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Purposeful price pumping by constraining supply

ByRod Adams

…onora and at Sonora he used none of the tools or equipment provided by the Rockefeller grant. Borlaug’s employer, the Rockefeller Foundation is quitting its fling with Mexician agriculture after15 years. In the words of Noel Vietmeyer, Borlaug,vol 3,”Peering down from the hazy heights of a Manhattan skyscraper, both the foundation’s president and agriculture director fail foresee their wheat man lifting food globally, winning a Nobel Prize or conf…

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Evidence suggesting LNT was fabricated as a purposeful effort to hamstring nuclear technology development

ByRod Adams

…een impossible to complete under today’s radiation protection assumptions. Rockefeller Foundation involvement in creating and instititionalizing the LNT In 1954, soon after President Eisenhower gave his “Atoms for Peace” speech to the UN and promised the world that the U.S. was ready to make an effort to use nuclear energy for commercial power generation, the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation decided that the American public wasn’t w…

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Defending hormesis and pointing to economic motives for asserting “no safe dose”

ByRod Adams

…hat he made a serious, almost successful attempt to take his own life. The Rockefeller Foundation initiated and provided 100% of the funding for the NAS committees on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation from 1954-1962. Warren Weaver, the Chairman of the Genetics Committee, which is the one whose report was covered on the front page of the New York Times on June 13, 1956 and was published in full in the same edition of the paper, served as t…

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Can Radiation from CT scans help patients suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease?

ByRod Adams

…ernment was covering it up. A second is that the Board of Trustees for the Rockefeller Foundation understood the potential impact of unrestrained development of a proven alternative to burning coal, oil and natural gas. Its ability to continue performing its influential work would suffer significant financial contraction. As documented in its annual reports and financial statements, the Rockefeller Foundation endowment included a vast quantity of…

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Senator Clinton Anderson on fossil fuel opposition to atomic energy

ByRod Adams

…certain about whether or not the Rockefeller family had vast holdings in fossil energy resources.) Lewis Strauss, who was the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from June 1953-June 1958, served as a Rockefeller family financial advisor from 1950-1953. While in that role, he worked with John D. Rockefeller III to set up and serve on the board of trustees for the Population Council….

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Smoking Gun research continuing in earnest

ByRod Adams

…ed during that effort. Chernow, Ron Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Rockefeller, David Memoirs Heinberg, Richard Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils our Future Zuckerman, Gregory The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters Mitchell, Timothy Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil Marriott, James and Mino-Paluello Mika The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City…

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Suppressing Differing Opinions to Promote “No Safe Dose” Mantra

ByRod Adams

…He assigned Warren Weaver, a former math professor and the director of the Rockefeller Foundation’s natural sciences program, to be the chairman of the committee. Without any debate, the committee decided that the proper model to use in risk assessments for radiation was a linear, no-threshold model. After agreeing to use a linear model, the committee focused its efforts on computing the slope of the line so that their report could provide numeric…

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NRC calls off expensive search for witches

ByRod Adams

…s he had to the unfailing support, comfort, and promotional efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation. He continued to promote the no threshold — aka “no safe dose” — assumption throughout the ten years between his Nobel Prize and the formation of the BEIR Genetics Committee. That committee deferred to his strong advocacy and Nobel Prize-winning authority. In 1956 the Rockefeller Foundation was one of the richest and most powerful foundations in the w…

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Why did the US Atomic Energy Commission kill Daniels Pile in 1947?

ByRod Adams

…r solar energy and drew up an application. Weaver and George Harrar of the Rockefeller Foundation came to the campus for two or three days to study the situation. They approved the proposed program. When asked why a solar laboratory was located in a place not notably sunny, the answer was, “because Farrington Daniels is there.” Shortly the Rockefeller Foundation awarded an initial grant of $250,000 for support of solar energy applications and rese…

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Why does conventional wisdom ignore hormesis?

ByGuest Author

…en ludicrous in 1927 or even 1950s when it was still heavily influenced by Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Rockefeller “Family Office” management. John Chatelle For me the only stretch is because in 1927, Standard Oil would not be threatened by Nuclear Energy. I agree with your ongoing perspective that oil, gas, companies now know that Nuclear Energy is the only true challenger to their revenue streams, and want sunshine and breezes, to be their com…

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Acting EPA administrator appoints Dr. Brant Ulsh to head radiation advisory council

ByRod Adams

…a small group of eugenicists led by Hermann Muller and often funded by the Rockefeller Foundation that decided to push a “one hit” or “target” model of radiation effects on genetic material. Their initial work was aimed at purposely causing mutations to occur, but they later recognized that it was in their interests to exaggerate radiation health effects as a means of stimulating greater support for their research. They succeeded in obtaining incr…

Who fights energy abundance? Why?

ByRod Adams

…est obstacle to true energy abundance. Very early in the industry, John D. Rockefeller recognized that hydrocarbons, though exceedingly useful fuel sources, were either fabulously profitable, moderately profitable or extremely costly depending on whether the market was slightly undersupplied, properly supplied or slightly oversupplied. It only takes a few percent change in the balance between supply and demand before a good news discovery and prod…

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