Cameron Salisbury
Cameron Salisbury, a biostatistician /epidemiologist living in Atlanta, has numerous peer-reviewed, journal, and internet publications. For more camsalis go to www.arthritis-alternatives.com.
Articles by Cameron Salisbury
October 05, 2010
Mammography has been sold to the public as a life saving screen for breast cancer. A growing body of evidence says that it is not.
March 15, 2010
Every few years we go to the polls and pin our hopes on a Rorschach ink blot shaped like a person.
December 10, 2009
Amanda Knox, the clean cut, all-American girl was morphed into Foxy Knoxy by the tabloids and improbably found guilty of murder in Perugia, Italy. Was this an example of blowback?
September 22, 2009
When the group makes all value judgments, the life of the member gets much less complicated. There is no need to obsess about right or wrong. No need to consider the lives of others, the impact of personal decisions, the requirements of a sustainable neighborhood, the future or the past. No need for morals, scruples or principles and no place for self doubt. The group takes care of it all.
June 08, 2009
With the big manufacturers facing bankruptcy and the Bernanke, Geithner and Obama triumvirate feeling the need to shred the safety net, itīs conceivable that the middle class slide will not end simply in a lower standard of living, but in poverty and civil unrest.
March 19, 2009
As long as deposits are insured, banks are fungible- which is proven every day as U.S. banks go under and are seamlessly absorbed by the FDIC, deposits, debts and all, consumers usually none the wiser.
February 20, 2009
The publicīs deep sense of anxiety, distrust and betrayal, the crisis of confidence, will not be fixed until our institutions are, with or without full employment.
January 20, 2009
The usual sequence is that we elect people who use their office to commit crimes and defraud us. This time we have the opportunity to get a jump on the time table with a Treasury Secretary whom we know in advance is a cheat.
January 15, 2009
As a horrified world watches Israel demonstrate its military supremacy over a poor and unarmed population, something else is happening. If you listen closely, you might hear a sad death knell in the distance, and it isnīt for the Palestinians. What we may be witnessing now is Israelīs slow motion suicide.
December 03, 2008
If anyone doubted that a class war is in progress, hidden beneath a variety of euphemisms, like ´bail out´, ´downsizing,´ ´outsourcing´ and ´NAFTA´, their doubts can now be given the decent burial that they deserve. There has been no more blatant act ...
November 18, 2008
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson´s ´emergency´ $700 billion bailout was authorized in record time by both houses of Congress despite the opposition of an estimated 80% of U.S. taxpayers. When the bail out was fully funded, with lightning speed but no hearings, logical justification or concrete plan, it became clearer than ever that the opinions, wishes, demands of the electorate are scarcely worth the cost of the ballots they cast.
September 23, 2008
The scare tactics that railroad decision makers into instant action with no time for responsible discussion are the way that the Patriot Act was passed and Homeland Security established. It´s the method of a huckster. And just to make sure everyone understands that they´re being taken for a one-way ride to the edge, Paulson insists that his decisions are not to be reviewed by ´any court or any administrative body.´ Wouldn´t that make him king?
May 29, 2008
Despite the fact that many of us think she has lost her way on some issues, she deserves respect for her sound record of liberal leadership and for being an intrepid trail blazer for women. She has kept the faith with us better, on most days, than we have with her.
May 02, 2008
Texas authorities must have waited impatiently for a reason to storm the compound, and finally, tenuous as it was, they got it. It came in the form of anonymous calls from a woman who has not been found, detailing abuse that cannot be confirmed, in a compound where she did not live.
April 21, 2008
The standard of living in the U.S. is declining. The economy in Ecuador is an example of what might lie ahead.