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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom. — W. Somerset MaughamI called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. “God-nose” was not more successful, so in the end “hexuronic acid” was agreed upon. Today the substance is called “ascorbic acid” … Read more

MORTALITY IN ANTIOXIDANT TRIALS A recent analysis was published1 on the effects of dietary supplements used in large, randomized, disease-prevention trials, either primary (before a deleterious event, such as a heart attack or the development of a particular cancer, occurs) or secondary (prevention of the reoccurrence of a deleterious event). The authors reported that, in the … Read more

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS OF CALORIC RESTRICTION WHEN ONLY CARBOHYDRATE CALORIES ARE RESTRICTED A new rat study of caloric restriction (CR) of late-middle-aged animals1 breaks new ground by using a diet in which fat calories and protein calories are the same in the restricted diet as for the ad libitum-fed rats; only carbohydrates (sucrose and cornstarch) are restricted. … Read more

SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE KEEPS . . . UH . . . CHANGING — Headline, news article in Nature, June 29, 2006 Well, not quite. This article reports on the conclusions of a National Academy of Sciences committee asked to evaluate the Michael Mann hockey-stick graph, which appears to show that the twentieth century … Read more

SPECIAL VITAMIN D ISSUE No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits … climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.—Christine Stewart, Canadian Environmental MinisterCurrently, there is a federal Whistleblower Protection Act that was enacted into law a number of years ago, that … Read more

It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.— Samuel Adams, American revolutionary No one, no government agency has jurisdiction over the truth.— Fox Mulder, The X-Files In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When … Read more

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.— Patrick Henry On every question of construction [of the Constitution, let us] carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, … Read more

It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons … And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found generally true: that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages … Read more

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.— Robert Heinlein All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.— Marbury v. Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176 (1803) Right. But you cannot … Read more

Consensus is the business of politics. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.— Michael Crichton, State of Fear OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS AND CORONARY HEART DISEASE HEALTH CLAIM Bowing to the inevitable, the FDA has authorized a widened omega-3 fatty acids and CHD health claim and permits its use on food … Read more