Gardasil
Ads Sink To New Low
"I saw the commercial and actually gasped." "Get this lying and deceiving ad off TV."
Those are two of the comments made about that disgusting new ad put out by Merck. It's the one that tries to guilt parents into getting their child a Gardasil shot.
Now, an expert in molecular biology is claiming Merck's ad isn't just shameful -- it's illegal. And he's demanding that the "false and misleading" commercial be yanked from the airwaves before any more children are put at risk.
When I first saw Merck's Gardasil ad, I knew a lot of people were going to be just as angry as I was. After all, it's got to be the worst piece of propaganda I've ever seen come out of Big Pharma.
The ad shows a young man and woman, both actors, who say they have an HPV-related cancer. The actors wonder aloud whether their parents knew that there was "a vaccine to help protect me when I was 11 or 12."
Translation: It's your fault I have cancer, mom and dad.
The ad closes by asking, "What will you say?" Well, it turns out Dr. James Lyons-Weiler has plenty to say.
The author, researcher and former professor at the University of Pittsburgh posted a lengthy petition online that will be sent to the FTC -- the federal agency that is supposed to protect us against fraudulent and deceptive business practices.
And that is exactly what Dr. Lyons-Weiler says this commercial is -- one big fat violation of "truth in advertising laws" that is also guilty of what he calls "angel dusting."
That's a kind of misleading marketing method that makes big promises that a product can't possibly deliver.
For example, Merck may be talking about 11- and 12-year old kids in its ad. But the fact is, Merck has NEVER conducted safety studies for kids in that age group.
In fact, the FDA asked for a study a decade ago, and it still hasn't been done.
And what about all this cancer protection Gardasil is supposed to provide?
Well, one study found that high-risk HPV strains -- the kinds that are associated with cancer -- were actually found more often in women who were vaccinated with the original Gardasil shot.
Then there are the side effects, conveniently missing from the ad as well as the website it directs us to.
As I've been telling you over the years, the list of side effects that Gardasil can cause is long and terrifying. Over 35,000 adverse reaction reports have been sent into the FDA, which includes 200 deaths.
And that's no doubt just the tip of the iceberg, because a new study out of Canada found that as many as 1 in 10 girls may be injured from HPV shots.
Dr. Lyons-Weiler also calls Merck "guilty" of "undisclosed dishonest business practices" in being involved with attempts to get Gardasil mandates signed into law. These ads suspiciously came out right around the same time that officials in Pennsylvania were attempting to pass rules requiring HPV vaccination in order to attend school .
He is asking the FTC to send a cease-and-desist letter to Merck and get this ad off the airwaves. Now that might seem like an appeal to the wrong federal agency, but then again, maybe not.
After all, we know for darned sure that the FDA and CDC don't have the backbone to stand up to Big Pharma.
Ease your tremors with this magical mineral
If you ever get the “shakes” -- a trembling condition known as essential tremor -- your doc might offer to "cure" it by zapping away at your gray matter.
They're pushing a new ultrasound device that fries the brain tissue in the area that scientists think is going haywire and causing the tremors.
Does it work?
Sort of -- it eases the tremors by about 50 percent.
But in return, you could end up with something a whole lot worse than a tremor: One of the side effects is "loss of complete body control."
Would you want to chance that? Me neither!
Even if you manage to zap away brain cells and still keep control over your body, you could end up with headaches... balance problems... numb fingers.. blood clots... scars... burns... trouble walking... and more.
It's like a side effect party, and they're all invited.
That's just crazy -- because in most cases, you don't have to go to that extreme to get the shakes under control.
Most folks assume that ET is a baby step away from Parkinson's. Because of that... because they FEAR these tremors could turn into this life-wrecking, dignity-stealing disease... they'll let a doc talk them into just about anything.
They'll take bad meds... have a risky surgery... and now, maybe they'll even give this new brain-frying technique a shot.
But essential tremor ISN'T Parkinson's disease, and very few of the people who have ET will end up with Parkinson's.
So if you've got it, don't panic into a bad decision. Take a few moments to calm down, and then consider a more rational approach -- because you can get the tremors under control without resorting to drugs, surgery, or frying your brain cells.
In many cases, doctors ignore the single most common cause of the tremors -- a simple condition that's easy to diagnose and easier to fix.
It's a magnesium deficiency.
That shakes are a textbook sign of the condition, and even if you don't have a deficiency by mainstream standards you could be low enough in this essential mineral to suffer.
So before you do anything else, make sure you boost your intake of magnesium.
You can add magnesium-rich foods to your diet, but that probably won’t be enough to get the job done right. Try a supplement instead -- and don't go for the bargain-basement stuff, which isn't always absorbed by the gut.
