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tobacco activist Victor J. De Noble and movie director Charles Evans Jr. will be at movie "Addiction Incorporated" after 7 PM show Fri, Sat Jan 27, 28 Landmark Ken Cinema, front-page article by Peter Rowe, Union Tribune San Diego: Rich Murray 2012.01.27

2012-01-27T12:45:00.002-07:00

tobacco activist Victor J. De Noble and movie director Charles Evans Jr. will be at movie "Addiction Incorporated" after 7 PM show Fri, Sat Jan 27, 28 Landmark Ken Cinema, front-page article by Peter Rowe, Union Tribune San Diego: Rich Murray 2012.01.27
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http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/27/tp-victor-denoble/

Whistle-Blower Still Making Noise
Victor DeNoble [ photo ]
Former cigarette researcher narrates new documentary

Written by
Peter Rowe
12:01 a.m., Jan. 27, 2012
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[ What:
Victor DeNoble and director Charles Evans Jr. will answer questions about "Addiction Incorporated"
Running time: 1 hour, 42 minutes
When: After the 7 p.m. screening, Friday and Saturday
Where: Landmark Ken Cinema, 4061 Adams Ave., San Diego
[ 805 N to 15 N, 2 miles to E on Adams Avenue, 200 feet on south side ]
Information: (619) 819-0236
landmarktheatres.com ]

Philip Morris fired cigarette researcher Victor DeNoble, but that wasn’t enough.

His lab was closed, his lab rats killed, his studies buried.
Company lawyers forced him to sign a lifetime nondisclosure statement.
His work on nicotine addiction was so dangerous, Philip Morris wanted to erase every trace of DeNoble.

How’s that going, Phil?

DeNoble, 62, has become one of the nation’s most prominent anti-smoking campaigners.
The San Diego resident travels constantly, speaks to 350,000 students a year -- delivering up to four talks a day -- and tangles with the tobacco industry in legislative chambers and courtrooms.
Now the star of "Addiction Incorporated," a new documentary that opens here today, is hailed as a whistle-blower whose testimony made possible the $206 billion settlement U.S. tobacco companies approved in 1998.

He has the brains of a Bill Gates and, to hear some critics, the on-screen charisma of a Brad Pitt.
DeNoble “reveals himself to be a born raconteur,” The New York Times’ Jeannette Catsoulis wrote.
“His easygoing, self-deprecating narration is the film’s most valuable asset and the viewer’s best friend.”

Not bad for someone who was supposed to be a nonperson.
But DeNoble’s story is a curious one, full of odd turns and a bizarre quest.
The key chapter begins in 1980, when he was hired by Philip Morris -- the parent corporation of Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Benson & Hedges and many other brands -- to research “safer” cigarettes.
In 1983, he succeeded.

And sealed his fate.

Proof negative

Growing up on Long Island, N.Y., Victor struggled to read and comprehend his school lessons.
No scholar, he assumed he would follow in his father’s footsteps as a plumber.
Dad, though, insisted that Victor apply for college.

“Why?” the teenager asked.

“To meet smart women, stupid.”

At Adelphi University, Victor met women and made another, non-hormone-related, discovery.
He wasn’t dumb; he was dyslexic.
To his eyes, printed words appeared backward.
Victor relearned to read -- and his grades soared.
Studying drug addiction, he earned a bachelor’s degree and then a doctorate.

Recruited by Philip Morris, the young Ph.D. naively accepted assurances that the tobacco giant wanted good science and good works.
“In 1979,” he noted, “smoking had no stigma.
You could smoke anywhere.
They came to me and said,
‘We are killing a whole bunch of people. Can you help us save some people?’ ”

Every year, DeNoble was informed, 138,000 smokers die from nicotine-induced heart attacks and brain strokes.
What if Philip Morris could market a cigarette that caused no cardiovascular damage?

Experimenting with rats in the corporation’s labs, DeNoble found a nicotine substitute, 2 prime methyl-nicotine.
It didn’t damage the heart -- yet was equally addictive.

The news thrilled DeNoble’s bosses, until they realized that cigarettes with chemical additives would be scrutinized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

“Damn it,” DeNoble was told, “you’ve made us into a pharmaceutical company.”

His research, though, was proof positive that nicotine addicted.
With his supervisors’ permission, DeNoble and two co-authors submitted their findings to a professional publication.
It was scheduled for the Journal of Psychopharmacology’s September 1983 issue when DeNoble was forced to withdraw the paper.
In the view of Philip Morris’ lawyers, the scientists’ proof positive was a legal proof negative, damning evidence that cigarettes were drugs.

Still, DeNoble won promotions and more funds for his lab.
When he and a colleague, Paul Mele, were summoned to see their boss on April 5, 1984, he expected good news.

Instead, they were fired and muzzled.
To receive a severance package, they were forced to agree to never discuss their work.

No. 1 whistle-blower

In 1994, a decade after DeNoble’s firing, he was contacted by federal investigators.
FDA Chairman David Kessler, about to appear before a congressional committee investigating tobacco’s health effects, needed experts to brief him.
Could DeNoble help?

Citing the nondisclosure agreement, DeNoble declined.

That wasn’t good enough.
In one of the most dramatic scenes of “Addiction Incorporated,” Los Angeles congressman Henry Waxman presses the CEO of Philip Morris to release DeNoble from this agreement.
After numerous evasions, the tobacco executive finally agrees.

Two weeks later, DeNoble testified that nicotine is addictive, that Philip Morris knew this, and that the corporation -- and, no doubt, its competitors-- sought ways to heighten this effect.

This is all common knowledge -- now.
Then?
“Victor DeNoble was the first whistle-blower,” Waxman said in the documentary.
“I know a lot of people have talked about other whistle-blowers.
But he was the first one.”

As "Addiction Incorporated" notes, DeNoble became a key ally of the state attorneys general who sued the tobacco companies, eventually winning that landmark $209 billion settlement.
Despite this payout, big tobacco is bigger than ever -- Philip Morris, for instance, has seen its stock price climb 51 percent in the past five years.

Will "Addiction Incorporated” further tarnish these corporations?

Philip Morris did not address questions about DeNoble and his research but a company spokesman did comment on the movie.

“This film covers topics regarding smoking that have been in the public domain for some time,” David Sutton, a Philip Morris USA spokesman, said via email Thursday.
“PM USA agrees with the overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking is addictive and causes serious diseases in smokers.”

“Addiction Incorporated” concludes with President Barack Obama signing a 2009 law expanding the FDA’s oversight to include cigarettes.
“PM USA stood alone among the major cigarette manufacturers in support of FDA regulation over cigarettes,” Sutton noted, “and believes that this regulation can provide significant benefits to tobacco manufacturers and adult tobacco consumers.”

That’s not enough, DeNoble argues.
The movie shows him running on the trails near the Santa Luz home he shares with his wife, Kimi DeNoble, but those jogs are rare occasions.
More often, he’s running to airports or classrooms, preparing to talk to students about science, nicotine and rats -- both four- and two-legged varieties.

How could he ever believe that a tobacco company would want a safer cancer stick?

He smiled.
These days, his close-cropped hair is graying and his face has acquired a few wrinkles.
But there’s still something fresh and idealistic about that smile.

“I was young,” he said, “and I was wrong.”

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/25/philip-morris-couldnt-snuff-out-victor-denoble/

Philip Morris couldn't snuff out Victor DeNoble
New documentary lights up addiction scientist's story

[ photo of face ]
Victor DeNoble moved to San Diego seven years ago -- John R. McCutchen

[ same story ]

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/26/tp-cutting-through-the-smoke/

Movie review

Cutting through the smoke
"Addiction Incorporated" documents the moral and legal conflicts behind the nicotine business
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS NYT News Service
12:01 a.m., Jan. 26, 2012

Also of interest:

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White House: Not smoking a struggle for Obama
SDSU candidate fields wide array of questions
“Addiction Incorporated ”

Rating: PG
When: Opens Friday
Where: Landmark Ken
Running time: 1 hour, 42 minutes
***

Straight-shooting, hard-hitting and fuming with contempt for the tobacco industry, “Addiction Incorporated” would be almost too exhausting to watch were it not for the folksy charm of its star witness.
Nestled at the center of this relentless documentary, guiding us through a deluge of scientific evidence and corporate bobbing and weaving, is the scientist and whistle-blower Victor J. DeNoble, who a San Diego resident, who reveals himself to be a born raconteur.
His easygoing, self-deprecating narration is the film’s most valuable asset and the viewer’s best friend.

Hired by Philip Morris in 1980 to test nicotine alternatives for a more heart-healthy cigarette, DeNoble, armed with his Ph.D. in experimental psychology, quickly discovered just how addictive the chemical could be.
When his test rats couldn’t get through their day without an ever-increasing number of nicotine hits -- topping out at an astonishing 90 puff equivalents a day -- DeNoble and his employers were equally shocked, though their reactions to the findings were very different.

Essentially the story of how cigarettes became subject to federal regulation, “Addiction Incorporated” lays out a meticulous, methodical time line of moral and legal conflict.
Wrangling an unwieldy mob of scientists, politicians, journalists and legal experts, the director, Charles Evans Jr., wisely trusts DeNoble to connect dots and provide clarity.
Cheeky animation of anthropomorphized rats -- and the dash and swagger of a team of Louisiana lawyers -- burn through the factual fog, while familiar video clips remind us of the saga’s heroes and villains.

Yet this heartening tale of good science stomping bad business would be drier than a week-old butt without DeNoble.
I wonder if he has a doppelgänger in the financial services industry?

