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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007“Trust Us, We’re Experts!” by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
Saturday, July 14th, 2007I finished this book several days ago and we are leaving town today so I will write a quick review now and pack my laptop. It was copyrighted in 2001 and published by Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. in New York. The full title is “Trust Us, We’re Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with your Future”. I enjoyed reading it for all of the details about companies, events, schemes, and toxins like:
the third-party PR technique
the precautionary principle
industry-funded science and its skewed findings
Edward Bernays, a nephew of Freud
companies that poison and kill people and get away with it
the military and science in the US, and other funding
genetically modified foods from Monsanto
When I wrote the authors about something I thought they left out (the breast cancer and abortion link), one of them wrote me back! It is a good book for detail if you have plenty of time and patience, and I recommend it for its history at least.
Benefits of pregnancy
Thursday, July 12th, 20071. The unborn baby cannot verbally complain about food he is fed. He cannot refuse to eat what the mother passes on to him.
2. No diapers to change yet!
3. The mother can sleep for a few months. If she keeps herself hydrated and eats right, she should not have a big problem with going to the bathroom a lot at night.
4. The mother has a huge reason to eat healthy: no smoking, no drinking alcohol, no taking drugs (this includes most if not all pharmaceutical drugs), no junk food, less fast food, no caffeine . . . more healthy food, more clean air, more water, more vitamins.
5. People like to give things to pregnant people. I could list a lot of things people gave to us during both pregnancies and I might if someone asks in a comment.
6. No cumbersome menstrual cycles for the mother for several more months, especially if she will breastfeed her baby.
7. Many dreams, and a great time to become closer to God in time for the baby’s Holy Baptism (for babies who will be raised as Roman Catholics).