Report: Massive misconduct and corruption at CDC

The report points out Dr. Poul Thorsen, a Danish scientist who has been indicted in 2011 by U.S. authorities for allegedly stealing millions from the CDC and tainting research to hide the dangers posed by vaccines. Thorsen remains on the loose.

In addition to uncovering other information, Kennedy and officials at the World Mercury Project say they have found evidence that Thorsen and his collaborators did not get permission from an Institutional Review Board (IRB) to carry out their research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2002 and the journal Pediatrics the following year.

“In 2011, the Department of Justice indicted Thorsen on 22 counts of wire fraud and money laundering for stealing over $1 million in CDC grant money earmarked for autism research,” the statement notes. “The product of Thorsen’s work for CDC was a series of fraud-tainted articles on Danish autism rates that, today, form the backbone of the popular orthodoxy that vaccines don’t cause autism.”

The CDC must be covering up big time. I still wonder why people would assume a mercury compound, injected into people, is just assumed safe. Perhaps it was just for money. Like these other US products that were assumed safe.

Report PDF is here.

History of "safe" products list

For years and years these products were all declared safe in the US, that there were no problems at all. And then the lawsuits started, one after the other. Each link below links to a story about the substance.

1. Asbestos.
2. Aspartame.
3. Bisphenol-A.
4. Cigarettes.
5. Food adulteration in the US.
6. Lead.
7. Thalidomide.

Other items the US gov't said was "safe": 2,4-d (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, a herbicide), acetamiprid, Agent Orange, asbestos, aspartame, cigarettes, DDT, DES, diazinon, epoxiconazole, flame retardant in the US, fluroxypyr, fracking, Glyphosate, imidacloprid, isoproturon, lead paint, malathion, mercury fillings, microbeads, organophosphates, parathion, PCBs, pirimicarb, prochloraz, tebuconazole, tetrachlorvinphos, thalidomide, Vioxx.

Former Monsanto exec admits they faked data on Roundup studies

Former Monsanto Executive Admits Company Faked Scientific Data To Gain Regulatory Approval

1. Former managing director of Monsanto India, Tiruvadi Jagadisan, is the latest to join the critics of Bt brinjal (eggplant).
2. “The Central Insecticide Board was supposed to give these approvals based on the location and crop-specific data from India. But it simply accepted foreign data supplied by Monsanto" says Jagadison now age 84.

Source
Mint News Press. Feb 9, 2016.

Tracking the people who are part of the problem

Notice how people work in gov't, then in industry, and lobby for industry using their gov't contacts. 

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Portland Schools have lead in drinking water, results withheld from parents

Portland public schools in Oregon have higher levels of lead in their drinking water. These results were hidden from parents. From 2010-2012 the district tested 90 buildings and over half had higher levels of lead in the drinking water. Damaging effects from lead are permanent and there is not treatment for exposure. Water fountains were only turned off when the local paper, Willemette Week, exposed the results. While the EPA allows some lead in the water studies show there are NO safe levels of lead, it's a highly neurotoxic substance.

USA Today reports that there are hundreds of school districts and daycare centers that have lead in their water. That's about 20% of water systems tested have levels higher than the EPA "action level" of 15ppb. Lead is most toxic to younger children whose brains are still developing.

The EPA estimates that about 90,000 public schools and half a million child-care facilities are not regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act because they depend on water sources such as municipal utilities expected to test their own water. (In my town we get a water report once a year but it only tests for one heavy metal: lead.)

Testing for lead in blood is usually done in babies, not in school age children, but lead is dangerous for all ages. EPA "safe levels" of lead still cause vague symptoms but blood lead testing is not often done until lead levels reach much higher levels, at which point damage has already occurred. It's apparent that EPA rules have not moved ahead to keep pace with the science and research.

Since 2012, nearly 2000 water systems in the US have elevated lead levels. Schools that are tied to municipal water supplies do not have to test for lead but this is not enough. Those tests will miss any lead in the lead pipes at the actual building level, i.e. at the school. Lead can have many many sources and it needs to be tested from the spigot or drinking fountain at each building.

For more information on lead and poor gov't regulation, see here. See How to filter Lead out of Water. 


Sources

1. Food and Water Watch. Jun 1, 2016.
2. Lead taints drinking water in hundreds of schools and daycares across USA. USA Today.

Victorian toxins

Toxins and coverups by business: it's happened before.

If you think business covering for poisonous substances is something new, think again. This has been going on since the 1800s and even earlier. However, the 1800s is when science begins to actually prove how harmful the Victorian "patent medicines", makeup, and other substances are.

