torstai 13. lokakuuta 2016

What do Sugar, Trans Fat, and Vaccines Have in Common?

What do Sugar, Trans Fat, and Vaccines Have in Common?




Far too many are still swooned by false promises from people
with initials like "Dr." and "CEO" in front of their names. 
I grew up in the 1960s, inundated by commercials for margarines made from
hydrogenated vegetable oils that “promised” those margarines would keep my cholesterol levels low and protect me from heart disease. Yet in 2015, nearly
50 years later, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence of the harm they do,
especially to the circulatory system and the heart, the Food and Drug Administration
announced that artificial trans fats of the very sort that made up a good percentage
of those margarines were no longer “generally recognized as safe,” and food
manufacturers would have three years to remove these substances from their
products altogether.

How did this happen? How could we get the science so wrong that it was
actuallybackward, and how did it take us 50 years to figure it out?
On September 12, 2016, The New York Times published a very illuminating
article by Anahad O’Connor entitled “How the Sugar Industry Shifted the
Blame to Fat
.” According to O’Connor,

The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show.

The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease
, including many of today’s dietary recommendations, may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry.
They were able to derail the discussion about sugar for decades,” said Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at U.C.S.F. and an author of the JAMA Internal Medicine paper. [emphases mine]
As you may imagine from my past writings, I am not the least bit surprised that the sugarindustry cynically and deliberately attempted to shape the science of
nutrition and heart disease, nor even that their attempt to “derail the discussion
about sugar” was so wildly successful for so long. What I do find shocking, however,
is just how little money and how few people it took to completely divert the
mainstream scientific understanding on the subject for more than 50 years, to
the point where many conscientious cardiologists, as well as the American Heart
Association
, are still advocating low-fat/low-saturated-fat diets, while only recently acknowledging that sugar even plays a role. According to the article,
The documents show that a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation, known today as the Sugar Association, paid three Harvard scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 in today’s dollars to publish a 1967 review of research on sugar, fat and heart disease. The studies used in the review were handpicked by the sugar group, and the article, which was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, minimized the link between sugar and heart health and cast aspersions on the role of saturated fat. [emphasis mine]

A mere $50,000 in today’s dollars – not even a year’s salary for one
scientist?
That’s all it took to get
 three Harvard scientists to completely eschew
scientific integrity and deliberately promulgate incorrect ideas that not
only “derailed the discussion” on nutrition and heart disease, but were
also directly responsible for destroying the health of generations of
Americans? 


Way to go, Sugar Association!
High five! Even Big Tobacco can’t compete with that kind of bang for the buck.
One of the major objections people have when I tell them that our current vaccine
schedule is ruining the health of our children (just as supposedly “heart-healthy”
foods ruined the health of adults) is that it can’t be true because, if it were true,
it would require a conspiracy on an international scale of such size and complexity
that it would defy credulity. I always agree a conspiracy such as they describe,
where very many people (including your garden-variety pediatrician) all know
the truth and collude to delude the public, would defy credulity.

As Benjamin Franklin said, “Three people may keep a secret if two of them are
dead.” But is that sort of conspiracy truly necessary to create the outcome we’re
seeing where up is down, and unhealthy is healthy?
I’ve never thought so. In fact, I’ve been saying for a long time that it doesn’t
require some huge, complex conspiracy, involving everyone at a couple of
government agencies, six major manufacturers, pediatricians’ offices all over the world,
mainstream media reporters, and research labs at major universities, to achieve
an entrenched backward understanding of the health implications of a one-size-fits-all, shoot-‘em-up vaccine schedule. And this New York Times article is the proof.


All that’s required are the following four elements:

1) Some individuals (not very many as it turns out) who put profit
before people:
 As we can see in the Sugar Association documents, our sugar
execs and Harvard researchers fit the bill perfectly. These people consciously and deliberately set out to misinform the scientific
community, the medical community, and the general public because
it was in their monetary interest to do so.
 And, regrettably, such people
abound in a society (like ours) which regards profit as its highest good.

