Author: Erin Elizabeth

We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong.. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact. I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled “opinion makers.” Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol. RELATED...

According to Cancer Research UK, more and more people are wrong about risk factors for cancer. While most were able to correctly select smoking, obesity, and overexposure to UV radiation as risks, researchers at University College London and the University of Leeds carried out the survey and found that more than 40% wrongly thought that stress and food additives could also cause cancer.1 RELATED STORY: Rats’ intestines destroyed just 90 days after being fed Monsanto GMO corn “One-third incorrectly believed that electromagnetic frequencies (35%) and eating genetically modified (GM) food (34%) were risk factors, while 19% thought microwave ovens and 15%...