Archive for March, 2008
Next Entries »Bye, Bye Dr. Jarvik
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008In one of my earlier blogs, I talk about the insipid ads put out by Pfizer that use Dr. Robert Jarvik to tout its best selling drug Lipitor. I’ve blogged before about who this guy really is and how he should not be the spokesperson as he never practiced medicine and he is no expert […]
More Tips on Lowering Your Carbon Footprint
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008In an earlier post, I gave you 25 different ways of “greening” your life. Here is a great little pamphlet on how to lower your carbon footprint from the Fight Global Warming website from Environmental Defense . Here is one for your kids to get involved, and a discussion on what the real science says […]
Combinational Toxicity – The Toxic Soup Within Our Bodies
Monday, March 3rd, 2008In an article published in the British journal, New Scientist, author Bijal Trivedi reports on how combinations of the toxic effects of the toxins within our bodies can be far greater than the sum of the toxins. Say if the lethality of each of 8 chemical toxicant by themselves was .01 on a scale of 0-5, […]
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