Second in a three-part series Part 1: Toxic Science: Fiddling Facts For Profit & Legal Leverage Part 3: Covertly Stretching “Peer Review” Until It Breaks Sidebar: Hoodwinking Whole Foods, Stonewalling Thermos Note: Eastman Chemical is also the manufacturer of MCHM, the chemical in the huge West Virginia river pollution incident. The company has been accused […]
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BPA Shown to Increase Breast Cancer Spread & Interfere with Treatment
Last week at the annual joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and the Endocrine Society of Chicago, a team from Duke University in North Carolina presented an abstract indicating that Bisphenol-A (BPA) is linked to the speed of progression of inflammatory breast cancer as well as rendering the treatment for the cancer less […]
Low-Dose BPA Paper in Toxicological Sciences Fatally Flawed & Must Be Retracted. Also Raises Doubts About Integrity Of Federal Lab Animal Facility
See also: Flaws in design, execution and interpretation limit CLARITY‐BPA’s value for risk assessments of bisphenol A By Lewis Perdue and Rebecca L. Yeamans NOTE: An earlier version of this paper originally appeared on nano-active.com on Feb., 24, 2014. This version is enormously expanded to address peer-review suggestions from multiple prominent researchers. Those who helped […]
Bad Science Thrives When Corporations & Government Regulators Deny Peer Review
Part 3 of a 4-Part Series View Part 1 here: What is Peer Review And How It Can Go Wrong? View Part 2 here: Peer Review, Reproducibility: How To Separate Good Science From Sketchy Tales View Part 4 here: Private Science For Hire: Poster Children For Un-trustworthy Science One massive, gaping hole in American scientific […]
Peer Review, Reproducibility: How To Separate Good Science From Sketchy Tales
Part 2 of a 4-Part Series View Part 1 here: What is Peer Review And How It Can Go Wrong? View Part 3 here: Bad Science Thrives When Corporations & Government Regulators Deny Peer Review View Part 4 here: Private Science For Hire: Poster Children For Un-trustworthy Science To a non-scientist, a study is a […]
Why Is “Estrogenic Action” Important?
The term “estrogenic” refers to hormone disrupting chemicals like BPA and other chemicals from plastics, pesticides and other sources that can affect the health of both men and women in ways that are similar to estrogen. Most hormone disruptors exhibit estrogenic action. The Endocrine Society (www.endo-society.org) — the world’s oldest and largest organization for doctors […]
Trust Glass, Not Plastic
You can trust glass, but you can’t trust plastic for water bottles, dishes or other uses. While a small percentage are safe, no reliable guide exists, thus damning all plastics that contacts anything you put in your body. “BPA free” no guarantee Significantly, most plastics that claim to be “BPA Free” just have different types […]
Bad FDA Science Makes For Bad Public Health
Please note that this post is based on an earlier version of our scientific paper at nano-active.com: Low-Dose BPA Paper In Toxicological Sciences is Contaminated By Massive Errors & Should Be Retracted (caution: footnotes and citations ahead). That paper has been expanded to more than twice its size in preparation for scientific journal publication. We will […]
Rock-A-Bye Baby Gone Bad: The Dangers of Crib Mattresses
Anyone with experience raising a baby knows that they sleep a lot. Sure, they DON’T sleep a lot as well, leaving mom and dad often very sleep-deprived the next day. In the first three years of life, babies are known to sleep around 12-13 hours per day, compared with 8 hours (or less, for many […]
Don’t Let Hormone Disruptors Sabotage Your Fitness Program
NOTE: This article first appeared on our scientific site (with footnotes and citations) as How Hidden Chemicals Can Sabotage Your New Year’s Fitness Plans Hidden chemicals in your food and water can sabotage your fitness program and keep you from getting the most out of all that effort and sweat. While Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs) […]