Some proponents of vitamins predicted the outcome of this study. For en explanation of this flawed study see: http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2012/mar2012_Synthetic-Alpha-Tocopherol-Shown-Increase_01.htm

Oracle will handle highly concurrent transactions with minimal locking, and provide consistent reads at the same time. This is the most difficult thing transactional databases do. You can also throw horrendous queries and really bad applications at it and Oracle will handle it. Like the other major companies Oracle gives fairly good support for their product and the product documentation is superb. The big corps have the money to pay for it and like to play it safe.

The coastal area from just below DC up to Boston has run the country from the beginning. That area holds the country hostage, not Texas. Do you really think you will have Intelligent Design in the NYC school books because Texas ordered it? The people in more rural areas constantly have their culture mocked and attacked. When they push back even a little, alarm bells go off. They don't quite understand yet that abortion is good and god is dead. It's not my culture or belief system, but they have a right to their own. The blood thirsty, war mongering Northeast has no moral bearing to lecture anyone.

We all know why the labels aren't there. It's because no one would buy the food. There's no trust left in this society and for damn good reason. If a large part of the public wants something on the label, it should be there in some way or another. "Rights" are vapor though. Only power gives rights and the public is easy to roll over on almost any issue.

Simple way to resolve the problem, you do what you want and I'll do what I want. Private schools so your kids don't get contaminated. Oh, I forgot this is a fascist country, "science" is the new religion, and "science" serves money not humanity. All this trumps freedom, easily and completely. Forced vaccinations justified by herd immunity, normal court access replaced by a special "vaccine court", a revolving door at the FDA, and Pharma money being spread everywhere to fund research and influence opinion. Nothing to see here. BTW, no vaccine will EVER eliminate the need for herd immunity, because your argument for forcing vaccinations on people would largely disappear. If people weren't forced to take them, they would actually have to work and be safe, or disappear.

When you compare this to the case Roman Polanski who drugged and raped a minor and is still free, it looks over the top. The US, the Brits of course, and others are going to cause as much trouble for Assange as they can. Sex charges, how original. These people run the world and no little shit like that is going to get away with what he did.

Since Europe has banned them, it's definitely worthy of study, at least. Whether that can ever be done honestly in the US is another question. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=europe-bans-x-ray-body-scanners

This revolving door is a far bigger problem than campaign contributions, yet it gets little attention.

Dated, but a good article. I smell a libertarian here, so I guess you'll agree that this was always about power rather than the public. Certainly at this point in time there are few resources that are as abundant as bandwidth. Not much reason there for heavy regulation or a natural monopoly.

We've been told that we must "compete" with that system in order to keep our jobs. Is competing a necessity like a law of physics or is it a choice that someone makes? If our workers only work 40 hours a week for decent wages, does that threaten our survival?

You're absolutely right to emphasize tariffs and other pressures. Trade is more win-lose than win-win. Our elite have taken the profits and sold out the country. Reagan pressured the Japanese, but all the presidents since have done nothing. Can you imagine JFK or Reagan allowing large parts of the middle class to be reduced to poverty and the power of the country to wither? For what?

It has more to do with the interests of the nuclear industry than Japanese sensibilities. Ever since the Japanese nuclear trouble there has been a barrage of pro-nuclear stories, all reassuring us that everything is ok with nuclear.

Now all the bright young tech minds have to work for the national security state, rather than the real economy. It's losing game. The Soviets devolved to this just before they crumbled. When we crumble, I only hope we do it as peacefully as they did.

If you want vaccines for your children go right ahead. You can stuff your "herd immunity" and allow other parents to decide what's best for their kids. The corrupt corporate science you worship is a plague on humanity. I'm 60 now and I never heard of anyone with autism when I was growing up, except maybe in the newspapers. Now it's about 1 in 100. My oldest son was already weak because of some other problem, got the MMR vaccine and was limp and sick for days. He had multiple problems growing up which he has largely overcome, but not entirely. Keep your beliefs and act on them. Allow others the same privilege.

Given your mocking comments and your lack of knowledge about Huckabee, you're a pretty solid Democrat. Huckabee got the Christian vote, but was nixed in 2008 by the corporate money. Huckabee was one of the few big names that actually seemed to give a crap about the average person. Maybe he'll change his tune this time, but I don't think he'll convince the money boys. They would rather have a quite predictable Romney, rather than a Huckabee who has always been a bit suspect in the Republican party. Palin is even more suspect than Huckabee. Her first achievement in office was to work with Democrats to raise taxes on the oil companies. I don't think anyone controls Sarah. Good for her.