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Well, this explains everything…

A sex hormone was detected in San Francisco’s drinking water.

Gives a new meaning to tap water.

Last June, I posted this report about US hospitals and how many rely on fraud, preventable injuries and infections to patients to compensate for losses due to our government’s insistence that private hospitals treat and care for uninsured and underinsured citizens, indigents, and illegal aliens.

I learned how hospitals destroy good physicians and how predatory hospital chains like Tenet, Kaiser Permanente, and Adventist pressure local physicians already in successful private practice to join their groups. Those who refuse are targeted for sham peer review by corporate administrators and MDs who accuse non-compliant physicians as dangerous, incompetent, or disruptive. While a few tenacious victims expend their life savings to preserve their clinical privileges, others aren’t so lucky. Faced with the malicious and devastating loss of their medical careers, many take their own lives; which is what the health care corporations prefer anyway. To them, it’s only business – nothing personal.

I was never impressed by concerns about “the evils of big pharma.” I assumed that drugs are expensive because of the R & D that goes into finding cures for disease. Until now, I never imagined that some of those same drug companies would support junk science to fund researchers who would then produce expensive drugs that cause illness and disease around the world; or support junk legislation that would force healthy mothers and their children to take drugs that kill (under the threatened loss of child custody), and then use their subsequent sickness and mortality as evidence that a non-existent disease actually exists.

Such a scheme would have made Machiavelli weep with joy.

A New Investigation

I was not concerned about “big pharma” until my visit to Washington DC last May. I was there to meet with members of Semmelweis Society International (SSI). This is an impressive group of medical professionals – physicians, nurses, surgeons, medical and law school professors, and former CEOs of health care corporations. Because of my own experience with retaliation and my ongoing interest in US healthcare and sham peer review, I was interested to hear their stories directly from them.

I accompanied Gil Mileikowsky, MD, the OB/GYN who first explained sham peer to me in 2006. I spent five days with the members – all dedicated men and women who care deeply about the political corruption of healthcare and who risked their own careers to report fraud or abuse within the healthcare system. I recorded and edited their testimony, and posted this video after members testified before the US Congress and Senate. I was also honored to testify regarding my experience as an LAPD whistleblower.

Two recipients of the Semmelweis “Clean Hands Award” were reporter Celia Farber and molecular biologist Peter Duesberg, PhD. I had not heard of them before and knew nothing of their relationship to a little known controversy about HIV and AIDS.

After 28 years as an investigator, I consider myself pretty skeptical about things until I see proof. Most of my work today is pro bono, so I can pick and choose who I assist. Witnesses are expected to lie, but if I discover that a client has misrepresented facts or lied to me, I will usually drop the case. I’m fortunate to have the time, energy, and resources to help good people get out of undeservedly bad predicaments. Not all lawyers are like Mike Nifong or David Sotelo, and not all private investigators work like Anthony Pellicano. Without unbiased credibility, investigators are nothing more than a liability to their clients.

As various members interacted with Farber and Duesberg, I learned that the HIV/AIDS issue had not been entirely resolved. Like Dr. Mileikowsky’s story about sham peer review, this sounded equally unbelievable.

When I returned to Los Angeles, several former members began to question the wisdom of presenting the awards to Farber and Duesberg. In response, SSI President (and neurosurgeon) Roland Chalifoux issued this press release to explain the rationale of the awards. But when two dissenters persisted, Dr. Chalifoux asked me to conduct an independent investigation of Ms. Farber and Prof. Duesberg, citing my investigative experience, independence, and almost complete lack of knowledge about HIV and AIDS.

I accepted the case.

Although I didn’t expect it at first, I was warned that I should expect attacks from the “other side.” I wasn’t sure what they meant but kept it in the back of my mind. It didn’t take me long to find out for myself. (more…)

One of the foremost meteorologists, Dr. William Gray, ridiculed Al Gore’s theories on global warming yesterday. It wouldn’t be inaccurate to say that Dr. Gray demolished Gore’s assertions.

Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.

His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.

“We’re brainwashing our children,” said Dr Gray, 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. “They’re going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It’s ridiculous.”

This isn’t some conservative radio talk show host saying that Gore is “brainwashing our children.” This is an expert that’s saying that Gore is peddling propaganda. (more…)

Dan Riehl at Riehl World View has discovered something amazing: that reducing exposure to lead poisoning leads to reduced crime rates. At least that’s what the Clintonistas want us to think:

Fairfax economist Rick Nevin has spent more than a decade researching and writing about the relationship between early childhood lead exposure and criminal behavior later in life.

Although crime did fall dramatically in New York during Giuliani’s tenure, a broad range of scientific research has emerged in recent years to show that the mayor deserves only a fraction of the credit that he claims. The most compelling information has come from an economist in Fairfax who has argued in a series of little-noticed papers that the “New York miracle” was caused by local and federal efforts decades earlier to reduce lead poisoning.

The Clintons must think we’re the most idiotic people in the history of western civilization if they think we’ll buy into that nonsense. When I googled NYC crime rates from 1990-2001, one of the first articles listed read:

NEW YORK CITY MURDER RATE EDGES HIGHER
Subscription - The Record - HighBeam Research - Oct 26, 1991NEW YORK — The CITY MURDER RATE was up 1.8 percent in The first eight months …

Another article further down the page said this: (more…)

Nancy Pelosi is a visionary, at least as far as global warming is concerned. Here’s what that opinion is based on:

Pelosi said she hoped Bush would be open to considering a “different way” in the future. The California Democrat pointed to her delegation’s weekend stop in Greenland, “where we saw firsthand evidence that climate change is a reality; there is just no denying it. It wasn’t caused by the people of Greenland; it was caused by the behavior of the rest of the world,” she said.

Ms. Pelosi is spinning President Bush’s position, which is what I’d expect from someone who’ll say anything to maintain and increase her political base. What she’s saying is that humans are the biggest contributor to climate change, an opinion that scientists are question more and more each day.

One of the things that’s been mentioned the past couple months is that the temperatures have increased on other planets a similar amount to Earth’s. Are we to conclude that human activity is causing the global warming on those planets, too? (more…)

Thanks to Jack Kelly for writing this column. It adds another bit of information to what we’ll soon call the unraveling of the global warming hysteria. Here’s how Kelly ridicules the global warming hysterians:

Two female explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, planned a trek across the Arctic ocean earlier this month to highlight the dangers of global warming. They had to call the expedition off because it was too cold. “One night they measured the temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times,” Ann Atwood, who helped organize the expedition, told the Associated Press.

That isn’t the last ridiculing that Kelly did in this column:

The Jim Jones of this Kool Aid testified on Capitol Hill last Wednesday. Former Vice President Al Gore was greeted as a “prophet” by Rep. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat.

Go read the entire column. You deserve a good laugh today, especially at the expense of ‘The Prophet’ and his minions.

Technorati Tags: Global Warming, Al Gore, Associated Press, Environmental Extremists

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

The Edwards’ news conference this afternoon broke the news that Elizabeth Edwards’ cancer has returned and that it isn’t curable. Despite the negative news, the good news is that John and Elizabeth Edwards confirmed that the cancer is treatable. Here’s what we found out from the news conference:

John Edwards said a biopsy of her rib had showed that the cancer had returned. The bone is one of the most common places where breast cancer spreads, and once it does so it is not considered curable.
But how long women survive depends on how widespread the cancer is in the bone, and many can survive for years. The longer it takes for cancer to spread after the initial tumor, the better the prognosis. She was diagnosed in 2004.

