Thursday, March 29, 2007

How Much Does It Cost Bathroom Fan Installed

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In 2004, Anna Devathasan and Jenny his two New Zealand students of 14 years, participating in an exercise diligently education: analysis of the vitamin C content of the drink 'Ribena . Yes This is a drink made with cassis, ideal for children because it "contains four times the vitamin C of oranges", as the GlaxoSmithKline, a company that produces it.

A experiment concluded, Anna and Jenny looked at each other and say, "Oh my god! But here in vitamin C there is not even a shadow." So what do they do? "The Commerce Commission should be aware of this infringement! It 's a scam, we deliver the results and see what they tell us!"

Three years later, that a few days ago, the multinational GlaxoSmithKline is sentenced in a court in Auckland to pay a fine of $ 316,000 for advertising ingannevole. Ma non è tutto! La corte ha ammesso la responsabilità per 15 infrazioni fra il 2002 e il 2006 per testi pubblicitari non solo inesatti ma completamente falsi.
Il rischio è che per i "poveri ragazzi" della GlaxoSmithKline il tutto si traduca in una multa di... 3 milioni di dollari neozelandesi, o meglio 1 milione e 600mila euro.

Complimenti al senso civico delle due giovani studentesse e... magari diffidiamo di un'azienda che decide di fregare i suoi "finanziatori" finchè non la beccano!


References:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/ribena-case-likely-to-leave-public-feeling-less-cordial/2007/03/28/1174761565295.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,, 2044171.00. html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid = 20601081 & sid = au6g25W3_CuY & referer = Australia

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Blood For Cash In Miami

The Imaginary Invalid



We are not citizens, we are consumers , carriers need to be met. If we had not, someone invents them for us. The trick, well known and rather depressing in itself, is even more bleak if applied to our health.
I am referring to the increasing medicalization of "normal" that no one would have dreamed of curing, thirty years ago, and which today have become disorders: from shyness to menopause, from excessive hair loss to the liveliness of children.
A drug for every state of mind: just call sign. Then the symptom is the disease and that's it: the healthy become sick. To treat.
The Anglo-Saxons called this process " disease mongering" (translated into Italian as "marketing of disease) and for some time the trade press devotes space to this theme with articles websites (
www.diseasemongering.org ).
Per difendersi da questa “patologizzazione” del normale che è diventata un vero e proprio business per le aziende farmaceutiche, associazioni di consumatori e comunità scientifica hanno messo in campo una capacità dell’essere umano che fortunatamente non è ancora divenuta un sintomo: l’ironia.
Il British Medical Journal , lo scorso anno, aveva denunciato una pericolosa e sconosciuta sindrome da pigrizia, letale nei casi più gravi, nei quali gli ammalati smettevano di respirare per mancanza di stimoli, e qualche giornale, anche in Italia, aveva preso sul serio la notizia, senza far caso che lo scopritore della fantomatica sindrome era l’ineffabile dottor Leth Argos e la cura proposta l’infallibile indolebant...
Anche le associazioni dei consumatori americane non sono state a guardare e hanno davvero fatto le cose in grande: hanno inventato non solo una malattia ( Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder ) e la sua cura, ma anche tutta la campagna di marketing che lo accompagna, dagli spot televisivi, al sito di supporto, al questionario di autodiagnosi con domande alle quali è difficile rispondere negativamente («Preferisci le cose nuove alle vecchie? Pensi che la vita sia più facile quando si hanno maggiori risorse rispetto agli altri? Ti sembra di non essere più giovane come un tempo?»), scoprendosi malati.
So if you experience symptoms "unusual" as concerns, fatigue, state of tension, lack of sleep, stress at work and at home, lack of interest in activities once appreciated, the only hope is the Havidol (
www. havidol.com ), the only drug approved for the treatment of dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder , a brand new anxiety disorder that afflicts millions of people around the world, unaware of being ill.
Havidol can be taken forever, no need to stop drinking alcohol, can lead to extraordinary thoughts, interspecies communication (!!!), excessive salivation and increase its effectiveness immediately after taking it is necessary to carry out normal physical activities (and the image on the site, takes an athlete struggling with climbing a rock wall). Grotesque statements that do to the thousands of side effects listed in the package inserts.
Despite the paradoxical situation a number of people are affected by the newly discovered disease and sent to the site required for a supply of Havidol ...

(image from the site www.blueandjoy.com ... let us jump !)

Monday, March 26, 2007

Flu Shot Autoimmune Disease

Leo Hickman


The gentleman to whom it is dedicated envi post is a Guardian journalist, wrote a book entitled "stripped bare my life, my year Trying to live ethically" and you can find his articles on the site of the International , weekly which collects newspaper articles from around the world. I would not recommend a reading in particular, but I suggest you scroll down the list of his articles, you should find something that interests you. Try it!

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Underarm Odor After Laser Hair Removal

Corporate Responsibility




As promised, I made to dig into the network, but it needs more time to be thoroughly examined, in particular, this magazine aims to gather all the trends of the companies that act in such a way that "people from seeing of your action are compatible with the permanence of an authentically human life on earth .

It 's true that in many cases companies are talking, and elsewhere were quick to judge positively, but this does not imply that the exemplary care that seeks to create, is a bit as it was mentioned on Radio: It is the 'ethics to enter into the budget. The magazine sites dela

C orporate R esponsability are www.competic.it and http://www.cr-magazine.it/cr/ .

is investigating a variety of topics ranging from transport and mobility, technological choices to make saving less futuristic and abstract than it looks, I'll try to read all the inputs that damage and how to post comments that are deemed useful, if you have naturalemnte time I urge you to contribute.

Meanwhile, I could not advertise this event www.energethica.it 24 May 26 in Genoa, futile any positive commentary.