Posted on 05/31/2016 10:33:26 AM PDT by richardb72
Katie Couric's gun control movie has gotten a lot of criticism for fraudulently editing a discussion with the Virginia Defense League. Just earlier today apologized today for the misleading edits. EPIX has just announced that it is no longer showing the movie here. The two might not be unrelated. Will Apple now pull the movie from iTunes?
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Ouch! Should I fight my way through that, or wait for it to reappear with paragraphs? I think I want to read it, but I’m not sure how bad.
Now you gone and did it. You stood in front of the mirror and said Candyman. Their flying in from the gates of hell, now. Save yourself.
Gummie Chiclets is now 59 and needs to keep her legs covered.
This blowup will make gun rights people even more wary of the motives of the MSM, and by the way, Trump at this very second is taking them head on like the pack of ravening hyenas they are.
No more pretending, the MSM is an arm of the DNC. Out in the open for all to see.
So why, then, do doctors recommend colonoscopies if they are unproven, ineffective, risky, and unreliable?
A rotating pile of money, “Money, money...” jingle in the background from the musical “Cabaret.”
That is the answer to that question!
Doctors‘ profit motives aside, Katie Couric isn't exactly a benevolent Samaritan either. She began urging Americans to get screened for colon cancer while she was [being] employed by General Electric, the owner of NBC television.
GE happens to manufacture and sell CT scanners used for virtual colonoscopies. Since each of these room-sized contraptions [link] costs upward of three-and-a-half million dollars, what is a better way to keep them 'minting money' than an indirect endorsement by a big TV star.
Lo and behold, her handlers ruthlessly exploited her husband's unfortunate death from colon cancer to promote colonoscopies. Because Ms. Couric never disclosed her connection to GE Healthcare - a seventeen billion dollar subsidiary of GE and a sister company of NBC [link] — unsuspecting Americans embraced her story, and the number of screenings jumped from under one million before her famous televised colonoscopy in year 2000 to around fourteen million today.
Adding to this hypocrisy, Jay Monahan - Ms. Couric's late husband - passed away at age forty two, eight years before a first screening is even recommended. This, unfortunately, means that neither him nor anyone else in his predicament would have likely been saved…
Based on all the above evidence, I pleaded with Mr. Couric first by mail [link], second on her blog [link], and finally on my site, to stop endorsing or recommending colon cancer screening to 95% of Americans, who are in a low-risk group. Regretfully, she ignored my pleas and never responded.
One change I noticed… After Ms. Couric left NBC for greener pastures at CBS, she no longer refers to the 90% cure rate [link]. Now, it is just a measly 5% reduction of "colon cancer death."
Katie Couric: “Colon cancer is the second leading cancer killer. But if it is detected early, it has better than 90% cure rate.” (from 2000, [link])
And seven years later…
Katie Couric: "Colon cancer death are down almost 5% among men, and 4.5 among women." (from 2007, [link])
Sadly, even this small reduction isn't likely related to screenings, and I discuss its probable reasons [link] on this video's transcript page.
After this report had already been taped, the Annals of Internal Medicine — a preeminent publication of the American College of Physicians — released a new research paper concerning the considerable failure of screening colonoscopies to detect and prevent colorectal cancer, particularly in the right colon.
The editorial commentary by Dr. David Ransohoff, the Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, states the following [12]:
“A goal of avoiding all deaths from colon cancer may be admirable, but we do not have evidence that we can achieve it.”
“Although colonoscopy is generally safe, it is still an invasive procedure with a 0.2% rate of serious complications —10 times higher than for any other commonly used, cancer-screening test. Repeated examinations over time may incur a substantial cumulative rate of complications, not even counting hard-to-detect complications (if they occur), such as silent myocardial infarction [heart attack — KM].”
“Colonoscopy is an effective intervention, but, as Baxter and colleagues suggest, we must realize that current evidence is indirect and does not support a claim of 90% effectiveness.”
— So, who, then, should get screened for colon cancer, if anyone?
You‘ll find the answer to this question in the second part of this investigative report.
