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Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 03 (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 10:06:14 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Brian Redman
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Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 03
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 03
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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*PROJECT CENSORED*
Top 25 Censored Stories
(From *The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook* by Carl Jensen &
Project Censored. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995. ISSN
1074-5998)
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#25 -- Deadly "Mad Cow Disease" Spreads to North America
A new and ghastly disease which turns the brain spongelike and
has been attacking dairy cows in England for years, has now
appeared in North America. Nicknamed "Mad Cow Disease," bovine
spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has infected more than 120,000
cattle since it was discovered in 1985.
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#24 -- Epilepsy Drug Fiasco Ignored by Press
On August 2, 1993, FDA approved felbamate, an epilepsy drug.
FDA claimed that felbamate reduced the frequency of epileptic
seizures and had minimal side effects. Just a year later, Carter-
Wallace Inc. warned doctors to quit treating patients with
Felbatol, apparently their specific brand name for felbamate.
"The story received only minimal coverage in terms of the human
cost... There were no follow-ups on victims; no coverage
whatsoever of withdrawal causing grand-mal seizures."
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#23 -- Buying and Selling Permits to Pollute
Under federal law, a polluting company that seeks to move into
or expand in a polluted area must first obtain emissions
reductions, or "offsets," from existing plants in the same
locale. In some areas, it is possible for a company to reduce its
polluting emissions and then "bank" those credits for later sale
to a company that needs them.
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#22 -- Over-the-Counter Diet Pills Cause Deaths
Problems with over-the-counter diet pills and cold medications
containing phenyl-propanolamine hydrochloride (PPA). The drug has
a chemical structure similar to speed, and like speed, can
trigger a sharp rise in blood pressure, sometimes resulting in
stroke.
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#21 -- Illegal Toxic Burning at Super-Secret Air Force Facility
The United States government has used secrecy and over-
classification to hide the illegal burning of toxic materials at
an Air Force facility so secret that the federal government does
not even admit it exists.
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#20 -- Legalizing Carcinogens in Our Food
Under current law (Delaney), if a pesticide is shown to be a
carcinogen, the government must ban it from use in all processed
foods. Yet, until 1992, the pesticide industry had found ways to
circumvent this law. Then, in 1992, a federal lawsuit compelled
the EPA to enforce Delaney. To avoid doing this, and to appease
the chemical industry, the Clinton EPA proposed a legislative
"reform" package that would replace the Delaney law.
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#19 -- Cesarean Sections Epidemic
Nearly one in four pregnant women have a c-section. The c-
section is major surgery that involves entering the abdominal
cavity. As many as 50 percent of c-sections may be unnecessary.
In-depth coverage of this story by the mass media might have
increased women's awareness of the risks associated with cesarean
surgery and of the steps they can take to avoid an unnecessary c-
section. [CN -- But hey! We would have missed the O.J. Simpson
trial!]
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#18 -- Nationwide Collusion between Drug Companies and Pharmacists
Major drug companies have started to pay pharmacists to
promote their drugs over those of their competitors. It should be
noted that drug makers' kickbacks are not restricted to
pharmacists; drug makers sometimes offer kickbacks to physicians
who use their products.
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#17 -- Censoring Tomorrow's Journalists Today
In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the First
Amendment did not apply to student journalists ("Hazelwood School
District vs. Kuhlmeier"). Some high school principals who want to
control the student press seized upon *Hazelwood* as a
justification for prior review or for restriction of subjects
students can write about. The Student Press Law Center has
reported an increase in requests for assistance with censorship
problems from high school journalists since *Hazelwood*.
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#16 -- Fallibility of the AIDS Test
The problem of faulty HIV tests was front-page headline news
in the *London Sunday Times* in August 1993, but did not make
major news in the U.S. The *Sunday Times* reported: "The 'AIDS
test' is scientifically invalid and incapable of determining
whether people are really infected with HIV, according to a new
report by a team of Australian scientists... Doctors should think
again about its use, say the authors."
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#15 -- DARE Program Cover-up Continues
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is a failure, so said
the 1993 *Project Censored*. The story is nominated again for
three reasons: 1) evidence that *The Washington Post* revised an
article, without the author's permission, on behalf of the DARE
program; 2) evidence that the U.S. Department of Justice covered
up the program's failure by rejecting a study it commissioned
that concluded that the DARE program doesn't work; and 3)
continued failure of the news media to put the issue on the
national agenda.
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#14 -- Faulty Nuclear Fuel Rods Spell Potential Disasters
The critical fuel rods in 108 of our nation's nuclear power
plants are failing in increasing numbers and the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission knows about it... but is doing nothing.
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#13 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Dirty Secret
Secret internal industry documents obtained by *Public
Citizen's* Critical Mass Energy Project reveal that America's
nuclear reactors have more serious safety, training, and
equipment problems than government regulators acknowledge.
[...to be continued...]
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