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/08/puff-puff-puff-nicotine-rises-gradually/
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer
12:43 p.m., March 8, 2010

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Bio

In July 1984, Peter Rowe was hired as a writer for the San Diego Union.
He has yet to be fired.
At the Union, he wrote feature stories and worked as an editor.
When the Union merged with the Tribune in 1992, he became a Union-Tribune columnist.
A California native, Rowe attended high school in Encinitas (San Dieguito) and college in La Jolla (UCSD).
He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Northwestern University.
He is a past president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, a former Fulbright scholar (Japan, 2003) and has won a handful of journalism awards. He'd trade them all for a chance to avenge his "Jeopardy!" loss (1994).
He has three sons.
Not one of them reads his stories.
He is married to a terrific woman who often rescues him from errors, in writing and in life.
These days, Rowe writes profiles and features.
He's even paid to review beers, which hardly seems fair.
He does not look like his photograph.

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VICTOR DeNOBLE STATEMENT

Scientists do research with the hope that we will have a positive impact on people’s lives.
I thought I would have that opportunity when I went to work at the Philip Morris Research Center.
I never dreamed that our research would be suppressed for over ten years and that it would take a major federal investigation, congressional hearings, and acts of Congress before my hope would be fulfilled.
Seventeen years ago, when Charlie approached me about doing a documentary, I didn’t think there was even a story.
I did not see the historical value of these events as they were unfolding, Charlie did!
I underestimated Charlie’s commitment and his passion for the project.
Working on this documentary helped me to realize how many hundreds, if not thousands, of people came together with a mission to create this public health policy change.
This documentary weaves together a multitude of events; the result of which will be felt for decades to come.
My parents nurtured in me a desire to help people.
It’s the reason I became a scientist and the reason I teach kids science.
I have dyslexia and ADHD.
When I was a kid, there was no understanding of what they were.
School, learning and just paying attention were always a struggle.
I was told I was stupid and that I may not graduate high school, much less go to college.
I believed it and I was wrong.
What motivates me today, is reaching out to kids who feel they can’t go beyond high school and show them that they have more opportunities open to them than they think.
This documentary isn’t the end of a story;
it’s just the first chapter of the events that led to the changes we’ve seen to the health policy within the United States.
The next chapters have begun to unfold with continued changes, not only in our Nation, but also with changes in public health policy in other nations around the world.

CHARLES EVANS, JR. BIO

At age nine, Charles Evans Jr.’s first film work was clearing 16mm trim bins (reconstituting picture and sound scraps) for his mother, documentarian Frances Evans, while she edited.
Evans earned his undergraduate degree at UC-Berkley with a major in “Short Story Writing.”
His thesis, a collection of short stories, won the University's Eisner Prize For Literature.
Evans went on to complete the production program at University of Southern California’s film school.
He wrote, produced and directed his thesis, “Second Son”.
Shot in 35mm, the film went on to win twelve awards including the Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand's competition.
Evans worked for two years at Touchstone Pictures as Director of Development for Randall Kleiser Productions, before founding Acappella Pictures in March, 1993.
Evans produced Johnny Depp's directorial debut, THE BRAVE, based on the novel by Gregory Mcdonald. Johnny and Marlon Brando starred.
he production was an official selection for competition in the 1997 Cannes film festival.
Evans' enduring commitment to produce a film on the life of Howard Hughes resulted in THE AVIATOR (2004, BAFTA, Golden Globes).

In his directorial debut, ADDICTION INCORPORATED, he tells the true story of how Victor DeNoble's unexpected discovery of an addiction ingredient in tobacco leads to both more addictive Marlboro cigarettes and Congressional testimony.
The public revelation of long held tobacco industry secrets leads journalists, politicians, attorneys and whistle blowers into an unexpected alliance, that achieves the first ever federal regulation of the tobacco industry.

“THE CAST”

VICTOR J. DeNOBLE

Dr. DeNoble received his Doctorate degree in 1976 in the field of Experimental Psychology from Adelphi University.
He held postdoctoral fellowships from both the National Institute of Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and the National Institute of Drug Abuse at the University of Minnesota.
In 1980, while still a postdoctoral fellow, DeNoble was recruited by Philip Morris Inc. to establish a Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory to support a nicotine analogue program to study the behavioral and physiological effects of nicotine.
Following his abrupt dismissal from Philip Morris in 1984, DeNoble worked in drug discovery for the DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company and Ayerst Research Laboratories, specializing in the area of Central Nervous System Diseases.
In 1994, after a congressional release from his confidentiality agreement with Philip Morris, DeNoble became the first “whistle-blower” to begin tearing down the wall of secrecy built by the tobacco industry.
He was a key witness in the federal government’s case against the industry and has testified before Congress, the Food and Drug Administration and former Vice President Al Gore’s Tobacco Settlement Committee.
Currently, DeNoble is the Vice President of Hissho, Inc., a scientific and medical communications company.

PAUL C. MELE [ helped Noble do nicotine addiction research ]

Paul Mele, Ph.D., received a B.S. in biology and psychology from Union College, and a Doctorate in Experimental Psychology from Adelphi University.
He held research positions at the University of Wisconsin, the Philip Morris Inc., and the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute.
In 1995, Dr. Mele moved into technology transfer as Chief, Office of Research and Technology Applications, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), where he guided WRAIR's technology transfer program on the development and commercialization of drugs, vaccines and medical devices in support of the Army's mission.
In 2000, he became the first Director of Technology Transfer for the Army's Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick.
In this capacity, Dr. Mele oversees the Army Medical Command's patent licensing program and coordinates technology transfer activities among its component laboratories, hospitals and health care centers.
Dr. Mele is a member of the Association of University Technology Managers, the Federal Laboratory consortium, and the Association of Government Toxicologists.
He has published and presented the results of a variety of scientific investigations, and he is the recipient of the 2005 Department of Defense Technology Transfer Award.

[ photos and bios of 18 other major people in the movie ]

Low doses of ethanol prevent harm from methanol from smoking and aspartame, which otherwise the human body always quickly turns into formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme inside the cells of blood vessels and many tissues.

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While Science Sleeps, methanol from cigarettes and aspartame becomes formaldehyde inside human cells -- Table of Contents, WC Monte bio, Kindle electronic book version $ 9.80 Amazon.com: Rich Murray 2012.01.26

2012-01-26T23:10:00.003-07:00

While Science Sleeps, methanol from cigarettes and aspartame becomes formaldehyde inside human cells -- Table of Contents, WC Monte bio, Kindle electronic book version $ 9.80 Amazon.com: Rich Murray 2012.01.26
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/while-science-sleeps-methanol-from.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1636

Low doses of ethanol prevent harm from methanol from smoking and aspartame, which otherwise, in humans alone, the body always quickly turns into formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme inside the cells of blood vessels and many tissues.

This is inevitably a co-factor in many diseases of civilization since 1800, ranging from heart disease to Alzheimers to cancers to birth defects like spina befida and autism, which all have been increasing rapidly since the approval of aspartame in 1981.

Prof. Woodrow C. Monte (Nutrition, Arizona State University, retired) sent Chapter 12, Autism and Other Birth Defects, to EFSA in early 2011 November, with a hundred mainstream scientific references, available
free as online full texts, in his comprehensive review "While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills", with 740 references, published January 1 2012.

Try the affordable $ 9.80 Kindle electronic version, readable on any computer with free software

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[ In Chapter 5, two-page Figure 5.2 has only the right page, but has both pages in Chapter 10 --
Table 5.2 Target Organs of Methanol Toxicity (Bad ADH Sites) gives detailed data for 10 organs, 19 diseases that all have increased the last 35 years, with many references for each -- the sites where the ADH enzyme turns methanol into formaldehyde inside cells, harming DNA, RNA, and proteins ]

Product Description

The introduction of aspartame into the food supply of the United States began in the summer of 1981.
Since that time, the incidence of Alzheimer’s deaths has increased 100 fold (10,000%).
Autism has, with no explanation, increased 25 times (2500%).
Autoimmune diseases have reached epidemic proportions,
with Lupus (SLE) up 300%,
and Multiple Sclerosis, Type II Diabetes and Rheumatoid Arthritis headed out of control.
Cancers, the hallmark of formaldehyde exposure, have exploded.
Skin cancer has shot up over 400%,
liver cancer has tripled,
kidney cancer has doubled,
and breast cancer is up 50%.
The list goes on.....

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:
A Time When All the Easy Questions Have Been Answered

Diseases Linked to Diet;
My Research Orientation;
Why Methanol;
Why Are Only Humans Harmed by Methanol?;
Ethanol and Methanol Fight for the Attention of the ADH Enzyme;
What Damage Can a Sip of Diet Soda Do?;
Why Would the Ethanol in Your Blood Vanish?;

Chapter 2:
Methanol: Where is it Found? How Can It Be Avoided?

