Public Health

Skepticism Warranted Regarding New Study Suggesting Link Between Chemical Exposures And IQ Loss

Earlier today, Dr. Leonardo Trasande and colleagues from New York University (NYU) published yet another in a series of economic studies which they interpret to indicate that low level general population exposures to some brominated flame retardants (PBDE ...

Article - Gregory Bond - Jan 14 2020 - 10:44am

Be Wary Of Probiotic Health Claims In Media- That Means Be Wary Of Health Journalism

There is no question that our microbiome is important to health, but just like science behind mitochondrial function inside cells set off an antioxidant craze in the 1970s, all of the applied health claims about probiotics in the 2000s are nonsense. If you ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 15 2020 - 5:12pm

Obesity Is The Second Leading Preventable Cause Of Death- Will More Sin Taxes Help?

The opioid crisis and deaths related to e-cigarette use among teenagers have dominated news headlines recently. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 34 people had died as a result of vaping and, in 2017, opioid addiction ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 27 2020 - 5:58pm

EWG Claims Again That Food Is Unsafe- The Science And Health Community Disagrees

Environmental Working Group, a litigation group devoted to food and chemical issues, is most famous for publishing its annual "Dirty Dozen" list to promote publicly available pesticide residues on food. While neglecting to mention that their orga ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 12 2020 - 4:39pm

Endocrine Disruption From Cosmetics Your Mom Used Made You Fat, Not Calories, Claims New Paper

A new paper by epidemiologists in Europe will overturn centuries of diet and health thinking; the thinking that eating too much makes people gain weight. Instead, the new statistical correlation argues, the weight gain is due to pregnant women who used cos ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 13 2020 - 7:30am

It's Reducing Calories, Not The 10,000 Steps A Day, That Prevent Weight Gain

In a world of New York Times best-selling diet books and epidemiological claims about food and chemicals- even that if your mother used cosmetics it may have made you fat- it can be difficult for the public to know what to trust. It won't be intermitt ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2020 - 12:24pm

Mediterranean Diet Claims Are Bordering On Supernatural- Now It May Increase Longevity

A new paper claims that the Mediterranean diet may increase "longevity" and it created its mystical conclusion using the favored magic wand of food studies, epidemiological correlation, sprinkled with biological speculation. You may be old enough ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2020 - 4:34pm

Statistical Wobble: Different Foods Linked To Different Kinds Of Stroke In Epidemiology Paper

What do you conclude when different foods are claimed to be eaten on surveys by people who have one type of stroke but not another? Not much. But it will still be a food frequency questionnaire epidemiology paper, the bane of public trust in science. What ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 25 2020 - 11:47am

Health Care Cost: CDC Should Stop Recommending Dip-Tet Booster Shots Every 10 Years

In recent years the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have manufactured a lot of concerns they then ask Congress for money to help solve- Zika, Prediabetes, vaping in kids are all examples of where they hyped concern or even defy the internat ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2020 - 12:31pm

No Ozone Gas Or UV Light CPAP Cleaning Devices Have Been Approved By FDA

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices are often prescribed for home use to patients with obstructive sleep apnea, a condition where an individual’s airway becomes blocked during sleep causing breathing to intermittently stop and start. CPAP de ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2020 - 6:37pm