How hard is it to imagine that vaccine manufacturers could and would
(in a heartbeat) do the exact same thing for a business sector that currently
brings in about 
$40 billion a year and is expected to be a major source of growth?
For a prize that big wouldn’t they be willing to throw around millions if it got
them what they wanted? What if I told you that back in 1986, pharmaceutical
companies were threatening to get out of the vaccine business altogether?
They were getting walloped by the press and in courtrooms all over the
country
 because so many children’s lives were destroyed by DPT vaccines,
and they told the U.S. government they were done unless they were absolved
them of all monetary responsibility for harm caused by their products.

What if I told you that Congress obliged and did remove financial liability with
the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, and – shockingly – the defunct
vaccine industry was suddenly a gold mine.

In 1986, the average American kid got DPT, MMR, and polio vaccines, and
vaccine manufacturers were supposedly going broke from damages.
Today’s average kid gets hepatitis B, rotavirus, DTaP, Hib, pneumococcal, polio,
 influenza, MMR, varicella, hepatitis A, HPV, and meningococcal vaccines, with
many more anticipated, and the vaccine manufacturers are pulling money in
hand over fist, not paying a cent in damages, despite the fact that so many
more children are getting hurt.

2) True Believers who ignore the evidence in front of their faces.
Anyone want to hazard a guess as to how many people actually read, much
less critically, the review study these Harvard guys wrote and/or the studies
it was based on? I’d be willing to bet it was precious few. But many, many
heard the headlines and believed the study’s conclusions could be
taken at face value, even though they saw patients every day who defied
its predictions.

From the perspective of the True Believer, these patients were either “lying,”
“deluded,” or “outliers” because “everybody knows” diets high in fat and saturated
fat would clog your arteries and stop your heart. From reading way too many
so-called science blogs in the last decade that do exactly the same thing these
Harvard researchers did – promote conclusions that are not supported by the
scientific research and directly contradict the clinical data at hand – and noting
that these conclusions go completely unquestioned by the vast majority of
readers (who, ironically, tend to call themselves “skeptics”), who then turn
around and ridicule anyone who actually doesquestion the conclusions,
I can attest that these people are everywhere.
And while being duped themselves, they are often utterly, if amusingly, convinced
of their own intellectual superiority.
As a matter of fact, this phenomenon is so widely known and understood that it
is enshrined in a fairy tale.
In The Emperor’s New Clothes, a couple of con men convince an emperor to
hire them to make him a fabulous new wardrobe.




He does so only to be provided with . . . nothing. That “nothing” however is
talked up so well that all the lords and ladies of the land ignore the evidence
of their own eyes and convince themselves that their naked emperor is instead
sumptuously attired, until a child – their “intellectual inferior” – points out the
obvious, that the emperor is starkers. There are always truth-tellers in society.
When the “lords and ladies of the land” are ready to hear truth has much less to
do with who is saying it or how it is said than how soon they exhaust their own
ability to maintain cognitive dissonance and are finally ready to acknowledge
what has been staring them in the face all along. For some, it happens early
because they are less invested in the illusion. Others will stubbornly refuse to
see The Matrix, continuing to invest all their energy in the illusion until it kills them.


3) People who have figured out at least some part of the truth, but keep
quiet out of the need to preserve their incomes and/or their careers.


As Upton Sinclair said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when
his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Is it really credible that all the lords and ladies of the land can convince themselves that the emperor is wearing the ultimate designer outfit, despite the fact that he is so obviously naked? Surely not. There are many concrete thinkers among us who just don’t have that much imagination. So why don’t even one or two of them speak out? Chances are good they have or desire status, power, and position that are directly dependent upon staying in the good graces of the emperor. Psychological tests have repeatedly shown that when even marginal status is on the line, many will fall in with the crowd, and even more will do so if the task is somewhat difficult or involves a judgment call.
The film The Big Short, about the mortgage-backed securities debacle that led (or should have led), to the demise of a number of “important” banking institutions, contains a few very clear examples of this phenomenon. In the first example, one of the main characters, Mark Baum played by Steve Carrell, becomes convinced that the mortgage-backed securities market is based on fraud: the mortgages that underlie the securities are defaulting in large numbers and yet, illogically, the securities’ ratings do not drop. He goes to see the woman at Moody’s Investor Service (a supposedly independent organization that rates the quality of investment vehicles) who is responsible for the rating he’s interested in and asks her how such a situation is possible. She defends her actions by saying that if she doesn’t give the banks what they want, they’ll just go across the street to Standard & Poor’s and get it there. The second example happens when Baum takes the story to a journalist he respects who absolutely understands what he has been told and the gravity of it, but refuses to print it because he’s taken a long time to cultivate his industry sources and he doesn’t want to piss them off. After all, his wife is going to have a baby and he needs to keep his job. He asks, “What am I supposed to do? Write a piece called ‘We’re all fucked?’” As it turned out, when the housing bubble collapsed shortly thereafter, demolishing the savings and financial holdings of many, many people with it, that would have been entirely appropriate.