Environmental Methanol;
Cigarette and Cigar Smoke;
Methanol in the Food Supply;
Bad News about Blackcurrants and Tomatoes;
Canned, Bottled, Jarred, and Aseptically Packaged Fruits and Vegetables and Their Juices;
The Italian and French Exception: Long, Slow Cooking with the Lid Ajar;
Aspartame -- a Very Big No!;
Smoked Foods;
Liquor or Schnapps Made from Rotting Fruit;

Chapter 3:
Man and Methanol: A Tragic History of Mutation and Deceit

A Curious Matter of Some Considerable Consequence;
The Ancient History of Methanol;
The Mutation of Eve;
What Is the Meaning of This Human Mutation?;
The Sordid History of Methanol in the Industrial Age;
The “Real” Killer Is Formic Acid: A Fairy Tale if Ever I Heard One;
The Tortured Toxicology of Methanol;
Minimum Lethal Dose;
Two Ways for Humans to Die from Methanol;
The Hard Way to Die from Methanol;
How Dangerous is Methanol?;
Infant Deaths from a Touch of Methanol;
The Big Lie;

Chapter 4:
Formaldehyde Is the Real Problem

The Look of DOC; [ modern Diseases of Civilization since 1800 ]
Methanol’s Formaldehyde;
An Untraceable and Invisible Killer;
Methanol is the Mother of the DOC, Not Their Cause;
Why is Formaldehyde a Danger?;
Why Is Methanol/Formaldehyde Being Ignored by Science?;
The Production, Use and Nature of Formaldehyde;
Putting Formaldehyde into Perspective: Meet Venus!;
The Two Faces of Formaldehyde: Base or Acid: Bad or Worse;
What Attaches to What and Why: the Many Bonds of Formaldehyde;
What You See Is What You Study!;
What about That Other Aldehyde: the Ethanol Aldehyde?;

Chapter 5:
The Silent Battle that Turns Methanol into Disease

Review;
Bad ADH and Good ADH III;
Alcohol Consumption;
The Brain and Alcohol;
The Diversion of Dr. Majchrowicz;
The REAL Lethal Dose of Methanol;
Where Methanol Turns into Disease: the Front Lines of the Battle for Your Life;

Chapter 6:
How Methanol Kills

Acute Methanol Poisoning;
An Experiment to Help Understand Methanol Poisoning;
Using Ethanol to Protect from Methanol;
The Lethal Dose of Methanol;
Hospital Admission;
The Symptoms of Acute Methanol Poisoning;
How does Methanol’s Formaldehyde Kill?;
Hallucinations, Delirium and Maniacal Behavior;
Formic Acid Causes None of These Symptoms;
Murder by Methanol;
The DOC: the Result of Nature and Nurture Working over the Course of a Lifetime;
Where Do the DOC Fit?
Categories of Disease;
Is Ethanol an Essential Nutrient?;
What Are the DOC?;

Chapter 7:
Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (Heart Disease)

The One Unifying Factor of All ACD;
The Long Slow Progression from Atheroma to Full-Blown Heart Disease;
Some Necessary Background;
The Approach that Modern Science Takes to Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease;
Formaldehyde from Methanol is the Cause of ACD;
How Methanol Causes Atheroma;
Where to Now?;
Does Diet Soda Cause Coronary Heart Disease?;
The Proper Interpretation of Animal Experiments to Test Methanol’s Safety;
The Circulatory System is a Target of Methanol Poisoning;
An Alcoholic’s Arteries;
The Girl Who Switched to Aspartame;
The U-Shaped Curve in Depth and Beyond… Far, Far Beyond;
Avoid Ethanol and Risk Disease;
The All-Important U-Shaped Curve;
The Details of the U-Shaped Curve Explained;
Keeping Ethanol in the Blood: The Genetic Bombshell

Chapter 8
Alzheimer’s Disease and its Perivascular Nature

Short History of Alzheimer’s;
The Ignored Epidemic of Alzheimer’s;
Methanol from Aspartame as a Cause of Alzheimer’s;
What Connects Methanol to Alzheimer’s;
The Scene of the Crime;
Quick Review;

Chapter 9:
Multiple Sclerosis

The Conflagration that is Multiple Sclerosis;
Listening to Nature’s Whispers;
The Scene of the Crime;
Location, Location, Location;
Details of Plaque Formation;
The Look, Touch, Taste and Smell of Multiple Sclerosis;
The Kitchen Autopsy;
The Cause of MS is within the Thickening Blood Vessels;
Symptoms Mean Little Unless They Are Identical in All Ways…Then They Mean Everything!;
Learn a Little About Arginine;
Myelin Basic Protein (MBP);
Looking for the Shadow of Formaldehyde;
“Woody… They Have Done Our Experiment for Us.… But They Just Don’t Get It!”;
Finding the Shadow of Formaldehyde in the MS Brain: The Smoking Gun (a Triple Blind Study);
Evidence That Methanol Causes MS;
The Etiology of Multiple Sclerosis -- Follow the Methanol;
A Food Scientist’s Nightmare Called Aspartame;
MS: a Disease of Colder Climates and Flush Toilets -- Before Aspartame;
A World Awash in MS after Aspartame;
Change in Frequency of MS by Sex: the Methanol Source -- Food or Smoke -- Makes All the Difference;
Can Methanol Really Cause MS?;
MS Can Be Found in Some Places, but Cannot be Found in Others;
Industrial Exposure to Methanol -- Jobs that Can Last for an Eternity;
Teachers’ Paradigm;
MS Treatment -- Pharmaceutical Placeboes or Perhaps Worse;
Conclusion and Review;

Chapter 10:
Classic Autoimmune Diseases Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis

The Scene of the Crime: the Antibody;
Autoantibody Production Enhanced Dramatically by Formaldehyde Treatment;
Systemic Lupus (SLE) and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA): Two Sisters of Atherosclerosis;
Cigarette Smoking Increases Risk of Both Lupus (SLE) and Rheumatoid Arthritis;
The U-shaped Curve of Ethanol’s Protection from Autoimmunity;
Is Aspartame the Cause of the Epidemic of Autoimmunity over the “Last Thirty Years”?;
A Few Words about Diabetes;

Chapter 11:
Cancers of Aspartame

Formaldehyde’s Cancer-Causing Prowess is Enhanced when it Comes from Methanol;
Thousands of Carcinogens Exist;
The Sensitive, Vulnerable, and Susceptible Will Be Lost First;
Brain Cancer: the Killing Begins;
Breast Cancer;
Why is the Human Breast Particularly Sensitive to Methanol?;
School Teachers Have Higher Risk of Breast Cancers;
Aspartame Causes Breast Cancer in Human Feeding Study Done by Searle;
The Scene of the Crime;
Matching Epidemics of Breast Cancer and Multiple Sclerosis: the Legacy of Aspartame;
Breast Cancer Increases as Does Popularity of Aspartame;
Genetic Distribution of Slow ADH Verses Fast ADH Linked to Breast Cancer Risk;
Exposure to Organic Solvents and Breast Cancer;
Cigarette Smoking with a U-Shaped Twist;
Cancer of the Kidney (Renal Cancers);
Melanoma and Cancers of the Skin;
Formaldehyde from Aspartame;
Young Women Take the Burden of the Epidemics of Two Skin Cancers;
Cancers of the Liver and Lungs;
The Strange Case of the Female Thyroid Gland;
Limitation of Animal Studies;

Chapter 12:
Autism and Other Birth Defects

Increase in Birth Defects in the U.S. as Aspartame Consumption Rises;
Birth Defects Caused by Aspartame’s Methanol;
What Might Have Been;
The Laboratory;
A Fire of Mysterious Origin;
The Hidden Epidemic of Neural Tube Defects;
Aborted Neural Tube Fetuses -- and Their Statistics -- Incinerated;
The Rush to Mandate Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid) Consumption to “Reduce Neural Tube Birth Defects”;
Folic Acid, the Dangerous Form of a Little-Known Vitamin;
The Chemistry of Folic Acid (Folate) Is Inseparable from Methanol and Formaldehyde;
Birth Defects Caused by Methanol from Cigarette Smoke;
Autism;
Silly Rat Pups;
Autism and Methanol -- the Same Target;
The Chemistry of Autism? One Word: Methylation;
Formaldehyde, or More Correctly, the Methylation It Causes, Is the “Ghost in Your Genes”;
Does Aspartame Cause Autism?;
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: “The American Paradox”;
Frank, the Friendly Face of Big Pharma;
Tidy Up;
Epilogue;

Biography

Dr. Woodrow C. Monte has decades of experience in food science and nutrition as a researcher, teacher, inventor, industry consultant and consumer advocate who is committed to food additive safety and the prevention of food borne diseases.
For over 30 years he has studied the link between artificial sweeteners and the diseases of civilization including Alzheimer's, Heart Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, numerous forms of cancer, Autism and other Birth Defects.

Dr. Monte's testimony before Congress was instrumental in the prevention of Sulfites from receiving status of US FDA GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe) and the implementation of mandatory labeling for most foods that contain this dangerous additive.

Through his research, Dr. Monte has been awarded 22 US patents.
He has shared his technical expertise during hundreds of television and radio appearances including a special feature on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and 60 Minutes.
He is the author of numerous scientific publications and the book While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills.

Dr. Monte is a dedicated scientist with both a Ph.D. and M.S. in Food Science and Nutrition and a B.S. in Biology.
He has been a Registered Dietician, Certified Nutrition Specialist AIN, professional member of the American Chemical Society and emeritus member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
In 1985, he was chosen by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars as a Senior Fulbright Scholar.

As Professor Emeritus of Nutrition from Arizona State University, Dr. Monte continues his study of the damaging effects of methanol in our food supply.

More information about Dr. Monte and his work can be found on his website: www.WhileScienceSleeps.com .

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new book, concise opus "While Science Sleeps" life saving facts re aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) -- 740 full text references are free online -- Woodrow "Woody" C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition,
Arizona State University: Rich Murray 2012.01.03
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ADHD and Food: The Connection Is Tenuous, Judith Warner, Time, JG Millichap, Pediatrics 2012.01.13 -- methanol from smoking or aspartame becomes formaldehyde in brain cells of the fetus via ADH enzyme, Prof. Woodrow C. Monte (Nutrition, retired) Arizona State University: Murray 2012.01.15

2012-01-15T23:44:00.002-07:00

ADHD and Food: The Connection Is Tenuous, Judith Warner, Time, JG Millichap, Pediatrics 2012.01.13 -- methanol from smoking or aspartame becomes formaldehyde in brain cells of the fetus via ADH enzyme, Prof. Woodrow C. Monte (Nutrition, retired) Arizona State University: Murray 2012.01.15
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/adhd-and-food-connection-is-tenuous.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1634

www.whilesciencesleeps.com
While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills
Prof. Woodrow C. Monte (Nutrition, retired) Arizona State University
the 740 references are available free online as full text pdfs

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Chapter 12

"Autism and other Birth Defects

Another long-term neurological malfunction has recently been linked to methanol exposure during pregnancy.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common childhood psychiatric disorder that affects between 3% and 5% of school aged children.
The majority of scientific studies identify maternal smoking during pregnancy as a risk factor for ADHD behaviors.
In fact, the risk for a diagnosis of ADHD in those individuals whose mothers smoked during pregnancy is a highly statistically significant two-fold increase.(572)
A liter of diet soda sweetened with aspartame provides to the maternal bloodstream an equal amount of methanol as does smoking a pack of cigarettes.
Aspartame in artificially sweetened soft drinks has now been shown to statistically increase a woman's risk of preterm delivery -- one of the major pregnancy complications and a leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality.(617)"

(572) Indredavik M, Brubakk A, Romundstad P, Vik T.
Prenatal smoking exposure and psychiatric symptoms in adolescence.
Acta Paediatr 2007;96(3):377-82.

