The Organic Consumers Association (among others) has gleefully announced: New Study Links GMO Food To Leukemia (also saved as a PDF). This article by Sayer Ji was originally published on Green Med Info on 12 May 2013 but seems to have disappeared. The paper is Hematotoxicity of Bacillus thuringiensis as Spore-crystal Strains Cry1Aa, Cry1Ab, Cry1Ac or Cry2Aa in Swiss Albino Mice by Mezzomo et al, published first in November 2012 then again in March 2013 (more on that later). The article states: […]

Joel asks a variety of leading doctors, researchers and patient advocates for their reflections on the FDA Drug Development Workshop. A short while ago, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a workshop for patients, doctors, and other stakeholders, to talk about drug development for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). You can read a summary of the first and second parts of day one of the two-day workshop, here and here. (Day two summaries will be published […]

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) says that it “helps protect your family from pesticides.” The purpose of this post is to “help protect your family from dangerously misleading information from the EWG.” Each year since 1991, the USDA has been publishing the results from a large-scale pesticide residue monitoring program called the Pesticide Data Program (PDP). Each year, a different set of crops is chosen and samples are purchased from regular stores and tested. […]

Source. This guy needs a TV show.

If you want a crack at the items up for sale this week, you are running out of time. In less than 2 hours, these donated items may be lost to you FOREVER. Can you live with that kind of regret? CAN YOU?! Here’s what we’ve got up for auction to help raise money for SkepchickCon travel costs: The original ink drawing of a horse featured in Surly Amy’s post about white knighting, signed by Amy and accompanied by a Surly-Ramics necklace with the horse design A custom cocktail […]