"Dr. Oz, Apple Juice, Arsenic & The Pollution Of Science With Politics: A Biochemist's Opinion" By Rev. Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

'HUH'?

Dr. Mehmet Oz

courtesy: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/profiles/dr-mehmet-oz/4/ 

Note to Dr. Oz: The FDA (& others) say APPLE JUICE IS SAFE TO DRINK

http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm271394.htm

Dear Ones:
     The land of 'Oz'...more specifically the land of liberal Muslim 'Dr. Oz'...is full of fanciful fabrications where facts are fungible, friable and fatuous.
     In other words, with his recent 'independent' investigation into arsenic levels in good old apple juice, Columbia-graduated (Wharton, too!) cardiologist Mehmet Oz has launched his one-man Progressive fear-mongering campaign wrapped tightly in the trappings of what one ordinarily would call 'science'.
     Well, 'The Biblical Biochemist' is here to tell you that Dr. Oz's means, methods, motives and marketing are as suspect as the little shrunken 'mermaid' P.T. Barnum was wont to 'pass off' to us--the gullible public--as a bona-fide 'Mermaid'.
     Of the many things I love in life, two of them-my Christian faith and science-share the blessed adherence (or are supposed to) to truthfulness, straightforwardness and honesty.  
     As I say, ever the optimist, that the word of the Gospel is simple enough for a child to understand, so, too should legitimate scientific data be understandable to every human being, ideally.
     But here are the facts in this Dr. Oz saga, which speak of something I'd hoped had 'died out' in the medical community in the Middle Ages: 
     Dr. Oz sent the Food And Drug Administration his 'arsenic levels in apple juice results' as determined by one laboratory known as EMSL Analytical, Inc.
     The FDA patiently and courteously informed Dr. Oz that his data reflected TOTAL arsenic levels in apple juice and that, in fact, it would be necessary to perform a more detailed and elegant (and expensive) analysis of the form of arsenic (inorganic) which is the real threat to health.
     They even went on to tell Dr. Oz this in their 'letter FIRST letter to Oz dated  9/9/11:

"The FDA believes that it would be irresponsible and misleading for The Dr. Oz Show to suggest that apple juice contains unsafe amounts of arsenic based solely on tests for total arsenic. Should The Dr. Oz Show choose to suggest that apple juice is unsafe because of the amounts of total arsenic found by EMSL Analytical, Inc.’s testing, the FDA will post this letter on its website."

LINK: http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm271630.htm

     And the FDA did not stop there, but followed up with their own analyses of the apple juice in question:
"Since learning of the results for total arsenic in apple juice samples that your show submitted to EMSL Analytical, Inc., investigators from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) went to Nestle/Gerber to collect samples of apple juice for analysis. Our investigators collected a sample from Nestle Infant Nutrition – Gerber Products, Co. of the same lot number of apple juice (Lot # 1157515791) that EMSL Analytical, Inc., reported to contain 36 ppb total arsenic. Our investigators also collected samples from additional lots of Nestle/Gerber apple juice."

LINK: http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm271632.htm

     In addition, the apple juice manufacturer Nestle/Gerber performed THEIR OWN tests which corroborated FDA results:
"During its investigation, the FDA learned that Nestle/Gerber had tested samples in their own laboratory, including a sample from Lot #1157515791, and submitted those samples to two different food testing laboratories for arsenic testing. The results of these tests for total arsenic in Lot # 1157515791 are substantially in agreement with the results of the tests performed by the FDA. We understand that Nestle/Gerber has provided these results to you. Based on our investigation and testing, we are concerned that some of the results reported to you by EMSL Analytical, Inc., may be erroneously high. The analysis of foods can pose a challenge to analytical laboratories and seemingly minor variations in sample treatment and analysis can have a significant effect on results."

LINK: http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm271632.htm

     And, so, once again, the FDA REITERATED it's admonition in a SECOND LETTER to Dr. Oz dated 9/13/11 to NOT suggest that apple juice is unsafe, for doing so would be both 'irresponsible' and 'misleading'.
     The second letter to Oz from the FDA reads, in part:

"In short, the results of the tests cited above do not indicate that apple juice contains unsafe amounts of arsenic. The FDA reaffirms its belief, as stated in our September 9, 2011 letter, that it would be irresponsible and misleading for the Dr. Oz Show to suggest that apple juice is unsafe based on tests for total arsenic."