Look instead for a chelated or whole food form of magnesium. It's a couple bucks more, but it's worth every penny.
If you ever get the “shakes” -- a trembling condition known as essential tremor -- your doc might offer to "cure" it by zapping away at your gray matter.
They're pushing a new ultrasound device that fries the brain tissue in the area that scientists think is going haywire and causing the tremors.
Does it work?
Sort of -- it eases the tremors by about 50 percent.
But in return, you could end up with something a whole lot worse than a tremor: One of the side effects is "loss of complete body control."
Would you want to chance that? Me neither!
Even if you manage to zap away brain cells and still keep control over your body, you could end up with headaches... balance problems... numb fingers.. blood clots... scars... burns... trouble walking... and more.
It's like a side effect party, and they're all invited.
That's just crazy -- because in most cases, you don't have to go to that extreme to get the shakes under control.
Most folks assume that ET is a baby step away from Parkinson's. Because of that... because they FEAR these tremors could turn into this life-wrecking, dignity-stealing disease... they'll let a doc talk them into just about anything.
They'll take bad meds... have a risky surgery... and now, maybe they'll even give this new brain-frying technique a shot.
But essential tremor ISN'T Parkinson's disease, and very few of the people who have ET will end up with Parkinson's.
So if you've got it, don't panic into a bad decision. Take a few moments to calm down, and then consider a more rational approach -- because you can get the tremors under control without resorting to drugs, surgery, or frying your brain cells.
In many cases, doctors ignore the single most common cause of the tremors -- a simple condition that's easy to diagnose and easier to fix.
It's a magnesium deficiency.
That shakes are a textbook sign of the condition, and even if you don't have a deficiency by mainstream standards you could be low enough in this essential mineral to suffer.
So before you do anything else, make sure you boost your intake of magnesium.
You can add magnesium-rich foods to your diet, but that probably won’t be enough to get the job done right. Try a supplement instead -- and don't go for the bargain-basement stuff, which isn't always absorbed by the gut.
Look instead for a chelated or whole food form of magnesium. It's a couple bucks more, but it's worth every penny.
How Safe is an Airport Full Body Scanner?
By Ty Bollinger at The Truth About
Cancer
Article Summary
· The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) claims their “advanced imaging technology” devices are just as safe as traditional metal detectors. Research shows this isn’t the case and that the doses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the TSA’s millimeter wave technology machines can cause cancer.
· Millimeter wave technology is used in the treatment of skin cancer (due to its known skin-heating properties), which means it undeniably has an effect on human cells.
· Like all other forms of radiation, millimeter waves don’t differentiate between healthy cells and malignant cells. In the case of concentrated radiation blasts from millimeter wave body scanners, it means every cell on the surface of your body is targeted.
· A World Health Organization (WHO) report revealed that millimeter waves not only heat the skin but also damage eyesight and cause cancer − particularly skin cancer.
· By choosing a manual pat-down, air travelers can minimize their radiation exposure and thus minimize the risk of developing cancer.
“Step onto the body scanner platform and place
your hands in the air; it’s for your safety and security.”
If
you’ve traveled through a U.S. airport within the past few years, you’ve
probably had a government screener say something along these lines. Every day
travelers are herded through the checkpoint corrals into one of these
anti-terrorism full body scanners.
The
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) claims these so-called “advanced
imaging technology” devices are just as safe as traditional metal detectors.
But is this really true?
When
they were first rolled out post-911, backscatter X-ray tunnels quickly became
standard fare at commercial aviation facilities nationwide. The TSA claimed the
amount of low-intensity radiation emitted by these machines was safe,
releasing less than 10 microREMs of radiation per screening. This is an amount
equivalent to what an airplane passenger might incur after just two or three
minutes of flying at cruising altitude.
This
claim was later debunked. It was revealed that concentrated radiation
blasted directly at a person’s body is much more harmful than the random
patterns of ionizing radiation sent in all directions from the cosmos
and by an airplane’s navigational equipment during flight. Not long after these
facts came to light, the TSA came up with a different type of screening
technology that it said was safer − the millimeter wave machine.
According
to the TSA’s Frequently Asked Questions page, millimeter wave imaging
technology “uses harmless electromagnetic waves to detect potential
threats, which are highlighted on a generic outline of a person appearing on a
monitor attached to the unit. If no anomalies are detected, an ‘OK’ appears on
the screen with no outline.”
It
all seems simple enough, right? Unfortunately, this explanation by the TSA is
trite at best, and deliberately misleading at worst. A closer look into
millimeter wave technology and the ways in which it affects the human body
during an average TSA screening reveals a truth that the government doesn’t
want you to know. The doses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the
TSA’s millimeter wave technology machines can cause cancer.
What’s Wrong With Millimeter Wave Radiation?
