COMPASSION FOR FELLOW CITIZENS AND PASSION FOR TRUTH AND CLARITY ARE COMPETING INTERESTS ACCORDING TO THE CMAJ

****** After publishing this post, it was brought to my attention by a reader that my first letter is posted but under a different URL at ht...

LETTER TO THE EDMONTON JOURNAL

Hello Mr. Staples, I read your article about the government not giving an explanation about why they are delaying the new health warnings...

NICOTINE WARS (2)

Last April we c ommented on a paper from the Harvard School of Public Health that contended that the nicotine lozenges marketed by Big Toba...

DISEASE MONGERING

In the pages of our main website and this blog, we have often commented on the role the pharmaceutical industry plays in dictating policies ...

MORE ON CHILDHOOD OBESITY MYTHS

We came across this dated but more apropos than ever public comment prepared by Sandy Szwarc for the FTC/HHS Workshop in 2005. It is rich wi...

FOLLOW THE MONEY BEHIND THE OBESITY ‘’DISEASE’’

Is obesity a disease? We refer you to an excellent analysis on the issue as published in the International Journal of Obesity . Real life o...

DANGEROUS LIAISONS

As we have mentioned before, an ever increasing number of journalists now dare report the incestuous relationships between the pharmaceutica...

A PUBLIC MESSAGE PAID BY BIG PHARMA

As we commented on our French post below , the following press release is a paid message from your friendly legal drug dealers Pfizer, usin...

CHEMICAL LOBOTOMY

Not only are the ‘’do-gooders’’ lobbying aggressively to coerce people in giving up pleasurable habits, their pharmaceutical partners are me...

BIG PHARMA INFLUENCE MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO OUR HEALTH

JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 99, April 6, 2008, includes an article on The Adverse Effects of Industry Influe...

WOMEN TARGETED IN DRINK CAMPAIGN

The interest in the UK Telegraph article about alcohol that you can read here , is not so much the article itself which is just another pi...

TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

Although smokers dish out 75% on taxes on every pack of cigarettes they purchase, they are invited to stay out of any decisions taken on the...

PROSTITUTION

Dr. Michael Siegel is seeing more and more clearly through his movement. In one of the latest posts in his blog, he’s commenting on the par...

OBESITY EPIDEMIC CHALLENGED BY EXPERTS

When reading an article such as the one from Pennlive.com we tend to think that perhaps there is hope that the anti-obesity campaign will no...

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN THE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONS

The British Medical Journal published two articles debating the issue of conflict of interest that corporate funding causes in the scientifi...