LINK: http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm271632.htm
     So, did Dr. Oz listen?
     NOPE!
     On Wed. September 14, 2011, Dr. Oz went on air with his 'arsenic in apple juice' scare:
"Oz said on "The Dr. Oz. Show" Wednesday that testing by a New Jersey lab has found what he implied are concerning levels of arsenic in many juices."
LINK: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/15/dr-oz-under-fire-from-fda_n_964464.html
     Dr. Oz has incurred the ire of the CDC, TOO!:
"Dr. Richard Besser, former acting head of the CDC, scolded Oz Thursday on ABC's "Good Morning America" show for scaring consumers with what Besser called an "extremely irresponsible" report, the Associated Press reported."
LINK:  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20106763-10391704.html 
     As to Dr. Oz's 'motive', one is first drawn to the obvious fact that this 'cardiologist' doesn't know 'squat' about chemistry.  I mean this literally and have encountered it before in those who prove 'exquisitely' that a 'wee bit of knowledge is often a dangerous thing'. 
     I don't care WHAT motel Dr. Oz has been staying at, he ought NOT to pretend that he is an expert in a field outside his own areas of 'expertise'.
     (Having taught both nursing & pre-med students, I can tell you that many a medical career has been derailed before it had a chance by a student's inability to master chemistry and organic chemistry in particular!) 
     But I will give Dr. Oz the benefit of the doubt that he is very intelligent and very educated and was an excellent chemistry student--both inorganic and organic--and so the only reasonable conclusion I can draw is that his motives for this apple scare are purely political.
     Or maybe he just made a 'dumb mistake'.
     Anyway, as the 'Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross', I find myself...for the very first time...utilizing my 'authority' as a woman of God to 'chastize' a fellow-scientist in matters of honesty, decency, truthfulness, full-disclosure and...motives, whatever they might be!
     A FIRST!  And it's CRAZY!
      It behooves us all to examine exactly WHO is defending Dr. Oz and his 'junk chemistry' and 'junk medicine' (my opinions) in this arsenic in apple juice scare, a task easily accomplished by a cursory 'google search'.  To wit:

"Dr. Mehmet Oz, host of The Dr. Oz Show, is Vice-Chair and Professor of Surgery at Columbia University and directs the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He is the author of five New York Times Best Sellers (including “YOU: The Owner’s Manual,” “YOU: The Smart Patient,” and “YOU: On a Diet”), hosts a daily talk show on Sirius XM Radio’s “Oprah Radio,” pens a National Magazine Award-winning column in Esquire Magazine, is a regular columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine, and performs over 200 heart operations annually. Among his many accolades, Dr. Oz has been honored as one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” (2008), Esquire’s 75 “Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and a “Global Leader of Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum (1999-2004)."

link: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/profiles/dr-mehmet-oz/4/
     Dr. Oz is a busy guy, indeed!
     To the man...to the woman...he is being lauded and defended by those who are Progressive Liberals fully-engaged in and funding and/or funded by 'the Green Movements'...those some affectionately call 'Greenies', and whom I choose to call the 'Greenists' in honor of my Ukrainian/Russian heritage.
     I did not think I would see the day that SCIENCE would be polluted via CORRUPTED DATA by POLITICS to this extent...with the exception of  Al Gore and his cadre of 'Greenists', perhaps.
     Scientific fraud perpetuated upon us is becoming terrifyingly 'rift', as being brilliantly exemplified very recently by the abrupt resignation today of Nobel Laureate Dr. Ivar Giaever":

"Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday, Sept. 13, from the premier physics society in disgust over its officially stated policy that "global warming is occurring."

LINK: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46212

     It just so happens that RPI is my alma mater, undergrad.  No, I didn't know Dr. Giaever personally, and no I wasn't crazy of his endorsement of President Obama.

    But I admire the woman or man who has the depth and strength of character to change horses mid-stream...and who is flexible and intellectually honest enough to do a '180' when it is appropriate to do so.

     I strive to be that way and I'm going to pray for Dr. Mehmet Oz that he choose to be that way and retract and redact all of his 'deadly levels of arsenic in apple juice' nonsense promptly.