1. Lead compounds were used in white face cream. Lead compounds were favored because they made very white tints. But lead was absorbed into the skin and poisoned people. 
2. In Roman times, Romans used white lead to whiten their faces, and red lead for a bit of red. 
3. Radium was used to make glowing watch faces until it was discovered the workers, mostly women, who painted the watch faces, came down with serious cancers in the jaw area. 
4. "Other popular blooms, balms, powders and potions of the 19th and early 20th century such as Berry’s Freckle Ointment, Milk of Roses, Snow White Enamel and Flake White contained mercury, lead, carbolic acid, mercuric chloride and a handful of other “delightful” corrosives."
5. In the US there were radium baths, arsenic complexion wafers, cigarettes for asthma. 
6. In the US there were also water holders with radium to "infuse" the water with energy. Alas, the wrong kind of energy. 
7. Mascara and other eye products contained mercury. 
8. Even now we find phthalates in shampoos, face creams, fragrances, aftershaves, deodorants. 
9. One article advised women to coat their faces with opium at night, with a brisk wash of ammonia in the morning. 
10. The look of near-death was popular. Women would sometimes put belladonna drops in their eyes, and some went blind from it. 
11. "Sears & Roebuck sold a popular product called Dr. Rose’s Arsenic Complexion Wafers, which were just that–little white chalk wafers filled with arsenic for delicate nibbling. They were specifically advertised as “perfectly harmless."
12. Vermillion, a red mercury compound, was a known poison but also used for lip tint. 
13. It wasn't until 1977 that a new US law required makeup manufacturers to print all ingredients on the item.

Products in the US were unregulated until the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act which passed in 1906. But it was 25 years in the making as business, like now, lobbied against the law which could cut into profits, and prevent people from dying a horrible death.



For more reading: 

1. "100,000,000 Guinea Pigs." Arthur Kallet and Frederick Schlink.  1933.
2. "American Chamber of Horrors." Ruth DeForest Lamb, chief education officer of FDA. 1936. 
3. "Banned: A history of pesticides and the Science of Toxicology." Frederick Rowe Davis. 2014. From Google Books. 
4. "The Great American Fraud." Samuel Hopkins Adams. A book about the evils of patent medicine. Various formats here.

Sources

1. "Suffering for Beauty has Ancient Roots." NBC, Jan 11, 2008. 
2. "Hidden Killers" TV series on Youtube. 
3. "The Poisonous Beauty Advice Columns of Victorian England." Link here.

FDA hides CVs of panel members

Showing the Curriculum Vitae of panel members helps to find out who has conflicts of interest and may be making decisions based on corporate or personal profit instead of public safety.

Advisory committees furnish expert advice to federal government agencies. The FDA has approximately 50 advisory committees and panels that the agency advice on issues related to FDA-regulated products, such as whether the FDA should approve new medical products, request additional studies, or change a product’s labeling. The FDA posts on its website a roster of the members serving on each advisory committee, frequently accompanied by members’ curricula vitae (CV). The FDA frequently redacts the CVs, however, by blacking out information about the dates of degrees conferred, the names of professional colleagues and mentors, the amounts of grants received from private companies, and the names of unpublished articles. Many of the redactions were unaccompanied by any indication of why, but many were marked to indicate that the FDA believed that the redacted information fell under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemptions for confidential commercial information and for material the disclosure of which would cause an unwarranted invasion of privacy.

How can the public trust a group which has such suspicious behavior? Why can police arrest someone or search their car only for suspicious behavior and no solid evidence, but the same rules do not apply to US gov't departments?

Read the rest.
Source
Public Citizen Litigation Group. Apr 27, 2016.

Summary of Pharma industry

This is a good summary with historical and other graphs.

Link here.

Monsanto and EU hid studies showing glyphosate was dangerous

News from July 13, 2011.

Don't forget, these past articles show a history of corruption with Monsanto, putting profit above people. 

A report from Open Earth Sources (OES) shows Monsanto and EU regulators conspired to hide studies showing glyphosate exposure caused birth defects, DNA damage, endocrine disruption, and more. The European Commission approved glyphosate despite knowing about these results. Studies as far back as the 1980s showed problems with glyphosate and lab animals, which are accepted models for use in studies of substances that might harm humans.


Source
i-sis.org.uk. Last accessed Apr 17, 2016. (This link is dead.)
BING search here, Aug 3, 2019.

Buy your BBB rating for cash

The Better Business Bureau is an organization that is supposed to tell consumers which businesses are honest, and which to avoid. This 2010 article says BBB will stop giving A+ ratings to paying members. But this Mar 3, 2016 article says Trump University's rating magically went from D- to A+ after Trump paid a BBB membership fee. Trump University currently has 3 active lawsuits against it.

On "Good Morning America" today, Trump said that the company's grades went up after unspecified information was shared with the BBB, but the BBB would not comment on the details of the grades of the now-defunct company. 

Guillo, a former student of Trump University and his son spent nearly $36,000 to take Trump's courses and he believes he learned little specialized expertise from the program."A lot of the information they taught seemed to come from the website zillow.com or could have been easily gathered from the IRS website," Guillo said in an affidavit about what he learned at the Trump Elite Programs retreats. "After the first seminar, I began to realize I had been taken."According to the affidavit, Guillo said that he felt that he had to complete a satisfaction questionnaire in order to get a certificate of completion for the course. 

Apparently Mr Trump couldn't care less what his university stands for, because it seems to stand for nothing except a money grab, just like Mr. Trump himself.