The Liberal Mind and Brain vs The Conservative Mind and Brain

Differences in Conservative and Liberal Brains

16 peer-reviewed studies show liberals and conservatives physiologically different

In the 16 peer-reviewed scientific studies summarized below, researchers found that liberals and conservatives have different brain structures, different physiological responses to stimuli, and activate different neural mechanisms when confronted with similar situations. Each entry below cites the source document, and a PDF of each study has been included. The studies are arranged from most recent to oldest. We included all the peer-reviewed studies on this subject that we could find. If you know about others, please contact us with details.

1. Conservatives spend more time looking at unpleasant images, and liberals spend more time looking at pleasant images. "We report evidence that individual-level variation in people's physiological and attentional responses to aversive and appetitive stimuli are correlated with broad political orientations. Specifically, we find that greater orientation to aversive stimuli tends to be associated with right-of-centre and greater orientation to appetitive (pleasing) stimuli with left-of-centre political inclinations." Michael D. Dodd, PhD, Amanda Balzer, PhD, Carly Jacobs, MA, Michael Gruszczynski, MA, Kevin B. Smith, PhD, and John R. Hibbing, PhD, "The Left Rolls with the Good; The Right Confronts the Bad. Physiology and Cognition in Politics,"  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Mar. 5, 2012

Fat Bastardo responds: This maybe why Republicans are the party of no and they like seeing unpleasant things like people suffering and living in poverty.

2. Reliance on quick, efficient, and "low effort" thought processes yields conservative ideologies, while effortful and deliberate reasoning yields liberal ideologies. "...[P]olitical conservatism is promoted when people rely on low-effort thinking. When effortful, deliberate responding is disrupted or disengaged, thought processes become quick and efficient; these conditions promote conservative ideology… low-effort thought might promote political conservatism because its concepts are easier to process, and processing fluency increases attitude endorsement. Four studies support our assertion that low-effort thinking promotes political conservatism... Our findings suggest that conservative ways of thinking are basic, normal, and perhaps natural." Scott Eidelman, PhD, Christian S. Crandall, PhD, Jeffrey A. Goodman, PhD, and John C. Blanchar, "Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism,"  Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2012

Fat Bastardo responds: Everyone knows simply by reading conservative arguments that conservatives are intellectually lazy and dishonest.

3. Conservatives react more strongly than liberals to disgusting images, such as a picture of someone eating worms. "People who believe they would be bothered by a range of hypothetical disgusting situations display an increased likelihood of displaying right-of-center rather than left-of-center political orientations… In this article, we demonstrate that individuals with marked involuntary physiological responses to disgusting images [measured by change in mean skin conductance], such as of a man eating a large mouthful of writhing worms, are more likely to self-identify as conservative and, especially, to oppose gay marriage than are individuals with more muted physiological responses to the same images." Kevin B. Smith, PhD, Douglas Oxley, PhD, Matthew V. Hibbing, PhD, John R. Alford, PhD, and John R. Hibbing, PhD, "Disgust Sensitivity and the Neurophysiology of Left-Right Political Orientations,"  PLOS ONE, Oct. 19, 2011

Fat Bastardo responds:  We know that when it comes to doing unpleasant things like fighting a war, conservatives are chicken hawk and girly men.

4. Liberals have more tolerance to uncertainty (bigger anterior cingulate cortex), and conservatives have more sensitivity to fear (bigger right amygdala). "In a large sample of young adults, we related self-reported political attitudes to gray matter volume using structural MRI [magnetic resonance imaging]. We found that greater liberalism was associated with increased gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex, whereas greater conservatism was associated with increased volume of the right amygdala...                        ...[O]ur findings are consistent with the proposal that political orientation is associated with psychological processes for managing fear and uncertainty. The amygdala has many functions, including fear processing. Individuals with a larger amygdala are more sensitive to fear, which, taken together with our findings, might suggest the testable hypothesis that individuals with larger amagdala are more inclined to integrate conservative views into their belief systems... our finding of an association between anterior cingulate cortex [ACC] may be linked with tolerance to uncertainty. One of the functions of the anterior cingulate cortex is to monitor uncertainty and conflicts. Thus it is conceivable that individuals with a larger ACC have a higher capacity to tolerate uncertainty and conflicts, allowing them to accept more liberal views." Ryota Kanai, PhD, Tom Feilden, Colin Firth, and Geraint Rees, PhD, "Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults,"  Current Biology, Apr. 7, 2011

Fat Bastardo responds: Again this goes to the fact that conservatives are chicken shit.