I watched the opening of their news conference. One of the things that caught my attention was Elizabeth Edwards saying that breaking a rib was a blessing because x-rays showed that her cancer had now moved into her bones, which means it isn’t curable. Edwards also said that the condition isn’t unlike being diagnosed with diabetes in the limited sense that there isn’t a cure for diabetes but that proper treatment and medical care help patients live healthy, productive lives.
Others are talking about how the media got the story wrong and how this news’ might impact Edwards’ presidential campaign. That isn’t something that I’ll talk about now. For the time being, I’ll simply say that I strongly encourage my readers to keep the Edwards family in your prayers.

Technorati Tags: John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, Breast Cancer

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

At least that’s what you’d think if you read this Washington Post article:

Environmental activist (and former vice president) Al Gore descended on Capitol Hill yesterday, telling two congressional panels that global climate change represents the most dangerous crisis in American history and that the measures needed to fix the problem, such as an immediate freeze on new emissions from cars and power plants, are far more drastic than anything currently on the table.

Gore, whose documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” won an Academy Award last month, testified before both House and Senate committees in an appearance that drew international media attention and lines of would-be spectators trailing through congressional hallways.

That sounds like an introduction for a former vice president who has attained rock star status for his work in ’saving’ the planet from ourselves. What’s most appalling about his performance is that he almost believes that global warming is a greater threat to the planet than is the global jihadist movement.

It gets thicker here: (more…)

Al Gore’s long-awaited day on Capitol Hill has finally arrived. Based on these proposed questions, it’s looking like he’s walking into a hostile environment:

Mr. Gore: You have said several times that we have 10 years to act to stave off global warming. Was that 10 years from the first time you said that or 10 years from now? We just wanted to get a firm date from you that we can hold you to.

Mr. Gore: How can you continue to claim that global warming on Earth is primarily caused by mankind when other planets (Mars, Jupiter and Pluto) with no confirmed life forms and certainly no man-made industrial greenhouse gas emissions also show signs of global warming? Wouldn’t it make more sense that the sun is responsible for warming since it is the common denominator?

Mr. Gore: Joseph Romm, the executive director for the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, has said we must build 700 large nuclear plants to stave off climate change. Where do you stand on the need for nuclear energy?

Mr. Gore: Do you think the earth is significantly overpopulated and that is a major contributor to your view of climate change. (If yes, what do you think is a sustainable population for the planet?)

It’s one thing for Gore to make his statements to adoring audiences in Hollywood and elsewhere but this won’t be the type of audience that will take his word as Gospel fact. In fact, I’d say that he’s walking into a series of difficult questions.

The question that I most want to hear his answer on is how he explains how Mars’, Jupiter’s and Pluto’s temps are also rising without the assistance of any man-made industrial greenhouse gas emissions. I suspect that he’ll attempt to slip that question without really answering it.

The other question that I want to hear him answer is “You have said several times that we have 10 years to act to stave off global warming. Was that 10 years from the first time you said that or 10 years from now?”

This won’t be a fun day for Mr. Gore. In fact, I suspect his answers will be the talk of the town, especially on Special Report’s roundtable tonight.

Technorati Tags: Al Gore, Global Warming, Special Report, Hollywood

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

Bottom Line Up Front:  More and more clinical and medical studies are finding links between the rise of sexual promiscuity, pornography, abuse and abortion.

Internet Scientific Publications, an online journal of medicine, reports that a study by the Internet Journal of Pediatrics and Neonatology found a direct connection between mothers who’ve had abortions and their abuse or neglect of their subsequent children.

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between maternal history of induced abortion and subsequent frequency of child-directed aggressive behavior in a sample of mothers of children who have been abused or neglected. The mothers were either the perpetrators of the maltreatment or they allowed someone else to mistreat their children.

The finding was that “abortion history was associated with more frequently maternal slapping, hitting, kicking or biting, beating, and use of physical punishment in general.”

The Internet Journal of Pediatrics and Neonatology study found that at least four reasons account for the association between induced abortions and child maltreatment:

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