This is like those little jerks, full of themselves, who write to presidents advising on policy.
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Day: March 3, 2014
Marita Noon talks energy and the Ukraine
Don’t you think that Ukraine is important for more than cultural/political reasons–like maybe that natural gas pipeline to all those European countries?
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Lancet Panic Attack Attributed to Chemophobia
We talked once last week about the Lancet problem–they have a Chemophobia problem.
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DDT Good, Enviros Bad
Milloy has always had a terrible sore about the DDT Rachel Carson story.
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Driessen on the SCOTUS EPA Endangerment Case
I have friends who write much better than I. One is Paul Driessen of CFACT
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The EPA Targets Sulphur
Every day I get up and my wife tells me the EPA did something to make me mad.
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Potent new Narcotic, Zohydro
Dangerous to allow the potent stuff on the market. One pill is not the same as another.
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Ohio discovers the Baby Wipe Allergy Crisis
Yesterday we talked about Baby wipes.
How is it that medical people a world away from each other would discover the allergens in baby wipes?
I looked at the ingredients and preservatives in my Equate Baby Wipes from Walmart, and the culprit identified in Australia was not in my baby wipes.
http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/allergies_al0/Moistened-Toiletry-Wipes-Cause-Rash-Of-Problems.shtml
Dr. Zirwas in Ohio is described as a good allergy detective.
Zirwas says the chemical preservative is MI (methylisothiazolinon) and it has been around for years. MI is found in many water-based products like liquid soaps, hair products, sunscreen, cosmetics, laundry products and cleaners as well as pre-moistened personal hygiene products and baby wipes.
This report reveals the nature of the problem–it is an allergy, not a sensitivity (some would say a distinction without a difference) and the MI is the culprit. Some other chemical in some other brand may soon be discovered to be an allergen–allergens are all around us, causing skin and respiratory problems mostly. The mediator is histamine–which causes itching and blood vessel reactions, but also fluid expanding in tissues under the influence of the histamine.
Life threatening allergic reactions occur, for example from hymenoptera (bees, wasps, hornets) and sudden loss of blood pressure can occur–anaphylactic shock–a very impressive event indeed, and too often fatal. More people die from bees than rattlesnakes, for example, by far.
Patient Safety Junk Research
Here’s the typical panicky study on patient safety, this time about skilled nursing facilities.
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Markers for Leukemia
A study that shows that Chronic Lymphocyte Leukemia CLL has a marker.
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