Archives for October 2006

Who's minding the "minders?" (part one)

Time for an update on what I consider one of the most telling and significant stories I've reported in the last year – one you've no doubt barely heard a peep about in the mainstream media until recently…

Not that I thought there'd be any shortage of news items that qualify for my new monthly "weird, wild and wacky" compilation – I just never imagined that I'd come across so many odd and unusual tidbits that just seem too telling to resist reporting on.

Every once in a while, I write an essay for the Daily Dose about the rapid demise of responsible parenting in modern America. Some of these items really press people's buttons – as with the article I wrote back on May 10, 2005.

In the last Daily Dose, I recapped in detail, and at some length, my feelings about the REAL causes of the largely made-up "disease" of ADHD. I did this so that you'd understand where I'm coming from when I give you the details of some new study findings reported in the mainstream media.

I love it when the establishment media trumpets research findings that support unpopular theories I've been putting forth for years. Not to boast, but it really shows how far ahead of the pack I am – and you are, for reading me. (OK, so I'm boasting…)

You gotta love the FDA. Leave it to them to objectively weight out all the evidence, look at a health problem from every side and from all angles, dissect, extrapolate, scrutinize and quantify it…

Then issue exactly the WRONG recommendation. Again.

Folks, you know I'm not much for government over-regulation.

For instance: I think the banning of certain kinds of advertisements, for instance, is a slippery slope.

In the last Daily Dose, I promised you the details of a gruesome scandal currently unfolding in the domestic human tissue industry – a tale of back-room body-stripping from funeral homes using falsified consent forms, and using a fraudulently obtained tissue harvesting license.

You know I always tend to view advancements in conventional medical technology (read: surgery and drugs) from a dual perspective: Their potential for benefiting the human species AND their potential for abuse by that same animal…

In the last two Daily Doses, I've recapped for you all the low spots I've reported in the sordid Vioxx story that has unpeeled like a giant, rotten onion over the last two years.