Tag: Health
Ignorance is Profitable
December 28th, 2007, No Comments
The Pa. Department of Agriculture paper decided to give in to the dairy industry and stop allowing companies that sell milk to say that their milk doesn’t contain the artificial hormone rBST. http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20071223_Hormone_labeling_of_Pa__milk_to_end.html Evidently, the inclusion of that information for consumers infers that there might be something wrong with the hormone which, by the way, happens [...]
Asthma Treatment: Inherently Illogical
December 3rd, 2007, No Comments
A recent article in the NY TImes discussed recently discovered hazards in certain asthma drugs. Hazards aside, most patients are never told how the medical management of asthma is basically illogical for sufferers of widespread extrinsic/reactive lung problems. I thought I would try to explain it to the Times in 150 words or less. —————————————————————- [...]
A Debate has Two Sides – This Doesn’t Qualify
June 16th, 2007, No Comments
The Amherst Bulletin published a letter (presumably by a non-smoker) who pitied the poor smokers who were becoming increasingly restricted in the number of venues in which they could satisfy their nicotine cravings. Non-smokers seeking to preserve their air quality were indicted by this party for turning smokers into a new class of persons experiencing [...]
Physician Delusions about Neurotoxicity
May 2nd, 2007, 2 Comments
The NY Times printed my letter regarding their article concerning “Chemo Brain”. That article described how, until recently, many physicians disregarded the cognitive side effects of toxic chemicals used to treat cancer as being ‘illusions’ on the part of patients (particularly females). Chemotherapy Fog Is No Longer Ignored as Illusion By Jane Gross (April 29, [...]
Disease as a Function of Moral Decay
April 25th, 2007, No Comments
The Washington Post published an article that dispels the myth of our modern age. If we are so advanced, why is the health of our population declining rather than improving? Perhaps the length of life has been extended but the early onset of multiple and serious conditions indicate we are merely living longer with disease [...]
Smell-O-Phones; A fragrance coming VERY near you and your lungs
April 16th, 2007, No Comments
I can think of fewer products which are more counter-productive to market than cell phones which spray perfume in your face. Cell phones are designed for speech and fragrances reduce lung function. That is why sensible singers and choral groups avoid them. The incorporation of these toxic and mostly untested fragrance chemicals within every product on the [...]
Vaccines are not a Cure for Societal Avoidance of all things sexual
March 10th, 2007, No Comments
Below, is the letter I sent to the NY Times (not published) when they endorsed the vaccine in their editorial section. Science dictates a much broader period of observation before conclusions are reached about the safety and long-term efficacy of a vaccine. By existing standards of vaccine marketing, (however questionable those might be), this vaccine [...]
