JANUARY 27. A new Rand study reveals that doctors take an average of three minutes to prescribe anti-depressants to their patients.

The study speculates that the speed factor results from the docs being overwhelmed and brainwashed by drug-company propaganda.

Yeah, but there are other factors involved.

Assembly-line med practices make more....   Full story

FREE YURKO GETS NEW PUSH

JANUARY 27. Quick heads-up. For about a year now, I have been following the case of Alan Yurko. In 1999, he was convicted of murdering his own baby, and he is now serving life plus ten years---whatever THAT means.

The Yurko family has been working very hard to obtain a new trial. A number of health practitioners have climbed on board, seekin....   Full story

THE HEADLINE IS THE MIND CONTROL

JANUARY 27. You must have seen the recent stories. TAMOXIFEN MAY PREVENT BREAST CANCER. Headlines like that. One more study has come to that conclusion.

But if you read down, for example, in the MSNBC version of this announcement, you find something else. The very researchers who did the study say the drug should NOT be used for this purpos....   Full story

BLAST FROM PAST ON PROZAC

JANUARY 27. From time to time, I’ll be reprinting articles from my archive. Some of these articles provide evidence for what I’m writing these days. Obviously, I don’t recapitulate every story on a given subject when I print a new piece on the same subject. The archive is the place to look.

Below is a story I wrote on November 13, 2000. It ..   Full story