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Speak Out Against Ill-Advised Coke-Doctors Partnership

Connie Bennett | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Conflict of Interest, Big Tobacco, Yoni Freedhoff, www.familydoctor.org, Lori Heim, Coke, Connie-Bennett, End the AAFP and Coca-Cola Collaboration, Aafp, Fructose, Big Soda, Weighty Matters, Sugar, Coca-Cola, Controversy, Health, Soda, Optimal Health Care, American Academy of Family Physicians, Doctors Resign, Living News
Connie Bennett

For a doctors' group to take a six-figure sum from Coke is like accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Big Tobacco to create a physician-approved website claiming cigarettes are part of a healthy lifestyle.

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Countrywide Phone Calls: Lawmakers Want More Information About VIP Program That Lent To Politicians

Wall Street Journal | JOHN R. EMSHWILLER | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conflict of Interest, Banks, Mortgages, Chris Dodd, Issa, Rep. Darrell Issa, Bank of America, Countrywide, Wall Street, Ken Lewis, Countrywide VIP Program, Alphonso Jackson, Phone Recordings, VIP Program, Kent Conrad, Politics News

The discovery that Countrywide Financial Corp. recorded phone conversations with borrowers in a controversial mortgage program that included public of...

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Autism and Toxins

Jay Gordon, MD | Posted 07.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Childrens' Vaccines, Vaccine, Autism Vaccines, Conflict of Interest, Living News, Family, Children, Childrens Health, Parenting, Vaccines, Personal Health, Autism, Environmental Toxins, Autism Debate, Living News
Jay Gordon, MD

The facile dismissal of those of us calling for safer vaccinations and scrutiny of the current vaccine schedule is not scientifically based and polarizes the discussion.

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Sam Stein

Summers Received Hundreds Of Thousands In Speaking Fees From TARP Recipients

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conflict of Interest, Summers Tarp, Summers Pfd, Larry Summers, Tarp Cash, Summers Obama, Obama Pfd, Tarp Recipients, Summers Banking, Politics News

Barack Obama's chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, received hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees last year from firms that have direct...

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"There Is No Proof that Cigarettes Cause Cancer"

Jay Gordon, MD | Posted 03.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Conflict of Interest, Autism, Cancer, Cigarettes, Proof, Vaccines, Health, Living News
Jay Gordon, MD

It took fifty years before the courts finally acknowledged that cigarette smoking causes cancer. Let's hope it doesn't take another fifty years to convince the government and the public that vaccines can cause autism.

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Sarah Palin's $159,050 Conflict of Interest

Chris Kelly | Posted 03.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iron Dog Snow Machine Race, Sports, Todd Palin, Sarah Palin, Snowmobiles, Snow Machines, Todd Palin Arctic Cat, Todd Palin Iron Dog, Todd Palin Sarah Palin, Iron Dog Race, Conflict of Interest, Politics News
Chris Kelly

While you read this, Todd Palin is riding a snow machine 1971 miles from Big Lake to Fairbanks for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gifts from corporations who do business with the Governor's office.

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Potential Conflict Of Interest In DuPage County Elections

Chicago Tribune | James Kimberly | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: DuPage County Election Problems, Robert Saar, DuPage Election Commission, Dupage County Elections, DuPage County, Conflict of Interest, DuPage County Conflict of Interest, Asked, Chicago News

The executive director of the DuPage Election Commission holds the patent on an election product being used in DuPage and numerous other election juri...

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Mr. President-Elect: Judge Abner Mikva Is Right About Sen. Clinton as Secretary of State

Al Giordano | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: President-Elect Barack Obama, Judge Abner Mikva, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Conflict of Interest, Ethics, Secretary of State, President Obama, Obama Cabinet, Obama Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Obama's Cabinet, Obama Administration, Politics News
Al Giordano

There are many annoying aspects of the noise machine that is blaring that arrogant and cacophonous yet familiar mantra: "Clinton is inevitable." We heard it for all of 2007, and we're hearing it all over again.

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"Everyone" Says Paulson Has Credibility: What About His Impossible Conflict-of-Interest?

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Credit Crisis, Henry Paulson, Conflict of Interest, Wall Street, Economy, Wall Street Crisis, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Any move Paulson makes with his $700B of unaccountable money will likely help Goldman-Sachs share prices.

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