(617) Halldorsson T, Strøm M, Petersen S, Olsen S.
Intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks and risk of preterm delivery: a prospective cohort study of 59,334 Danish pregnant women.
Am J Clin Nutr Doi:10.3945/Ajcn.2009.28968 2010.

http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/13/adhd-and-diet-the-connection-is-tenuous/?xid=gonewsedit

http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/13/adhd-and-diet-the-connection-is-tenuous/

CHILDREN
ADHD and Food: The Connection Is Tenuous
All we can say for sure about controlling a child's diet to treat ADHD is that it makes the parents feel better
By JUDITH WARNER @judithwarner January 13, 2012

Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/13/adhd-and-diet-the-connection-is-tenuous/#ixzz1jYFsTjbA

“The Diet Factor in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder,” the much-cited study released by the journal Pediatrics this week, did not make much of a case for using dietary change to treat Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
But it did make an interesting case for using food control to treat parents’ angst about their kids’ ADHD.

The study’s authors, J. Gordon Millichap, a neurologist, and Michelle M. Yee, a nurse-practitioner, who both specialize in ADHD at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, carried out a critical review of all the research literature dating back to 1976 listed by PubMed, the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s database of articles from scientific journals, relating to the use of diet and dietary supplements in treating ADHD.
They found that fish oil, in the right doses and combinations (still to be determined), might help with the cognitive and behavioral impairments associated with the disorder (though it’s still unproven.)
They found that it’s helpful to remove additives and preservatives from the diet of the kids (“a small subgroup”) who are sensitive to them.
Ditto for allergens for children who have food allergies.

(MORE: Warner: Getting Distracted from the Real Issues of ADHD)

They found iron supplements and zinc to be interesting ideas.
Sugar and aspartame?
More or less benign.

Most promisingly, Millichap and Yee reported an association between ADHD and children who ate a Western diet high in saturated fat, refined sugars and sodium, and lacking omega-3 fatty acids, fiber and folate.
They did not say why this association occurred, however, except to acknowledge that the direction of causality between bad food and bad behavior (or bad concentration, or self-regulation or any of the other problems associated with ADHD) could go either way.

“The relationship between a Western dietary pattern and ADHD may be mediated by other factors, such as poor family functioning and emotional distress, leading to a craving for fat-rich snack foods,” they wrote.
In other words, the stress of having ADHD or being in a family riddled with ADHD, could lead to overindulgence in unhealthy foods.

The only clear result from this exploration of the role of diet in ADHD was uncertainty, except when it came to parent behavior.
Regarding that, the authors noted that, no matter what they reported, parents were going to do what they wanted to do.
Take the longtime one-size-fits-all villain, sugar: “In practice, the link between sugar and hyperactive behavior is so universal in the opinion of parents of children with ADHD that no controlled study or physician counsel is likely to change this perception,” they wrote.

As we all know, cutting sugar can’t hurt.
And, ironically, the authors suggested, for non-dietary reasons, it might even help.
That’s because of the Hawthorne Effect -- a well-known research phenomenon whereby children (or adults) experience improvement in an area precisely because that area has been singled out for observation.
“The specific type of therapy or discipline may be less important than the attention provided by the treatment,” they explained.

(MORE: Warner: Overmedicating Foster Kids: The Cost of Skimping on Care)

The relationship between parents’ feelings and expectations and their perceptions of their children’s ADHD has been proven before. In the National Institute of Mental Health’s Collaborative Multisite Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD, or MTA study, the largest study of comparative ADHD treatments conducted to date, parents reported being most satisfied with their children’s progress when their kids were treated with behavioral therapy without medication -- despite the fact that behavioral therapy alone was nowhere nearly as effective as medication plus therapy (or medication alone) in reducing core ADHD symptoms.
Therapy improved the parent-child interaction, which made everyone feel (and no doubt, behave) better.
I would venture to say that not giving medication may have made parents feel a whole lot better about themselves, which, coupled with the special training they received, may have made them parent more competently, too -- and thus see better results in their kids.

A major problem with testing dietary remedies for ADHD is that factoring out the placebo effect is extremely difficult:
you can’t fake giving a kid a certain food, the way you can give a sugar pill instead of Ritalin.
But maybe, for kids whose symptoms are very mild and not particularly impairing, this doesn’t matter.
If dietary change produces positive alterations in the behavior, cognition and, in particular, self-judgment of parents, it may be a boon for children with ADHD as well.

Warner, a former contributing columnist for the New York Times, is the author, most recently, of We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication. The views expressed are solely her own.

Read other related stories about this:

ADHD: Diet Might Matter, But Less Than You Think USA Today

Is There an ADHD Diet? WedMD

Related Topics: ADHD, Diet, eating habits, fish oil, Hawthorne Effect, Millichap and Yee, MTA study, western diet, Children, Health & Science, Life & Style, Medicine, Psychology

Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/13/adhd-and-diet-the-connection-is-tenuous/#ixzz1jYGEODdH

http://www.judithwarneronline.com/jwarner-perfect-overview.htm

judith@judithwarneronline.com,

Judith Warner is best known for her 2005 New York Times best-seller,
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety,
and New York Times column, "Domestic Disturbances."

She remains a frequent contributor to the New York Times op-ed page,
and writes for The New York Times Magazine and other publications.

A former special correspondent for Newsweek in Paris,
she hosted "The Judith Warner Show" on XM satellite radio from 2005 to 2007,
and wrote the 1993 bestseller Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story,
as well as several other books.

She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and children.

Pediatrics. 2012 Jan 9. [Epub ahead of print]
The Diet Factor in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
Millichap JG, J. Gordon Millichap, MD, FRCP gmillichap@childrensmemorial.org,
Yee MM.
Source
Division of Neurology, Children's Memorial Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.

Abstract

This article is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the role of dietary methods for treatment of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) when pharmacotherapy has proven unsatisfactory or unacceptable.
Results of recent research and controlled studies, based on a PubMed search, are emphasized and compared with earlier reports.
The recent increase of interest in this form of therapy for ADHD, and especially in the use of omega supplements, significance of iron deficiency, and the avoidance of the "Western pattern" diet, make the discussion timely.
Diets to reduce symptoms associated with ADHD include sugar-restricted, additive/preservative-free, oligoantigenic/elimination, and fatty acid supplements. Omega-3 supplement is the latest dietary treatment with positive reports of efficacy, and interest in the additive-free diet of the 1970s is occasionally revived.
A provocative report draws attention to the ADHD-associated "Western-style" diet, high in fat and refined sugars, and the ADHD-free "healthy" diet, containing fiber, folate, and omega-3 fatty acids.
The literature on diets and ADHD, listed by PubMed, is reviewed with emphasis on recent controlled studies.
Recommendations for the use of diets are based on current opinion of published reports and our practice experience.
Indications for dietary therapy include
medication failure,
parental or patient preference,
iron deficiency,
and, when appropriate, change from an ADHD-linked Western diet to an ADHD-free healthy diet.
Foods associated with ADHD to be avoided and those not linked with ADHD and preferred are listed.In practice, additive-free and oligoantigenic/elimination diets are time-consuming and disruptive to the household;
they are indicated only in selected patients.
Iron and zinc are supplemented in patients with known deficiencies;
they may also enhance the effectiveness of stimulant therapy.
In patients failing to respond or with parents opposed to medication,
omega-3 supplements may warrant a trial.
A greater attention to the education of parents and children in a healthy dietary pattern, omitting items shown to predispose to ADHD, is perhaps the most promising and practical complementary or alternative treatment of ADHD.
PMID: 22232312

Key Words:
additive-free attention behavior diet elimination hyperactivity iron ketogenic oligoantigenic omega-3 pediatrics sucrose zinc
Abbreviations:
ADHD —
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
EFA —
essential fatty acids
EPD —
enzyme-potentiated desensitization
IGg —
immunoglobulin G
LC —
long chain
PUFA —
polyunsaturated fatty acids
Accepted October 5, 2011.
Published online January 9, 2012
(doi: 10.1542/peds.2011-2199)

"Environmental factors are prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal in origin.
Pregnancy- and birth-related risk factors include maternal smoking and alcohol ingestion, prematurity, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, and thyroid deficiency. Childhood illnesses associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder include virus infections, meningitis, encephalitis, head injury, epilepsy, toxins, and drugs. More controversial factors discussed are diet-related sensitivities and iron deficiency. "

Pediatrics. 2008 Feb;121(2):e358-65.
Etiologic classification of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Millichap JG.
Source
FRCP, Division of Neurology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60614, USA. gmillichap@childrensmemorial.org

