Archives for June 2006

According to a recent Associated Press article, the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) – yes, the same folks who botched the Hurricane Katrina response so badly last summer – has yet another disaster on its hands. Thankfully, it involves no loss of life, only the loss of millions of your tax dollars to opportunistic hustlers in the aftermath of the Storm of the Century.

I spend a lot of time talking about natural alternatives to drugs, natural foods (like raw milk and grass-fed beef), and the natural order of things. But obviously, just because something's natural doesn't mean it's good for you – or that it's automatically something you want to put into your body… Case in point: The new, "all-natural" 7Up soft drink

I reported about the dangerous levels of toxic benzene found recently in several types of diet sodas. Levels were high enough in some cases to be deemed unsafe for human consumption – resulting in large quantities of product being pulled from store shelves. But apparently, even this petro-chemical can't hold a candle to the awesome toxicity of… Sunny D (formerly known as Sunny Delight). According to a recent UK Daily Mail article and other sources, a large-scale spill of the ingredients in this drink (advertised for its healthiness, although it's really nothing more than sugar-water fortified with a little orange juice) has threatened to wipe out an entire river system in rural England.

According to a recent New York Times article, some new research suggests that the mere handling of firearms triggers aggression in men. A group of psychologists from Knox College in Illinois enrolled 30 male students in a study that these subjects were told was designed to measure taste sensitivity…

If you've been a reader of mine for any length of time at all, you know how I feel about the vast majority of abortions. But since this is a medical forum at least as much as a political one, I try not to be too preachy about it…

IED – it doesn't just mean Improvised Explosive Device anymore
We've all heard of road rage incidents – and I'm sure most of us have been on the receiving end of them at one time or another. They're nothing new. As long as there have been cars (and before that, horses), there have no doubt been hotheads on the road acting like crazed morons when someone accidentally cuts them off in traffic…

According to an Associated Press article from May 30, a 57-year-old man who has been serving a life sentence since 1990 for the strangling murder of his wife is now demanding that the state of Massachusetts pay for his SEX CHANGE OPERATION.

In a nutshell, they found that ADHD drugs spurred over 3,000 ER visits per year, over 600 hospital admissions, over 600 stomach-pumpings, over 400 heart-related hospitalizations

The FDA's ADHDilemma

In the last Daily Dose, I relayed to you the sobering picture of the side effects of treating the made-by-medicine "disease" of ADHD, as painted by the first-ever national analysis of these treatments by the CDC.

If you’ve been reading me for any length of time at all now, you should have surmised that I believe a lot of today’s “diseases” are nothing more than fabrications of the drug industry to create demand for their poisons.

Building a wall creates relatively few jobs, and only for a limited amount of time. But radically expanding the border patrol and the INS could create tens, even hundreds of thousands of new jobs