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Medicine Making Us Sick!
There is a wonderful quote by Aldous Huxley: “Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.” With the degree of disease mongering, over diagnosis and awareness...
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Watch This Space
As the year draws to a close it is time to reflect on major events of this year and look to what might happen next year. There have been some major myths exploded this year and I predict there will...
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What Conspiracy?
A survey has shown that nearly half of American adults believe there are conspiracies in health to cover things up. This sounds crazy but lets reserve judgment for the minute. Here is something that...
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Tamiflu Is The New Snake Oil
A major review of the data behind the anti- flu drugs Tamiflu and Relenza was released earlier this month. Governments worldwide spent billions of dollars stockpiling these drugs (Tamiflu particular)...
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Time To Generate Light Instead Of Heat
Recently I was interviewed on both radio and TV about a case where a man had a severe reaction to a whooping cough vaccine. This is a dangerous area as virtually all discussions about immunisation...
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How Synthetic Blood Could Solve Our Thirst For Transfusion
Humans have a monumental thirst for blood. With the average red blood cell transfusion using around 3 pints of blood, approximately 27,000 blood donations are needed every week in Australia to meet...
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Use What We Know
Recent “new” research has shown that 80% of heart attacks in males and 54% of strokes in women could be avoided. To do so requires people to do regular exercise, follow a healthy diet (with fruits,...
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Enjoyment Matters
It is little wonder we get confused about medical research findings – especially when it comes to food. Previously some 50 random ingredients in recipes were selected and a search done on studies...
View ArticleBridge Over Diagnosis
This musical parody has an important message about over diagnosis and too many medical tests. Click here to view the embedded video.
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Rubbish Research
There is a major problem with medical research. And this is apart from ghost writing, dubious analysis, suppression of negative findings and conflicts of interest. The biggest problem is that much...
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Is Anyone Well?
Regular readers will know that the medicalization of life together with the relentless changing of thresholds of where “normal” is defined is all designed to make more people into patients and...
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Invitation To Get Stupid Accepted
“Here’s an invitation to the whole wide world From your brother to your sister to your best friends girl Can’t excuse it No excuses Everybody get stupid” This is a catchy song and the chorus gets in...
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Predicting Flu Using A Crystal Ball!
Immunisation polarizes debate. People are portrayed as being either pro or anti vaccination. This ignores the fact that not all vaccines are equally effective and more importantly not all diseases are...
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WHO Does Not Want Good News On Health?
A new WHO report on health in Europe shows life expectancy to be increasing. In addition, between now and 2020 there is projected to be a reduction in premature death of 1.5% each year. This you would...
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Statins Treatment Extends Life By Four Days
Statin medications, used to lower cholesterol have been the best selling drugs over the past two decades. Sales revenue has been in the tens of billions of dollars. They are effective at lowering...
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Diet Experts Are Simply Wrong!
One of my favourite quotes is by Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman that says, “Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts”. Knowledge is never settled. What we believed 50 years...
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Everything Gives You Cancer!
It is amazing that anyone is left alive and that life expectancy continues to increase. Some 984 substances have been categorized by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (a WHO subsidiary),...
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A new study calls for lower targets for blood pressure. Is more people taking more pills really a good idea? Click here to view the embedded video.
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Today Show – Peanut Allergy
There are new ideas on how to treat and also reduce the incidence of peanut and other nut allergies. Click here to view the embedded video.
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Low Fat Lie – one big diet cover up!
Hard on the heels of the bacon and red meat causes cancer scare scientists in the UK have found that cooking with vegetable oils like sunflower oil releases toxic chemicals called aldehydes which...
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