5. Conservatives have stronger motivations than liberals to preserve purity and cleanliness. "...[R]eminders of physical purity influence specific moral judgments regarding behaviors in the sexual domain as well as broad political attitudes... ...[E]nvironmental reminders of physical cleanliness shifted participants’ attitudes toward the conservative end of the political spectrum and altered their specific attitudes toward various moral acts... When taken together, these two sets of results point to the possibility that political orientation may be, in some measure, shaped by the strength of an individual’s motivation to avoid physical contamination and that resulting vigilance for threats to purity may serve to reinforce a politically conservative stance toward the world." Erik G. Helzer and David A. Pizarro, PhD, "Dirty Liberals! Reminders of Physical Cleanliness Influence Moral and Political Attitudes,"  Psychological Science, Mar. 18, 2011

Fat Bastardo responds: Psychologists call this anal retentive. When it comes to trashing the environment they have no problem littering and polluting.

6. Liberals follow the direction of eye movements better than conservatives. "In the present study, we examine whether gaze cue effects [the ability to follow the direction of another individual’s eye movements or gaze] are moderated by political temperament, given that those on the political right tend to be more supportive of individualism—and less likely to be influenced by others—than those on the left. We find standard gaze cuing effects across all subjects, but systematic differences in these effects by political temperament. Liberals exhibit a very large gaze cuing effect while conservatives show no such effect at various SOAs [stimulus onset asynchrony]... Perhaps conservatives are less likely to trust others meaning that they are also less likely to trust a gaze cue..." Michael D. Dodd, PhD, John R. Hibbing, PhD, and Kevin B. Smith, PhD, "The Politics of Attention: Gaze Cuing Effects Are Moderated by Political Temperament,"  Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, Jan. 2011

Fat Bastardo responds: Because conservatives a liar, pedophiles and less trust worthy they think that everyone else is like them.

7. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to interpret faces as threatening and expressing dominant emotions, while Democrats show greater emotional distress and lower life satisfaction. "Independent sample t-tests revealed group differences in the averaged threat interpretation scores of the 10 facial stimuli. Republican sympathizers were more likely to interpret the faces as signaling a threatening expression as compared to Democrat sympathizers. Group differences were also found for dominance perceptions, whereby Republican sympathizers were more likely to perceive the faces as expressing dominant emotions than were Democrat sympathizers... Collectively, when compared to Republican sympathizers, Democrat sympathizers showed greater psychological distress, more frequent histories of adverse life events such as interpersonal victimization experiences, fewer and less satisfying relationships, and lower perceptions of the trustworthiness of peers and intimate affiliates." Jacob M. Vigil, PhD, "Political Leanings Vary with Facial Expression Processing and Psychosocial Functioning,"  Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 2010

Fat Bastardo responds: Again, they are a bunch of chicken shits.

8. Conservatives and liberals react similarly to positive incentives, but conservatives have greater sensitivity to negative stimuli. "Our findings suggest that conservatives are sensitive to avoidance motivation [motivation through negative stimuli], which produces 'inhibition' responses manifested in greater rigidity... Based on the studies' findings, we would not expect differences between liberals and conservatives in responding to positive stimuli or incentives (i.e., approach cues), but we would expect greater inhibitory reactions by conservatives in response to negative, avoidant cues. Self-regulation appears to provide a useful perspective for understanding how one's political views may affect categorization processes and, more broadly, the association between political conservatism and rigidity." Mindi S. Rock, PhD, and Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, PhD, "Where Do We Draw Our Lines? Politics, Rigidity, and the Role of Self-Regulation,"  Social Psychological and Personality Science, Jan. 2010

Fat Bastardo responds: All Conservative understand is fear and fear of losing some money.