Abstract

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is a neurobiological syndrome with an estimated prevalence among children and adolescents of 5%.
It is a highly heritable disorder, but acquired factors in etiology are sometimes uncovered that may be amenable to preventive measures or specific therapy.
Early reports have described symptoms similar to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder that followed brain trauma or viral encephalitis, and recent MRI studies have demonstrated brain volumetric changes that may be involved in the pathophysiology of the syndrome.
The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic Statistical Manual, introduced in 1968, emphasizes symptomatic criteria in diagnosis.
Here, an overview of environmental factors in the etiology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is presented to encourage more emphasis and research on organic causal factors, preventive intervention, and specific therapies.
An organic theory and the genetic and biochemical basis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder are briefly reviewed, and an etiologic classification is suggested. Environmental factors are prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal in origin.
Pregnancy- and birth-related risk factors include maternal smoking and alcohol ingestion, prematurity, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, and thyroid deficiency. Childhood illnesses associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder include virus infections, meningitis, encephalitis, head injury, epilepsy, toxins, and drugs. More controversial factors discussed are diet-related sensitivities and iron deficiency.
Early prenatal recognition, prevention, and treatment of environmental etiologies of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder may reduce physician reliance on symptomatic modification with medication, a frequent reason for parental concern.
PMID: 18245408 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free full text

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/121/2/e358.long

27 Thapar A, Fowler T, Rice F, et al. thapar@cf.ac.uk,
Maternal smoking during pregnancy and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in offspring.
Am J Psychiatry. 2003;160(11) :1985 - 1989
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28 Linnet KM, Daisgaard S, Obel C, et al. kmlinnet@ki.au.dk, co@alm.au.dk,
Maternal lifestyle factors in pregnancy risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and associated behaviors: review of the current evidence.
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29 Braun JM, Kahn RS, Froelich T, Auinger P, Lanphear BP. jbraun@hsph.harvard.edu, Peggy.Auinger@ctcc.rochester.edu, bruce.lanphear@cchmc.org, bruce.lamphear@cchmc.org
Exposures to environmental toxicants and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in U.S. children.
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30 Aronson M, Hagberg B, Gillberg C. hagberg@pediat.gu.se,
Attention deficits and autistic spectrum problems in children exposed to alcohol during gestation: a follow-up study.
Dev Med Child Neurol. 1997;39 (9):583 - 587 MedlineWeb of Science

31 Mick E, Biederman J, Faraone SV, Sayer J, Kleinman S. jbiederman@partners.org,
Case-control study of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and maternal smoking, alcohol use, and drug use during pregnancy.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2002;41 (4):378 - 385 CrossRefMedlineWeb of Science

32 Knopik VS, Heath AC, Jacob T, et al. Valerie_Knopik@brown.edu,
Maternal alcohol use disorder and offspring ADHD: disentangling genetic and environmental effects using a children-of-twins design.
Psychol Med. 2006;36(10) :1461 - 1471

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new book, concise opus "While Science Sleeps" life saving facts re
aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) -- 740 full text references are
free online -- Woodrow "Woody" C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition,
Arizona State University: Rich Murray 2012.01.03
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-book-concise-opus-while-science.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1631

Martini: Monte: Murray 2012.01.08 Fwd: Open Letter to EFSA - More FDA
Hidden Studies showing aspartame causes birth defects: Parliament
informed
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/martini-monte-murray-20120108-fwd-open.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1632

all diseases of civilization (not just aspartame) -- WC Monte paradigm
re harm to veins, tissues, and DNA via formaldehyde made in spots from
methanol: heart, strokes, cancers, Alzheimers, diabetes, arthritis,
lungs, eyes, lupus, MS, birth defects, autism, liver, kidney, thyroid,
skin -- easily prevented -- read his site and book "While Science
Sleeps" with 740 free full text references: Rich Murray 2012.01.13
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/all-diseases-of-civilization-not-just.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1633

"Of course, everyone has the fundamental priority to find and quickly
share evidence for healthy and safe diet, drink, and environment."

Rich Murray,
MA Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology,
BS MIT 1964 history and physics,
254-A Donax Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932
rmforall@gmail.com
505-819-7388
Skype audio, video rich.murray11

http://RMForAll.blogspot.com
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group with 1,231 members, 24,409 posts in a public archive

all diseases of civilization (not just aspartame) -- WC Monte paradigm re harm to veins, tissues, and DNA via formaldehyde made in spots from methanol: heart, strokes, cancers, Alzheimers, diabetes, arthritis, lungs, eyes, lupus, MS, birth defects, autism, liver, kidney, thyroid, skin -- easily prevented -- read his site and book "While Science Sleeps" with 740 free full text references: Rich Murray 2012.01.13

2012-01-13T08:40:00.001-07:00

all diseases of civilization (not just aspartame) -- WC Monte paradigm re harm to veins, tissues, and DNA via formaldehyde made in spots from methanol: heart, strokes, cancers, Alzheimers, diabetes, arthritis, lungs, eyes, lupus, MS, birth defects, autism, liver, kidney, thyroid, skin -- easily prevented -- read his site and book "While Science Sleeps" with 740 free full text references: Rich Murray 2012.01.13
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/all-diseases-of-civilization-not-just.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1633

This is a revolution, as profound and far reaching as the germ paradigm after 1860 -- now inspiring the spontaneous spread of productive research and diagnosis -- allowing treatment and prevention of diseases that harm all families and severely impair world society -- simple, safe, easy, inexpensive, universal, immediate: just avoid all common sources of methanol.

"Of course, everyone has the fundamental priority to find and quickly share evidence for healthy and safe diet, drink, and environment."

new book, concise opus "While Science Sleeps" life saving facts re
aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) -- 740 full text references are
free online -- Woodrow "Woody" C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition,
Arizona State University: Rich Murray 2012.01.03
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-book-concise-opus-while-science.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1631

Martini: Monte: Murray 2012.01.08 Fwd: Open Letter to EFSA - More FDA
Hidden Studies showing aspartame causes birth defects: Parliament
informed
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/martini-monte-murray-20120108-fwd-open.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1632

I welcome a vigorous process of global real-time peer review, including all points of view, allowing unedited public sharing of positively motivated, civil, specific detail oriented, collaborative discussion by fully identified participants, in the free public domain, based on public evidence and reason in the highest tradition of world science, without ad hominem attacks: rmforall.blogspot.com or any other suitable easily accessible venue.

Rich Murray,
MA Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology,
BS MIT 1964 history and physics,
254-A Donax Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932
rmforall@gmail.com
505-819-7388
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Martini: Monte: Murray 2012.01.08 Fwd: Open Letter to EFSA - More FDA Hidden Studies showing aspartame causes birth defects: Parliament informed

2012-01-08T12:50:00.001-07:00

Martini: Monte: Murray 2012.01.08 Fwd: Open Letter to EFSA - More FDA Hidden Studies showing aspartame causes birth defects: Parliament informed
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/martini-monte-murray-20120108-fwd-open.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1632

Hi Woody,

Betty Martini is doing pretty good polemics, quoting your opus "While Science Sleeps"...

within mutual service, Rich Murray

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum.
Date: Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:53 PM
Subject: Open Letter to EFSA - More FDA Hidden Studies showing aspartame causes birth defects: Parliament informed
To: food additives , PAQUES Maud

Dear Sandra:

We knew that when you had the call for data the only thing you would make public was industry studies and propaganda and not all the investigations and independent peer reviewed research we sent you. That's why it was all sent to Parliament at the same time it was sent to you. They know aspartame was never proven safe, that FDA wanted the company indicted, that studies were stripped from the records, and the only reason aspartame was ever marketed for human consumption was through political chicanery of Don Rumsfeld. They all have the link to the independent scientific peer reviewed research and the carcinogenic studies that showed aspartame caused cancer from the very beginning.

http://www.mpwhi.com/peer_reviewed_research.htm

Jerome Bressler who worked with the FDA, and author of the infamous Bressler Report requested that I find the two studies FDA stripped from his report because he said it was important that the public be warned about the birth defects. It took 8 years but here they are and Parliament has seen them:

http://www.mpwhi.com/complete_bressler_report.pdf

The rest of the Bressler Report is on our web site. You recall the UK Parliament was very concerned about putting a warning for birth defects after the Denmark study showing aspartame can jump preterm births 78%. Notice these studies FDA sealed and hid from the public in loyalty to industry has the FDA admitting that aspartame causes birth defects. You can understand now the epidemic in autism. Parliament also knows about all the other recent studies that showed everything from heart attacks, obesity and strokes and elevated fasting blood sugar and cancer.

Now more sealed original studies that were hid from the public and also go into hydrocephalus and cleft palate, etc. were acquired by Dr. Woodrow Monte and are now discussed in his new book on the methanol in aspartame, "When Science Sleeps". Here are those studies:

[ http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/references/ ]

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/pdf/677.pdf

[ 677. Collins TFX. Memorandum: Aspartame shown to cause nural tube birth defects in the New Zealand rabit, an animal very resistant to methanol poisoning. Freedom of information: Department of Health Education and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration; 1978.
8 pages, 7.3 MB September 11, 1978 ]

This makes 6 of the original studies showing beyond a shadow of a doubt that aspartame causes birth defects, with the FDA admitting it.

Now let's read some from the book, which Parliament should get immediately also, because it's on the methanol and formaldehyde issues, which Jim McDonald of the UK Aspartame Awareness Campaign has made public.

[ http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/While%20Science%20Sleeps%20-%20Chapter%2012%20(ref).pdf ]

"In an article published in 1985 warning about potential health dangers posed by the methanol from aspartame, I stated that the scientific literature contained no studies addressing the critical question as to whether aspartame or methanol would cause birth defects. I was incorrect in saying that, but only because I was purposefully prevented from seeing a key FDA memo dated September 11, 1978 describing the details of birth defects and serious developmental brain damage found in the offspring of laboratory rabbits whose mothers had been fed aspartame during pregnancy. This memo and the research data it describes were keep secret for over thirty years until January of 2011, when the memo was finally released as the result of Freedom of information request."