     Apples...and apple juice...are as 'American as apple pie'.  Is there a coincidence there, Dr. Oz, I might also ask at this incredible time in America's history?

     You can ruminate on this, dear Dr., while you eat your next mid-flight 'apple snack' (thereby ingesting various nominal and non-harmful amounts of both inorganic arsenic found naturally...and CYANIDE, too, OH YES!, also at harmless levels unless you crush and eat a bunch of apple seeds).

     And as you contemplate this, Dr. Oz, also realize that at cruising level you will also be receiving a dose of radiation, as well.

     Will you put on your nutritionist's, analytical chemist's, pilot's, and physicist's hats and do some specials for us on those things, also, sometime?

With prayers for a life and truth-affirming resolution to this situation-for Dr. Oz, but more importantly, for all who are disturbed and whose lives have been disrupted by what has transpired in this 'most unscientific sideshow',

May God Bless Us All

Rev. Barbara Sexton

"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

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THE FIJI MERMAID: This artifact in P.T. Barnum's museum was advertised as a gorgeous topless siren, but was actually the mummified corpse of an ape sewn to a fish. 

courtesy http://science.discovery.com/top-ten/2008/hoaxes/hoaxes-05.html

"TSA Luggage Searches & Infective Potential Due To Dirty Unchanged Gloves & Bad Technique" By Reverend Barbara Sexton

