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McCain’s bill is called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA). It would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). New supplements may be arbitrarily banned by the FDA or adopted by drug companies in a way that precludes their further sale as supplements. It would give the FDA full discretion and power to compile a discreet list of supplements allowed to remain on the market while banning all others.

Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections. The coating is also flexible and breathable, which makes it suitable for use on an enormous array of products.

Yes, the drugs are effective, in that they lift depression in most patients. But that benefit is hardly more than what patients get when they, unknowingly and as part of a study, take a dummy pill—a placebo. As more and more scientists who study depression and the drugs that treat it are concluding, that suggests that antidepressants are basically expensive Tic Tacs. Hence the moral dilemma. The placebo effect—that is, a medical benefit you get from an inert pill or other sham treatment—rests on the holy trinity of belief, expectation, and hope.

Jean Saint-Vil of Canada Haiti Action is interviewed by Pat Van Horne regarding realities and myths about Haiti - recorded in Ottawa for Straight Goods News on January 20, 2010. Three Videos: Kevin Caners. Producer: Ish Theilheimer.

The apparent mass murder of Afghan school children, including one as young as 11 years old, by US-led forces (most likely either special forces or mercenary contractors working for the Pentagon or the CIA), was pretty much blacked out in the American media. Especially blacked out was word from UN investigators that the students had not just been killed but executed, many of them after having first been rousted from their bedroom and handcuffed. Here is the excellent report on the incident that ran in the Times of London.