4) People at government agencies willing to put industry interests before the interests of the public. This element is necessary to allow for true message control, but is also inevitable in the absence of strict and enforced conflict-of-interest rules. After all, government agencies are populated with people, most of whom when left to their own devices will fall into one of the previous three categories. In our Sugar Association example, we find that one of the Harvard scientists, D. Mark Hegsted, went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, where in 1977 he helped draft the forerunner to the federal government’s dietary guidelines. Awesome, huh? Talk about message control! As far as the article indicates, he wasn’t even being paid by the Sugar Association anymore, but he could hardly admit that his own work was fraudulent, could he?
In The Big Short, we get a similar glimpse of how conflicts of interest at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the watchdog agency that is supposed to be watching out for taxpayers’ interests, kept the agency from protecting consumers. One of Baum’s crew talks to his cousin, who works at the SEC, while at a conference in Vegas. The cousin confesses they aren’t doing much investigation at all since their budget was cut and she is in Vegas on her own dime to float her resume with a few investment banks. When her cousin is shocked by the conflict of interest inherent in such actions, she tells him there are no rules against it and it happens all the time. How could an SEC investigation of Goldman Sachs have any sort of integrity, if the person performing the investigation is free to seek a job with Goldman Sachs? Answer: it can’t. When it comes to vaccines, similar conflicts of interest are rampant at the CDC. Just a couple of examples: Julie Gerberding, head of the CDC when it recommended three doses of Gardasil for all teenaged girls and when it performed the studies that originally “exonerated” vaccines, especially the MMR, in the development of autism, went on to head the vaccine division of Merck, the maker of the MMR and Gardasil (where she made a heck of a lot more than $50,000). Dr. Paul Offit, the developer of a rotavirus vaccine, sat on a committee where he voted to recommend his own vaccine be added to the infant schedule. He too made a heck of a lot more than $50,000.

Corruption at the CDC is so widespread that it isn’t hard to find incontrovertible evidence (verified by Freedom of Information Act requests) that they are playing fast and loose with science. The Verstraeten study, that supposedly gets mercury off the hook in the etiology of autism, actually did the exact opposite before the data was massaged four separate times to make a strong dose-dependent relationship go away. Nearly three years ago, a senior scientist at the CDC, Dr. William Thompson, called Dr. Brian Hooker, an autism dad and advocate, and told him that he’d been tortured by guilt for nearly a decade because there were a number of irregularities with an MMR study published in 2004. Thompson told Hooker exactly which data to request to prove those irregularities (i.e., research fraud of the same sort perpetrated by the Harvard researchers who’d been paid by the Sugar Association), data that Thompson’s co-authors literally threw away. According to Thompson, the CDC had compromised its own research on the subject for over a decade, and it had gotten to the point where Congress should just take the data and give it to an independent organization to analyze because the CDC can’t be trusted. In addition, many of the studies they paid for on vaccines and autism were coordinated by Poul Thorsen, a Danish researcher who is now wanted by the U.S. government for fraud. You might think that the CDC might be concerned about a researcher who had evidently had no scruples about defrauding the government to the tune of over a million dollars, but not only does the CDC (and U.S. government) have so little concern about the actions of a man who would commit such fraud that they never called any of his studies into question, the man is still happily publishing scientific research in Denmark, apparently completely unconcerned about the possibility of extradition to stand trial.
Like so many other long-term injustices, I’m delighted that this evidence of the collusion between the sugar industry and Harvard researchers that has clouded the science of nutrition for so long is finally seeing the light of day. But it would have been so much better for the general public if this information had been in the mainstream media, 20, 30, or even 50 years ago, wouldn’t it?

