Back in 2011, Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) into law. Congress claimed the new law would overhaul the country’s food safety system. And, subsequently, prevent outbreaks [...]
Category: Dysfunctional Scientific Climate
Save yourself from a-salt and battery
Although it should be a settled issue by now, the great “war” against salt continues to rage in 2014. (Probably because the war helps keep a lot of political scientists and science bureaucrats [...]
The game is over for Roche and Tamiflu
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) try to tell us we can get over the flu faster by taking the antiviral drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir). They say the drug [...]
Dangers of smoking marijuana continue to emerge
Legalized marijuana continues to make headway in many parts of the country. But this growing culture of acceptance ignores the actual science. And the science tells us smoking marijuana is just [...]
Facts should always outweigh opinions, but they don’t
I often report on the government-industrial-medical complex. This powerful alliance apparently aims to discredit the value of nutritional supplementation. You see, this cumbersome complex doesn’t [...]
Is anyone really on watch?
Last Friday I told you about the FDA’s “watch list.” It can be a sham. And it usually amounts to nothing more than a slap on the wrist for the drug company. This appears true with Celexa, a [...]
Task Force findings taken to task
Healthy post-menopausal women should avoid taking low doses of vitamin D and calcium. These supplements don’t help prevent bone fractures. So says the government’s U.S. Preventive Services Task [...]
Watch out for these drugs
Over the past 50 years, there have been some true breakthroughs in medicine. And some of these even came from the pharmaceutical industry. Take a blood pressure drug like Losartan, for instance. [...]
Mission Impossible?
Greedy drug companies. Fake data. Drug recalls. Corrupt research scientists. We’ve seen it all from Big PHARMA in recent years. But not everyone on the inside has his head in the sand. Take, for [...]
Pinching pennies
Government officials (one hesitates to call them “leaders”) are twisting themselves into contortions to try to avoid going over the so-called “fiscal cliff” that will come about in January when [...]