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"No one wants to confront these disturbing facts—not the mainstream media, not the CDC, not even most pediatricians. I keep hearing that they've "found no causal link" between mercury in vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders. But that's a very different thing from saying that they've proven that thimerosal in vaccines is safe. A year ago, I met with a prominent pediatrician and senior member of the AAR When we started to debate this whole vaccine issue, I began by saying that, for years, children received multiple vaccinations that contained thimerosal." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Only recently have the dangers and abuses of these drugs begun to provoke an outcry in the mainstream media. Although generally dismissed as "safe," the huge numbers of prescription drugs—especially those that alter brain chemistry—being consumed by toddlers, adolescents, mature adults, and senior citizens do a great deal of proven harm. Dr. Parris Kidd, a cellular biologist, says that up to 10 percent of all the people diagnosed with dementia are actually suffering from drug-induced brain damage, which appears to be dementia. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Excitement aside, the discourse on stem cells purveyed by politicians and the mainstream media is greatly oversimplified. Greed, exaggeration, and political expedience have prevailed over rational debate on the issue. It is my professional opinion, and the opinion of most real experts on the biology of AD and stem cells that I have talked to, that neither embryonic nor adult stem cells will prove to be as useful for Alzheimer's disease in both the near future and even the long term as some claim. In an October 2005 talk entitled "Stem Cell Research: Hype or Hope," Dr." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Do the mainstream media ever report about the overwhelming scientific evidence that shows chemotherapy has zero benefits in the five-year survival rate of colon cancer patients?4 Or how many oncologists stand up for their cancer patients and protect 4 Confirmation of deficient mismatch repair (dMMR) as a predictive marker for lack of benefit from 5-FU based chemotherapy in stage II and III colon cancer (CC): a pooled molecular reanalysis of randomized chemotherapy trials. (D. J. Sargent, S. Marsoni, S. N. Thibodeau, et al." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "He describes chemotherapy as "a scientific wasteland" and states that even though there is no scientific evidence that chemotherapy works, neither doctor nor patient is willing to give up on it. The mainstream media has never reported on this hugely important study, which is hardly surprising, given the enormous vested interests of the groups that sponsor the media, that is, the pharmaceutical companies. A recent search turned up exactly zero reviews of Abel's work in American journals, even though it was published in 1990." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Now unable to heal the causes of the original cancer (in addition to the newly created ones), Snow's body developed new cancers in the liver and other parts of the body. The mainstream media, of course, still insist Snow died from colon cancer, thus perpetuating the myth that it is only the cancer that kills people, not the treatment. Nobody seems to raise the important point that it is extremely difficult for a cancer patient to actually heal from this condition while being subjected to the systemic poisons of chemotherapy and deadly radiation." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Today the field of positive psychology is thriving, new research on positive emotions is being aggressively funded, and mainstream media are running headlines about the connection between happiness and health. Harvard University offers a course on positive psychology that has become its best-attended class. The University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center offers a master's degree in applying positive psychology as a therapeutic tool." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"You will notice that mainstream media quickly spreads bad news about vitamins, even though such news is almost always based on faulty or fraudulent research (like the baseless attack on vitamin E). But, mainstream media now runs drug company propaganda as though it were news. Drug companies prepare fake news, called Video News Reports (VNRs), which are prepared promotional pieces that are distributed to the media as news." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Over 100 studies have been ignored by the FDA and mainstream media because of the potential economic impact on processed food industries. Furthermore, as a person continues to eat fat in this form, he is getting even less of the essential fatty acids needed for mental and physical health. New York City has even banned trans fats from restaurants! Processed foods may also contain Olestra (also known as Olean), a substance found in fat-free snack foods. Olestra is a fat substitute that goes through the body undigested but unfortunately takes fat-soluble vitamins with it." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The mainstream media also share major responsibility, breathlessly and uncritically greeting every new claim of "magic bullet" cancer cures as new triumphs in the war on cancer and reacting to well-documented scientific evidence on the avoidable causes of cancer with limited or critical treatment. Cancer Risks From Smoking Versus Personal Care Product Use Let's return for a moment to smoking and its relation to cancer risk, to help us better understand the pervasiveness and severity of the health threat posed by toxic chemicals in our cosmetics and personal care products. Smoking in the U.S." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"You will notice that mainstream media quickly spreads bad news about vitamins, even though such news is almost always based on faulty or fraudulent research (like the baseless attack on vitamin E). But, mainstream media now runs drug company propaganda as though it were news. Drug companies prepare fake news, called Video News Reports (VNRs), which are prepared promotional pieces that are distributed to the media as news." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"One of the best ways to avoid brain spam is to avoid the mainstream media. Don't watch television. Turn off the TV... for good Personally, I've been without television for several years. I do own a widescreen display device, and I do rent movies and documentaries, but I don't tune in to mainstream television. It is increasingly becoming the primary information source for the uneducated and mind-numbed members of society. Television is for people who are essentially too dumb to read, and too mind-numbed to be creative enough to find interesting things to do on their own." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"One Krafty PR Machine One of the most irritating aspects of Kraft's marketing to kids policy is how favorably their corporate fanfare was received by the mainstream media, which dutifully furthered the company's PR efforts. An exaggerated headline in the Chicago Tribune, for example, read: "Kraft Will No Longer Aim Ads for Unhealthy Snacks at Youngsters."37 Others were similarly effusive: "Kraft Takes Lead in Responsibility"38 (Advertising Age editorial) and "Obesity Fears Prompt Kraft to Stop Targeting Children with Junk Food Ads"39 (Financial Times of London)." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"They also participate in "unlearning and uplearning" workshops that build the capacity for critical thinking in relation to mainstream media and education (unlearning) and the capacity for creative expression of alternatives (uplearning). Udaipur as a Learning City has provided a space and an opportunity for people who have a greater vision of their future and that of their city. Both within Udaipur and in concert with cities in India and abroad, residents have been building a network of concerned, motivated people and organizations committed to rethinking and experimenting with urban living." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Not only can journalists say things that mainstream media would never publish or broadcast, they can also strike out completely on their own, free from minders and PR flacks and the passive standards of most "embedded" journalists. Take Kevin Sites: a freelance multimedia journalist, Sites often works as a one-man unit, using portable digital technology to report, write, edit, and transmit his stories from conflict areas around the world. Sites blogged from the front lines of the Iraqi war zone beginning in 2003, while covering the war for CNN." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"He provides positive alternatives to the continuous mainstream media serving of bogus diets, infomercials featuring cheap home equipment and a society awash in drugs for every ailment. Within each chapter, he also provides valuable information that will empower you to get on the path to improved health and fitness — for the rest of your life. The big, fat health and fitness lie that Craig Pepin-Donat identifies and exposes in this essential book takes on areas typically forgotten in the rush to synthetic fixes for human-made conditions." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Silent inflammation has become such a hot topic that the mainstream media has begun to focus on it. While we used to constantly hear about oxidation and free radicals in the media during the 1990's, it seems that with the new millennium, the buzz-word of the day is inflammation. The truth of the matter is that both are interrelated, and it is extremely important to combat both. Long time health advocate, Dr. Barry Sears, is the President of the Inflammation Research Foundation. Dr. Sears wrote an outstanding article recently on "silent inflammation." - Bob Capelli, ASTAXANTHIN: Natural Astaxanthin, King of the Carotenoids (Get the book.)

