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Medical Imaging Radiation as a Factor of Epidemic of Cancer

19 Wednesday Aug 2015

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      There is an epidemic of cancer today. One in three Americans will be diagnosed with cancer … We continue to invest 97 percent of our cancer research funds in better treatments and early detection. Only 3 percent is invested in tackling causes…
      By Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, NY Times

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      They want to know if radiation from … computed tomography (CT) scans … will increase their risk of developing cancer…  In 2006, about 62 million CT scans were performed in the United States, compared with just three million in 1980…Most of what we know about the risks of ionizing radiation comes from long-term studies of people who survived the 1945 atomic bomb blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These studies show a slightly but significantly increased risk of cancer in those exposed to the blasts, including a group of 25,000 Hiroshima survivors who received less than 50 mSv of radiation — an amount you might get from two or three CT scans.
      Radiation risk from medical imaging By Celeste Robb-Nicholson, M.D. Harvard Health Publications, Harvard Medical Schools.  October 1, 2010

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        The proportion of total radiation exposure that comes from medical sources has grown from 15% in the early 1980s to 50% today. CT alone accounts for 24% of all radiation exposure in the United States, according to a report issued in March 2009 by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements… A chest x-ray, for example, delivers 0.1 mSv, while a chest CT delivers 7 mSv (see the table) — 70 times as much. And that’s not counting the very common follow-up CT scans. –Celeste Robb-Nicholson, M.D.

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Half Century Trend of Declining Lethality of the Heart Disease, Stroke and Cancer

03 Friday Apr 2015

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– Declining Lethality By BILL MARSH, New York Times.

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Impact of Vaccines on the Morbidity Rate

03 Friday Apr 2015

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Century Long Trends in Disease Mortality

08 Friday Aug 2014

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From Global Smoking to Global Warming: Strong Alliance of Hollywood & Science

17 Thursday Jul 2014

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In the Beginning it was a Consensus Statement of the Medical Doctors of America:

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… and Hollywood Stars were completely agree with them:

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See also: Hollywood cut secret deals to promote smoking .  Report: Tobacco companies paid Hollywood stars to promote smoking

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Now there is the same “scientific consensus” on climate change

The “consensus” was built around the mystical graph that was called a  “global warming hockey stick“:

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It does not matter that independent scientists “have uncovered a fundamental mathematical flaw in the computer program that was used to produce the hockey stick“, because the Hollywood produced an impressive movie about this theory. It was called “An Inconvenient Truth” and promoted the “stick” as a truthful theory:

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Former vice president Al Gore, as a screenplay of this movie, nabbed an Academy Award for best (see above) documentary. Although the Oscar actually went to director Davis Guggenheim, Gore gave an acceptance speech:
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Secretary of State John Kerry declared, that according to his estimations “at Least 98, 99% of All Scientists in Our Country’ Believe in Climate Change“, and President of the United State concluded: “The debate is settled. Climate change is a fact“.

Chemicals in soap can cause male infertility, claim scientists

15 Thursday May 2014

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Chemicals in common household products such as toothpaste, soap and plastic toys have a direct impact on human sperm which could help explain rising levels of male infertility, scientists have found. One in three “non-toxic” chemicals used in the manufacture of everyday items significantly affected the potency of sperm cells, which may account for the high incidence of unexplained infertility in the human population, … the latest research, published in EMBO reports and carried out with Timo Strünker of the Centre of Advanced European Studies and Research in Bonn, Germany, found that 30 out of 96 common household chemicals had a direct effect on the “catsper” protein which controls the sperm cell’s motility, or swimming agility, and its ability to enter the egg cell to trigger fertilisation.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/chemicals-in-soap-can-cause-male-infertility-claim-scientists-9353159.html

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