"In that detailed US Food and Drug Administration memo, which was authored by Dr. Thomas Collins of the Animal Toxicology Branch to the Chief of the Food Additive Evaluation Branch, Collins reports the disturbing discovery of "significant" multiple neural tube (and other) birth defects in rabbit pups whose mothers were fed aspartame during the course of several different toxicity studies done by both G. D. Searle and Hazelton Laboratories between 1974 and 1975. It appeared to be Dr. Collins' assignment to evaluate the studies and his conclusions were stunning: "In both rabbit studies, aspartame appeared to cause birth defects."

"To my knowledge, this book is the first time this memo has been discussed publicly. Like most of the scientific community, I had no idea that aspartame had tested positive for producing neural tube birth defects. It was not until January 16, 2011 that this "smoking gun" memo came into my possession. This is one of many important that were removed from the aspartame Docket File before I was allowed to review it in 1983. Figure 12.1 is an image of the ticket that gave me access to the FDA's "complete" collection of aspartame test data and it does confirm that memos had been removed."

IMPORTANCE of the Collins Memo: Government Collusion Uncovered

"Of the several million chemicals, pesticides and herbicides now in use only an exceedingly small percentage have ever tested positive for causing birth defects. Barely 800 chemicals are known teratogens, producing birth defects in laboratory animals, and "only about twenty of these are known to cause birth defects in the human. Nature has numerous methods, the exact details of which are still unknown to us, for protecting the developing infant. As a last resort she will often call upon the macrophages to destroy a fetus that becomes unfit for life well before the time of birth, in a process called resorption. This is why the occurrence of a deformed fetus in the testing of any chemical is a rare phenomenon and would normally raise a "red flag" to any scientist concerned with public safety. It would be particularly significant if that chemical was being tested for use as a food additive."

"It was not until 20 years after the 1978 FDA memo that methanol was first tested again and found to cause neural tube birth defects in rats and eventually in many other species of laboratory animal. To this day aspartame is not listed as a teratogen because the FDA and G. D. Searle covered up the tests that were performed in 1974 and 1975. Worse yet, during the time they were in possession of this proof of aspartame's teratogenicity, Searle paid to have a faux scientific paper written by one of their employees published in an international fertility journal (which is read by many gynecologists and pediatricians) stressing the safety of aspartame and falsely proclaiming that "aspartame posed no risk" from consumption during pregnancy." ..........

"Tragically, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) kept the Collins memo secret from the Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR) throughout its entire two year investigation of methanol's potential to cause birth defects. This was done despite the fact that both the FDA and the CERHR are part of the same public agency -- the Department of Health and Human Services. The final CERHR report published in September of 2009 mentions aspartame no fewer than 93 times and raises many questions about its potential for teratogenicity. These questions could have been answered by giving the committee access to the Collins memo and other studies to which the Collins memo refers that are still hidden in the vaults of the FDA. It is noteworthy that two of the 11 voting members of the expert panel, both representing the US Environmental Protection Agency, refused to sign off on the summary of the CERHR methanol report and, in fact, initiated a formal dissent that warned of "a greater risk to vulnerable populations of pregnant women" than the compromised final report of the CERHR expert panel alleged. The most senior of the dissenting scientists, J. Michael Davis, Ph.D. reveals in his strongly worded five page formal dissent that "factual errors and omissions" prompted him not to sign the final report. He goes on:

"As just one example, the missing pages from the 1986 NEDO (New Energy Development Organization) report, which I identified and provided to the CERHR contractor, were evidently never provided to members of the Panel. The pages in question included a table showing reductions in brain weight in a two generation rat study that had been replicated in a special ancillary study... if nothing else, omission of this information creates the impression that the Panel failed to consider all relevant information." (I must point out here that autistic children often present with a reduced brain size at birth.)" [ end of this part of the book ]

Methanol is one very big reason for birth defects but the 50% phenylalanine is another reason, and Dr. Louis Elsas testified before Congress in this regard. There was such an outrage because so many of the population were being poisoned from aspartame, there were three congressional hearings between 1985 and 1987. Politics and power prevented Senator Metzenbaum's bill from getting out of committee, a story in itself. He wanted a moratorium put on aspartame while NIH did independent studies on the problems being seen in the population such as with the fetus, behavioral problems in children, drug interaction, seizures, etc. You might want to read the Report For Schools:

http://www.mpwhi.com/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm

So babies never had a chance. Think how many women grow up wanting a family and can't have children, never knowing that aspartame is an endocrine disrupting agent, stimulates prolactin, changes the menses and causes infertility. Then if they get off aspartame and get pregnant and get back on it, its also an abortifacient and a teratogen:

http://www.rense.com/general/asp.htm

THREATENING RESEARCHERS AND MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENTS:

We're all kind of sick of death threats and mysterious accidents. If you read the UPI investigation which was sent to Parliament:

http://www.mpwhi.com/upi_1987_aspartame_report.pdf

Note that Dr. Richard Wurtman was threatened by the Vice President of Searle if he did studies on aspartame and seizures his research funds would be rejected, they were. Today MIT gets research funds but Dr. Wurtman no longer speaks out about aspartame.

Dr. James Bowen has been threatened so many times and had so many accidents, break-ins and such he could write a book on it. He has ALS from aspartame.

Dr. Maria Alemany who did the Trocho study, which proved the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol embalms living tissue and damages DNA, by which you can destroy humanity, told me when I was in Barcelona, that the aspartame manufacturers tried to assassinate his character because he did the study. He also said that after doing the study he knew aspartame would kill 200 million people. Tephly tried to rebut the study but later admitted he used the wrong test. The aspartame industry are scholars at that. In the protest of the National Soft Drink Assn. it was even admitted that Searle used the wrong test that wouldn't pick up the aspartic acid (the excitotoxin in aspartame that stimulates the neurons of the breath to death causing brain damage -- Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.) Industry later even got to them and they turned around and lobbied for NutraSweet which is why the protest was added to the congressional record which is on www.mpwhi.com-- scroll down to banners.

When I lectured in the UK I was amused that Immigration locked me up for 3 1/2 hours after confiscating all material on aspartame. Their questions were not the usual ones immigration asks such as, "If we allow you in England, how many people will find out about the dangers of aspartame?" They then took me to a physician to see if I was in condition to be interrogated because they said I had been on a plane for 12 hours. They made the mistake of putting Dr. Roberts medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, 1000 pages, on the doctor's desk. He looked at it and said, "I use aspartame". I said, 'Well, you're going to die!" He said, "But I'm diabetic!" I responded, "Then you will die first? " Dr. Roberts is a diabetic specialist and after reading the chapter he told Immigration: "Give this woman back everything you confiscated on aspartame and let her go."

When I lectured in Shrewsbury Shropshire, the manufacturer's legal department sent a mole to record my lecture. The second time I lectured in the UK the mainstream press didn't write more articles and some told me the newspapers had been intimidated by attorneys from the aspartame industry. My goodness, are they scared!

Now let's get back to the book and talk about Dr. Monte:

"A Fire of Mysterious Origin":

"All that remains with me of the night my home exploded in flames is the aftermath. I have a recurring memory of lying on a gurney in a hospital emergency room in Tempe, Arizona, with a physician repeatedly jabbing me in my left hand with a large gauge hypodermic needle. He was looking for an artery from which to extract a blood sample in order to prove that I had actually been in a fire, despite the fact that an ambulance had taken me directly from the fire to the hospital. The pain was excruciating, far worse than my burns. The rude awakening brought clarity to the fact that I had barely escaped a possible attempt on my life that had to be taken seriously. I vowed then that I would stay alive long enough to reveal the truth about aspartame and resolve the question of whether Joy had been killed by this deadly component of diet sodas."

Joy was a baby who died from aspartame's birth defects.

Then there was my trip to New Zealand when Abby Cormack became very sick on aspartame. She is fine now since she abstained. First my bags with lecture material mysteriously disappeared. Read the story: Dying for a Diet Coke:

http://www.rense.com/general78/dying.htm

There was so much publicity that people would stop you in the street and say, "I had the problems Abby had and got off aspartame my symptoms disappeared."

Then the New Zealand Food Safety Authority put out releases, that read like they were written by Ajinomoto, trying to get people not to listen to Abby or me and just get on their web site and read about aspartame's safety. They actually wanted them to get back on aspartame so they would get sick again.

Well, it didn't work, so Coke sent an aspartame flack to New Zealand to try and get their profits back up. Abby did a brilliant job of debating her. While I was there, the aspartame industry actually got into my web site and added a note not to believe me. It could only be read by those in New Zealand, who alerted me.

Then the NZFSA had a consumer meeting for information on aspartame and called for material to show the damage. I had it and was standing at their door. They refused to let me in so the information would not be heard, even though I had come 10,000 miles.

When I was in St. Louis giving out flyers I was stopped by a man who said, "I know more about aspartame than you do." We got in a conversation and it turns out a physician admitted that doctors there were threatened if they told anyone that aspartame causes Alzheimers, they would be sued.

Also, an informant said the National Soft Drink Association did a 10 year study, and never published i,t proving aspartame causes birth defects, Alzheimers and blindness. When I met someone from NSDA (now American Beverage) she said, "You couldn't possibly have those studies."

I could go on and on!

After getting all information to Parliament I sent them this report with quotes from the experts:

http://www.mpwhi.com/efsa_cheats_about_aspartame.htm

Here is an article that was just published in a UK paper about a woman with lymphoma and notice the Diet Coke in her hand:
Also note the comment by Jim McDonald of the UK Aspartame Awareness Campaign.
What are methanol and formaldehyde known to cause? Lymphoma and leukemia!
What did Dr. Morando Soffritti find on one of his aspartame studies showing it to be a multipotential carcinogen? Lymphoma and leukemia.

