The diminishing returns of beneficial mutations

by Shaun Doyle
Creation Ministries International
Beneficial mutations are often seen as the engine of evolution (Mutations: evolution’s engine becomes evolution’s end!). However, beneficial mutations by themselves don’t solve the problem (see Beetle Bloopers). Mutations not only have to be beneficial, but they […]

Do Cell Phone Signals Cause Brain Tumors?

by Dr. Magda Havas, PhD
July 5, 2011. Who to believe?  Ironically, two reports published days apart have totally different takes on whether or not microwave radiation is harmful. Both are review articles but that is where the similarity ends.
In one publication [Long-term exposure to microwave radiation provides cancer growth: Evidence from radars and mobile communication […]

Did the USDA Just Deregulate All New Genetically Modified Crops?

By Tom Philpott
Mother Jones
It’s a hoary bureaucratic trick, making a controversial announcement on the Friday afternoon before a long weekend, when most people are daydreaming about what beer to buy on the way home from work, or are checking movie times online. But that’s precisely what the US Department of […]

Last Stand on Food Rights: Why Private Food Groups Must Refuse to Obey Cease-and-Desist Orders

by David Gumpert
The Complete Patient

If we lose the right to organize private organizations to share food, then the food rights war war will be over sooner than you can say “raw milk.”
Why? Because the food regulators and politicians have full control of the public realm, and are gaining more with […]

North Dakota: Feeding the hungry in a land of plenty

By Paul Adams BBC News, Bismarck, North Dakota
North Dakotans like to think they feed the world. But right now they are being encouraged to feed themselves.
Aided by its recent oil boom, North Dakota has weathered the recession better than many other states. But government officials say one in 11 of the […]

Up to 20 chemicals from drugs and hormones in a commercial glass of milk

By David Derbyshire
Daily Mail

Excerpts:

A glass of milk can contain a cocktail of up to 20 painkillers, antibiotics and growth hormones, scientists have shown.

The highest quantities of medicines were found in cow’s milk. Researchers believe some of the drugs and growth promoters were given to the cattle, or got into […]

60 Dangers of the Hepatitis B Vaccination

By Dr. Mercola

The website Green Med Info has assembled 44 articles which together list 60 diseases or adverse unintended consequences associated with hepatitis B vaccination.

Among the problems the vaccination may cause are:

Autoimmune inflammatory polyneuropathy
Multiple sclerosis
Anaphylactic shock and death in infants
Chronic arthritis
Autism
Bell’s palsy

According […]

FDA’s New Sneak Attack on Supplements

by Alliance for Natural Health

Just before the July 4 holiday weekend, hoping to limit media attention, the FDA dropped a bomb on dietary supplements. Don’t let them get away with it! A new Action Alert.
On July 1, the US Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidance for complying with the New Dietary […]

Antidepressant Drug Use in Pregnancy Linked to Autism

By Julie Steenhuysen

Excerpts:

Researchers at health insurer Kaiser Permanente found mothers of children with autism were twice as likely to have been prescribed a common antidepressant during the year before their pregnancy than mothers of healthy children.

A team led by Lisa Croen, director of the Autism Research Program at the Kaiser […]

Why Virgin Coconut Oil Makes a Great Deodorant

by Anne Hart, Sacramento Healthy Trends Examiner

Excerpts:
All you need is a jar of extra virgin coconut oil. In this current triple-digit California Central Valley weather today, it’s great. You simply smear the melted coconut oil in your armpits and any place else on your external skin that needs a deodorant in the […]