9. Conservatives have more activity in their dorsolateral prefrontal cortices, the part of the brain that activates for complex social evaluations. "The conservatism dimension, which corresponds to the liberal-to-conservative criterion, was associated with activity in the right DLPFC [dorsolateral prefrontal cortex]... In this study, we speculate that activity in the DLPFC may reflect a role of this region in deliberative decision-making in complex social evaluations... The observation that this region was increasingly activated by conservative beliefs could be explained by claiming that conservative statements require more complex social judgments marked by greater cognitive dissonance between self-interest and sense of fairness... [W]e showed that the representation of complex political beliefs relies on three fundamental dimensions, each reflected in distinctive patterns of neural activation: The degree of individualism of political beliefs was linearly associated with activation in the medial PFC [prefrontal cortex] and TPJ [temporoparietal junction], the degree of conservatism with activation in the DLPFC, and the degree of radicalism with activation in the ventral striatum and PC/P [posterior cingulate/precuneus]. Our findings support the interpretation that the political belief system depends on a set of social cognitive processes including those that enable a person to judge themselves and other people, make decisions in ambivalent social situations, and comprehend motivational and emotional states." Giovanna Zamboni, MD, Marta Gozzi, PhD, Frank Krueger, PhD, Jean-René Duhamel, PhD, Angela Sirigu, PhD, and Jordan Grafman, PhD, "Individualism, Conservatism, and Radicalism As Criteria for Processing Political Beliefs: A Parametric fMRI Study,"  Social Neuroscience, Sep. 2009

Fat Bastardo responds: This doesn't mean that they can make these evaluations. All it means is that they try.

10. Conservatism is focused on preventing negative outcomes, while liberalism is focused on advancing positive outcomes. "Political liberalism and conservatism differ in provide versus protect orientations, specifically providing for group members' welfare (political Left) and protecting the group from harm (political Right). These reflect the fundamental psychological distinction between approach and avoidance motivation. Conservatism is avoidance based; it is focused on preventing negative outcomes (e.g., societal losses) and seeks to regulate society via inhibition (restraints) in the interests of social order. Liberalism is approach based; it is focused on advancing positive outcomes (e.g., societal gains) and seeks to regulate society via activation (interventions) in the interests of social justice." Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, PhD, "To Provide or Protect: Motivational Bases of Political Liberalism and Conservatism,"  Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory, Aug. 2009

Fat Bastardo responds: This shows that Conservative prefer to maintain the status quo.

11. Genetics influence political attitudes during early adulthood and beyond. "The present research attempts to characterize how the transmission of political orientations develops over the life course... [G]enetic influences on political attitudes are absent prior to young adulthood. During childhood and adolescence, individual differences in political attitudes are accounted for by a variety of environmental influences... However, at the point of early adulthood (in the early 20s), for those who left their parental home, there is evidence of a sizeable genetic influence on political attitudes which remains stable throughout adult life." Peter K. Hatemi, PhD, Carolyn L. Funk, PhD, Sarah E. Medland, PhD, Hermine M. Maes, PhD, Judy L. Silberg, PhD, Nicholas G. Martin, PhD, and Lindon J. Eaves, PhD, DSc, "Genetic and Environmental Transmission of Political Attitudes Over a Life Time,"  The Journal of Politics, July 21, 2009

12. Compared to liberals, conservatives are less open to new experiences and learn better from negative stimuli than positive stimuli. "In this study, the relations among political ideology, exploratory behavior, and the formation of attitudes toward novel stimuli were explored. Participants played a computer game that required learning whether these stimuli produced positive or negative outcomes. Learning was dependent on participants’ decisions to sample novel stimuli... Political ideology correlated with exploration during the game, with conservatives sampling fewer targets than liberals. Moreover, more conservative individuals exhibited a stronger learning asymmetry, such that they learned negative stimuli better than positive... Relative to liberals, politically conservative individuals pursued a more avoidant strategy to the game… The reluctance to explore that characterizes more politically conservative individuals may protect them from experiencing negative situations, for they are likely to restrict approach to known positives." Natalie J. Shook, PhD, and Russell H. Fazio, PhD, "Political Ideology, Exploration of Novel Stimuli, and Attitude Formation,"  Experimental Social Psychology, Apr. 3, 2009

Fat Bastardo responds: All these creeps understand is fear and punishment.

