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 "It's just plain bad science.
2. They did not measure mercury levels in the bodies of the children—just their exposure. So if kids were good detoxifiers, of course they wouldn't have effects from the mercury.They should have measured the total body load of mercury in the children studied and then noted how that correlates to any neurologic or other effects.They also should have measured the genes involved
in detoxification of mercury, such as apo E4 and GSTM1 .Again, this is just plain bad science.
3."- Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) |
 "That's literally true, but it's bad science," I said aloud. "The burden of proof is on the innovator. One must prove that a technique works."
"Right," Fran replied. "One cannot be required to disprove a negative."
A review of stents in JAMA, which sorts benefits into two categories, "proven" and "unproven,"19 is similarly bad science.
"The logic here is really disappointing," I exclaimed. "There is no such thing as an 'unproven benefit.'"
"Right again," said Fran. "It's more like political spinning than science."- Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) |
| "Again, this is just plain bad science.
3. The study itself and its accompanying editorial disclose, as potential conflicts of interest, that a number of the authors are either former employees or serve on an advisory board of, or were receiving grant support, lecture fees, or consulting fees from,
the very manufacturers who put mercury in vaccines in the first place.That's like putting tobacco companies in charge of studies on the risks of smoking.
4." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) |
| "A review of stents in JAMA, which sorts benefits into two categories, "proven" and "unproven,"19 is similarly bad science.
"The logic here is really disappointing," I exclaimed. "There is no such thing as an 'unproven benefit.'"
"Right again," said Fran. "It's more like political spinning than science."
"What's really troubling," I countered, "is that this so-called evidence is being used to justify life or death decisions."
A 1998 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine asked an important question: Why is stenting often performed "without obvious indication?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "This is not an example of bad science so much as an example of inappropriate and even dangerous medical practice. And this: We should be more than a bit suspicious of claims about pills that produce fountains of youth or any other miracle. COX-2 Inhibitors We begin our story long after the beginning. In September, 2004, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it had halted a clinical trial of Vioxx because it caused a twofold increase in "major fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) |
 "In his written opinion, Oliver Wendell Holmes supported the decision by noting "experience has shown that heredity plays an important part in the transmission of insanity, imbecility, etc." bad science had become the foundation for bad law:
We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the state for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence."- Robert Whitaker, Mad in America: bad science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (Get the book.) |
 "The Precautionary Principle
Writers of bad science fiction and easily startled doomsayers love the idea of out-of-control nanomachines—machines that self-replicate and devour everything in their path.
Though that scenario has been largely refuted, it is still very plausible that nanotech and other new sciences could produce unforeseen and detrimental results; therefore, nanotech-nologists need a managing principle akin to the Hippocratic oath."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "No BS (that really stands for no bad science). No "Win One for the Gipper" speeches. When it comes to your brain,
Play Poc here's a fact that's harsher than a Buffalo winter: The research shows that, eventually, everyone in America will either get Alzheimer's or care for someone who has it.
In some way or another, we're all going to be affected by serious change-your-life memory problems. But the Gipper side of that statistic is this: Memory disorders aren't as uncontrollable as they seem, and the way to attack potential brain problems is by using your brain to understand them."- Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.) |
 "This is not only bad science but criminal behavior, since by then studies had demonstrated that fluoride was associated with dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis, osteoporosis, increased cancer rates, lower fertility, weakened bones, genetic damage, and even damage to the brain. There was, and is, absolutely no justification for adding fluoride to drinking water!
The Cancer Connection
Most regulatory agencies responsible for public safety cite preventing cancer and lowering risk as the major criteria in limiting exposure to potentially toxic substances."- Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.) |
 "They've got "bad science" down to a science.
Genetic engineering creates wide-spread, unpredictable changes
The prevailing worldview behind the development of GM foods was that genes were like Lego blocks, independent pieces that snap into place. This is false. The process of creating a GM crop can produce massive changes in the natural functioning of the plant's DNA. Native genes can be mutated, deleted, permanently turned off or on, and hundreds may change their levels of expression."- Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) |
 "Bad collaboration yields bad science," Mann said. "Suppose a group of foreigners came to some place in the U.S. Midwest, went to a few small hospitals, collected blood samples, then flew home. And then, without consulting with their supposed Midwest collaborators, published a paper in a major international medical journal saying that thirty percent of all adult Midwesterners were HIV-positive," Mann would say. "That would be bad enough—that's bad science on the face of it, extrapolating to a whole population on the basis of isolated, possibly unique, cases."- Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.) "He was deeply upset by what he considered "bad science" done over the previous year by American and European "safari scientists" in Africa. While Project SIDA was at pains to train Zairian technicians and collaborate fully with colleagues in Kinshasa, most other Westerners seemed to give only lip service to collaboration. "Bad collaboration yields bad science," Mann said. "Suppose a group of foreigners came to some place in the U.S. Midwest, went to a few small hospitals, collected blood samples, then flew home." - Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.) |
 "This hints at the politics and truly bad science that has been strongly influencing the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for decades. Personally, I'm always skeptical of any association that has a disease as part of its name. It almost seems like the organization "stands" for the disease, as if it wants to promote the disease in order to make itself more important. If a miracle cure for diabetes were discovered and made available tomorrow, all the people working at the ADA would be out of work."- Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) |
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