The interesting thing to me is that the health information (if not the corruption angle) has been available to the public for quite a while. There have been real scientists doing real work all along, but only a small number of people were paying any attention at all, and they were labeled “quacks” by mainstream medicine because they challenged what “everybody knows.” I went to a doctor 29 years ago who put me on a low-sugar/low-carb hypoglycemia diet to lower my cholesterol (280 at the start). I was told it was fine to keep eating butter and egg yolks. I thought she was crazy, but I followed that advice for a month. My cholesterol dropped like a hot rock. I was shocked.
Anyone know someone whose cholesterol dropped like that with a low-saturated-fat diet? Yeah, didn’t think so. And don’t even get me started on all the weight my friends gained while on low-fat diets.

Guess what happened to that doctor? Her license to practice medicine was revoked.

Clearly, she, and anyone else paying attention to the evidence right in front of their faces (the emperor’s “free willy,” so to speak), could figure out the truth long before those clinging to the imaginary ideal of “scientific consensus.” Turns out it doesn’t require super brains to see the truth. It just requires curiosity, honesty, and bravery, three things that are not all that common unfortunately. This stuff isn’t true because the New York Times finally took notice and gave its stamp of approval. It was true all along, and good, curious, honest, and brave people lost their careers fighting for that truth and the right to help people get well.

If you’re thinking oh, thank God that’s over, think again. Industry forces are still labeling conscientious physicians and researchers who are brave enough to counter their lies with the truth, who want to help you get and stay well, as “quacks.” When Vioxx, a popular Merck painkiller, was killing a ridiculous number of the people who took it, what did Merck do? They attacked the doctors who raised questions as to its safety. Of course, the doctors were right, and Merck ended up paying over $6 billion in fines and settlements. But Merck made over $11 billion on Vioxx before it was withdrawn from the market, making the $6 billion a mere hand slap for the unethical behavior that cost the lives of many. And right now in California, we are seeing a popular physician, Dr. Robert Sears, who is an acknowledged expert on the subject of vaccines (he literally wrote the book), being investigated for writing a medical exemption for one of his patients. Despite the fact that he actually vaccinates kids every day, he represents enough of a threat that vaccine manufacturers would dearly love to get his medical license revoked.
Vaccines are by no means the only area where we can see the same sort of disconnect between reality and what we’re told by mainstream information sources. There are reputable scientists telling us that glyphosate, GMOs, fluoride, ultrasounds, aluminum, C-sections and even Tylenol present unacknowledged health hazards that officials and other scientists deny with the bureaucratic equivalent of “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,” while at the same time ignoring the fact that people are getting sicker by virtually every standard, even as they obsessively follow official recommendations.
As my 10-year-old son said this morning, “The truth tends to come out, no matter how many dollar bills you throw on top of it.” (I was impressed with his profundity, but he was pretty sure he’d read it somewhere. If anyone knows where it came from, let me know.) The real question is when will the truth come out? Will it take another 50 years? I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m pretty sure my heart can’t take hearing about many more children who received nine vaccines in a day and either went to the hospital that night with their brains on fire or were found dead in their cribs the next morning. And how many people in the last 50 years had their lives cut short or their health trashed because they took the bogus messaging about saturated fats and sugar to heart – literally? Do we really have to wait another 50 years before we see the folly of what we’re doing now and stop it? Or can we use the example that’s right in front of our noses to finally get enough people talking about the many naked emperors in our midst?
It will take the bravery of a great many people to “take this sinking boat and point it home,” but the more of us there are, the less brave each of us has to be. And, unlike Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, we may not still have time.
Think about it.