13. Conservatives tend to have a stronger reaction to threatening noises and images than liberals. "In a group of 46 adult participants with strong political beliefs, individuals with measurably lower physical sensitivities to sudden noises and threatening visual images were more likely to support foreign aid, liberal immigration policies, pacifism, and gun control, whereas individuals displaying measurably higher physiological reactions to those same stimuli were more likely to favor defense spending, capital punishment, patriotism, and the Iraq War. Thus, the degree to which individuals are physiologically responsive to threat appears to indicate the degree to which they advocate policies that protect the existing social structure from both external (outgroup) and internal (norm-violator) threats." Douglas R. Oxley, PhD, Kevin B. Smith, PhD, John R. Alford, PhD, Matthew V. Hibbing, PhD, Jennifer L. Miller, Mario Scalora, PhD, Peter K. Hatemi, PhD, and John R. Hibbing, PhD, "Political Attitudes Vary with Physiological Traits,"  Science, Sep. 19, 2008

Fat Bastardo responds: Again... they are a bunch of cowards, wimps and crybabies.

14. Liberals are more open-minded and creative whereas conservatives are more orderly and better organized. "We obtained consistent and converging evidence that personality differences between liberals and conservatives are robust, replicable, and behaviorally significant, especially with respect to social (vs. economic) dimensions of ideology. In general, liberals are more open-minded, creative, curious, and novelty seeking, whereas conservatives are more orderly, conventional, and better organized... A special advantage of our final two studies is that they show personality differences between liberals and conservatives not only on self-report trait measures but also on unobtrusive, nonverbal measures of interaction style and behavioral residue.” Dana R. Carney, PhD, John T. Jost, PhD, Samuel D. Gosling, PhD, and Jeff Potter, "The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind,"  International Society of Political Psychology, Oct. 23, 2008

Fat Bastardo responds: Had it not not been for liberals man kind would be living in the stone age organizing stones.

15. When faced with a conflict, liberals are more likely than conservatives to alter their habitual response when cues indicate it is necessary. "Our results are consistent with the view that political orientation, in part, reflects individual differences in the functioning of a general mechanism related to cognitive control and self-regulation. Stronger conservatism (versus liberalism) was associated with less neurocognitive sensitivity to response conflicts. At the behavioral level, conservatives were also more likely to make errors of commission. Although a liberal orientation was associated with better performance on the response-inhibition task examined here, conservatives would presumably perform better on tasks in which a more fixed response style is optimal." David M. Amodio, PhD, John T. Jost, PhD, Sarah L. Master, PhD, and Cindy M. Yee, PhD,"Neurocognitive Correlates of Liberalism and Conservatism,"  Nature Neuroscience, Sep. 9, 2007

Fat Bastardo responds: You know what they say... insanity is repeating the same thing and expecting different results.

16. Conservatives sleep more soundly and have more mundane dreams, while liberals sleep more restlessly and have a more  bizarre, active dream life. "Conservatives slept somewhat more soundly, with fewer remembered dreams. Liberals were more restless in their sleep and had a more active and varied dream life. In contrast to a previous study, liberals reported a somewhat greater proportion of bad dreams and nightmares. Consistent with earlier research, the dreams of conservatives were more mundane, whereas the dreams of liberals were more bizarre... Conservative men sleep a bit longer, with better quality sleep; they recall the fewest dreams, but have the most lucid awareness. Liberal women have the worst quality sleep, recall the greatest number and variety of dreams, and have the most dream references to homosexuality." Kelly Bulkeley, PhD, "Sleep and Dream patterns of Political Liberals and Conservatives,"  Dreaming, Sep. 2006

Study Says HFCS High Fructose Corn Syrup Does Not Cause Obesity

Study Says HFCS Does Not Cause Obesity

Once again gluttons are insulted. Gluttony is the sole cause of obesity so to give corn sugar the credit marginalizes all the eating we gluttons do. Fat girls, the biggest gluttony deniers, who can't handle the fat blame everything for the fact that they are fat. We work hard to be fat and WE deserve ALL the credit!

