The paragraphs under the links are from Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. Kendra Degen Pearsall’s 2006 book, “Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, Nutrasweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health”, page 170.
I 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.
I sent this to a friend yesterday after she told me that she donated her microwave, and added a few things to it. I hope you will find it useful. Please feel free to add your suggestions. I have wanted to talk about this for a while and I apologize for waiting. I will post research about health concerns related to microwave oven usage when I have more solid evidence besides what is on Dr. Mercola’s website.
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Some mail servers these days are getting ridiculously aggressive about trying to block spam. A perfect example of this is (surprise surprise… not!) Microsoft’s mail hosting services such as Hotmail. If we try to email anyone at a Hotmail address, our mail server immediately gets a rejection before it even sends the content of the message, just based on the IP addresses on our mail server! This is a server that has never sent any sort of unsolicited email, including spam and viruses.
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For a number of months, I’ve been a developer for the Armagetron Advanced computer game. As the game is a gratis download, we of course do not get paid. Obviously, this time could only be considered as “hobby”
Well, I hope to have solved that “problem”. A few days ago, I started in business as the first server specializing in hosting internet Armagetron games. Hopefully it will turn out to be profitable so I can justify spending time doing more development on the game.
~Luke-Jr
P.S. Thanks for the prayers; we recovered a day or so after the post of our illness.