Dear Readers:
     First of all, let me say that I am in no way blaming any TSA shortcomings on TSA Officers alone...but also on those who train, equip, monitor and discipline them.
     The fact is that TSA Officers are, at present, not CERTIFIED nor can they be EXPECTED TO conduct body and luggage searches with any type of consideration for 'sanitation', 'hygiene' or 'good health practices'. 
     As far as we know for now, all they are required to do is 'wear gloves' and conduct their searches without hurting, spilling, breaking or losing anything.  We can't expect of them anything resembling 'aseptic technique' and that's just a fact...especially at their paltry salary level.
     In a perfect world, care would of course be taken to make sure that persons' bodies and belongings were examined under as 'sanitary' conditions as possible.  Yes, this takes longer and costs more, requiring 'regular glove changes', as well as the wearing of masks and perhaps other protective gear apparel by the examining TSA Officer.
     And let us not forget that TSA Officers are deserving of more training and HAZARD PAY if Officials are determined to 'stay this course' of unsanitary 'pat-downs' and luggage searches, as well as 'dubiously safe 'scannings'.
     But as it is today, how is one to know if the TSA person examining their person and luggage is not harboring some kind of respiratory pathogen-viral, bacterial or even more exotic?  We'd like to know that the TSA Officer is not sneezing and hacking all over our luggage contents, but how can we know?
     The fact is, even 'in the best of scenarios', we just can't!
     How do we know that a 'good sneeze' on our toiletries did not take place, thus contaminating our personal items destined for use on our skin?
     We can't!
     How do we know that a TSA Officer's dirty gloves--contaminated with staph or strep or worse from a 'previous toiletries check'--has not just 'contaminated' our undies, handkerchiefs and personal items? We can't! 
     'Used' and 'sticky' personal hygiene items, toiletries and cosmetics--we all have them in our little plastic bags.  But few realize what GREAT HARBORERS and potential TRANSMITTERS of microorganisms they also are.
     Or, maybe we do and, if so, it's time to remember it!
     Don't we tell our children and young people NOT TO SHARE lipglosses, lipsticks, mascaras, deodorants, hairbrushes, washclothes and the like, product preservative systems notwithstanding?  Yes, we do.
     Is the public, let alone the TSA, cognizant of the fact that many 'soaps', far from being part of the 'cure' for our microbial contamination issues, are actually HAVENS for some of our worst water-loving pathogens?
     I don't know if they do.  But the fact is that the water-loving and living Pseudomonas aeruginosa (which produces a blue-green discoloration to the flesh and nails it infects), for instance, has been found to actually live in and 'EAT' certain (liquid) soaps!
     Pseudomonas' notoriety stems from the fact that systemic infection with it is overwhelmingly fatal.  And it 'loves' soap.
     With the advance of science, humankind is astounded to grasp the significance of the vast ability of the tiniest forms of 'life' to hunker down and survive and even thrive in any number of substances we use every day.
     And this knowledge ought rightly reduce us to humility as we realize that organisms invisible to our naked eyes can bring us not only to our knees, but to our Maker. 
     Thus my prayer is that such 'humility' will compel us to consider that which we might not otherwise and I start 'here' by way of simple example:
     You've packed 'damp' swimsuits for 'quick travel', haven't you?  Maybe you gave your child's suit a 'quick soapy rinse', packed it in a plastic bag for a flight and thought nothing of it.
     But have you considered the consequences of dirty, unchanged, potentially contaminated TSA Officer gloves closely examining this 'damp garment', since it is 'out of the norm'?  Have you considered that a little 'soap' can serve as a culture medium for some bad bugs?
     Or maybe you've just packed that suit, still damp with some chlorinated pool water.  In this case, I ask, "You DO realize that that little bit of chlorine is useless as an antimicrobial in the event of gross TSA Officer glove contamination, don't you?
     Unless you literally 'disinfect' that suit post haste, it is a real health hazard. 
     In a forthcoming article, I will detail some effective and practical ways to 'disinfect' items that have been subjected to 'TSA Screening'.  If you've never given this much consideration before, you will now...or you should, anyway.
     I'm not suggesting that we all adopt what some call 'Howard Hughes Syndrome'.  I'm not advising that we get OCD when it comes to 'germs'.  But we must get realistic and practical.  
     What is 'good for the traveler' is ALSO 'good for the TSA Officer', I might add.  From the standpoint of sheer exposure, the group MOST at risk from luggage and body-handling 'woes' is not the public, but the TSA workers themselves.
     So we all must listen and we all must act. 
     When it comes to the realities of living and travel today, "These are not 'our parents microorganisms' at all".  Gone are the good old days when eating a peck of dirt in a lifetime would help assure a 'good immune system'.
     We've 'blown out' our immune systems via various pharmaceuticals, environmental conditions and lifestyle choices.  And... 
     We have many more pathogens (microorganisms that cause disease in humans and other animals and even in plants).  And...
     Not only are there more pathogens, but many of them have become more virulent, meaning their 'infectious capability' and potential deadliness have also increased. 
     Far from being 'panic talk', what I am saying here is long-overdue for public consumption, in my opinion.  I've personally never worked in a biology or chemistry lab which didn't work in close association with a microbiology unit and sometimes a virology unit, as well.
     Many of us have 'cross-trained' and for good reason in both academic and manufacturing settings.  And some of us will speak openly about things the public needs to know in order to make intelligent decisions.
     By now you Readers are aware that the  'traditional medical establishment' is loathe to speak openly about nosocomial (hospital-acquired) and community-acquired infections...especially since the line between the two has become increasingly 'blurred' in the last decade.  You'd better bet that hospitals and health care facilities of all sorts are very dirty places!
     Just ask any patient or family member who has been unfortunate enough to have suffered from an infection in a health care setting.  Or just ask an honest health care provider and they will tell you also.
     The time to address all this is now.  How fortuitous in a sense, the TSA situation is, if only because it forces all to take a good look at 'public sanitation issues'.  
     In this age we do well to be concerned about our 'global health'.  As all 'flu outbreaks' originate in Asia and migrate sequentially to Hawaii, to California and onward to the east coast per epidemiological studies (typically, but not always!) we see new 'patterns' emerging every day. LINK: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/
     Dengue Fever, for instance, despite a popular and misleading commercial to the contrary, is alive and well in Miami, Fl.  Here's a recent article I did on this, in fact: LINK: http://dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/2010/08/dengue-fever-redux-socio-medical.html    
     MISinformation dies hard, it would seem.
     Simply put, just because 'the public does not hear about it', doesn't mean that global patterns of disease spread are not morphing and changing before our very eyes, via the 'human vector'.
     You know what 'disease vectors' are.  Mosquitoes are one, as are birds and swine.  Vectors are, simply put, the factors by which disease is spread.
     And now, since 'man' is 'the most deadly predator', I am fearing that likewise, man in the end will be the 'deadliest disease vector' as well, a la 'the 'TSA Dirty-Glove Syndrome'.
     When we consider the natural and bioengineered microbial variants being discovered every day, we wonder how, with the status quo, we are to be safe in this 21st century.
For You In Christ,
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
http://www.dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/

