HFN

Human Filtered News

Thursday, March 01, 2007
Vitamins can kill - The Pulse - Health Matters: "Like other Western countries, we're a nation of vitamin pill poppers. About half of all Australians at least occasionally take vitamins, minerals or some other supplement – alone, or more commonly in multivitamin preparations.

There's not a lot of evidence they do any good, but that doesn’t stop us. What we're really buying is not protection from illness, but a sense of wellbeing – the illusion that we're doing a bit extra over what nature can do, and that makes us feel satisfied."

Monday, February 26, 2007
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Bare fists, flying bullets: "...Hollywood bullets swerve around the star and anyone on the feature list that the audience might like."

By Clive James, BBC

Excellent article by Clive James (legend!)

Four Corners - 26/02/2007: The Denial Machine

This is definitely worth checking out this evening on the ABC

This report from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation investigates the campaign to deny the science of global warming and slow international action against it. It tracks the activities of a small group of North American scientists, some of whom previously worked for Big Tobacco and who are now receiving donations from large oil and coal interests. It also examines how key planks of the fossil fuel industry’s case were adopted by governments in the US and Canada…

As Australia stews over how far it should go to combat greenhouse emissions, "The Denial Machine" goes behind the debate - on Four Corners 8.30 pm Monday 26 February, ABC TV.