For years, high fructose corn syrup has been erroneously implicated as a prime suspect in the obesity epidemic. Inexact scientific reports and inaccurate media accounts have increased confusion about the sugar made from corn. New research proves otherwise.

A new study, presented on Saturday October 9, at the Obesity Society’s 28th Annual Scientific Meeting, further reinforces the facts about high fructose corn syrup. Results from the double-blind study revealed that fructose containing sweeteners (sugar, high fructose corn syrup) do not uniquely contribute to obesity when consumed as part of a healthy weight maintenance diet. The study also found that high fructose corn syrup no more contributes to caloric intake than table sugar (sucrose).

In the study, overweight or obese adults were placed on a 10-week eucaloric diet (an eucaloric diet provides your body with just the right number of calories necessary to maintain current body weight) which incorporated either high fructose corn syrup or sucrose-sweetened, low-fat milk. Participants’ consumption of low-fat milk accounted for between 10 to 20 percent of the daily allotted calories, representing typical levels of sweetener consumption. Study participants did not experience a change in body weight, percent of body fat, fat-mass, or percent of abdominal body fat. Additionally, there were no statistical differences between people given high fructose corn syrup and those given sucrose.

These results are meaningful for the food and beverage industry because they provide further scientific evidence that products containing high fructose corn syrup do not promote weight gain more than products containing sugar.

Bringing a Myth Down to Size

Over the past few years, there have been reports in the media that consumption of HFCS is linked to obesity. However, those in the scientific community, including the American Medical Association, have found that HFCS does not contribute to obesity any differently than sugar. Additionally, one of the earliest critics of HFCS, Barry Popkin, Ph.D., professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, has since publicly retracted his original position, stating, “We were wrong in our speculations on HFCS about their link to weight.”

 

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data since 2000 show that obesity and diabetes rates continued to climb even as per capita consumption of high fructose corn syrup measured by the U.S. Department of Agriculture essentially reversed direction and began a steady 12-year period of decline (see data). Around the world, obesity levels are also rising even though HFCS consumption is limited outside of the U.S. Refined sugar accounts for about 92 percent and HFCS accounts for about 8 percent of caloric sweeteners consumed worldwide.

 

What’s the cause of our rising weight gain? Obesity is a multifactoral problem blessing, but according to the CDC, eating  too many calories and not getting enough too much physical activity is the primary factor.

 

Obesity rates versus HFCS consumption

Source

1. FoodNavigator-USA.com, Fructose in the firing line, September 16, 2009.
2. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. 2012. Tables 51, 52 and 53 See column I, Per capita consumption (adjusted for loss) lb/yr. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Diabetes Surveillance System. Long-Term Trends in Diagnosed Diabetes. October 2011. CDC, National Center for Health Statistics. Prevalence of overweight, obesity and extreme obesity among adults: United States, trends 1960-62 through 2005-2006. December 2009. Flegal KM, et al. 2010. Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2008. JAMA 303:3. And Flegal KM, et al. 2012. Prevalence of Obesity and Trends in the Distribution of Body Mass Index Among US Adults, 1999-2010. JAMA 307:5. 
3. World Health Organization, Global Database on Body Mass Index, Country comparison – BMI adults % obese (>=30.0), Most recent. See also World Health Organization. March 2011. Obesity and overweight: Fact sheet No 311, and LMC International, Inc. 2012. Table 2: World Sugar & HFCS Consumption. Sweetener Analysis January 2012.
4. CDC. Causes and Consequences. April 2012.

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Most Corrupt Member Of Congress

I Googled "Most Corrupt Congressman" and not surprisingly it was a Florida Republican. Even by Republican standards CONgressman David Rivera is a scumbag. Florida breeds corruption and almost takes pride in corruption; after all the asshole voters elected Jeb Bush and Slick Rick Scott for their governor.

