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		<title>Canadian Government Promises to Fund Junk Science to Appease Zamboni Cult</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from the CBC It was inevitable that the federal government and its advisory committee would cave into the incessant political pressure of the Zamboni cult. The government is trying to appease the Zamboni zealots who have mercilessly intimidated politicians to fund &#8220;liberation&#8221; treatment, which is nothing more than high-tech faith healing. Unscrupulous politicians like Libby [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4095333&amp;post=1570&amp;subd=medicalmyths&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Olivia Chow, Desperate Wife of NDP Leader, Promotes Junk Food Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diabetes, Type 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[junk food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Olivia Chow, wife of NDP leader, Jack Layton, has sunk to a new low her desperate attempt to be re-elected in the riding of Trinity-Spadina after winning by only 3500 votes in 2008. She is paying for the distribution of mini ice cream cones to attract and bribe voters. Ice cream is the quintessence of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4095333&amp;post=1543&amp;subd=medicalmyths&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cardiometabolic Risk Working Group: Another Coven Practising Drug-Induced Magical Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, published by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS), both of which are largely funded by the drug industry has shamelessly published a &#8220;Position Statement by the Cardiometabolic Risk Working Group&#8221; (see highlights below). We have previously blogged about the American &#8220;Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation and Treatment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4095333&amp;post=1508&amp;subd=medicalmyths&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The perfect crime? CCSVI not leaving a trace in MS&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;Liberation&#8221; is a hoax</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/the-perfect-crime-ccsvi-not-leaving-a-trace-in-ms-liberation-is-a-hoax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ccsvi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith healing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[multiple sclerosis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just published today, is a report of the first independent investigation by Christopher Mayer, et al from Germany with no connection to drug companies that attempts to use Zamboni&#8217;s Doppler technique for diagnosing &#8220;CCSVI&#8221; but in a rigorously controlled and blinded manner. Conclusion: &#8220;This triple-blinded controlled study does not support insufficient extra- and intracranial venous flow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4095333&amp;post=1478&amp;subd=medicalmyths&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MS patients have normal intracranial pressure-Zamboni&#8217;s &#8220;CCSVI&#8221; does not exist, &#8220;liberation&#8221; is futile</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/ms-patients-have-normal-intracranial-pressure-zambonis-ccsvi-does-not-exist-liberation-is-futile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ccsvi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paolo Zamboni must be getting just a little nervous over the continuing failure of any other investigator to find the slightest evidence for &#8220;CCSVI&#8221;, his purported venous &#8220;reflux&#8221; that could only damage the brain by causing an increase in intracranial pressure. The latest is a report by Rolf Meyer-Schwickerath, et al., using the elegant, noninvasive technique of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4095333&amp;post=1472&amp;subd=medicalmyths&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paolo Zamboni-Medical Con Man Supreme-Patenting a Disease</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/paolo-zamboni-medical-con-man-supreme-patenting-a-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[angioplasty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[multiple sclerosis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard about Paolo Zamboni&#8217;s miraculous surgical &#8220;cure&#8221; for multiple sclerosis, I had supposed, that in addition to his desire to treat in wife&#8217;s MS, he was motivated by the delusion that he could earn a place in the medical pantheon, alongside Jenner, Salk, Banting etc. Only after viewing various internet postings has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4095333&amp;post=1439&amp;subd=medicalmyths&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zivadinov proves Zamboni&#8217;s &#8220;CCSVI&#8221; does not exist</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/zivadinov-proves-zambonis-ccsvi-does-not-exist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost a year ago at a much heralded news conference Dr. Robert Zivadinov, a Buffalo-based early disciple of Paolo Zamboni, claimed to show some difference in the presence of venous flow patterns in the heads of MS patients compared to controls using special Doppler ultrasound techniques that had never been validated. He never published the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4095333&amp;post=1425&amp;subd=medicalmyths&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Low risk&#8221; nurse with normal cholesterol but self-destructive lifestyle ends up with heart transplant after CCTA</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/low-risk-nurse-with-normal-cholesterol-but-self-destructive-lifestyle-ends-up-with-heart-transplant-after-ccta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in a nutshell is a demonstration of the problem with expecting technology to substitute for good clinical medicine and save us from our self-destructive addictions. If anyone is puzzled about the dichotomy between the exorbitant cost of the US medical system and its relative lack of effect on any measure of health here is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4095333&amp;post=1412&amp;subd=medicalmyths&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zamboni is incapable of doing or unwilling to do legitimate research into his own &#8220;CCSVI&#8221; and &#8220;liberation&#8221; fantasy</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/zamboni-is-incapable-of-doing-or-unwilling-to-do-legitimate-research-into-his-own-ccsvi-and-liberation-fantasy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Alain Beaudet is President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and has been trying to navigate between the incessant demands of politicians pressured by desperate MS patients to authorize &#8220;liberation&#8221; on demand while doing &#8220;trials&#8221; and the scientific evidence to date showing that &#8220;CCSVI&#8221; doesn&#8217;t even exist. Apart from exposing more of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4095333&amp;post=1402&amp;subd=medicalmyths&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Therapeutic knee arthroscopy and vertebroplasty; surgical scams for which we all pay</title>
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		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are just more examples of surgical impunity. There are many others such as &#8220;bariatric&#8221; surgery and coronary angioplasty for chronic coronary disease. If one wishes to market a drug the FDA and Health Canada demand proof of effectiveness and safety requiring many years and many millions of dollars worth of research and clinical trials. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4095333&amp;post=1382&amp;subd=medicalmyths&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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