Discussion Paper on 2023 Health Canada Initiatives

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Shawn Buckley Health Canada is moving to:(1) charge natural health product businesses significant new fees;(2) impose new regulatory burdens on natural health product businesses, and (3) give itself dramatic powers over the natural health product community. We are going to lose natural health products and the practitioners that rely on them. Unless Canadians step up […]

There Was No Pandemic

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Denis G. Rancourt All-cause mortality by time (day, week, month, year, period), by jurisdiction (country, state, province, county), and by individual characteristics of the deceased (age, sex, race, living accomodations) is the most reliable data for detecting and epidemiologically characterizing events causing death, and for gauging the population-level impact of any surge or collapse in […]

Newly released Internal Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine adverse event surveillance report reveals millions of adverse events, significant portion classified as serious.

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The Canadian Independent As more and more Pfizer documents are being released, this particular one stands out as the most alarming to date. The 393-page Pfizer (BNT162B2) COVID-19 vaccine post-marketing surveillance report covers a six-month period from December 19, 2021, to June 18, 2022. The report includes over 10,000 different categories of adverse events. … […]

‘Medical Gaslighting’: Physicians Speak Out Against COVID Policies, Call for Reform

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Brenda Baletti The Global Health Project last week released a video titled “The Oath,” in which physicians describe the effect on doctors, patients and the healthcare system of silencing dissent during the COVID-19 pandemic. … The video release marked the launch of the Global Health Project, an organization hoping to raise awareness of the coercive […]

In Case You Thought Getting More Shots Was a Good Idea …

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Jessica Rose A new preprint is out entitled: “Risk of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) among Those Up-to-Date and Not Up-to-Date on COVID-19 Vaccination” and it concludes from a multivariate analysis of 48,344 individuals (Employees of Cleveland Clinic) that ‘those not “up-to-date” on COVID-19 vaccination had a lower risk of COVID-19 than those “up-to-date”’. They looked […]

Coatings on Fresh Produce and the 2023 Apeel Controversy, Edible Films: Extending Shelf-Life and Preserving an Appealing Appearance

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OrganicEye (White Paper) The FDA has created groups of specific related foods for the purpose of establishing acceptable tolerances and/or to set limitations for the use of direct human food ingredients. Waxes and coatings fall under the category of surface-finishing agents. These are “…substances used to increase palatability, preserve gloss, and inhibit discoloration of foods, […]

Uproar Over ‘Apeel’ Food Coating Sheds light on Big Ag’s Capture of Organic Food Agencies

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Brenda Baletti Agribusiness watchdog OrganicEye this week petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish formal regulatory oversight for the public and private organizations that determine what products can be labeled organic. The request comes after a recent social media controversy surrounding a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded synthetic fungicide and fruit coating — […]

Models or Measures of Climate Change: Why Does It Matter?

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Kenneth P. Green Much of our understanding of anthropogenic climate change, and much of the debate over climate science and climate policy is based on information generated via mathematical modeling. Rarely, if ever, do we see much discussion of empirical measurements of climate change; global average temperature and sea level are rare exceptions. … The […]