The
fact that millimeter wave technology is used in the treatment of skin cancer
(due to its known skin-heating properties), means it undeniably has an effect
on human cells. This heating is a direct result of microwave frequencies
entering the skin and inducing a certain level of atomic motion within the
cellular structure. This is really just a fancy way of saying that
millimeter wave radiation microwaves your skin.
Just
how much this millimeter wave radiation microwaves your skin is where push
comes to shove. But most scientists are in agreement that any amount of
radiation poses at least some level of risk. The public deserves to know both
this level of risk and what they can do to minimize or eliminate it.
Though
not ionizing in nature, millimeter wave radiation is still potentially damaging
to the human body. A 2012 paper published in the journal Radiation
Research admits that the safety of millimeter wave body scanners
is “difficult-to-impossible to prove using publicly accessible data.” This
means that TSA claims of negligible risk associated with their use represent the opinion of the TSA, and not
scientific fact.
What
we do know is that millimeter waves, which exist in the 30-300 GHz range, cause “multiple
biological effects,” according to another study published the same year
in the International Journal of Oncology. Though this study looked
specifically at millimeter wave radiation in the context of cancer treatment,
the morphological effects demonstrated reveal that this supposedly “safe” form
of radiation causes cellular change that inhibit cellular growth.
Like
all other forms of radiation, millimeter waves don’t differentiate
between healthy cells and malignant cells. Whatever cells they’re targeted
at are the cells they destroy. In the case of concentrated radiation blasts
from millimeter wave body scanners, it means every cell on the surface of your
body.
How Millimeter Waves From a Full Body Scanner May Cause
Cancer
What
this all means is that millimeter wave body scanners act as giant microwaves
that literally heat travelers’ bodies at the cellular level using ultra-high
frequencies not normally found in nature. Microwave ovens operate at
nearly the same frequencies as these machines. They induce cellular
vibrations strong enough to generate heat in food, so imagine what it’s doing
to your skin.
But
these are just minor thermal effects, you might be thinking, since an airport
body scan only lasts a mere two seconds or so as opposed to 30 seconds to
a minute to warm a bowl of soup in a microwave oven. But the principle is still
the same, especially when taking into account repeated exposures.
And
you also have to consider the non-thermal effects of millimeter wave radiation,
which disrupt cellular communication in ways that science has yet to fully
delineate. The United States Air Force conducted its own research into
ultra-high frequency, non-ionizing radiation as a potential weapons technology.
Interestingly, in the process they uncovered evidence that the non-thermal
activity of millimeter wave radiation directly interferes with the body’s
ability to protect and heal itself.
A
World Health Organization (WHO) report adds even more to the conversation,
revealing that millimeter waves not only heat the skin but also damage eyesight
and cause cancer, particularly cancer of the skin.
A
team of researchers from the Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory in New Mexico recognized the lack of scientific research
into this questionable technology. They decided to investigate for themselves
how high-frequency terahertz (THz) waves, like the kind emitted from the TSA’s
millimeter wave full body scanners, affect human DNA. They learned that:
“THz
waves … unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that
could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA
replication.”
Skip the Full Body Scanner and Opt for a Pat Down
Recognizing
these inherent dangers, the best thing air travelers can do is opt out of the
TSA screening process when presented with a body scanner rather than a
traditional metal detector. By choosing a manual pat-down, air travelers can
minimize their radiation exposure and thus minimize the risk of
developing cancer.
Though
physically invasive and admittedly unconstitutional, a physical pat-down is
still better than being blasted with a concentrated vortex of electrical and
magnetic energy. As it sweeps around your body, the full body scanner exposes
each square centimeter of your body to about 0.013 milliwatts of
radiation. Collectively, this is enough to induce gene mutations, nerve
damage, sterility, and even cancer.
“Low
levels (below 10 mW/cm2) of NIR (non-ionizing radiation) have been found to
produce many adverse health effects in animals including temporary sterility,
genetic changes, and changes in the transmission of nerve impulses,”explains the Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy
(FACT).
“The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found preliminary evidence that these
low levels may affect the immune system, which means the body may be less able
to fight off disease.”
My
Comment:
Many
of us do everything we can to avoid dangerous foods and chemicals that harm our
bodies. So why not take the simple action of declining the scanner and opting
for a pat-down? Frying your skin cells and eyes with microwaves cannot be good
for you. We know that radiation causes cancer by damaging our cells and
anything we can do to avoid it is worth doing. I have been declining the airport
full body scanners for years….maybe you should too?
Until
next time, stay healthy and happy
JD
Roma
The information on this blog is
provided for educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional
medical care, and medical advice and services are not being offered. If you
have, or suspect you have, a health problem you should consult your physician
(preferably a Naturopath).
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