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Wall Street Journal Apparently Doesn’t Care About Blatant Medical Conflicts of Interest

Syringe and paper moneyDr. Paul Offit has written another pro-vaccine screed for this powerful publication without one word about all the money he has made as a vaccine developer. Action Alert! The opinion piece, published this week, talks about respiratory infections “making a comeback” (had they really gone away?) and lays the problem at the… Continue reading Wall Street Journal Apparently Doesn’t Care About Blatant Medical Conflicts of Interest

Who Is the Number One Foe of Supplements on Capitol Hill?

Now that Henry Waxman is retiring from Congress, it is clearly Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL). State Action Alert! Sen. Durbin has long demonstrated a bias against dietary supplements. Here’s a taste of his career-long attempt to give FDA the power to sweep thousands of supplements off the shelves: In 2004, Sen. Durbin proposed an amendment… Continue reading Who Is the Number One Foe of Supplements on Capitol Hill?

ANH Honored at Awards Gala

EMORD & ASSOCIATES HONORS LEADERS IN NUTRITION, INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE, MEDICAL SCIENCE, AND JOURNALISM AT SPECTACULAR GALA Cambridge, Maryland—On September 5 and 6, 2014, the constitutional and administrative law firm Emord & Associates, P.C. held a spectacular celebration and awards program at the Hyatt Regency Resort on the occasion of its 20th anniversary and in honor of George… Continue reading ANH Honored at Awards Gala

ANH Responds To Wall Street Journal

Recently the Wall Street Journal published a story that was a thinly veiled promotional piece for GMO technology. Here is our response: Regarding your August 22 article, “Meet Mr. Frankenfoods:” This piece—little more than a GMO promotion; let’s be generous and call it an “advertorial”—starts with erroneous definitions and ends with woefully inaccurate information. For… Continue reading ANH Responds To Wall Street Journal

Flawed Analysis Misleads Public About Calcium and Heart Attack Risk

The media is at it again — reporting deceptive propaganda by the medical establishment as if it were scientific fact. Just imagine the epidemic of osteoporosis that will occur if women stop taking their calcium supplements. That will happen if the public relies on mainstream news reporters to make their health decisions. In a biased and horrifically flawed analysis, a group… Continue reading Flawed Analysis Misleads Public About Calcium and Heart Attack Risk

Don’t be Fooled by Misleading Headlines

The media won’t stop posting attention-grabbing headlines that contradict the actual findings of positive scientific studies. On November 4, 2010, a news source stated:1 “BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF TESTOSTERONE FOR FRAILTY IN OLDER MEN ARE SHORT-LIVED” From this headline you might infer that there was an initial benefit to testosterone replacement therapy that was not sustained.… Continue reading Don’t be Fooled by Misleading Headlines

Federal Government-Funded Study Fails to Recognize Value of Vitamin D

VITAMIN D TOXICITY Scientific ignorance of past findings often has dire consequences for the present. In 1934, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study on vitamin D overdose.24 The authors reported on 300 patients given high doses of vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) for asthma and hay fever. The authors reported that each unit dose of… Continue reading Federal Government-Funded Study Fails to Recognize Value of Vitamin D

Response to New York Times Opinion Piece “Don’t Take Your Vitamins”

The New York Times published an opinion piece by Dr. Paul Offit on June 8th, 2013 titled Don’t Take Your Vitamins.1 The article calls into question the benefit of vitamin supplementation. The opinion posits that most people get the nutrition they need from food and should not take supplemental antioxidant vitamins. Dr. Offit also suggests that vitamins could be… Continue reading Response to New York Times Opinion Piece “Don’t Take Your Vitamins”