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  • Rounding up glyphosate: Toxicity known since the 80's So why weren't we protected?

    Brian S. Hooker Ph. D.|Updated Sep 17, 2018

    The pesticide glyphosate, also known by its trade name Round-Up®, has been in the news recently due to a lawsuit filed against agriculture giant Monsanto by a school district employee who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma while using glyphosate weed killer as a part of his work. The plaintiff in the case, DeWayne Johnson, was recently awarded $289.2 million in damages from Monsanto, including a $250 million penalty against the company for punitive damages. This is a huge victory for the plaintiff and his legal team, which in...

  • What you may not know about the flu shot

    Brian S. Hooker Ph. D., Special to the Village News|Updated Jan 5, 2018

    It's "flu-shot season" again, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to push vaccines on the population, pregnant women and infants included, in a futile effort to prevent cases of influenza. Toward the end of every season, we hear from the CDC that the efficacy of the vaccine was 62 percent or 58 percent or lower, but it is even worse. The percentages reported by the CDC are based on the ability to match the most prevalent strains of flu infections...