Many years ago Dr. H. J. Roberts sent me a picture of Jacqueline Kennedy with a Diet Coke. What did she die of? Lymphoma, same disease as this woman has.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2083131/Fake-tan-saved-life-Girl-discovers-lump-neck-getting-glammed-night-out.html

“The illustration of beautiful young Kathryn Fish, clutching a bottle of diet coke with both hands is a frightening picture to me. I wonder if this young lady is a heavy user or even dependant on (addicted to) this very popular carbonated product? If so, the many other comments here regarding the artificial sweetener aspartame are absolutely correct. What is not well known is aspartame’s best kept secret -- 10% of aspartame METHANOL.

Very few people, including practically all our GP’s and other medical practitioners are aware of this. Methanol is a severe metabolic poison in humans, it is a slow stealthy poison which builds up over time 0-20 years, eventually causing neurological, organ and tissue damage. Anyone reading this post who is, or knows someone who is a heavy user of chewing gum, diet drinks or flavoured water containing aspartame should contact their GP and advise them of the heavy use –- GP’s need to question the FSA about the methanol in aspartame. The best of luck, Kathryn.”
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So why have I written you and let you know we notified the UK and Scottish Parliament, UK media and others of what you intended to do in advance (give only industry's side and propaganda)? Because it's over, Sandra. The information is all over the Internet and all over the world. Aspartame facts are in more medical texts and books than I can count, and this last one on the free methyl alcohol by Dr. Woodrow Monte just hammered the last nail in the coffin. If EFSA dares to try and say aspartame is safe in this review, with all the evidence it will only come back on EFSA. They also have the article about how many of you have links to the aspartame industry, more than half.

Why government organizations like yourself have loyalty to industry is beyond me. Don't you know it will affect your own families. There are no perks or jobs or money that are worth poisoning the world, as aspartame has done. The FDA's excuse to me by phone was "so what, we need to depopulate". Anyone this evil has to be possessed. No normal human would make such a remark.

I hope you understand now, its over. Nobody in the EU or Parliament are going to believe it, if you try to make them believe aspartame is safe.

New movies continue to come out exposing more and more information that has been hidden. Stay tuned. Some think its been protected because of the power of Donald Rumsfeld who through political chicanery when he worked for G.D. Searle got aspartame marketed.

Why the government would protect a manufacturer who is guilty of Title 18 of the Domestic Genocide code is beyond me. Think of those in prison for methanol poisoning when the victim unknowingly poisoned himself because he wasn't aware of the methanol in aspartame. For those reading this that want the whole story they can email me at bettym19@mindspring.com and ask for the Aspartame Resource Guide.

Think of the epidemic of autism and read about it in Dr. Monte's book.

The ADD people, Feingold, said in one of the movies, "before aspartame approval we didn't even use the terms ADD and ADHD". Think of our precious children, those with autism, those victims who live with MS because of it, those who have gone blind, and those who have perished. That doesn't even discuss all the other horrors mentioned in the medical texts.

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International
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Duluth, Georgia 30097
770 242-2599
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new book, concise opus "While Science Sleeps" life saving facts re
aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) -- 740 full text references are
free online -- Woodrow "Woody" C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition,
Arizona State University: Rich Murray 2012.01.03

http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-book-concise-opus-while-science.html

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1631

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about 240 pages text, with 740 full text references free online
$ 37.98 paperback -- see:

www.WhileScienceSleeps.com

http://www.amazon.com/review/RNGG3O7U33VCV

Customer Review

life saving facts -- the life work of an earnest, careful, caring,
bold expert, December 30, 2011
By Mr. Richard T. Murray "rmforall"

This review is from: While Science Sleeps (Paperback)

This work is the culmination of a professional lifetime dedicated to
elucidating the key biochemical details of methanol (formaldehyde)
toxicity, starting with a comprehensive warning review in 1984, with
62 references, by the earnest, careful, bold Woodrow "Woody"
C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition, Arizona State University.

He has been sharing his research with me since 1999, including
parts of this masterpiece, as it evolved during the last three years.

Aspartame is indeed 11% methanol (wood alcohol), which the
human body quickly turns into formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme,
concentrated in many tissues: liver, kidney, brain, retina, skin,
muscle, lung, prostate, breast, womb, fetus -- forming cumulative
micro lesions, binding to and disabling DNA, RNA, and proteins,
and so causing a wide variety of symptoms.

Other methanol (formaldehyde) sources include wood and tobacco
smoke, dark wines and liquors, fruits and vegetables heated in
sealed metal and glass containers, and aspartame, as well as a
variety of products ranging from medicines to new carpet, drapes,
and furniture to mobile homes.

People vary enormously in individual vulnerability.

Google "While Science Sleeps" to reach his website, where you
can download for free his 1984 and 2010 reviews, and the final
chapter 12 re birth defects and autism type diseases.

1. Monte WC. Aspartame; Methanol and the Public Health.
Journal of Applied Nutrition 1984;36(1):42-58. 16 pages

586. Monte W. Methanol: A chemical Trojan horse as the root of
the inscrutable U.
Med Hypotheses 2010;74(3):493-6. 4 pages.

Download free Chapter 12 of the book "While Science Sleeps", re
methanol, formaldehyde, birth defects, autism type diseases, with
100 mainstream full text research paper references -- 25 pages.

Then, search Google for other research and news:

Amid health fears, Diet Coke sweetener [aspartame] in safety
spotlight, Sean Poulter, UK Daily Mail 2011.05.27, 141 comments:
Rich Murray 2011.05.30

Pass the good words, friends !

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/references/

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/While%20Science%20Sleeps%20-%20Chapter%2012%20(ref).pdf

Amid health fears, Diet Coke sweetener [aspartame] in safety
spotlight, Sean Poulter, UK Daily Mail 2011.05.27, 141 comments:
Rich Murray 2011.05.30

http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/05/amid-health-fears-diet-coke-sweetener.html

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1625

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BS MIT 1964 history and physics,
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new book, concise opus "While Science Sleeps" life saving facts re aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) -- 740 full text references are free online -- Woodrow "Woody" C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition, Arizona State University: Rich Murray 2012.01.03

2012-01-03T21:51:00.002-07:00

new book, concise opus "While Science Sleeps" life saving facts re
aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) -- 740 full text references are
free online -- Woodrow "Woody" C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition,
Arizona State University: Rich Murray 2012.01.03

http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-book-concise-opus-while-science.html

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1631

http://www.amazon.com/While-Science-Sleeps-Woodrow-Monte/dp/1452893675/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1325344126&sr=8-2

about 240 pages text, with 740 full text references free online
$ 37.98 paperback -- see:

www.WhileScienceSleeps.com

http://www.amazon.com/review/RNGG3O7U33VCV

Customer Review

life saving facts -- the life work of an earnest, careful, caring,
bold expert, December 30, 2011
By Mr. Richard T. Murray "rmforall"

This review is from: While Science Sleeps (Paperback)

This work is the culmination of a professional lifetime dedicated to
elucidating the key biochemical details of methanol (formaldehyde)
toxicity, starting with a comprehensive warning review in 1984, with
62 references, by the earnest, careful, bold Woodrow "Woody"
C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition, Arizona State University.

He has been sharing his research with me since 1999, including
parts of this masterpiece, as it evolved during the last three years.

Aspartame is indeed 11% methanol (wood alcohol), which the
human body quickly turns into formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme,
concentrated in many tissues: liver, kidney, brain, retina, skin,
muscle, lung, prostate, breast, womb, fetus -- forming cumulative
micro lesions, binding to and disabling DNA, RNA, and proteins,
and so causing a wide variety of symptoms.

Other methanol (formaldehyde) sources include wood and tobacco
smoke, dark wines and liquors, fruits and vegetables heated in
sealed metal and glass containers, and aspartame, as well as a
variety of products ranging from medicines to new carpet, drapes,
and furniture to mobile homes.

People vary enormously in individual vulnerability.

Google "While Science Sleeps" to reach his website, where you
can download for free his 1984 and 2010 reviews, and the final
chapter 12 re birth defects and autism type diseases.

1. Monte WC. Aspartame; Methanol and the Public Health.
Journal of Applied Nutrition 1984;36(1):42-58. 16 pages

586. Monte W. Methanol: A chemical Trojan horse as the root of
the inscrutable U.
Med Hypotheses 2010;74(3):493-6. 4 pages.

Download free Chapter 12 of the book "While Science Sleeps", re
methanol, formaldehyde, birth defects, autism type diseases, with
100 mainstream full text research paper references -- 25 pages.

Then, search Google for other research and news:

Amid health fears, Diet Coke sweetener [aspartame] in safety
spotlight, Sean Poulter, UK Daily Mail 2011.05.27, 141 comments:
Rich Murray 2011.05.30

Pass the good words, friends !

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/references/

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/While%20Science%20Sleeps%20-%20Chapter%2012%20(ref).pdf

exploring While Science Sleeps at amazon.com: Monte: Murray 2012.01.21

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$ 37.98
click on book image on left to Look Inside!
[ at top center, zoom - , zoom + ]
front cover art by Becky Miller -- grieving mother hugs child,
second page, While Science Sleeps art --
depressed science collapsed helpless in bed
as angel waits to offer shining knife of inquiry,
about the author,
table of contents 2 pages,
1-6 start of text,
try random surprise! samples: maybe
25-26,
31-35,
161-164,

217-221 index,
rear cover with charts for USA aspartame sold vs
Alzheimer's deaths ( grew 100 times 1981 to 2000 ) and
autism cases ( grew 2,000 to 140,000 cases 1985 to 1996, adjusted to birth date )

use the search box and enter "multiple sclerosis"
to see a list of 71 results as page numbers and phrases,
with blue color indicating full pages to read,
for instance, Introduction iii-vi, 9-17, 20-21 --
enough to learn quite a lot.

It's really easy to get hooked !