"This 'Robo-Nurse' Can Give You A Bath" By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ac2qwStrdo&feature=player_embedded
Dear Ones:
     Leave it to Georgia Tech.  They've come up with a 'Robo-Nurse to beat the band which can give baths and can--presumably--'perform other tasks'.
     This 'CODY ROBOT' may actually be 'proficient' at certain things, but those 'old cold hands' just might leave much to be desired.
     Heaven knows patients need the HEALING TOUCH that only a REAL-LIFE HUMAN BEING--Nurse, Aide or Hands-On Healer-- can provide.  'Touch' has been proven over and over again to be necessary for all human (and animal) well-being.
     The lack of 'human touch' is but one of the problems with robot technology.  In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the metal and electronics of 'Robo-Nurse' might actually INTERFERE with human energy patterns and might therefore affect patients in adverse ways that the average clinician might never think of.
     In layman's terms, there are RISKS when medical care is reduced to 'mere technology'.  Traditional medical professionals may or may not realize this unless they have some training in 'alternative medicine'.  But even then, the 'coldness' of the doctor's office and surgical suite and those cold hands from so much 'gel sanitizing' (believe me I know...) can present quite an obstacle.
       We all know that nurses are the 'real healers' in the hospital--and sometimes the 'home'--setting.  There are more subtleties to healing than can be understood by medical science, and anyone wishing 'full service' needs to turn to not only the best that science and technology have to offer, but to 'real life, full-blown, bonafide' healers.
     As a biochemist who is also a Reverend and alternative health care provider, I heal by attending to the essences of both the physical and spiritual body. 
     If you've any 'doubt' about the existence of a 'spirit body', just ask any amputee with 'phantom limb pain'.  If you've any doubt about the value of 'spiritual healing', just ask any cancer survivor!
     Without a doubt, human interaction in medicine is as vital as the machines we 'make work'.  And the 'day' that any 'Robo-Anything' can do what I do is the day I hang up my shingle!...after a great deal of 'prayer', of course.
     Naturally, if one is interested only in expedient, impersonal, perfunctory performance, this one's for you.  But for those of us who really do 'believe in and value' warm-blooded person-to-person interaction....no thanks.
     The world will no doubt utilize these 'Robo-nurses' in tandem with robotic surgery for difficult situations.  I get that.  But what I am 'envisioning' is not pretty.
     Human nature being what it is, I can 'see' abortions and other 'unsavory procedures like euthanasia' being performed by machines...to the relief alternately of some health care providers, some health care proxies and even some patients, themselves.
     But 'true healers' will never go for this rogue use of robots.  We already live in a cyber-world.  We are already a part of the 'MATRIX' and we acknowledge that.
     What we 'can't' accept is the total disengagement from ethical and moral accountability by medical personnel. 
     Medicine simply cannot expect that it can relinquish it's direct responsibility for patient care without there being ramifications. 
     What a 'great excuse' physicians, nurses, techs, paramedics, physician's assistants, aides and alternative 'healers' will have if they are able to say, "It was the robot's fault.  It was 'the 'machine' who made that decision." 
God Bless You
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
http://www.dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/
         

"JAPAN INVENTS ROBO-NURSE Or ANGEL OF DEATH-Depending On Your Perspective" By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFVlzUAZkHY&feature=player_embedded#!
Video Plays BEST when you click the YOUTUBE link ABOVE in red and enlarge the screen by clicking the 'four arrows icon' on the lower right
Here's something I found recently entitled Actroid-F: The angel of death robot coming to a hospital near you (video)
It's been a few years since we checked in with Actroid, a bot we first saw way back in 2005. What you're looking at above is Actroid-F, Kokoro Co. Ltd. and ATR's latest iteration of the creepy humanoid robot that can mime the operator's facial expressions and head movements with unbelievable (but not quite human) accuracy. Her current job is to act as "as an observer in hospitals to gauge patient reactions." We guess that's one way to get around euthanasia laws. See what we mean in the video after the break.
LINK: http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/27/actroid-f-the-angel-of-death-robot-coming-to-a-hospital-near-yo/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-w%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk3%7C180485
LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK
God Bless You,
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
www.DearOnesHealingMinisty.blogspot.com