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DIRTY ELECTRICITY ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION Understanding Eledpomegnetic Energy oy 74 * NEXUS REVIEWS DIRTY ELECTRICITY AND increasing prevalence of wireless ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION _ technology today, we need Fisher's by Donna Fisher advice now more than ever before. Joshua Books, Qld, Australia, 2011 ISBN 978-0-9808-74495 (239pp tpb) SEX, LIES AND Available: www.JoshuaBooks.com PHARMACEUTICALS by Ray Moynihan and Dr Barbara Mintzes DIRTY ELECTRICITY Greystone Books, Vancouver, 2010 ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION (first pub. by Allen & Unwin, Australia, Understand - be Eneray 2010, ISBN 978-I-7423701-8-7) a ISBN 978-1-553655084 (257pp tpb) Available: www.greystonebooks.com; amazon.com; www.allenandunwin.com harmaceutical corporations like Pfizer, Procter & Gamble and Boehringer, in league with medical researchers and psychiatrists, have created a new "disease"—"female DONNA FISHER sexual dysfunction"—in their bid to develop new drugs and new markets e though We had enough ; or them. 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So it's good to know that They expose how the pharmcos his dirty electricity plague can be utilise statistics—based on skewed kept in check by technologies such as surveys and invented by researchers plug-in filters that draw "transients" with financial ties to those same caused by an interrupted electrical companies—and adopt marketing current flow) out of appliances and strategies to raise awareness about wiring and transfers them to ground. the target condition that mos Fisher maintains that electrical women didn’t know they had. What equipment today could easily be used to be regarded as normal itted with filters to reduce the level fluctuations in women's sexuality are of dangerous EMR emissions. For now labelled as disorders that need now, we add to the plague whenever 4 be treated with pills and patches. we buy non-filtered equipment, even The authors quote the work of New energy-efficient appliances and York University's Dr Leonore Tiefer, ighting. Fisher presents amazing who has started a grassroots case studies of people whose health campaign against the medicalisation problems, such as debilitating MS, of female sexuality. This is were greatly improved by adopting empowering information in the face protective measures against EMF and of a false epidemic, manufactured by dirty electricity. And with the the global drug giants for profit. Columbia's Department of increasing prevalence of wireless technology today, we need Fisher's advice now more than ever before. SEX, LIES AND PHARMACEUTICALS by Ray Moynihan and Dr Barbara Mintzes Greystone Books, Vancouver, 2010 (first pub. by Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2010, ISBN 978-I-7423701-8-7) ISBN 978-1-553655084 (257pp tpb) Available: www.greystonebooks.com; amazon.com; www.allenandunwin.com harmaceutical corporations like Pfizer, Procter & Gamble and Boehringer, in league with medical researchers and psychiatrists, have created a new "disease"—"female sexual dysfunction"—in their bid to develop new drugs and new markets or them. By identifying four such disorders—to do with libido, arousal, orgasm and pain—they can expand heir treatment reach. For Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals Ray Moynihan, an award-winning health journalist and author (Selling Sickness, 12/06; Too Much Medicine?, 6/01), has teamed up with Dr Barbara Mintzes, an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia's Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, who has expertise in clinical trials and drug marketing, efficacy and safety. They expose how the pharmcos utilise statistics—based on skewed surveys and invented by researchers with financial ties to those same companies—and adopt marketing strategies to raise awareness about the target condition that mos women didn't know they had. What used to be regarded as normal fluctuations in women's sexuality are now labelled as disorders that need to be treated with pills and patches. The authors quote the work of New York University's Dr Leonore Tiefer, who has started a grassroots campaign against the medicalisation of female sexuality. This is empowering information in the face of a false epidemic, manufactured by the global drug giants for profit. JUNE - JULY 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com