Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Autonomous Vehicles Coming to Callfornia
September 26th, 2012Via: Google: California Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr. is visiting Google Headquarters today to sign SB1298, a bill that creates a legal framework and operational safety standards for the testing and operation of autonomous vehicles on state roads and highways.
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
September 24th, 2012Via: Guardian: Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques that are flawed by design, in such a way that they exaggerate the benefits of treatments. Unsurprisingly, these trials tend to produce results that favour the manufacturer. When […]
German Neuroscientist: Computer Use by Very Young Children Causes Brain Development Deficits That Are Irreversible
September 24th, 2012Via: WorldCrunch: Dr. Manfred Spitzer knows that people find his arguments provocative. In his first book, he warned parents of the very real dangers of letting their children spend too much time in front of the TV. Now, in a second book called Digitale Demenz [Digital Dementia], he’s telling them that teaching young kids finger-counting […]
Corrie Yelland Cured Anal Cancer with Cannabis Oil
September 23rd, 2012Warning: No information that appears on Cryptogon should be considered medical advice. Via: Cannabis Nation: Already coping with 2 spots of skin cancer on my collar bone, I was stunned when I was diagnosed with Anal Canal Cancer. (This is the same cancer that took Farrah Fawcett’s life.) Following 2 surgeries, the doctor told me […]
Wall Street Rolling Back Another Key Piece of Financial Reform
September 22nd, 2012Via: Rolling Stone: Wall Street lobbyists are awesome. I’m beginning to develop a begrudging respect not just for their body of work as a whole, but also for their sense of humor. They always go right to the edge of outrageous, and then wittily take one baby-step beyond it. And they did so again last […]
Scientists Warn That GM Wheat Could Cause Extremely Dangerous Gene Silencing Effects in Humans
September 21st, 2012Via: Safe Food Foundation: Expert scientists warn that genetically modified wheat may cause Glycogen Storage Disease IV, resulting in an enlarged liver, cirrhosis of the liver, and failure to thrive. Children born with this disease usually die at about the age of 5. Australia is on track to be the first country in the world […]
Mainstream Medicine and Corporate Media Admit: Pot Compound Has, ‘Ability to Turn Off the Activity of a Gene Responsible for Metastasis in Breast and Other Types of Cancers’
September 21st, 2012Warning: No information that appears on Cryptogon should be considered medical advice. But what they won’t admit is that lots of people are already effectively treating themselves with concentrated hemp oil: Dennis Hill Talks About Curing His Stage IV Prostate Cancer with Cannabis Oil Cured Too, A Cancer Story By David Triplett More at phoenixtears.ca […]
Multibillion-Dollar Fines Won’t Change Behavior of Criminal Pharmaceutical Companies
September 21st, 2012“The pharmaceutical industry is the most lucrative, the most cynical and the least ethical of all the industries. It is like an octopus with tentacles that has infiltrated all the decision making bodies, world health organisations, governments, parliaments, high administrations in health and hospitals and the medical profession. It has done this with the connivance, […]
NYSE Pays a Paltry $5 Million Fine for Giving Private Customers a Trading Head Start
September 20th, 2012Via: IEEE: On Friday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it had administratively fined the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) $5 million (pdf) for allowing its private customers access to stock market information ahead of when it was available to the general public. This occurred from June 2008 to about mid-May 2010. […]
France: Monsanto’s GMO Corn Causes Cancer, Organ Damage in Rats
September 20th, 2012Update: Study Linking GM Maize to Rat Tumors Retracted, Author Unrepentant Via: Nature: Bowing to scientists’ near-universal scorn, the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology today fulfilled its threat to retract a controversial paper that claimed that a genetically modified (GM) maize causes serious disease in rats after the authors refused to withdraw it. The paper, […]
