By the World Mercury Project team Stories about vaccines in the popular press tend to be unabashedly one-sided, generally portraying vaccination as a universal (and essential) “good” with virtually no down side. This unscientific bias is particularly apparent in news reports about measles, which often are little…
By Mike Maharrey DENVER, Colo. (Aug. 8, 2018) – Today, two laws that will further mainstream the state’s industrial hemp industry went into effect. Implementation of these new policies will likely pave the way for faster development of the state’s hemp market, and further nullify federal prohibition…
By Richard Gale and Gary Null, Natural Blaze It is not skepticism that is at fault for science’s lack of movement into the future… It is fear, conservatism, and dogmatism. It is pseudoskepticism which clings to a scientifically disproved belief system, a triumvirate of ancient philosophies:…
By Matt Agorist Ballston Spa, NY — As 2018’s summer of snitches continues, a story out of New York shows just how well the see something say something propaganda is working on society. Multiple vendors at a state fair in Ballston Spa, New York called…
By Rachel Blevins While the United States Federal Government continues to claim that cannabis is a deadly drug with no medicinal value, the state of Illinois is setting a new precedent by passing a law that allows all students to use medical cannabis in school….
By Matt Agorist Georgetown Township, MI — The parents of a 12-year-old boy with autism are going up against town officials after the town ordered the family to get rid of his ducks. Citing complaints from neighbors, the town told the family that they could…
By Jon Rappoport Every few years, a new virus shows up that, experts tell us, can wipe out half the world in six months…and then it doesn’t happen. I could give you several examples. In this piece, let’s harken back to SARS, the vague flu…
By Shane Trejo BATON ROUGE, La. (Aug. 1, 2018) – Today, two laws that expand the state’s medical marijuana program and further nullify federal cannabis prohibition in the Pelican State went into effect. Rep. Ted James (D-Baton Rouge) sponsored House Bill 579 (HB579). The new…
Request comes after NIDA and the FDA remove information related to the safety of kratom from NIDA’s official website WASHINGTON, DC – July 31, 2018 – Concerned that the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) may be under political pressure by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
By The Clade X Simulation Shows We Are NOT READY: Here’s How a Pandemic Virus Could Kill 900 Million People Earlier this summer, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security met in Washington DC with experts who have experience in the prevention of pandemic and…
By Samantha King Health data management, a hot topic in France, is shedding light on how far industrial lobbyists and special interest groups have managed to bypass French lawmakers, in way over their heads regarding the legal protections around patient data. Put simply, lobbies are…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and who write oppressive decrees Depriving the needy of judgment and robbing my people’s poor of their rights… … Isaiah 10 [1] Sunday evening, July 29, 2018, I attended a one-hour-twenty-minute telephone conference call…
By Andrea Germanos A new USA Today investigation offers a searing indictment of maternal care in the United States, and says the country “is the most dangerous place in the developed world to give birth.” “Deadly Deliveries,” the result of a four-year investigation, references federal data showing that…
By Catherine J. Frompovich One of the “constants” I’ve heard ever since the beginning of my researching and writing about the vagaries of AMI Smart Meters, not only in Pennsylvania where I reside, but in other states around the USA and from researchers I network…
By Lisa Egan On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake in Japan and the tsunami that followed disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, causing a nuclear accident. The disaster – commonly known as ” Fukushima” – was the most significant nuclear incident…
By Phillip Schneider In a world filled to the brim with likes, posts, and status updates, where the average teenage youth spends a whopping 9 hours a day with some form of media, it almost seems as though Facebook and Twitter are becoming a sub-reality of their own. Plug…
By Gail Sullivan Recent efforts to raise awareness about the adverse health effects of sugar prompt an important question: Are so-called “diet” drinks a good alternative? Campaigns to pass a soda tax and put warning labels on sugar-sweetened beverages are based on strong scientific evidence…
By Mae Chan Scientists at UC San Francisco have found a way to screen people’s blood for hundreds of chemicals at once, a method that will improve our ability to better assess chemical exposures in pregnant women, and to identify those exposures that may pose…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Currently, we live in a “time capsule” of corporate vested interests that will do everything, and just about anything, to get their vested interests and goals enacted into either federal legislation and/or individual state statutes. The most ridiculous farce ever regarding such…
By Jesse Grady, Mississippi State University “Just how old do you think my dog is in dog years?” is a question I hear on a regular basis. People love to anthropomorphize pets, attributing human characteristics to them. And most of us want to extend our…
