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March 15, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Health Ranger calls for increased science education in America to combat scientific illiteracy
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- Hi, this is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
I'm the lab director here at the Natural News Forensic Food Lab.
I run the atomic spectroscopy instrumentation you see here, the ICP-MS. We do heavy metals analysis for foods, food contamination research, and also metals capturing capacity research to find out which foods can block which heavy metals from being absorbed during human digestion.
So I'm doing a lot of really interesting research here.
But my message for you today is one of helping to eliminate scientific illiteracy.
I really want to put out a public call for more science education in America.
I think it's absolutely crucial Because we're falling behind in the sciences.
And I see kids graduating from high school these days that they don't understand the fundamental laws of physics or chemistry or even just basic mathematics.
They can't calculate, you know, a tip at a restaurant, things like that.
And it really concerns me as a scientist that, you know, who's going to follow in our path, so to speak, to carry on science for the next generation and the generation after that and so on and so forth.
And well, why is science important?
Because this is one of the tools, not the only one, there are many great tools for discovery, but this is one tool that can be very useful for discovery, expanding human knowledge and doing great things for humanity.
I mean, I'm a perfect example of it.
I've done breakthrough research here.
I was the first researcher to find tungsten in rice protein products.
I broke the news on the toxic heavy metal lead and cadmium and tungsten in rice protein.
The whole industry changed its ways.
They changed the formulations.
I literally changed an industry using science right here in this laboratory, in this very room.
And I got on national television to talk about that and help spread the word.
I have to humbly say, to me that's a great accomplishment in the name of scientific investigation.
And yet what I run into so often is scientific illiteracy across the board.
So I actually want to cover some of those examples and really call for better science education.
And by the way, in case you're curious about my own background, I'm an activist turned scientist.
And I believe that science is accessible to anyone and everyone.
That anyone can learn the methods of modern science, the scientific method, just as I did.
Because you know, years ago, some people called me anti-science.
So you know what I did?
I learned the scientific methodologies of discovery, and I put them to use right here in this lab, and then made amazing science-based methods.
Breakthroughs.
I've actually filed two patents so far on some of those breakthroughs and more patents are coming.
So in terms of some of the examples of where I see scientific illiteracy that are quite troublesome, When I first began to discover toxic heavy metals in rice protein products, I was finding very high levels of lead, which is a poison.
I was finding high levels of cadmium, which also causes kidney failure and hardening of the arteries and skin disorders and even personality changes.
If you take enough cadmium, it can change your whole demeanor.
I found high levels of tungsten, a heavy metal linked to stroke risk.
And I began to sound the alarm on this.
And what I ran up against was a lot of scientific illiteracy or what you might call table of elements denialists in the natural health industry.
And many of these people would respond to my announcements with the most absurd kind of Quack science, pseudoscience, anti-science answers saying things like, well, the lead in our rice is okay to eat because it's in a food state.
Our lead is food, not toxic lead.
Well, okay, but lead is lead is lead, and when your body absorbs the lead, it's toxic to your organs, to many different organs, your bones, you know, your brain.
It lowers IQs in children.
It's well documented.
You know, the science is irrefutable on the toxicity of lead, and it doesn't matter what form the lead is in.
If you absorb it, now there are some things that contain lead, a little bit of lead, like sand or zeolites, for example.
They contain a small amount of lead, but they're not digestible, so you don't absorb them.
They just pass right through you.
I'm not talking about that.
I'm talking about lead in rice protein or lead in grass or grass juices or Turmeric powder.
We've found high levels of lead and many types of turmeric.
And it boggles the mind that there are people out there who don't have the scientific education to understand that lead is toxic to ingest.
And no, it shouldn't be in your food.
Not at the levels I'm finding, like 500 parts per billion.
I found over 11,000 parts per billion lead in mangosteen powder, by the way, a popular superfood from Thailand in that case.
These levels are unacceptable and they're absolutely not safe.
