Has anyone noticed Salon is advertising diet coke with multivitamins today? I read that vitamin C and diet coke have a chemical reaction in your stomach that creates benzene.

Regarding the cell phone thing, my chiropractor told me that his brother in law is a cell phone exec., and none of the execs will use cell phones very much, because the brain tumor evidence is all there.

How does a reputable news source publish the following:

"A cellphone is a microwave, and basically the reason your ear gets hot is that you're warming it with a microwave."

Nonsense!

According to the US EPA:

"A pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for:

* preventing,

* destroying,

* repelling, or

* mitigating any pest.

Though often misunderstood to refer only to insecticides, the term pesticide also applies to herbicides, fungicides, and various other substances used to control pests.

Under United States law, a pesticide is also any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant."

The author used the term pesticide quite accurately.

"We seem to have lost track of six nuclear cruise missles Vladamir."

(pause)

"You say that they have been shipped to Barksdale Airforce Base? Well golly Vladamir, how did you know that?"

(pause)

"uh huh"

(pause)

"HA HA HA HA! Well how about THAT? When are you and the missus coming back to Crawford to shoot some quail and have some barbeque?"

(pause)

"Well thanks for the heads up Vladamir, Dos verranzos!"

Devra Davis has been underestimating the effects of increased lifespan on cancer rates for at least 20 years. Most (not all) cancers become more likely as we age. She was one of the people crowing about electric power lines back in the day. You don't hear that much about electric power lines anymore, because in that case it was possible to compare cancer rates for the same age cohorts between when power lines were rare in the early 20th century and when they were common in the late 20th century, and find no correlation.

Epidemiology is really hard, and you can't just take one person working in the field and look at their PhD and assume they're right. You really do have to look at the consensus of the field as a whole, and be willing to accept that even then it will be wrong sometimes as new information comes along.

Look at that report by Guzman. The active ingredients in marijuana can kill or shrink at least nine different kinds of cancerous tumors. (Colorectcal cancer was added to the list after Guzman's article was published.)

But America is so dumbed-down by Drug War politics that people are willing to ignore this information so they can retain the right to beat up on potheads.

People hate potheads so much, they're willing to ignore important information about cancer.

It's really absolutely amazing to see this in action. To see people actually in the process of making this choice.

This is how stupid America has become. The whole country -- the left and the right together.

The whole country has become stupid. Perhaps irredeemably so.

Nixon wanted the War on Drugs and the War on Cancer to march in step, so he ordered research that he thought would prove that marijuana caused cancer.

Ooops the experiment proved the opposite -- THC killed breast and lung cancer cells instead of making them grow.

The government quickly ended the research and forced the publication to be retracted.

HOWEVER -- when something is true, you can't hide it forever.

http://www.kubby.com/Guzman-Cancer-nrc1188.pdf

Wow it's like watching Gen. Jack T. Ripper from Dr. Strangelove.

I was annoyed at what appeared to be the author's dismissal of the notion that hormone replacement therapy is linked to breast cancer, and that breast cancer deaths have decreased markedly since the publication of the Women's Health Initiative study findings. For all her talk of estrogenic chemicals being linked to breast cancer, it seems damn odd that she would so readily brush this idea aside.

And speaking of medical hormones, if exposing teenagers to herbicides is so bad, how about feeding our teenage daughters estrogen and progestins from the age of 15 or 16 to prevent pregnancy, promote clear skin, and prevent menstrual woes? Not a word on this!

Perhaps this was cut from the interview, or there simply wasn't enough time to address these issues. My guess, though, is that like everyone else in this field, the author is tied - financially and otherwise - to a specific agenda. The author seems to embrace even the most tenuous evidence to support her claims while ignoring major risk factors that are irrelevant to her agenda, no matter how plainly they are staring her in the face.

Fluoride is highly toxic to the thyroid gland.

Fluoride compounds are used as insecticides.

Fluoride compounds are used as antidepressants.

Any questions?

search google - "fluoride thyroid toxicity"

search google - "fluoride compound insecticide"

search google - "fluoride compound antidepressants"

Don't be surprised, phenothiazines and tricyclic antidepressants are derived from the phenothiazine insecticide.

"IT'S A BUG SPRAY!"

"NO, IT'S A TRANQUILIZER!"

"HEY, IT'S A BUG SPRAY AND A TRANQUILIZER!"

The "therapeutic effect" of the SSRIs is due to their toxic effects on the thyroid gland.

That is why no one should trust the drug companies or the FDA. If a Doctor offers you any of these pills, you shouldn't trust them either.

The problem allegedly "solved" by SSRIs can be aleviated by eating a wide variety of beans and some salmon and turkey every so often. Also avoid depressants and additives.

lysine -> tryptophan - > serotonin

No profit in that for the pHARMAceutical companies.

"asked him to weed the concrete driveway. He was lollygagging down there with a spray can of a pesticide wearing sandals."

If she don't know the difference between pesticide and HERBICIDE I can't listen to a thing she says.

It's easy. Spray cans of pesticide always wear sandals. Cans of herbicide wear sneakers.

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Sorry, couldn't resist. But my take on this is that people have lived with toxins for thousands of years. Romans used lead to make wine bowls and water pipes. People ate with lead-bearing utensils and lived in a cloud of woodsmoke and coal smoke. One was the reasons why the cancer rate was lower then was that something else usually killed you first.

I believe that everyone has to make their individual choices about risks to take. Is smoking (or skydiving) valuable enough for you to risk premature death? Go ahead. I take a few risks myself. Now, if you excuse me, I'm going to have a bowl of ice cream and a beer.