Aspartame May Be Declared a Carcinogen by WHO
When doing an online search for information about aspartame, the website “Safety of Aspartame” immediately comes up as the first sponsored site offering information about the popular artificial sweetener found in Diet Coke and other “zero sugar” products. “More than 100 studies, 200 scientists, 90 countries all saying the same thing,” the website boasts, “Aspartame […]
Bayer Pressures Mexico to Lift Ban on Glyphosate
In June 2020, agricultural and pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG was ordered to pay more than $10 billion in punitive and compensatory damages to U.S. plaintiffs over claims that the company’s glyphosate-containing herbicide known as Roundup caused cancer, specifically non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.1 The World Health Organization (WHO) classified glyphosate as a “probable carcinogen” in 20152 and many individuals, […]
America’s ‘Good Medicine’ Mindset
The idea that you can give someone a disease, or something worse than that disease, by giving them a medicine designed to cure that disease or prevent the patient from contracting it and spreading it to others is so counter-intuitive, so unethical, so downright insane that it is unthinkable, unconscionable, unbelievable. After all, isn’t the first principle of medicine to “first, do no harm”? And yet… I think one of the greatest songs of all time is the one by…
