Author: TruthOpener

Controversial New Technology Allows Scientists To Doctor DNA Strands, May Sidestep GMO Regs

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Controversial New Technology Allows Scientists To Doctor DNA Strands, May Sidestep GMO Regs
Genetically Modified Franken-Fungus That Doesn’t Go Brown Stirs Controversy A genetically-modified mushroom created by scientists at Penn State University is at the center of controversy due to the use of new technology to modify the fungus’ genes directly, without injecting the DNA of other organisms into it. The ease with which the new technology, called CRISPR can rewrite gene code and the way the method will fit into the framework of GMO regulations is at the heart of the problem.… Read the rest

Colorado Amendment Seeks To Make The State The First Single-Payer State In The US–Draws Ire Of Big Insurance, Hospital Chains

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Colorado Amendment Seeks To Make The State The First Single-Payer State In The US–Draws Ire Of Big Insurance, Hospital Chains
Amendment In Colorado Seeks To Make State A Single-Payer Entity–Big Insurance And Hospitals Come Out Guns Blazing In Opposition Remember single-payer insurance? It was a dream many fought for back when Obama was ramping up healthcare reform–and which, not incidentally, Obama promised on the campaign trail but conveniently forgot in the face of big healthcare opposition. Well now the state of Colorado, famous for taking the lead on legalized recreational marijuana in the US, is blazing a new trail, so to speak, on insurance reform, with an amendment that would make them the first state to adopt a single-payer insurance system.… Read the rest

Labor MP Kate Ellis & Husband David Penberthy In Bed With Murdoch To Push Mandatory Vaccinations

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Labor MP Kate Ellis & Husband David Penberthy In Bed With Murdoch To Push Mandatory Vaccinations
Shame on you Kate Ellis. Medical records are supposed to be private. Stick a big x on unvaccinated kids foreheads next?  Photo courtesy of twitter Labor MP Kate Ellis mandatory vaccination push in bed with Mudoch Posted on May 26, 2016 by Freedom of Choice When a politician starts pushing a vaccine mandate there is usually a Murdoch pulling the strings. … Read the rest

Former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg Named In Wide-Ranging Lawsuit Over Drug Approval

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Former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg Named In Wide-Ranging Lawsuit Over Drug Approval
Former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg And Hedge Fund Husband Named In Lawsuit Over Levaquin. A lawsuit naming former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg as a defendant has been filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging that she pushed through approval of antibiotic Levaquin. The suit also names her husband, Peter Brown, who at the time of Hamburg’s tenure ran a hedge fund that was heavily invested in Johnson & Johnson, the manufacturer of Levaquin.… Read the rest

Zika Virus May Have Originated With Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In Dengue, Yellow Fever Study

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Zika Virus May Have Originated With Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In Dengue, Yellow Fever Study
Zika Virus May Have Originated With Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In Dengue, Yellow Fever Study The law of unintended consequences seems to dog the purveyors of all things genetically modified. Go figure, when you start tinkering with things that mother nature created over billions of years of slow evolution that our tiny human minds and limited vision might screw it up. But I digress.… Read the rest

Unprecedented: Germany Asks Belgium To Shut Down Nuclear Reactors, Citing Safety Concerns

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Unprecedented: Germany Asks Belgium To Shut Down Nuclear Reactors, Citing Safety Concerns
German Nuclear Inspectors Caution Belgium Over Two Reactors, Ask Them To Shut Down In Unprecedented Move The government of Germany has made an unprecedented request of neighboring Belgium and asked that two nuclear reactors be shut down, citing safety concerns. Belgium received a request from Germany to take its Engie SA’s Tihange-2 and Doel-3 atomic plants offline in order to address safety concerns, Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said Wednesday in an emailed statement.… Read the rest

What Won’t They Think Of Next? Monsanto Scientists Find A Way To Alter Insects Rna By Spraying Plants

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What Won’t They Think Of Next? Monsanto Scientists Find A Way To Alter Insects Rna By Spraying Plants
Monsanto Using RNA Spray To Alter The Genetic Makeup Of Insects, Seeks To Get Plants To Do The Same On Their Own. File under: Jesus Christ, here they go again. The evil geniuses at Monsanto have come up with yet another novel way to disrupt life as it has existed on this pale blue ball for billions of years, this time not by creating a laboratory-birthed crop seed, but by actually altering the genetic makeup of pest insects through a spray applied to crops.… Read the rest

Claire Lehmann: More Disgusting & Bias reporting from the ABC Drum Program

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Claire Lehmann: More Disgusting & Bias reporting from the ABC Drum Program
              Note: It’s very interesting to point out that the author of this ridiculous propaganda piece, Claire Lehmann has a huge conflict of interest. This ignorant author was paid to write this advertorial & According to her linked in profile she works as a communications officer for Sydney Children’s Hospital and National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance.… Read the rest

Australian Elementary School To Ban Hugs–Principal Says Fist Bumps More Appropriate

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Australian Elementary School To Ban Hugs–Principal Says Fist Bumps More Appropriate
Citing Personal Space Concerns, Australian Primary School Bans Hugging Every year, they get worse. No, not your neighbor’s raucous barbecues that always seem to devolve into shouting matches and breaking glass by nightfall. No, today we’re talking about the nanny state. Now, people have used this term to indicate many different kinds of authority overreach. But the truth is the term first came into use as people noticed how ridiculous schools and other entities who have authority over kids have become in their attempts to “protect” them.… Read the rest

Global Warming Is Making It Nicer In Winter; So Americans Unconcerned, According To New Study

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Global Warming Is Making It Nicer In Winter; So Americans Unconcerned, According To New Study
New Study Indicates More Pleasant Winter Weather Inoculates Americans From Global Warming Alarm Growing up in the northern part of the United States, during the dead of winter–those long, dark, cold gray days–when you catch an occasional sunny, warm day, you rejoice. The joke is that weather which in the summer would have you scrambling for your hoodie and long pants will get you running around in shorts and a t-shirt in January.… Read the rest