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Topic: Science > Physics
User: "Sam Wormley"
Date: 10 Sep 2004 04:35:51 PM
Object: What's New -- Friday, September 10, 2004
Friday, September 10, 2004
1. SUPPLEMENTS: ANCIENT CHINESE WISDOM - OR A DEADLY HERBAL SCAM?
Two years ago WN related the tale of PC-SPES, a mixture of seven Chinese herbs sold by Botanic Labs to promote "prostate
health" (WN 06 Sep 02). WN learned about it from Paul Goldberg, editor of the Cancer Letter, a Washington publication.
Sunday’s Washington Post carried a front-page account of the PC-SPES disaster with new details. Thanks to the Dietary
Supplement and Health Education Act of 1994, PC-SPES was marketed without testing, since no claim was made that it could
cure any disease (WN 09 Apr 04). But it seemed to work as well as prescription drugs for prostate cancer. That’s because
the mish-mash of herbs was laced with prescription drugs. Patients were grateful to have a "natural" product. At least
they were until their penis shrank and their breasts grew. It seems PC-SPES included a synthetic estrogen. There was
also a problem with blood clots, but Botanic fixed that by adding warfarin, a blood thinner widely used as rat poison.
We’ll come back to passage of the 1994 Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act.
2. CLIMATE CHANGE: THE CONFERENCE BOARD STARTS PAYING ATTENTION.
A non-profit organization of some 2,000 major corporations from around the world, the Conference Board is best known for
monthly surveys of consumer confidence and economic indicators. But on Tuesday, it issued a report Climate Change: Clear
Trajectory – Haze in the Details, warning that "businesses that ignore the debate over climate change do so at their
peril." The report concludes: "The Earth - for whatever the exact reasons - is on a trajectory toward an ever warmer
climate. This cannot be avoided at this point, but the trajectory can be jiggled and potential risks associated with the
warming can be mitigated. Ultimately the trajectory could be reversed." The political climate for acknowledging warming
is improved. Just two weeks ago, the U.S. Climate Change Program submitted its report to Congress, putting the blame
squarely on increased greenhouse gases (WN 27 Aug 04).
3. NASA: HURRICANES ON THE CAPE AND A ROUGH LANDING IN UTAH.
The shuttle fleet, it seems, is not safe even in its hanger on Earth. The Genesis mission was to be the first sample
return since Apollo 17. It had been collecting solar wind particles for three years, but its parachute failed to deploy
and it crashed in the Utah desert. Whether any data can be salvaged is not clear.
4. NIH: FREE PUBLIC ACCESS TO AGENCY FUNDED RESEARCH IS PROPOSED.
The move could drive some journals out of business and bankrupt scientific societies that depend on journal profits. But
given society’s rising expectations of access, change seems inevitable.
Bob Park can be reached via email at

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Opinions are the author's and are not necessarily shared by the University, but they should be.
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User: "hanson"

Title: Re: What's New -- Friday, September 10, 2004 10 Sep 2004 04:53:42 PM
"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:X6p0d.165817$Fg5.25942@attbi_s53...

Friday, September 10, 2004
2. CLIMATE CHANGE:
THE CONFERENCE BOARD...is warning that "businesses that ignore
the debate over climate change do so at their peril." ......

........because big time, heavy and new permit charges, higher user
fees and more eviro surtaxes are in the offing, which will bread a
new flock of green millionaires from the graft of these extortions
while.....
(1) all the little green idiots do pay and still believe that they do
"something for the environment", not even realizing that they are
simply being used as unpaid facilitators and enablers by the enviro
sharpies........ahahahahah....
(2) ...the climate is getting warmer, unabashed, whether there are
green turds or no green turds....ahahahahaha.......
Moral of the story: line up, get with the program and cash in!
Don't be a little green idiot! Get paid!
ahahahaha.......ahahahanson
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User: "Uncle Al"

Title: Re: What's New -- Friday, September 10, 2004 10 Sep 2004 05:46:37 PM
Sam Wormley wrote:


Friday, September 10, 2004

1. SUPPLEMENTS: ANCIENT CHINESE WISDOM - OR A DEADLY HERBAL SCAM?
Two years ago WN related the tale of PC-SPES, a mixture of seven Chinese herbs sold by Botanic Labs to promote "prostate
health" (WN 06 Sep 02). WN learned about it from Paul Goldberg, editor of the Cancer Letter, a Washington publication.
Sunday’s Washington Post carried a front-page account of the PC-SPES disaster with new details. Thanks to the Dietary
Supplement and Health Education Act of 1994, PC-SPES was marketed without testing, since no claim was made that it could
cure any disease (WN 09 Apr 04). But it seemed to work as well as prescription drugs for prostate cancer. That’s because
the mish-mash of herbs was laced with prescription drugs. Patients were grateful to have a "natural" product. At least
they were until their penis shrank and their breasts grew. It seems PC-SPES included a synthetic estrogen. There was
also a problem with blood clots, but Botanic fixed that by adding warfarin, a blood thinner widely used as rat poison.
We’ll come back to passage of the 1994 Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act.

[snip]
The first pwoerful non-steroidal progesterone receptor agonist is
NSP-989 (tanaproget), with remarkable selectivity. If yer gonna spike
the punch, at least seize the opportunity and get creative about it.
[snip]
--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
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