The ‘Tragedy’ of Fair Prices
<div style="text-align: justify;">In Canada there’s a group called the National Coalition Against Contraband Tobacco.</div>
The barbecue is no longer in the black list
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The reader, noting that from time to time I criticize or ridicule topics covered in the medical literature, might think that I am a wizard who does not trust medical research. Not at all: without it the medicine would have stopped at the Stone Age. Medical research is essential but should be supported by individuals and governments, free from conflicts of interest.<span style=""> </span>Having said that, I’m suspicious of studies supported by pharmaceutical companies, <span style=""> </span>and I deplore those farfetched publications based on personal likes and dislikes or, for that matter, funded on hearsay evidences. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The conversation that follows may be helpful to those who love to gather homefolks and friends around a barbecue and, among them, comes out a party-pooper that warns against the danger of eating grilled meat.</span></p>
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Anti-smoking Research Dependent on Psychosis
<div style="text-align: justify;">No, the research paper we link to isn’t a deliberate joke.</div>
Junk Food and Cigarettes Win Again
<div style="text-align: justify;">Actor Russell Crowe is a gentleman to his nicotine-stained fingertips.</div>
Aliens from Mars
<div style="text-align: justify;">A 2007 article by Gian Turci bears reviewing.</div>
Nuts Aplenty
<div style="text-align: justify;">It’s said that antismoker attorney John Banzhaf’s vanity license plate reads "SUE BAS". His disciples have gotten the message.</div>
Obama’s Economic Vandalism: Trade Protectionism
<div style="text-align: justify;">It’s hard to know whether Obama’s policies of trade protectionism result from his ignorance of both economics and history or simply putting politics ahead of both. Take your pick.</div>
Continuing Medical Education (by Big Pharma)
In the section Health of <i>The New York Times</i> of August 4, 2009, in the subsection Research, there was an article, by Natasha Singer, revealing the shady business of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. I do not know if that information was published in other papers, but certainly it did not draw the attention of the world’s mass media. Had that malpractice involved Big Tobacco, you can bet it, it would have become one of the main issues in newspapers, magazines and television all around the world. <br />
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Here is the article’s title and heading:<br />
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Grace Slick Is Pushing Seventy
<div style="text-align: justify;">And still smokin’.</div>
Dismal ‘Public Health’ Efforts of UN and WHO
<div style="text-align: justify;">The United Nations and its World Health Organization are hopelessly enamored with eugenics-inspired statistical drivel and social control. At the same time they become worseningly ineffective in dealing with real issues of public health.</div>