Rookie Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) is a popular guy in the law enforcement community.  Multiple agencies on both the state and federal level are actively investigating the Miami member for a whole host of shady schemes that have lined his personal pockets, enriched his friends and family, and shown a total disregard for the truth.  It’s no wonder Rep. Rivera has been named by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) as one of the Most Corrupt Members of Congress.  Click here to read the full report on Rep. Rivera.

Related: Michael Grimm another corrupt Republican Congressman.

Learn more at: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)

Related: Federal Lawyer Frank Abrams Blows the Lid Off Miami Corruption

Largest Criminal Fines

Pfizer Whistleblower Gets Huge Reward

It’s an amazing story and one worth talking about.  Gulf War veteran and former Pfizer sales representative John Kopchinski is getting $51 million dollars as a result of his whistleblowing lawsuit against Pfizer – the world’s biggest drug maker -- and that's big news.

Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing 

According to a statement from the Justice Department,   Pfizer’s illegal practices in connection with its promotion of an anti-inflammatory drug called  Bextra is what got it into big trouble.

Pfizer also agreed to pay $1 billion to resolve allegations under the civil False Claims Act(also know as Qui Tam).

Under the Act, it is illegal to knowingly present a false or fraudulent claim for payment to the federal government or use a false or fraudulent record to get paid. 

AND NOBODY EVEN GOT ARRESTED!

Read more HERE

Criminal Rick Scott

Rick Scott, who ran a company involved in the nation's largest Medicare fraud case, became Florida's governor

May 20, 2010|By Sally Kestin, Sun Sentinel

It was and still is the biggest Medicare fraud case in U.S. history and ended with the hospital giant Columbia/HCA paying a record $1.7 billion in fines, penalties and damages.

Now the man who ran the company at the time wants to be Florida's governor.

Rick Scott was co-founder and CEO of Columbia/HCA in the 1990s, when the FBI launched a massive, multi-state investigation that led to the company pleading guilty to criminal charges of overbilling the government.

AND NOBODY EVEN GOT ARRESTED!

More Big Pharma Crimes

GlaxoSmithKline $3 billion ($1B crimimal, $2B civil) for the following violations

Criminal: Off-label promotion, failure to disclose safety data.
Civil: paying kickbacks to physicians, making false and misleading
statements concerning the safety of Avandia, reporting false best
prices and underpaying rebates owed under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program

Pfizer

$2.3 billion in fines

Off-label promotion/kickbacks

AND NOBODY EVEN GOT ARRESTED!

Abbott Laboratories

$1.5 billion in fines

Off-label promotion

AND NOBODY EVEN GOT ARRESTED

Eli Lilly

$1.4 billion

Off-label promotion

AND NOBODY EVEN GOT ARRESTED

TAP Pharmaceutical Products

$875 million

Medicare fraud/kickbacks

AND NOBODY EVEN GOT ARRESTED

Click HERE for more big pharma criminal activity

Johnson's Baby Shampoo Causes Cancer CLICK HERE

When Johnson & Johnson  agreed to pay $2.2 billion in civil and criminal fines last week for invalidly promoting one of its best-selling drugs of the past decade, Risperdal, it marked another victory for the Department of Justice’s campaign to root out off-label marketing. The multibillion settlement came in the wake of several outsized payouts the DOJ has extracted from other pharmaceutical giants in recent years for similar wrongdoing. Despite the gaudy sums, however, it’s unlikely that the industry will curb its reliance on off-label prescriptions. The practice is simply too lucrative to pass up.

AND NOBODY EVEN GOT ARRESTED!

Are you noticing a pattern here? I am not only referring to the fact that none of the corporate gangsters were arrested, I am referring to the fact that the biggest corporate crimes are committed by medical corporations. 

What would you say if 10 of the top 26 pharmaceutical companies had been telling you bold faced lies about the drugs they sell you? Would you be upset? Irritated? Maybe on a good day, bemused? According to 2 papers published by one of the most prestigious medical journals - The New England Journal of Medicine - even seemingly-astronomical fines aren't keeping Big Pharma honest.  READ MORE HERE...

(NaturalNews) In 2012, five pharmaceutical companies agreed to pay nearly $5.5 billion to settle allegations of fraud, including promotion of medicines for uses not approved by the FDA. The settlements represent the continued trend of record-breaking fines, settlements and lawsuits which have become a routine part of doing business for Big Pharma.

