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Cancer treatment in America runs on a simple, brutal economic model: the sicker we stay, the more money gets made. Chemotherapy drugs approved by the FDA in 2012 were priced at over $100,000 per patient per year—eleven out of twelve of them. Some immunotherapy treatments run $15,000 per dose. The cancer industry generates hundreds of…Continue reading They Buried it for COVID. Now They’re Doing It for Cancer
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For decades, as if there are no consequences beyond potential death or dismemberment on the battlefield, our service members are asked to put their bodies on the line. What they aren’t told—what the government has known and consistently failed to disclose—is that the enemy isn’t always on the other side of the battlefield. Sometimes the…Continue reading Serve, Suffer, Submit Your DNA: How America Turned Its Veterans Into a Lifetime Experiment
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We are being watched. Most of us know it on some level, the way we sense a room has cameras before we spot them. What we tend to underestimate—badly—is just how many systems are running simultaneously, how much they already know, and how little any of it required our permission. A thread posted to X…Continue reading No Warrant Required: Eyes Everywhere in Surveillance America
The year was 2016 and America was on its way to experiencing a record of over 60,000 drug overdose deaths at the time. The opioid epidemic was in full swing deeply carving out the soul of the country. That same year, the Los Angeles Times released an investigative piece titled OxyContin goes global – “We’re…Continue reading WHO, Purdue Team Up For International Opioid Push
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Alexei Koseff is reporting for the SFChronicle.com: Gov. Gavin Newsom threw cold water Saturday on state legislation that would tighten California’s rules on providing medical exemptions for childhood vaccinations. “I like doctor-patient relationships. Bureaucratic relationships are more challenging for me,” Newsom told reporters at the California Democratic Party convention in San Francisco. “I’m a parent.…Continue reading CA Gov. Gavin Newsom Signals Opposition To California SB276
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After historically failing to do proper safety testing and regulate the asbestos, tobacco, sunscreen, vaccine, medical device and other industries, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now targeting cannabidiol or CBD. Despite a search on PubMed revealing 2,414 scientific studies published in respected peer-reviewed journals involving cannabidiol, the FDA is claiming there is…Continue reading FDA Concerned About Safety & Efficacy of CBD, Holds Hearing
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The U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention list the following numbers for ADHD in children: In 2016: Approximately 9.4% of children 2-17 years of age (6.1 million) had ever been diagnosed with ADHD, according to parent report in 2016. [Read key findings] Ages 2-5: Approximately 388,000 children Ages 6-11: Approximately 2.4 million children Ages…Continue reading Harvard Researchers: Certain ADHD Medications May Increase Risk Of Psychosis
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration asleep at the wheel again. The Guardian reports: Give us this day our daily foam expander. It may sound odd, but in America, your loaf of bread can contain ingredients with industrial applications – additives that also appear in things like yoga mats, pesticides, hair straighteners, explosives and petroleum products.…Continue reading Why Does The US Allow Additives That Europe Says Are Unsafe?
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The Guardian is reporting: A recent study that tested both men and dogs added to concerns that chemicals in the environment are damaging the quality and quantity of sperm The culprits implicated are diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), used to make new plastics more pliable, and polychlorinated biphenyl 153 (PCB153), found in older plastics and electrical equipment.…Continue reading Sperm Counts Are On The Decline – Could Plastics Be To Blame?
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