Most Americans Believe GMO Foods are Unsafe; They Need Labels to Avoid Them
Health and food safety are hot button issues for millions of Americans—and rightly so. Polls indicate alarm over the contamination of everyday foods by pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, synthetic additives and, especially, genetically modified organisms (GMOs). A recent New York Times poll found that 93% of Americans want GMOs labeled, an action already required by 64 nations. Two-thirds of Americans believe that GMOs are unsafe. Millions of consumers are switching over to non-GMO, organic foods, and as a result…
The Health Liberty Revolution to Save our Children | Barbara Loe Fisher
Gauging Vaccine Reactions Absent Reliable Reporting
Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), Michael McNeil, MD and a team of researchers from the CDC conducted a study that identified only 33 “confirmed vaccine-triggered anaphylaxis cases” in 25,173,965 vaccine doses given to patients during January 2009 through December 2011. According to the…
Audre Lorde on Speaking Out
I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you… What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language. I began to ask each time: ‘What’s the worst that could happen to me if I tell…
Leaky Vaccines: More Than a Farmer’s Nightmare?
Here’s the quote, as provided to The Washington Post: “To me, it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t use imperfect vaccines,” says Andrew Read, Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and Entomology and Eberly Professor in Biotechnology at Penn State University, “Let’s say we become certain that a malarial vaccine is going to drive the evolution of more dangerous malarial…
Peer Review Process in Academic Publishing Untrustworthy
The peer review process is known to be the pride of the rigorous academic publishing process. It is a critical component used to maintain the integrity of academic publications and a method used to ensure that the information in the publications is thoroughly vetted for accuracy. The process begins after a researcher submits a paper to an academic journal.