Between 2004 and 2010, major drug companies paid out $7 billion in fines, penalties and lawsuits for fraudulently marketing their drugs, making misleading claims about the drugs safety and hiding or altering studies which indicated evidence of harm. The threat of massive payouts does not appear to offer much deterrent.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/041261_Big_Pharma_settlements_fines.html#ixzz347CF41QH

AND NOBODY EVEN GOT ARRESTED!

Related: TOP 9 Big Pharma Fines Click HERE

Hospitals Are Run By Elite Criminals 

Pacific Health Corporation Hospital Chain Fined $7 Million for Bouncing Employee Payroll Checks And Not Sending Payroll Deductions To Insurance Companies

Pacific Health Corporation was involved in the medical billing scam with using the Homeless.  The corporation pleaded guilty and paid $16.5 million in which 3 of the company hospitals were involved.  Also there’s Anaheim General which was bought by Pacific Health who a few years ago lost and then regained their accreditation.  Here’s a couple back links on the history.

Anaheim General Hospital Up for Sale – Booted The CEO, Got Our Accreditation Back And Are Ready to Start Taking Offers…

Patient Dumping Back in the News – Hospital to Pay fine

AND NOBODY EVEN GOT ARRESTED!

Learn more HERE...

Hospital chain to pay $275,000 to settle federal patient ...

California Hospital Chain Fined $16.5 Million For Fraud ...

IAPP : Healthcare Chain Fined $95,000 for Breaches

Hospital chain accused of Medicare overbilling - Encore ...

AND NOBODY EVEN GOT ARRESTED!

A billion dollars paid Click HERE 

ECHN suitor paid sum for overbilling, fraud, kickback allegations

The big for-profit hospital chain from Texas negotiating to buy Eastern Connecticut Health Network has paid more than $1 billion over the last decade to settle a series of fraud, overbilling, kickback, and other allegations by its biggest customer: the federal government.

Tenet Healthcare Corp. also agreed to pay more than half as much — $641 million — to settle hundreds of civil lawsuits as well as an additional $80 million to pay back taxes after an IRS audit.

The payments included $395 million to settle unnecessary surgery complaints involving 769 cardiac patients at a California hospital, $215 million to settle federal class-action lawsuits by investors, and $31 million to end lawsuits on behalf of 106 heart surgery patients at a Florida hospital.

The latter said they suffered severe post-operative infections at the hospital that Florida regulators fined $95,000 for improper infection control after 20 patients died.

The six settlements Tenet made since 2003 with the U.S. Justice Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Securities and Exchange Commission pre-empted civil or criminal charges against the company and stopped its facilities from being excluded from the federal Medicare program.

On at least two of those occasions, Tenet made the agreements without admitting liability or wrongdoing.

AND NOBODY EVEN GOT ARRESTED!

AND NOBODY EVEN GOT ARRESTED!

AND NOBODY EVEN GOT ARRESTED!

AND NOBODY EVER GETS ARRESTED! Welcome to Korporate Amerika

FDA Corruption

The FDA's Long History of Corruption

 

Going as far back as the 1950s -- and likely even much earlier than that -- the FDA has made it routine practice to ignore and even deny the dangers associated with drugs and medical devices when approving them. In the case of the Upjohn Company, for instance, which unveiled the antibiotic drug Panalba back in 1957, the FDA ignored many years of complaints about the drug's safety in order to protect the company's profits.




At the time, data showed that as many as 20 percent of patients taking Panalba had suffered severe allergic reactions to the antibiotic, and yet the FDA did nothing. Even Upjohn's own research studies on Panalba showed that the drug was less effective and less safe than alternative drugs on the market, and still the FDA did nothing, effectively sheltering Upjohn's enormous profits from Panalba, which represented 12 percent of its overall profit earnings.