"This detail is rarely discussed in the mainstream media, which often can't even be bothered to disclose CCF's industry backing. (That fact is made clear on the "About Us" page of the group's Web site, but most reporters are apparently too uninterested, busy, or lazy to look it up.) Instead, the press presents CCF's line as simply another "side" of the discussion—and thereby sanctions its legitimacy and authority. That's why it's important to pay careful attention when CCF speaks." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Some of the studies of meditation, prayer, spiritual practice, and social goodwill and other intangibles sometimes show effects that are much more dramatic—though they are rarely publicized in the mainstream media. Some studies of spiritual practices and sociable behavior show that they produce a sevenfold reduction in mortality.1 It is hard to imagine any conventional medical treatment that comes close. Intangible changes in consciousness, as well as having potentially huge effects, are also usually free, have no side effects." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"The drug's use for cancer is based on nothing but utter scientific nonsense, of course, but it doesn't stop the industry from promoting it and certainly doesn't stop the mainstream media from printing articles heralding this distorted logic (and it's no coincidence that those same media sources receive millions of advertising dollars from Big Pharma)." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Since the fall of the Soviet Union the truth about covert operatives has been exposed in the mainstream media. Even in America the New York Times and other journalistic media sources are exposing the true facts about how "normal people" working in "normal jobs" were in fact agents for the CIA, KGB, and other underground secret agencies. In my role I was used at the behest of whichever society member needed my unique talents and abilities. I was virtually on call twentyfour hours a day, seven days a week. Throughout my almost twenty-year involvement, I became privy to startling insider secrets." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Led by medical ethicists, the mainstream media nevertheless defined the case as a battle between "humanists" and "religious zealots," "rationalists" and "irrationalists." Didion observes, "Yet there remained, on the 'rational' side of the argument, very little acknowledgment that there could be large numbers of people, not all of whom could be categorized as 'fundamentalists' or 'evangelicals,' who were genuinely troubled by the ramifications of viewing a life as inadequate and so deciding to end it. There remained little acknowledgment even that the case was being badly handled." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"However, mainstream media outlets were quick to report on a study appearing in the September 2004 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology which, at first glance, suggested that low cholesterol levels increased longevity(36). Researchers in this study had measured the blood cholesterol of over 3,000 healthy Finnish men aged 30-45 during the sixties, then recorded their mortality during an average follow-up period of thirty-five years." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"It's just one example of the many ways in which Americans are easily influenced and seduced by messages from the mainstream media, figures of authority, announcements from the FDA and drug company propaganda. The general public is not a good group to follow if you want to be healthy. Just look at the health of the general public. We have the single most diseased population that has ever been observed in the history of the known world." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) "So you see, it's a very dangerous alliance between the drug companies and the mainstream media. In fact, it's actually dangerous to have a media that is so strongly controlled by advertiser interests. I offer kudos to those companies that have been willing to print negative information about the dangers of prescription drugs. Hats off to those independent journalists who are sharp thinkers, who actually do investigations and print the truth about what these drugs are doing to the American people, even if it risks their job." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) "So, these trials are scientific fraud, and yet the mainstream media reports on them as if they are scientific fact, and in doing so, the media propagates all of these myths and perpetuates brain spam. Similarly, the media always reports on stories that talk about how a gene has been discovered for depression, heart disease or cancer, and the headlines you find in these stories are always distortions. No gene controls heart disease, diabetes, or cancer." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Even the mainstream media has begun to notice how odd things have become. "If current trends continue, the United States will borrow an unprecedented $1 trillion this year alone, mostly from abroad, a sum that is reflected in huge U.S. budget and trade deficits. Any sane analyst has to wonder how long it can last. . . ." The quotation comes from the International Herald Tribune's editorial page. "The most powerful way to increase national savings it to cut the budget deficit," continues the IHT." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"Generally, the mainstream media, whether deliberately or through ignorance, has missed the importance of covering the facts ,of the psycho-pharma debate. Repeatedly, alleged mental illnesses are inaccurately referred to as disease, and the debate surrounding the legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosing is not so much as even mentioned. Subsequently, the American public is forced to accept as truth blatant inaccuracies, relegating the still-curious to turn to alternative news sources such as the Internet, to get a more complete view not provided by the psycho-pharma establishment (see Appendix B)." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "Yet these physicians rarely are called upon by the mainstream media to provide the factual opposing view to the psychiatric community's claims, relegating them to the editorial and commentary sections of newspapers and websites. Dr. John M. Friedberg is another neurologist who has taken a firm stand against the fraud of psychiatric disease. The San Francisco-based neurologist felt compelled to respond to the attack against Cruise, specifically directing his comments to the remarks made by New Jersey Gov. Richard J. Codey, whose wife has publicly discussed her struggle with depression." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

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