To hear people say that, oh, it's okay to eat our lead, or lead doesn't matter, or one of the answers I got from one company was, well, there's lead in everything, and therefore, it doesn't matter how much you eat.
Okay, so these are examples of really scientifically illiterate types of statements.
And that's what I want to...
I really hope the next generation can be better informed so they understand the table of elements and they understand the toxicity of the different heavy metals like lead and mercury.
And speaking of mercury, I find the same kind of scientific illiteracy in those religious followers of the vaccine movement who have their vaccine religion, their vaccine dogma where they just want to push vaccines on everybody even though they contain mercury.
And I'm not against the theory of immunization or vaccination, but the fact that it contains mercury and that you're injecting that mercury into children is really, really damaging.
And then to see these vaccine religion people not understand that mercury is toxic when injected into a baby, that's another great example of scientific illiteracy.
So anyone who says, well, everyone should be vaccinated, With mercury, which is in all the flu shots, or not all the flu shots, but most of the flu shots.
And most vaccines do contain at least one or more adjuvants, such as aluminum, formaldehyde, MSG, and mercury.
And the CDC says on its own website that all four of these chemicals or metals are neurotoxic and that they are in vaccines.
So when I encounter vaccine religion people who are pushing vaccines, like vaccine is the answer to everything, regardless of what's in it, that's when I'm frustrated again by scientific illiteracy.
And I have to ask those people, hey, if you want vaccines for everybody, why don't you make them clean?
It's really the same question that I ask of the rice protein manufacturers.
You know, if you want to put out a rice protein superfood organic product, why don't you take the lead out of it or grow the rice in an area that's not heavily contaminated with lead?
It's really the same question of, hey, vaccine companies, why don't you make single dose vaccines that don't have toxic mercury in them?
And then most of the criticism against vaccines would completely fall away because you wouldn't have the toxic chemicals or the toxic heavy metals in the vaccines.
So those are two great examples of scientific illiteracy that I see right now, one in the natural health movement and one in the vaccine religion dogma movement, which actually a lot of doctors and a lot of scientists are members of the vaccine religion.
And that dogma is just as strong as any other kind of organized religion where it's really their idea that vaccines have zero risk but 100% efficacy.
That is a faith-based belief system not supported by scientific evidence.
So another great example of scientific illiteracy that I see and that I really want to help eliminate so that we can have better educated people and better educated children for our future is in the area of GMOs, biotechnology, genetically engineered foods.
And I see such crazy scientific illiteracy.
Maybe you've seen some of this yourself where you've got two people debating This issue, and you know, you're like, that guy over there, he's a scientific idiot.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
I know, I see the same thing.
When the people that are speaking on behalf of the biotech industry, they say, well, we've been genetically modifying foods for thousands of years, so there's nothing different.
I mean, what a scientifically illiterate statement.
What they're referring to is selective breeding.
Which is where people carefully select the traits, the phenotype, if you will, the genetic expression of the plants that they wish to propagate, such as a larger grain size.
Generation after generation, they select the corn that they want, the traits that they want.
This is how we get purple corn.
This is how corn came into being, actually.
It used to be just a grass with a small seed, and it was selectively bred generation after generation to create larger and larger kernels or grain sizes.
And that's called selective breeding.
That's not genetic engineering.
And it's astonishing to me that many of the people that go on television or write articles online or even write for online magazines like Forbes.com, which is really just a front group for the biotech industry, they will say, well, we've been doing genetic modification for centuries.
They're not well informed.
Unfortunately, they're not educated.
Genetic engineering is completely different from natural or selective breeding.
Genetic engineering is what happens when you take the genes of a completely different species, such as bacteria, Or a worm or an insect and then you inject that into the genome, the genetic code of an agricultural plant where you're trying to produce a particular trait or a particular resistance.
For example, resistance to glyphosate, the Roundup herbicide that is sold with genetically modified corn by Monsanto.
