"Golden age" medical quackery continues: 2/2007

Quack files weblog and global health

January 2007 was the first month I called "the golden age of medical quackery". There is every reason to continue to write a quack weblog of medical quackery as the U.N. warned the world for global warming (February 2). This is an indication global "health" is at stake. While climatologists encourage politics to take action, nanotechnology, biotechnology and other sciences continue to invent and especially apply technologies which are not based on basic universal principles [1], setting aside holistic visions such as homeopathic dilutions, humankind might be compensated by dilution of life, the ultimate revenge for ignoring the law of the universe from cause and consequence (third law Newton), this is also by the way almost identical to the homeopathic law of similars.

Time	Source *	Headline #
Feb 28 2007 Feb 28 2007 Feb 27 2007 Feb 26 2007 Feb 25 2007 Feb 23 2007 Feb 23 2007 Feb 22 2007 Feb 21 2007 Feb 20 2007 Feb 19 2007 Feb 19 2007 Feb 18 2007 Feb 17 2007 Feb 16 2007 Feb 14 2007 Feb 13 2007 Feb 13 2007 Feb 12 2007 Feb 12 2007 Feb 09 2007 Feb 09 2007 Feb 09 2007 Feb 08 2007 Feb 06 2007 Feb 05 2007 Feb 04 2007 Feb 03 2007 Feb 02 2007 Feb 02 2007 Feb 02 2007 Feb 02 2007	Time NY times BBC Daily mail AP Metro  [8] MSNBC BBC AP MSNBC AP Herald tribune Forbes NY times Time Daily mail Reuters BBC MSNBC AP AP CDC NY times Herald tribune MSNBC Yahoo BBC MSNBC Xinhua CDC Guardian unlimited IPCC [2]	CDC: 25% woman have HPV (sexually transmitted virus causing cervical cancer) [12] Major research claiming adult stem cells could change into all major tissues flawed  [11] UK will have huge increase of dementia by 2051. Pfizer and Eisai eager to involve No justification for higher Caesarean birth rate in UK according to WHO [10] Manufacturer Shire hopes new ADHD drug will extend its lucrative ADHD franchise [9] Less people die, more are heart patients due to feed habits, obesity, insufficient exercise Study adult stem cells flawed, research cannot be duplicated, under investigation Russian falling life expectancy men due to lifestyle: smoking, drinking, pollution Merck suspends lobbying to get state legislatures to vaccine young girls [7] Stem cells needed, donate your baby's cord blood or get your own insurance? [6] US CPSC didn't release actual test results lunch boxes contain Lead Counterfeit medicines sold over the internet, especially Asia with artemisinin for malaria Doctor prescribed Anna Nicole Smith methadone. Remind: Monroe, Presley, Simpson Drug companies fight over growth drugs, same patent different side effects China adds old leather, dried pig's blood, chicken feathers, DDT etc. to food  Silent addiction to painkillers; addicted to over-the-counter (OTC) medication Feeling insecure in a relation affects the immune system (comment: affects the Self) Cancer drug "saves" lives (Comment: BBC too optimistic about Aromasin) UK and US stem cell banks join, hoping to promote research and standards Antibiotic [5] got "black box" warning from FDA. Cause severe liver problems Illegal use of prescriptions drugs less over 3 years. Oxycontin [4] mostly misused Methadone cause unintentional poisoning deaths 1 in 150 children develop disease in autistic spectrum according to CDC Over-the-counter weight-loss drug [3] approved US (comment: end illegal quack spam) Advocacy group antidepressants: FDA’s actions caused an increase in youth suicide Court rules Pfizer may not use name "Wei Ge" for Viagra on Chinese market If new products could suppress HIV replication within the testes "this would be advance" FDA allows cloned food without label, biotech industry will produce "superior animal" UK opens first commercial stem cells bank. Charge parents 1,500 pounds for storing Inactivity biggest behavior problem U.S. citizens. 38% inactive during leisure time UN's IPCC warns for global warming caused by human behavior, raise 3°C by 2100 No precedent of such rate of warming during last 10000 years. Adaptation is necessary	Definition quack Anti-quackery Health fraud Medical quackery Quack attack Quack buster Quack doctor Quackery Quackwatch Medical quack watch 5/2007 Medical quackery 3/2007 Medical quackery 2/2007 Medical quackery 1/2007 Medical quackery 2006 Medical quackery 12/2006 Medical quackery 1954 Medical quack headlines Quackery's quacks Quack spam Pages on quackery A medical quack history Are you a skeptic ? Biotech quack alert Doomsday: Biotechnology Evidence-based medicine Blog homeopathy quack Faq: homeopathy quack Homeopathy quack response Hormone replacement therapy Mercury: dental quack ? More medical quackery Pseudoscience Pseudoscience & SSRIs Quack reflex vs. nature Stem cell quackery

Notes

* We didn't link sources because of the temporary nature of news links  
# If there is space, the (possible) drugs involved are mentioned

1. Not all of these technologies are necessary bad, there are e.g. a nanotechnological applications for reducing gasses from cars
2. 11th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and 1st Conference of the Parties serving as Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. Address by Dr R K Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the High Level Segment. Montreal, Canada, 7 December 2005
3. Alli (over-the-counter) Orlistat or Xenical 
4. Oxycontin. For treatment of pain. FDA warns for serious misuse with death results
5. Ketek, telithromycin, from Sanofi-Aventis SA
6. "get your own insurance?", means storing ("banking") the umbilical cord of your baby for its later possible problems. See the box on the right: Stem cells therapy
7. Gardasil to "prevent" cervical cancer. Merc & Co. was also a drug maker of Vioxx once a promising painkiller
8. Situation Netherlands
9. Old drug: Adderall XR; New: Lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse) 
10. Rate 2005: 25% which is increase of 50% over 1995; 15% is justified according to WHO; rate seems to be based on fear
11. Nature 2002; no ?, Catherine Verfaillie
12. Sexually active women have greatest risk, compare with syphilitic miasm

 

 

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