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Control

- ADHD: The New World Disorder

The pharmaceutical industry flourishes like never before. Prozac, Viagra, Ritalin are familiar names in daily life. The chemical revolution in our evolution has taken place. Our society can't function anymore without medicines and the pharmaceutical multinationals are the pillars of the economy. That's why we didn't enter alarm-phase one when hearing that 6 million hyperactive children in the US are using severe medicines without having feeling ill prior. Europe tries to catch up. [Read More...]

- ADHD, Part II

Attackers and defenders of Ritalin and ADHD in the media. [Read More...]

- Do not Forget Your Pill

There are people who experienced such a horror, the memory of it will control most of their lives. For such people there'll be soon a pill that can erase such traumatic memory. [Read More...]

- The Future of Remembering

In the United States many women report incest to the police after they remember the damage through therapy. And in Europe just like in America there is an increasing resistance against these claims. In Holland and several other European countries advisers of the government report the situation of repressed memories as 'total nonsense'. [Read More...]

- Swedish Spying Scandal

In the summer of 2002 Sweden had a new spying scandal. Not at an international level but a governmental agency in Gothenburg was caught when it was spying unlawfully on its personnel. The disclosure of the spying report reveals a bizarre view in modern life. [Read More...]

- The Pointing Finger

Which influence has a stronger impact on our development, genes or the parents? American amateur psychologist Judith Rich Harris claims that parents have no influence whatsoever on a child's behavior. [Read More...]

Fraud

- The Sweet Lie

The controversy around aspartame - the artificial sweetener - never ends. Though the consumer will notice none of that in the supermarket. A growing assortment of food and drinks that contains aspartame even indicates it's a safe and accepted additive. The media write divided about it: the scaremongers versus the smooth-talkers. Can it be that black and white? [Read More...]

- Light Urbun Legends

You're going every day to your office. Greet everyone politely and sit down behind your clean desk, ready to fulfill your daily tasks for the food industry. Suddenly the phone rings and a worried consumer asks you if aspartame is dangerous. Your face turns red because:
a) You know nothing about aspartame
b) You're supposed to know that
c) You lie and say it's just scare mongering
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- The ADHD Grinder

The opinions about ADHD in the media are divided. Sweden is no exception to that and the two sides gained each their own face in the debate the past years. On one side there's professor Christopher Gillberg, a psychiatrist from the University of Gothenburg, a pioneer in the world when it comes to ADHD as a brain disorder. On the other side stands Eva Kärfve from the University of Lund, who claims there's no evidence for such theory. The dramatic developments in this debate have caused such scandals, it could easily turn into a Hollywood movie with Russell Crowe, ending with a possible imprisonment of Gillberg. [Read More...]

- Apartame in Wonderland

Another independent research into the dangers of the sweetener aspartame has brought again negative results. The Italian Ramazzini Institute has conducted a long-term scientific research in which it demonstrated a link between leukaemia and aspartame, even at doses much lower than the ADI (Acceptable Daily Intake). Why is it that previous research had never shown that? The Ramazzini research had let their rats die a natural death before they conducted autopsies looking for tumours. That hadn't been done before. [Read More...]

Consumerism

- From Canned Tomatoes to Sick People: Everything Gets Chipped

The army doesn't want to talk about it. Officially that is. However, the commercial market is ready for it: the implanted microchip for people. [Read More...]

- The Individually Wrapped Designer Toothpick With Mint Flavor

Consumerism going out of hand. [Read More...]

Miscellaneous

- I am a Terrorist

Since the eleventh of September terrorism is still a daily event. At least in the media. But where's the terrorism actually? [Read More...]

- Eleven Wars

Eleven new wars for the new year. [Read More...]

- The Hypocrisis in Gothenburg

A report on the EU meeting in Gothenburg during the summer of 2001. [Read More...]

  

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