Ask yourself who you are listening to when it comes to your health or that of your children? And, more importantly, who are they listening to? Do they truly have your best interests at heart, or do they owe their allegiance to some random corporation that stands to make a killing from your pain and suffering? Are you being told that all is well, even as you and yours get sicker and sicker?

Then ask yourself, isn’t it time you joined the revolution?

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/what-do-sugar-trans-fat-and-vaccines-have-common?page=2


Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of GreenMedInfo or its staff.

perjantai 7. lokakuuta 2016

Syrian Refugees Spreading ‘Flesh Eating Disease’ Around The Country

The Leishmania parasites are transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus in the Old World, and of the genus Lutzomyia in the New WorldLeishmania currently affects 6 million people in 98 countries.

- "As a result of abominable acts by ISIS that included the killing of innocent people and dumping their corpses in the streets, this is the leading factor behind the rapid spread of Leishmanisis disease."
- DILQASH ISAHEAD OF THE KURDISH RED CRESCENT
SOURCE: RUDAW / video [0:38below



https://x.com/GraviolaDOTfi/status/1884630893102342323 


Top 10 Curious Circumstances That Led to the Rise of ISIS



https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/02/17/top-10-curious-circumstances-led-rise-isis/



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Warning: Syrian M..lim Refugees Spreading ‘Flesh Eating Disease’ Around The Country [GRAPHIC VIDEO]

Bare Naked Islam Muslims are carrying long-eradicated diseases when they enter Europe and America, which is putting their citizens at risk and their healthcare systems under extreme stress and monumental expense. Even worse, Hillary Clinton wants to bring in five times more Syrian migrants than even Obama has proposed.

Breitbart  (h/t Emma) As well as bringing a rising tide of crime and attitudes towards women that many consider incompatible with modern European values, the over one and a half million migrants who flowed into Germany last year have also brought unheard-of and rare strains of diseases to the continent. The new arrivals and their illnesses are putting pressure on the German health care system, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.



Largely missing from news media coverage is that the same news-making scientific report warned the ongoing violence in Syria has “created a setting in which we have seen the re-emergence of polio and measles, as well as tuberculosis, hepatitis A, and other infections in Syria and among displaced Syrian refugees.”

German doctors are finding it increasingly difficult to diagnose diseases that have been wiped out in Germany but are still prevalent in the Middle East and Africa.



Gastrointestinal and liver diseases, scabies, and tuberculosis (TB) are common amongst migrants. Henning Mothes from the Jena University Hospital in Hamburg said that German doctors are struggling to diagnose TB as the symptoms that the migrants are displaying are not typical, and the disease often goes undiagnosed. Doctors are now advised that any migrant with abdominal pain now be tested for the disease.

Many of the diseases that migrants carry are fortunately not contagious to the general population but there have been several cases in the past year of highly-contagious diseases being spread among the migrant population. One disease in particular, a flesh-eating tropical disease, has left many in Islamic State territory horribly disfigured. 


Breitbart  A flesh-eating tropical disease is ravaging the war-torn Middle East, after Islamic State destruction created the ideal breeding conditions. There is a risk that Middle Eastern refugees entering the   U.S. could be infected with a flesh-eating disease that is sweeping across Syria.

The parasitic disease called Cutaneous leishmaniasis is caused by bites from tiny infected sand flies which thriving in the squalid conditions left in the wake of Islamic State terror and conflict.

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Thousands of cases have now been reported. Previous, it was contained in Syria but has spread to Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan after more than four million Syrians fled there. With the same migrants now heading on to Europe in their millions, it could be just a matter of times before it reaches the West.

The disease can kill if left untreated, and creates open sores on the skin, nosebleeds and difficulties breathing and swallowing. Survivors are often left with horrific scars. A lack of medical facilities and doctors, coupled with serious water shortages, in the war-torn Middles East have allowed to condition to take hold, and spread.

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 The Kurdish Red Crescent had previously claimed that rotting corpses dumped on the streets by Islamic State fighters were contributing to the spread of the disease. Scientists at the School of Tropical Medicine have disputed this claim.

The number of cases has shot up from just six in 2012, to thousands just a year later. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the disease has recently begun to flourish in Syria’s neighbouring countries.