And so this is a cross-species non-natural intervention which could never occur in nature.
And unfortunately, the people from the biotech industry, even though some of them may have PhDs or they might be research fellows or whatever, they might have a lot of credentials, but they're scientifically illiterate when they say things like selective breeding is the same as genetic engineering.
It's completely different.
So, you know, We need better science education so that our children can grow up and understand these fundamental principles and be able to distinguish between quack science, such as injecting children with mercury is safe, and real science, which is that we should follow the precautionary principle and not allow our scientific conversations to be driven by corporate interests.
So, you know, let's talk about real science here for a minute.
You know, real science is science that is conducted for the purpose of understanding the nature of the universe.
And typically it's science conducted in the public interest, exactly like the science I'm doing here.
This is real hardcore science, laws of physics, atomic spectroscopy conducted in the public interest to help people reduce exposure to toxic elements that are found in foods today.
Bad science is science that is driven by a corporate agenda.
You know, Monsanto, a classic example.
Pay a lot of money to a lot of scientists to go out and talk about how great their seeds are.
Well, their seeds are patented and they sue farmers When those seeds blow into their fields and they get a little DNA contamination in their fields, they sue the farmer for stealing their intellectual property.
That's science that's conducted for corporate centralization and control.
The anti-democratization of the seed heritage of our culture.
So that's bad science.
That is being conducted and all those who speak on behalf of Monsanto and the biotech industry are conducting bad science and they're being paid off to engage in really destructive scientific myth-making and smearing of real scientists who ask legitimate questions.
You know, that's another point I gotta mention.
Real scientists are not afraid to ask the tough questions.
And the number of real scientists that you see out there is rapidly diminishing because of the corporate control and the political correctness that exists in the scientific conversations out there.
So a real scientist would ask questions like, All right, if we're vaccinating 10 million children this year, what is the actual number of adverse effects from that vaccination?
Could that be reduced by eliminating mercury from the vaccines?
Or let's compare a million children who were vaccinated against a million children who were not vaccinated and look at the rates of measles or mumps or whooping cough or flu.
That kind of study has never been conducted by the vaccine industry.
Because they're really not interested in pursuing legitimate science.
They want their slanted corporate-driven science.
So real scientists, like myself, are always the ones asking the tough questions.
Which is why we are lightning rods for criticism.
Because we're the ones rocking the boat.
We're the ones saying, wait a minute, wait a minute.
You're dosing how many tens of millions of children with psychiatric drugs?
Is that a smart thing to do?
Are those children really deficient in a mind-altering chemical?
Or is there something else at work here like marketing, disease mongering, profiteering by the drug companies?
So real scientists like myself ask real questions.
And sometimes we ruffle a few feathers.
We step on a few toes.
That goes with the territory.
Believe me, Richard Feynman stepped on a few toes when he began to teach about quantum theory and ask real questions about the nature of the universe.
Albert Einstein stepped on a few toes and you can believe Nikola Tesla stepped on more than a few toes and ruffled more than a few feathers when he began to really research the nature of energy and harmonics and resonance in different kinds of energetic fields or electromagnetic fields.
He did a lot of real pioneering research.
All these people throughout history that made waves that accomplished great things We're people who had, they were usually a little bit eccentric.
They were usually people who questioned the status quo.
They were people who maybe even angered some established institutions of control.
But the one thing they all had in common and that I humbly share with all these people is that we allow, we let our work be driven by our passion for exploring the truth and spreading the truth.
Regardless of how much criticism or how many people we might offend in the process or how many questions we might have to ask, how many university professors we might have to tell them to rewrite their books because, hey, the paradigm has changed.
Things are different now.
In my view, I will personally take any amount of criticism necessary to continue to do my work for the public good.
In the name of scientific exploration and spreading the truth about what we're finding in contaminants and in organic foods, for example, in herbal supplements, or even the mercury in vaccines, which must be removed as a fundamental human rights issue, in my opinion.
