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Psychiatric Drugs: An Assault on the Human Condition

Street Spirit

by Terry Messman with Robert Whitaker

August 19, 2005

Robert Whitaker, author of the Mad In America, is now pursuing a line of research into how the mammoth psychiatric drug industry is endangering the American public by covering up the effect antidepressants and antipsychotic medications.

Whitaker exposes the massive lies and cover-ups that have corrupted the Food and Drug Administration's drug review process, and co-opted research trials in order to spin the results of drug tests and conceal the serious hazards and even deadly side-effects of brand-name drugs like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and Zyprexa.

Autism - Cut The Crap

OpEdNews

by Evelyn Pringle

August 1, 2005

Officials within the FDA and CDC, are always claiming that researchers and scientists who conduct studies, not funded by drug companies or the government, are making unfounded claims about a link between thimerosal-laced vaccines and autism.

I say cut the crap.

Think about it. Why would so many highly respected scientists, researchers and physicians go to such great lengths to concoct bogus studies and issue false reports, in essence putting their professional reputations on the line, if their was no connection'

I want these officials to do two things. First I want them to give me one good reason why these professionals would make this up, and two, I want them to give me one logical alternative theory for the current epidemic of disorders.

Mercury Uprising

Evergreen Monthly

by Miryam Gordon

July 31, 2005

Like most of us, Christy Diemond didn’t announce, "I want to be a consumer advocate" when she was six years old. It started like it usually does, personally.

This mainstream mortgage broker and mother of two began feeling sick. She'd read a book about mercury poisoning, which stuck with her. Diemond decided to try having her (silver/mercury) amalgam fillings removed from her teeth and replaced with composites. The first time she went to a dentist, she didn't really feel any better afterward - but thought all the mercury was taken out. It actually took three more dentists and seven more years before she was able to verify that all the amalgam was really gone. Then she actually started feeling better. Diemond now has no more chronic fatigue, arthritis or cloudy thinking. It all stemmed from mercury poisoning.

Abortion float freaks out city's Halloween parade

World Net Daily (PA)

July 31, 2005

Fake bloody fetuses, mutilated body parts placing annual holiday event in jeopardy

While Halloween thrives on images of the gruesome and macabre, apparently abortion is over the edge for a Pennsylvania town which is considering axing its traditional holiday parade due to an abortion-related float.

Court affirms partial-birth ban unconstitutional

World Net Daily

July 8, 2005

Critics say judges 'fail to understand the barbarity of the procedure'

A federal appeals court today upheld a district court decision striking down the federal law banning partial-birth abortion. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in St. Louis agreed with a federal district court judge in Nebraska that the ban, passed by Congress in 2003, is unconstitutional because it does not contain an exception for the health of the mother.

Florida Prosecutors Receive Limbaugh's Medical Records

The New York Times (FL)

July 7, 2005

A Florida judge released some medical records of the conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh to prosecutors on Wednesday, allowing them to move forward in a long-stalled investigation into whether Mr. Limbaugh illegally bought painkillers.

The medical records have remained sealed since investigators seized them because Mr. Limbaugh appealed, arguing that the seizure violated his privacy rights. He lost at the circuit and appellate court levels, and the Florida Supreme Court declined to hear the case.

Aspirin, Vitamin E no help in cancer prevention

Xinhua

July 7, 2005

A 10-year study involving 40,000 women suggests that low-dose aspirin fails to prevent cancer and vitamin E does not have protective benefit againt heart attacks.

The findings on aspirin and vitamin E have been published in two reports in July 6 Journal of the American Medical Association. Both were based on data from the Women's Health Study, described as the largest undertaking of its kind involving the two substances.

Report of Ritalin Risks Prompts a Federal Study

The New York Times [Requires free subscription]

by Gardiner Harris

July 1, 2005

Federal health officials said Thursday that they were looking into a suggestion by a small Texas study that Ritalin and other stimulant drugs given to children might increase their risk of cancer later in life.

A team of experts from the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency went to Texas on May 23 to examine the methods used by the researchers, who found damage to the chromosomes of 12 children who took Ritalin for three months.

A Defeat For Users Of Medical Marijuana

Washington Post

by Charles Lane

June 23, 2005

Supreme Court ruled Monday that the federal government has the power to prosecute the use of marijuana for medical purposes even in states that have enacted their own laws permitting it.

By a vote of 6 to 3, the court ruled that Congress's constitutional authority to regulate the interstate market in drugs, licit or illicit, extends to small, homegrown quantities of doctor-recommended marijuana consumed under California's Compassionate Use Act, which was adopted by an overwhelming majority of voters in 1996.

Kiss Your Vitamins Goodbye!

News With Views

by Dr. Carolyn Dean

June 19, 2005

The U.S. Delegation to Codex has issued a formal statement to the Codex Alimentarius Commission that the US, during the July 4-9, 2005, meeting in Rome, will support compulsory rules.

The U.S. law that is about to be vanquished is the Dietary Supplement, Health and Education Act of 1994. Codex is a joint venture between the United Nation’s World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization. (WHO/FAO) The World Trade Organization (WTO) has already stated that it will enforce Codex “guidelines” as the world standard for trade in dietary supplements. This will mean that gradually, pill-by-pill, our access to the dietary supplements we depend on will disappear.

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