Dr Waleed Al-Salem, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, told MailOnline: “It’s a very bad situation. The disease has spread dramatically in Syria, but also into countries like Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and even into southern Europe with refugees coming in.

“There are thousands of cases in the region but it is still underestimated because no one can count the exact number of people affected.


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 “When people are bitten by sand flies – which are tiny and smaller than a mosquito – it can take anything between two to six months to have the infection.

Peter Hotez, dean of the US National School of Tropical Medicine, added: “We need to ring fence them or risk another situation like Ebola out of the conflict zones in West Africa in 2014. “We are only getting glimpses of the situation from refugees fleeing the conflict zones and going to camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.”




Doctors at the World Health Organisation categorise the disease as ‘neglected’, claiming that improved conditions at refugee camps and early treatment attempts would go some way to halting its spread.

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Breitbart London
 reported last month on another contagious disease that has already reached Europe, after a former luxury hotel-turned migrant accommodation was subject to an “epidemic alert”. An outbreak of louse-borne relapsing fever, an illness that can be fatal in 30 to 70 per cent of cases and had been previous eradicated in Europe was detected, triggering a deployment of safety measures including the sterilisation of the premises and it being placed into quarantine.


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keskiviikko 5. lokakuuta 2016

YLE rikollisten lääketehtaiden asialla, valehteli taas luontaistuotteista

  • HUS Martti Färkkilän ilmiselvänä tarkoituksena oli vahingoittaa luontaistuotteita myyviä yrityksiä.
  • Vahingoittamistarkoituksessa annettujen lausuntojen julkaiseminen on kielletty Ylen eettisissä ohjeissa.


YLE valehteli taas luontaistuotteista



Suomen Yleisradiossa (Yle) vallitsee (sionistinen) ravintolisien vastainen asenne, mikä ilmenee siten, että Yle julkaisee jatkuvasti totuudenvastaisia uutisia luontaistuotteista. Valheellisia väitteitä ja sepitteitä koskeva ohjelma esitettiin 15.12.2015. Se sotii jyrkästi Ylen omia ohjelma- ja sisältötuotannon eettisiä ohjeita vastaan. Suomen Terveyskauppiaiden liitto ry teki ohjelmasta kantelun Ylen pääjohtajalle.

Yle lähetti radiossa 15.12.2015 HUSissa ylilääkärinä toimiva Martti Färkkilän haastattelun Maksasairaudet Suomessa yhä Euroopan huipputasolla – "Suuret ikäluokat ovat kosteita ikäluokkia", jonka oli tehnyt toimittaja Ilpo Pajunen. "Vääränlaiset ruokailutottumukset, lääkkeiden väärinkäyttö ja eräät luontaistuotteet aiheuttavat maksavaurioita", sanoi Färkkilä. Lisäksi hän väitti, että ”luontaistuotteita on vedetty markkinoilta yllättäen ilmaantuneiden maksavaurioiden vuoksi”. Färkkilä antoi siis selvästi ymmärtää, että maksavauriot ja tuotteiden poisvedot kaupoista koskevat Suomessa myytyjä luontaistuotteita. Hän kehotti välttämään maksavaurioita aiheuttavia luontaistuotteita.