Sadly, the same is true today, as the drug industry and the FDA essentially work in tandem to get dangerous, but highly-profitable, drugs and medical devices to market. It is a win-win situation for both groups as the FDA gets kickbacks in the form of exorbitant new drug and medical device application fees, and the drug industry rakes in billions of dollars for blockbuster drug and device products that would never have been approved had science and facts been legitimately factored into the equation.

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/035641_corruption_FDA_Big_Pharma.html#ixzz1xuTGyyFa

Another Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Annette Bosworth Arrested

By Dirk Lammers

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota authorities on Wednesday arrested defeated U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth and charged her with multiple counts of perjury and filing false election documents, saying she fraudulently attested to gathering voter signatures when she was really on a Christian mission trip to the Philippines.

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley charged Bosworth with six counts of perjury and six counts of filing false documents related to election campaign laws. The arrest warrant was served a day after Bosworth lost the Republican primary with just 6 percent of the vote.

"The election complaints received by the Secretary of State involve conduct that is serious, deliberate, and must be addressed in order to preserve the integrity of our elections," Jackley said in a statement. "Because this is a federal elected office, I have and will continue to discuss the investigation with federal authorities."

Jackley said the 42-year-old Bosworth was given notice of the warrant Wednesday morning and turned herself in to the Minnehaha County Jail. She was immediately released.

Related: A Cancer Within The GOP

As another example of the insanity that passes for political discourse in today's Republican Party, we present Baptist pastor and former talk-show host Jody Hice, candidate for the House seat vacated by Georgia Rep. Paul "lies from the pit of hell" Broun in his unsuccessful Senate bid.  Mr. Hice first drew attention with his campaign to install Ten Commandment displays in public buildings -- later expanded to prohibit federal judges from ruling on church-state issues when rebuffed by the courts. Other explicitly theocratic issues championed by this Tea Party darling include stripping Muslims of their First Amendment rights, forcing women to seek their husbands' permission to enter politics, accusing homosexuals of "conspiring" to sodomize children and blaming the Sandy Hook massacre on "kicking God out of the public square." He recently warned that the so-called "blood moon" signalled "world-changing" events.  Rather than being dismissed as a fringe crank, Tice polled in first place in the GOP primary,  narrowly edging the more mainstream conservative Mike Collins, who he will again face in a runoff

At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Bosworth called the charges "a political intimidation scheme" against her by Jackley, who was initially appointed to his position by former Gov. Mike Rounds in 2009. Rounds defeated Bosworth and three other Republicans Tuesday night to capture the GOP nomination for the seat being vacated by retiring Democrat Tim Johnson.

"We still believe this is a political persecution," Bosworth said in a prepared statement. She did not take questions.

Jackley said the charges are not politically motivated.

"The Attorney General does not have the luxury of talking a walk or a pass on tough issues," said Jackley, who was re-elected to his post in 2010. "Ms. Bosworth's conduct and statements regarding her petitions speak for themselves."

Read more click here

The Boost Your Metabolism Myth

Like so many things in the weight loss industry this too is bullshit.

1. There is not pill that will safely or significantly increase your basal metabolic rate and frankly why increase your BMR. If you are hell bent on losing weight because you are a jealous fat girl, simply eat less. Boosting your metabolism make about as much sense as putting fuel in your car and then letting the care idle so that you can burn it.

Fact: The most a Basal Metabolic Rate can vary in individuals of the same age, weight and gender is 35 calories per day.

2. Increasing muscle mass increases metabolism. The claim in that a muscular 200 pounder burns more calories than a fat out of shape couch potato. This is more weight loss industry hocus pocus. I fit person has more efficient cardio than an out of shape fatling. At rest the fitling has a much slower resting heart rate that the fatling. 2 of the biggest users of calories are the heart and lungs.  A fitling may have a resting heart rate of around 60  beats per minute or less where all the fatling's typical heart rate is at least 80 beats per minute. A fatling is burning more calories 24/7 than the fitling.

Let's take an every day task like climbing a flight of stairs. The fitling will ascend those stairs and his heart rate will barely go up but the fatling's heart will go into the 140 beats per minute range and stay high for quite a while. That burn a fuck load of calories!

Let the fitlings take the stairs. We fatlings have elevators and escalators and for flat surfaces we have moving floors and power chairs.