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Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. Her first book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health, is distributed by Random House. Rosenberg has appeared on CSPAN and NPR and lectured at medical schools and at the Mid-Manhattan Public Library.
SHARE Sunday, December 5, 2021 Gun Loving Parents like the Crumbleys Are Not Rare
According to Oakland County, Michigan prosecutor Karen McDonald, mother Jennifer Crumbley posted that taking Ethan to a shooting range was "a mother-son day" and that she "bought a gun for her baby for Christmas."
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, December 3, 2021 Free Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment? Drug Makers Can Fix That!
The isolation, disconnection and fear caused by the Covid pandemic has increased the number of people suffering from alcoholism and drug addiction. Yet the government proposes a high-tech treatment few will take voluntarily for a condition already treated for free-- killing non-human primates in the process?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 29, 2021 Beware of These Drug Maker Tricks
Disease mongering removes the need for drug reps; patients tell the doctor both the condition they have and the exact med they need, making a mockery of medical school education.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, November 19, 2021 Biden Nominates Two Industry Shills to "Regulate" Their Industries
How can FDA or USDA officials who shamelessly serve industry also regulate industry and protect consumers? Clearly they can't and Biden should be ashamed of these retrogressive nominations.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 18, 2021 Humor: A Yankee Tries to Learn "New Orleansese"
Yankees can master the names of Carnival krewes -- Rex, Endymion, Zulu, Bacchus, Comus -- and the meaning of the King Cake and Twelfth Night but it might take months to realize that "erl" means oil and "ersters" means oysters.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, November 12, 2021 The Reason Many Are Saying No To a Turkey This Year
As "Turkey Day" approaches, animal lovers cringe, food safety advocates become vigilant and turkey producers hope you are not reading the news and have forgotten these items
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 9, 2021 Don't Fall for the Term "Fake Meat" Invented by Ranchers
It is obvious why meat producers are fighting the plant-based meat movement with inaccurate and fear-producing terms like "fake meat." Not only is "fake" an emotional word, it is not even accurate when referring to cultured meat which derives from the cells of "real meat" and is identical except that no slaughter occurs.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, November 5, 2021 Thank You For The Fat Acceptance Movement: Big Food
Big Food has managed to make the U.S. and much of the world obese and the fat positivity and anti-weight bias groups have added a social justice overlay to their successful marketing.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 27, 2021 Exclusive OEN Interview with Exposer of Fauci's "Beagle Gate"
This week major news outlets are reporting that Anthony Fauci's NIH division funded research for beagle puppies' to be eaten alive by insects, their vocal cords removed to stop barking and cries of pain. I interviewed the founder of the exposing group for OEN.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 22, 2021 Mainstream Media Shamelessly Boosts Its Top Advertisers--Drug Makers
As I have continually reported, the risks of brand name drugs are often ignored until the patent runs out and all profit has been made. Examples of risks only revealed post patent were seen with the drugs Vioxx, Lipitor, Fosamax, Paxil, Ambien, Adderall, Nexium and, apparently now with mirtazapine.
SHARE Wednesday, October 6, 2021 The Sleazy Ways AbbVie Made Humira a Best Selling Drug
If you're like most people, you never heard of the prescription drug Humira until 2013. That's when Abbott Laboratories spun off AbbVie, to aggressively market the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) drug which went on to become the top selling drug by 2019.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, October 1, 2021 Baby Food Alert: Interview With Asian-Based Food Processing Consultant
"We are now living in an entirely anthropologically re-engineered paradigm and one needs an unnatural degree of self-discipline to maintain a normal weight and stay healthy," says this interviewee.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 23, 2021 While the Nation Is Watching Covid, Look What Drug Makers Are Doing
While no one is looking, drug makers have raised medication prices though they promised they wouldn't. They have stopped their boycott against Facebook. And they have increased their sleazy, manipulative marketing to kids. Here are the details.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, September 13, 2021 Is Obesity the New Smoking?
In the 1960s, 42 percent of Americans smoked. Ubiquitous cigarette ads, eventually banned in the US, promised that smoking made men more masculine and women sexier and thinner. Plus cigarettes tasted good.
Now, in 2021, only 14 of the US population smokes but 42 percent of the population is obese. Have people just switched rooms on the Titanic? Is obesity the new smoking?
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, September 10, 2021 Have Drug Makers Created A Generation of Hypochondriacs?
younger generations have grown up under nonstop drug industry spin which has elevated normal facets of the human psyche-blue moods, mood swings, growing up, "nerves," attention problems-"to mental illness."
SHARE Tuesday, August 31, 2021 How Animal Rights, Once a Progressive Stepchild, Became a Movement
After a while, activists gave up the ineffectual "supply side" tactic of beseeching hostile lawmakers to regulate animal operations in their state for the more leveraged "demand side" -- going directly to food outlets and their customers with proof of grisly deeds. Once the McDonald's, Wendy's, KFCs and Burger Kings of the world were outed as buying and serving abused animals things began to change".