Färkkilän ilmiselvänä tarkoituksena oli vahingoittaa luontaistuotteita myyviä yrityksiä. Vahingoittamistarkoituksessa annettujen lausuntojen julkaiseminen on kielletty Ylen eettisissä ohjeissa (katso alempana).
Koska itse en tunne sellaisia luontaistuotteita, jotka aiheuttaisivat maksavaurioita, tiedustelin heti tuoreeltaan 15.12.2015 Färkkilältä sekä Ilpo Pajuselta sähköpostitse
- mitkä luontaistuotteet ovat aiheuttaneet Suomessa maksavaurioita (minä vuosina, kuinka monta varmistettua tapausta?)
- mitkä ovat tuotenimet ja vaurioita aiheuttaneet yhdisteet ja niiden käyttöannokset/vrk ja käyttöajat?
- mitkä luontaistuotteet ovat vedetty Suomessa markkinoilta maksavaurioiden vuoksi? Tuotenimet, poisvetovuodet?
Kumpainenkaan ei ole vaivautunut vastaamaan!
Suomen Terveystuotekappiaiden liitto ry pyysi myös Färkkilää ja Pajusta perustelemaan uutisessa esitettyjä väitteitä. Kumpikaan ei ole vastannut mitään, vaikka liitto lähetti Färkkilälle ('martti.farkkila@hus.fi') kaksi kertaa sähköpostia. Liiton tiedossa näet ei ole, että Suomen markkinoilta olisi ”vedetty useita ravintolisiä pois yllättäen ilmaantuneiden maksavaurioiden vuoksi”, vaikka liitto on pitänyt tiiviisti yhteyttä Eviraan, Tulliin ja Fimeaan. Liiton meili meni myös Ylen pääjohtaja Lauri Kiviselle, mikä jälkeen uutis- ja ajankohtaistoiminnan sisältöpäällikkö Juha Vuohelainen ilmoitti ottavansa asian hoitaakseen ja lupasi antaa vastauksia Ylelle esitettyihin kysymyksiin. Vastauksia ei ole kuulunut.
Ylen toimittaja Pajunen ei ollut juttua tehdessään tiedustellut Eviran kantaa ravintolisien turvallisuuteen, vaan Evira puuttui sisältöön vasta jutun uutisoinnin jälkeen. Yle päivitti 18.12.2015 verkkosivullaan olevaa uutista lisäämällä: ”Elintarviketurvallisuusvirasto Eviran mukaan ongelmat ovat koskeneet lähinnä netin kautta ulkomailta tilattuja tuotteita.” Lausunnossa ei täsmennetä, mitä "ongelmilla" tarkoitetaan, eikä siinä puhuta mitään markkinoilta poisvedetyistä tuotteista, koska sellaisia ei ole. Evira ei pidä siitä, ettei uutisessa täsmennetä mistä ravintolisistä tai ainesosista uutisessa varoitetaan. Evira pitää harhaanjohtavana käyttää termiä ”luontaistuote”, sillä näin ylimalkainen sana voi saada kuluttajan välttämään tarpeellisia ja hyödyllisiä ravintolisiä, kuten D-vitamiinia. Ylen verkkosivulle lisätty lause ei korjannut riittävästi totuuden vastaisia väitteitä. Terveyskauppiaiden liitto otti uudelleen yhteyttä Yleen.
Kauppiasliiton pyynnöstä Yle lisäsi 21.12.2015 klo 10:30 nettisivullaan olevaan uutiseen:
"Suomen Terveystuotekauppiaiden Liiton mukaan tiedossa ei ole yhtään vahvistettua tapausta, jossa suomalaisesta kaupasta ostettu ravintolisä olisi käyttöohjeen mukaisesti käytettynä aiheuttanut maksavaurioita.Lisäys ei tietenkään tavoita kaikkia vääristellyn uutisen kuulijoita ja lukijoita, mutta onpahan näpäytys toimittaja Pajuselle ja ehkäissee tulevaisuudessa muiden Ylen toimittajien vastaavia virheitä.
Liitän alle otteita Ylen ohjelmatoiminnan ja sisältöjen eettisistä ohjeista, joita Färkkilän haastattelun julkaiseminen rikkoi törkeästi.
Julkaistu 11.01.2015 - 19:32. Päivitetty 03.11.2015 - 16:52
Yleisradio on sitoutunut soveltamaan toiminnassaan Journalistin ohjeita. Niiden tulkinnasta vastaa Julkisen sanan neuvosto. OTS-ohjeissa on huomioitu Journalistin ohjeiden periaatteet.

