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HuckleB's JournalBen Goldacre's All Trials Registered | All Results Reported Campaign.
Here's the link to the main web page, with a chance to sign the petition.
http://www.alltrials.net/
Once you're there, click on the link with the title below to learn what it's all about.
The AllTrials campaign calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported.
"Clinical trials are investigations designed to assess the effects – wanted and unwanted – of healthcare interventions in people. The Declaration of Helsinki, which is the World Medical Association’s statement of principles for medical research involving people, states that every investigator running a clinical trial should register it and report its results. Millions of volunteers have participated in clinical trials to help find out more about the effects of treatments on disease, yet that important ethical principle about reporting has been widely ignored. Information on what was done and what was found in these trials could be lost forever to doctors and researchers, leading to bad treatment decisions, missed opportunities for good medicine, and trials being repeated. This is what led to the AllTrials campaign in January 2013, a campaign which is now supported by thousands of individual patients, clinicians and researchers across the world, and by hundreds of organisations representing millions of people.
This document sets out more information about achieving a situation globally where all trials are registered and results reported. It is an achievement that will involve regulators and registries, clinical trial funders, universities and institutes, professional and learned societies and medical journals, patients and researchers.
This document is part of a continuing discussion which many different organisations are working on elaborating further over coming weeks and months.
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Organic Food Causes Autism and Diabetes
http://kfolta.blogspot.ca/2013/02/organic-food-causes-autism.htmlYup.
A good look at GMO denialism.
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/golden-rice-a-touchstone/Michael Pollan as GMO ‘denialist’ dupes credulous New York Times
http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/10/22/michael-pollan-brags-about-twisting-facts-to-support-anti-gmo-activism-and-duping-credulous-new-york-times/#.Umg-B53n_IW"This title is stark. Stay with me. This is not a hit piece on Michael Pollan. This is a disturbing story about the misuse of the power of journalism by one of the most, if not the most, influential food writers in the world.
Strong words. Read on.
Michael Pollan is a big deal, arguably more influential on agriculture policy than the Secretary of Agriculture and certainly one of the most powerful figures in journalism. He is the author of five books, all best sellers, professor of journalism at the University of California-Berkeley and one of the most cited and quoted commentators on food and the farm in the world, with more than 330,000 followers on Twitter, many of whom consider him a hero. Although the public perception of him is just the opposite, he is not a reputable science journalist or—by his own admission—an objective reporter—on organics or agriculture.
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But what is the real world according to Pollan? What does he say and write when he is not among friends at Grist or participating in fawning PDAs with a fellow foodie for Smithsonian magazine. The reality is that Pollan regularly, and increasingly, talks out of both sides of his mouth—there, I wrote it—and because of his influence he is inflaming a discussion about crop biotechnology that has already gone off the rails.
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A very thorough, interesting piece.
Review of 10 years of GMO research–no significant dangers
http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/review-10-years-gmo-research-no-significant-dangers/The problem with taking too many vitamins
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24563590?utm_content=buffer9bef8&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=BufferVitamin Supplements Dangerous But Government Can’t Tell You
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/vitamin-supplements-dangerous-but-government-cant-tell-you/20 points of broad scientific consensus on GE crops
http://www.biofortified.org/2013/10/20-points-of-broad-scientific-consensus-on-ge-crops/Good stuff by Pamela Ronald.
