all manner of junk food–and that’s just the restaurants.… Read the rest

Holy Mixed Signals, Batman: U.S. Attorney General Admits Marijuana Not A Gateway Drug

Holy Mixed Signals, Batman: U.S. Attorney General Admits Marijuana Not A Gateway Drug
Mixed Signals Are Us: U.S. Attorney General Admits Marijuana Not A Gateway Drug And Opioids Are There is something so satisfying when a serial liar–or at least a serial lie–is finally called out for what it is. Especially if that comeuppance comes from their own mouth; that is the crown jewel of comeuppance, the most glorious kind there is. The only problem is that this sort of thing doesn’t often happen in real life.… Read the rest

The DEA Has Lost Its Damn Mind: Now Kratom Ban Is NOT Happening Immediately, But Likely Soon

The DEA Has Lost Its Damn Mind: Now Kratom Ban Is NOT Happening Immediately, But Likely Soon
Will Someone Please Test The DEA For Use Of Banned Substances? Now Kratom Ban NOT In Effect. It is a sad thing to witness, when someone’s mind starts to go. When logic and linear thinking seem to be too much, and complex thoughts go unfinished. It’s even sadder when it happens to an entire government agency. That’s what many observers are saying about the Drug Enforcement Agency these days, as the agency has had a series of weird and disjointed and poorly thought-out announcements that have left many scratching their heads.… Read the rest

From Cradle To Grave, We Belong To Monsanto Now: Glyphosate Found In Baby Food, Oatmeal

From Cradle To Grave, We Belong To Monsanto Now: Glyphosate Found In Baby Food, Oatmeal
From Cradle To Grave: Glyphosate Found In Baby Food, Oatmeal. We Are All Monsanto’s Children Now As regulators and investors begin to sort through the implications of Bayer’s proposed blockbuster merger with Monsanto, bad news continues to dog the agrichemical giant. For example, the normally supine Indian government, which never met a genetically modified seed it doesn’t like has suddenly sprouted a backbone and is putting up some pretty stiff resistance to Monsanto’s proposed introduction of GMO mustard seed there.… Read the rest

‘But What About The Children?’ They’re Doing Just Fine, Thank You: Fewer Teens Than Adults Smoke Marijuana

‘But What About The Children?’ They’re Doing Just Fine, Thank You: Fewer Teens Than Adults Smoke Marijuana
CDC Says The Kids Are All Right: Changing Marijuana Laws Have Had No Effect On Teen Marijuana Use The weird, wild ride of marijuana as an illegal substance in the U.S. appears to be coming to an end. There are currently 25 states that allow some form of legal, regulated medical marijuana use, along with four–Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska–that allow recreational use.… Read the rest