Talk on the Brain at Rockefeller Univ in NYC - March 14, 2013

Although Rockefeller University has an impressive campus on the edge of and blocking view of the river, with some solid old stone buildings and the glassy new one that held this talk, the speakers were disappointing. Hosted by SWINY (Science Writers in N.Y.), the speakers came across as cliquey with each other and most in the small audience, arrogant and, in the case of the woman on the far right, downright sniping. She revealed she takes a particular drug for depression but I felt it seemed like she was on speed. She was very, very critical and hostile to those who express concern about pharmaceuticals and Big Pharma so, of course, I wondered how much money she gets from them. Oh wait, must be not enough and she wants more, as she is a freelance science writer. The nicest person I met at this entire trek to hear this talk was the guard at the front gate.

Corporate Interference conference - Food, Fracking & Wireless - March 13-14, 2013, NYC

******* March 13-14, 2013, Scandinavian Center, NYC Why this site? Maybe the only auditorium in NYC that's free of wireless. http://www.corporateinterference.org/ We heard from David Carpenter, M.D. on the multiple corporate invasions into our lives to the detriment of our food and thus our health via at least the multiple means of GMOs, fracking and wireless. Teasing out the details were Dr. Ron Bishop from SUNY Oneonta who gave a crisp and specific presentation on the many existing abandoned oil and gas wells throughout the state, some of which the NYS DEC was in complete ignorance, Dr. Magda Havas on the many assaults to our health from wireless in its many forms (cellphonea, laptops, towers, etc.), including a set of photos of her own blood after she used a cellphone and after using a wireless laptop - the cells got stickier and more like ketchup. One legislator, Andrea Boland, spoke of her fight to get bills on the floor re protection against wireless. Dr. David Brown, who, with his staff, has been working with people in western PA harmed by the rapid and massive invasion of fracking, shared terrifying details of the types of harms to health and welfare. Dr. Krimsky presented an at times macabre history of the development of the concept of G.R.A.S. in our food. His was the clearest example of the egregious and pernicious influence of corporate influence over our food supply in one specific area, out of many. Our government agencies, due to orders or short staffing, have handed over control over what's in "food" to the purveyors of such. Never ever touch any processed "food," nothing in a box. A very good conference overall.