-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990701a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No medical devices were tampered with during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AVERTING DIGITAL DEATH SIGNALS. Heart and brain monitors may get their own broadcast freqs - for good reason - if a Washington politico has his way. http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20497.html : Does your implant or pacemaker interfere with your garage-door opener or cellphone? Should all these devices to networked together on the same freq? @ Brain Implants: A Lousy Idea. We may undergo plastic surgery for silly reasons, but anyone who has a brain would think twice before tampering with the body's physical core. Why would anyone implant a chip into his brain for less than life-and-death reasons - like just downloading information? http://www.techreview.com:80/articles/july99/dertouzos.htm : Do you want a brain implant? Is data life-or-death for you? Do you want to be wired directly into a galactic network? Is that how to become a deity??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A DRUG MADE BY ARMENIAN SCIENTISTS PROMISES TO CURE AIDS. Thessaloniki, Macedonia (MPA) A drug discovered by Armenian scientists managed to cure 48 AIDS patients and its use has already been approved by the Armenian state pharmacology committee. Russian press reports confirm that a number of AIDS patients, who have received the medicine, have been cured from the deadly virus. http://www.mpa.gr/latest/MPA.19990630.61798.html : So why isn't this front page news here in the states? - Hilary A. Thomas : Has the drug been tested anywhere else? Why doesn't the MPA story point anywhere or cite sources? Is news being suppressed? By who, and why? -Ric _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # P&G to end product tests on animals. CINCINNATI (AP) Procter & Gamble Co. will immediately end animal tests for its current beauty, fabric, home care and paper products except where required by law. Animal-rights acti- vists have targeted P&G for years. P&G's announcement made exceptions for food and pharmaceutical products and new product technologies and ingre- dients. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560128057-839 # Small hop forward: http://cnnfn.com/1999/06/30/companies/wires/procter_wg/ : Do you prefer to test chemicals/drugs/stuff on humans, animals, computer simulations, aliens, attorneys, in-laws, animal-rights activists, yourself? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New trial ordered in radiation lawsuit.PITTSBURGH (AP) When cancer victims and their families won $36.5 million in a trial against uranium plant ope- rators last year, their lawyers called it the biggest verdict on radiation exposure in the country. Now they have to try it all over again. A US dis- trict judge ordered a new trial, citing testimony and evidence problems. Residents of Apollo PA inhaled radioactive dust from the plant for three decades. The dust contained uranium that caused an unusually high cancer rate. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560124434-0be : On whom would you like to test radioactive dust: humans, animals, computer simulations, aliens, attorneys, in-laws, animal-rights activists, yourself? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FERTILITY TECHNIQUES MAY PASS ON SOME FERTILITY PROBLEMS. New fertility techniques have enabled men with low sperm counts to father children, and sons born to some of these men may also be infertile. Daughters are not affected: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/men/9906/30/inherited.infertility.ap/ and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560131455-880 : Should your genetic defects be fixed before you're allowed to reproduce? Do fertility clinics breed a strain of humans dependent on fertility clinics for their continued existence? Is this an alien plot to control humanity??? # UN population conference opens. UNITED NATIONS (AP) Still at odds over sex ed and abortion, delegates from 180 countries opened a 3-day special U.N. session to find ways to cope with the world's population as it nears 6 billion. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560133319-696 : How many people is enough? Will you devour your young? Will you let others devour them instead? Will your devour them or will they devour you? Really? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Elderly 'restrained with drugs'. (BBC) Many elderly people with dementia may be being chemically restrained by potent drugs that could be doing more harm than good. The prolonged use of anti-psychotic drugs - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_382000/382435.stm : Do you prefer to use mind-control drugs on young, medium or old people? Which are more fun to watch? What's your favorite mind-control drug? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Environmentalists attack cancer apathy. (BBC) Chemicals in the environment are contributing to an "epidemic of cancer" but cancer organizations are ignoring the issue, a specialist on health and the environment has said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_382000/382241.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_382000/382392.stm # Gene links cancer risk to blacks - doomed by evolution: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560133511-c15 # Genetic cervical cancer link seen - doomed by evolution: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560130428-182 # Anthrax vaccine could be dangerous - Sec. of Army agrees: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560114230-daa : Would you rather have cancer caused by genetic defects, environmental scum or military/medical procedures? Does cancer promote human evolution? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LOW-FREQUENCY SONAR RAISES WHALE ADVOCATES' HACKLES. Whales use their ears to get around in the dark depths. Beaming sound into their world is like shining bright lights at us. Scientists don't know what harm it will do, and urge the US Navy to find out before activating its new submarine- detecting sonar. http://cnn.com/NATURE/9906/30/sea.noise.part1/index.html # Also: Sea life threatened by noise pollution: http://cnn.com/NATURE/9906/28/sea.noise.ap/ # Groups fight Navy's low-frequency sonar: http://cnn.com/EARTH/9804/16/whales.sonar/ # Scientists, environmentalists clash over whale research: http://cnn.com/TECH/science/9803/31/navy.whales/index.html : Should whales ally themselves with aliens to fight humans and push us from their environment? 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