YLEN OHJELMA- JA SISÄLTÖTUOTANNON YLEISET PERIAATTEET

  1. Ylen journalismin lähtökohtana ovat Ylen arvot. Ylen journalismin tulee perustua totuudenmukaiseen, olennaiseen ja monipuoliseen tiedonvälitykseen. Sen tulee olla vuorovaikutuksessa kansalaisten kanssa.
Ylen journalismin perusta on oikeisiin tietoihin ja tosiasioihin sekä mahdollisimman tarkkoihin havaintoihin perustuvan maailmankuvan rakennusaineiden tarjoaminen.
Turvaamme puolueettomuuden, riippumattomuuden ja luotettavuuden monipuolisella ja ennakkoluulottomalla tiedonhankinnalla. Otamme huomioon oleelliset tosiseikat sekä eri näkökulmat ja annamme arvostelluille mahdollisuuden samanaikaiseen kuulemiseen. Uskallamme kysyä ja kyseenalaistaa.
  1. Yleisön on voitava erottaa sekä tosiasiat että niiden taustoittaminen mielipide- ja sepitteellisestä aineistosta.
Emme käytä kuvaa tai ääntä faktasisällöissä tavalla, joka vääristää tapahtumia tai tietoja. Pidämme huolta siitä, että ne antavat tapahtumista ja asioista totuudenmukaisen kuvan.
Emme käytä Ylen ohjelmia ja sisältöjä omien etujemme tai maailmankatsomuksemme ajamiseen emmekä asetu osapuoliksi kiistakysymyksissä.
  1. Tiedonhankinnan tulee olla avointa ja perustua luotettaviin lähteisiin, jotka ovat tarvittaessa todennettavissa.
Varmistamme tietojen paikkansapitävyyden huolellisesti.
  1. Tietolähteisiin on suhtauduttava kriittisesti.
Lähteen luotettavuutta arvioitaessa on otettava huomioon, että lähteellä voi olla asiassa hyötymis- tai vahingoittamistarkoitus.
  1. Haastateltavalla on oikeus tarkastaa lausumansa ennen julkaisemista, jos se on toimitusteknisesti mahdollista.
Toimimme avoimesti, mutta journalistisen päätösvallan säilyttäen. Haastateltava voi nähdä, kuulla tai lukea julkaistavan kokonaisuuden tai vähintään oman osuutensa tarkastaakseen lausumansa sisällön, mikäli julkaisuaikataulu mahdollistaa sen. Tällöinkin kerromme hänelle muulla tavoin, miten hänen lausuntoaan tullaan käyttämään.

VIRHEIDEN KORJAAMINEN

  1. Virheet on korjattava viipymättä. Kertaalleen julkaistua ja arkistoitua materiaalia netissä ei poisteta vaan alkuperäisen tiedon ohella pitää selvästi näkyä korjattu tieto.
Korjaamme virheet ensi tilassa, ellei korjaaminen ole virheen vähäisyyden vuoksi tarpeetonta. Teemme korjauksen aina välittömästi verkossa. Korjaamme lisäksi virheen samassa yhteydessä, jossa virhe on julkaistu eli saman välineen samassa ohjelmassa ja samalla kanavalla.
Erimielisessä tilanteessa korjaamisesta päättää vastaava toimittaja.
Korjatessamme verkossa julkaistua tietoa, ohessa pitää käydä ilmi, mitä olemme korjanneet ja milloin se on tehty. Kertaalleen julkaistua tietoa emme poista verkosta ilman, että kerromme poistamisen syyn ja ajankohdan myös alun perin julkaistussa verkko-osoitteessa.
Noudatamme sananvapauslain säännöksiä vastineesta ja oikaisusta sekä Julkisen sanan neuvoston langettavan päätöksen julkaisemisesta sovittuja toimintaohjeita.

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Epämääräistä tietoa ravintolisistä
Karnosiini suojaa maksaa hiilitetrakloridin (CCl4) aiheuttamilta vaurioilta, osoittaa tuore lääkäreiden ja farmakologien yhteinen rottatutkimus (Alsheblak ym. 2016). Laitoin tämän viitteen osoittamaan esimerkinomaisesti, kuinka huonosti kollega Färkkilä tuntee ravintolisien terveysvaikutuksia.
Alsheblak MM, Elsherbiny NM, El-Karef A, El-Shishtawy MM. Protective effects of L-carnosine on CCl4 -induced hepatic injury in rats. European Cytokine Network. 2016 Mar 1;27(1):6-15. doi: 10.1684/ecn.2016.0372.