Whether we're talking about the precautionary principle and why GMOs should be tested in a laboratory for many years before they're released into the wild.
I mean, come on, that's a fundamental scientific principle.
On all these topics, to me it doesn't matter what institutions don't like it or what someone says about it.
People like myself, real hardcore scientists, are working for the betterment of human society.
And we're doing it because we're driven in our hearts and our souls and our minds to keep asking the questions of how does the universe really work?
How can we make it a better place for our fellow human beings?
How can we better educate our children to grow up and have a better understanding of science?
And even other important issues like, how can we expand the definition of our scientific understanding to be more than a reductionist, materialistic mindset?
How can we expand science to include the science of consciousness?
Yeah, I said it.
Consciousness.
That's something that ruffles a lot of feathers of some scientists as well.
But let's face it, each one of us is self-aware that we are self-aware.
And that's not a riddle.
It is, in fact, one of the most profound statements of understanding consciousness.
And this is something that hasn't yet been recognized by the old-school scientific community, which doesn't understand the nature of consciousness and free will.
The human spirit, the non-material influences of the functioning of the biochemical brain.
These are really fascinating issues and I hope to get into those more in the future.
By the way, I think that's where the fields of research and discovery are very fertile.
All right, we've got a lot to learn in those areas.
And I intend to really be part of the progress of scientific understanding into many of these areas.
And by the way, in particular, one thing that I'm working on right now is the interaction of food contamination and the diminishing of spiritual awareness in someone who eats a lot of heavy metals.
So this is a really fascinating topic that is just incredibly important for humanity to understand that why are people so spiritually shut down right now?
Why are so many people angry?
Why is there so much violence and even bullying out there?
You see bullying even in the so-called scientific community.
Why is this taking place?
In my opinion, I believe that some of that is caused by toxic heavy metals that are in many of the foods and supplements and even some medicines that people are consuming on a regular basis.
So some of my work will be focused on looking at how eliminating toxic heavy metals actually frees your spirit and frees your mind to function as a holistic, Fully integrated human being where you have your body, your mind, and your soul all working together for greater progress, greater understanding, greater wisdom for humankind.
Let's face it, we're an infant species.
We haven't learned that much yet.
We have a lot more to learn.
And we have a lot more progress to make.
I mean, we haven't even colonized other planets yet.
We haven't even yet on this planet acknowledged the existence of other advanced civilizations in our universe.
And there must be, you know, billions, billions upon billions of other intelligent civilizations out there.
We haven't even acknowledged that they exist at all.
So clearly, we have a lot to learn.
We have a lot of advancements to make in realms of science and consciousness and spirituality and even just basic things like cleaning up our food supply, you know, getting the mercury out of the vaccines, a simple thing that needs to be done.
I don't know why we're still injecting children with a neurotoxin and then claiming vaccines are always safe.
Come on.
It's time to grow up and be adults.
Thanks for listening to this message.
If you've got children, teach them good science, but also teach them to think for themselves.
Don't be swayed by...
Don't be dissuaded by public criticism.
If you're going to make waves in this world, you're going to ruffle a few feathers.
If you're going to advance anything, any area of understanding, you're probably going to step on a few toes.
Don't worry about it.
Step on those toes.
my name is mike adams the health ranger you can check out my scientific research at labs.naturalnews.com and you can tune in to all my articles on lots of topics food nutrition toxicity environmental science as well as consciousness and spirituality at naturalnews.com thanks for listening my name is mike adams the health ranger i've been called the ralph nader of the natural health movement
I'm a gardener, an animal caretaker, a food research scientist, and a leading activist of the Clean Food Movement.
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I go head to head with powerful corporations, exposing truths they don't want you to know, and negotiating industry-wide agreements for safer, cleaner food.
I cover the stories the mainstream media won't touch.
And I can't be fired because I only answer to you, not corporate bosses.
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