Author's commentary: After watching/reading the above section, you may ask yourself this completely sensible question:
— How can a scornful Ms. Couric claim a 90% reduction of colon cancer risk while an indignant Mr. Monastyrsky claims no reduction, only an increase?
Oh, that's easy… Just like a horse race, any clinical study can be easily fixed to deliver the desired outcome either by falsifying the trial design, or by manipulating outcome statistics, or both. That's how this 90% figure came about, and until this day I can't locate the original sourcing for this figure.
From this point on, these scams are managed using well-learned and well-practiced formula:
● By using cherry-picked references from prestigious medical journals. The articles in many of these journals aren't generally available to the general public, so it's easy to obscure undesirable outcomes and conclusions;
● By donating money to not-for-profit associations, whose sole function is to promote their donors. The National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance was co-founded by Katie Couric specifically for this purpose — to funnel “blood money” to promote screening colonoscopies.
● By hiring so-called “expert spokespersons” who will endorse and champion anyone willing to pay up, and so on.
And this obfuscation was particularly easy to accomplish in cases of screening colonoscopies, because, unlike drugs, medical equipment, or lab tests, the diagnostic protocols do not, I repeat, do not require anyone's approval or oversight.
As far as my indignation goes, once you too realize that screening colonoscopy can't reduce anyone's risk of colon cancer for the same fundamental reasons you can't crossbreed a cat with a dog, you'll no longer question it
https://www.gutsense.org/colonoscopy/colonoscopy-does-not-protect-from-colon-cancer.html
I re did it below.
Every once in awhile this happens.
She deserves the Brian Williams treatment.
He exaggerated a story in personal conversation about it- She doctored actual on-air footage of others, changing their answers.
She should be fired.
Ah, thank you!
A colonoscopy saved my life. If I had gotten it earlier, it would have saved me having to get surgery.
Try this. Sorry about the headache!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3435499/posts?page=25#25
This is nothing new from the MSM. It has been going on since 1968 after the murder of Bobby Kennedy.
Anyone remember the anti-gun, anti-hunting “documentaries” SAY GOODBY and THE GUNS OF AUTUMN.
Remember the HBO screed against guns from thirty five years ago, or the anti-gun “documentary” from CBS that aired the night before California had a vote on Prop 15 to ban handguns in California? It failed.
Then there were lots of short anti-gun segments during the news. TV cop show scripts in which the EVIL GUN was the culprit. TV movies like REVENGE FOR A RAPE, both anti-hunting and anti-gun, or A GUN IN THE HOUSE, broadcast as a pro-gun film with an anti-gun last line.
We can't even believe that was HER alpha hotel!
My much despised and inept doctor keeps haunting me to have one and I keep telling her (in not so many words) to stick it up her butt.
Retire already! In case she hasn’t looked recently her star has fallen quite a bit. She’s the headliner for the EPIX channel, this is in fact the first time (and hopefully the last) I have ever heard of that stellar news outlet! Go to Charlottesville and live a little, stop trying to be relevant.
Katie—the propagandist traitor to the Republic. Fire her!
“Also 20/20 and Diane Sawyer lied in a report about Food Lion and their meat being unsafe.”
Well...in her defense, she was probably so drunk, she doesn’t remember lying.
Why are so many in the news media becoming David Leisure lookalikes?
Sounds like they aren’t removing it from their website: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/spokeswoman-katie-couric-gun-documentary-has-not-been-pulled/article/2592626
One of our closest female friends, 74, had a stroke 6 weeks ago just going through the prep part of the procedure. Her doctor took her off her baby aspirin and told her to drink the entire 1 gallon of the liquid prep. She drank the whole gallon. While drinking the mixture, she went to her bedroom to use her bathroom. After finishing the gallon, she went to her bathroom again, had the stroke and passed out after going to the bathroom.
She still can’t walk without help and can only eat small amounts of solid food.
She was in great shape and was the last one in our group, we would expect to have a stroke.
Re your doctor ask her how often she has a colonoscopy?
Would she recommend it for her parents, aunts or uncles?
Also, do you have any family history of colon cancer. If you don’t, why do it!
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