Amid health fears, Diet Coke sweetener [aspartame] in safety
spotlight, Sean Poulter, UK Daily Mail 2011.05.27, 141 comments:
Rich Murray 2011.05.30

http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/05/amid-health-fears-diet-coke-sweetener.html

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1625

aspartame water in rats for 6 months causes liver harm,
RH Nair et al, Mahatma Gandhi U, Food Chem Toxicol 2011.03.02:
Rich Murray 2011.03.12

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1620

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21376768

Food Chem Toxicol. 2011 Mar 2. [Epub ahead of print]
Effect of long term intake of aspartame on antioxidant defense
status in liver.
Abhilash M, Paul MV, Varghese MV, Nair RH,
School of Biosciences,
Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, 686560.
harikumarannair@hotmail.com, harinair@fastmail.fm,

careful expert lifetime study on mice shows liver and lung cancers
from aspartame, M Soffritti et al, Ramazzini Institute, Italy, checked
by US National Toxicology Program experts, confirms many
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methanol into formaldehyde in brain via ADH enzyme:
589 references, WC Monte, retired Prof. Nutrition:
Rich Murray 2011.01.08

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1614

aspartame abstinance cures fibromyalgia chronic pain in 2 French
adults: R Ciappuccini et al, Clin Exp Rheumatol 2010 Nov:
Rich Murray 2010.02.19

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1617

formaldehyde from 0.2 mg daily methanol from aspartame in
Singulair (montelukast) chewable asthma medicine causes severe
allergic dermatitis in boy, SE Jacob et al, Pediatric Dermatology
2009 Nov: Rich Murray 2010.09.27

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1613

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/references/

617. Halldorsson T, Strøm M, Petersen S, Olsen S.
Intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks and risk of preterm
delivery: a prospective cohort study of 59,334 Danish pregnant women.
Am J Clin Nutr Doi:10.3945/Ajcn.2009.28968 2010. full text PDF

sweeteners (aspartame), methanol (becomes formaldehyde), and premature
babies in Denmark, TI Halldorsson et al 2010.06.30 AmJClinNutr: Erik
Millstone: Betty Martini: Rich Murray 2010.07.08

http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010/07/sweeteners-aspartame-methanol-becomes.html

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1609

Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Jun 30. [Epub ahead of print] 8 pages
Intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks and risk of preterm
delivery: a prospective cohort study of 59,334 Danish
pregnant women.
Halldorsson TI, lur@ssi.dk;
Strøm M, mrm@ssi.dk;
Petersen SB, marp@sund.ku.dk;
Olsen SF. sfolsen@hsph.harvard.edu;
Centre for Fetal Programming, Division of Epidemiology,
Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, Reykjavik,
Iceland.
Thorhallur I Halldorsson,
Marin Strøm,
Sesilje B Petersen,
and Sjurdur F Olsen

Abstract

BACKGROUND:
Sugar-sweetened soft drinks have been linked to a number
of adverse health outcomes such as high weight gain.
Therefore, artificially sweetened soft drinks are often
promoted as an alternative.
However, the safety of artificial sweeteners has been
disputed, and consequences of high intakes of artificial
sweeteners for pregnant women have been minimally
addressed.
OBJECTIVE:
We examined the association between intakes of
sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened soft drinks
and preterm delivery.
DESIGN:
We conducted prospective cohort analyses of 59,334
women from the Danish National Birth Cohort (1996-2002).
Soft drink intake was assessed in midpregnancy by using a
food-frequency questionnaire.
Preterm delivery (<37 wk) was the primary outcome measure.
Covariate information was assessed by telephone interviews.
RESULTS:
There was an association between intake of artificially
sweetened carbonated and noncarbonated soft drinks and an increased
risk of preterm delivery (P for trend: 0.001, both variables).

In comparison with women with no intake of artificially
sweetened carbonated soft drinks,
the adjusted odds ratio for women who consumed 1 to 3
serving of artificially sweetened carbonated
soft drinks/d was 1.38 (95% CI: 1.15, 1.65).

The corresponding odds ratio for women who consumed 4 to more
servings of artificially sweetened carbonated
soft drinks/d was 1.78 (95% CI: 1.19, 2.66).

The association was observed for normal-weight and
overweight women.

A stronger increase in risk was observed for early preterm
and moderately preterm delivery than with late-preterm
delivery.

No association was observed for sugar-sweetened
carbonated soft drinks (P for trend: 0.29)
or for sugar-sweetened noncarbonated soft drinks
(P for trend: 0.93).

CONCLUSIONS:
Daily intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks may increase
the risk of preterm delivery.
Further studies are needed to reject or confirm these findings.
PMID: 20592133

1. From the Centre for Fetal Programming,
Division of Epidemiology,
Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
(TIH, MS, SBP, and SFO);
the Unit for Nutrition Research,
Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition,
School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland (TIH),
Reykjavik, Iceland;
and the Department of Nutrition,
Harvard School of Public Health. Boston, MA (SFO).

2 Supported by the European Union (EU)
Integrated Research Project
EARNEST (FOOD-CT-2005-007036).
The EU project EARNEST
http://www.metabolic-programming.org receives financial
support from the Commission
of the European Communities under the FP 6 priority 5:
food quality and safety.
The Danish National Birth Cohort has been financed by the
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation,
the Danish Heart Association,
the Danish Medical Research Council,
and the Sygekassernes Helsefond,
Danish National Research Foundation,
Danish Pharmaceutical Association,
Ministry of Health, National Board of Health,
Statens Serum Institut.

3 Address correspondence to TI Halldorsson,
Centre for Fetal Programming,
Division of Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institut,
Artillerivej 5, Building 206, DK-2300
Copenhagen S, Denmark. E-mail: lur@ssi.dk;
Received November 19, 2009.
Accepted for publication June 3, 2010.
doi: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.28968.

Of the 59,334 pregnant women,

over 4 artificially sweetened
carbonated soft drinks daily __ 340 0.6 %

noncarbonated soft drinks __ 1,753 3.0 %

2-3 cans daily artificially
carbonated _______________ 834 1.4 %

noncarbonated ___________ 3,643 6.1 %

So, over 3% of pregnant women in 1996-2002
used 4 or more artificially sweetened soft drinks daily,
while over 6 % had 2-3 drinks daily.

This does not include aspartame from other foods.

"A monitoring survey from 2005 quantified artificial
sweeteners in 76 soft drinks from the Danish market (30).
For carbonated soft drinks, aspartame and
acesulfame-K were primarily used in products from the
major international brands, and the average concentration of
these 2 sweeteners was around 2--3-fold higher
in carbonated than in noncarbonated soft drinks (30)."

"After ingestion, aspartame is broken down into aspartic acid,
phenylalanine, and methanol.
Methanol is oxidized into formaldehyde and then to
formic acid, which is considered responsible
for the toxic effects of methanol.
Despite arguments that aspartame intake should not affect
blood methanol concentrations (34), animal studies have
reported the accumulation of formaldehyde adducts derived
from aspartame in tissue components (22).
This might be one explaining factor for reports on headaches
linked to the intake of aspartame (10).
More relevant to our findings, a study in low dose methanol
exposure through inhalation in nonhuman primates observed
a significant decrease in the length of gestation in exposed
animals compared with control animals (21).
A shortening of gestation was even observed at methanol
vapor concentrations that barely affected blood methanol
concentrations in these animals (200 ppm; 2.5 h/d).
Furthermore, 5 out of 28 exposed animals needed medical
intervention and were delivered by cesarean delivery either
because of vaginal bleeding (n = 4) or unproductive labor
(n = 1).
None of the 9 control animals required cesarean delivery.
The authors suggested that the observed shortening of
gestation could either be related to the effects of methanol
on the fetal neuroendocrine system
(hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis) or an indirect
action of methanol on the maternal uterine environment.
The latter explanation would be more compatible with our
findings of an increased risk of medically induced preterm
deliveries."

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589 references -- click on each title for free full pdf

http://whilesciencesleeps.com/references/pdf/7
22. Trocho C. Pardo R. Fafecas I. Virgili J. Remesar X.
Fernandez-Lopez. J;
"A.1998. Formaldehyde derived from dietary aspartame
binds to tissue components in vivo", Life Sci 63: 337

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21. Burbacher T, Grant K, Shen D, Sheppard L,
Damian D, Ellis S, et al.; 2004. tmb@u.washington.edu;
"Chronic maternal methanol inhalation in nonhuman primates
(Macaca fascicularis): reproductive performance and
birth outcome.", Neurotoxicol Teratol 26(5):639-50

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10. Jacob SE. Stechschulte S.; 2008
"Formaldehyde, aspartame, and migraines:
a possible connection", Dermatitis 19(3):E10-1

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"Formaldehyde, aspartame, migraines: a possible connection.
(comment on).", Dermatitis 20(3):176-7.

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"Formaldehyde, aspartame, migraines: a possible connection.
(author reply).", Dermatitis 20(3):177-9.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum."

To:
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 11:19 AM
Subject: Fwd: Sweeteners, methanol and
premature deliveries - new study

Dear Erik,

Thank you so much.

Of course, fetal tissue does not tolerate methanol and
aspartame triggers birth defects and mental retardation.
http://www.rense.com/general/asp.htm

Interestingly, in restaurants so many times you see these
signs, "If you're pregnant, don't use alcohol -- can cause birth
defects".
If just alcohol is known to cause birth defects, anyone of
intelligence knows that methanol or wood alcohol, a severe
metabolic poison, would be worse.

Then you have the phenylalanine
www.mpwhi.com/louis_elsas_testifying_to_congress.htm

Yet, government agencies refuse to put a warning for
pregnant women.
There is only a PKU warning.
Big Pharma still runs government agencies.
I remember about 15 years ago I spoke with somebody
who worked for Monsanto and was told one of their people
said, "When we say something the FDA jumps. They do
what we say!"
So innocent babies are born autistic, with Tourettes, mentally
retarded and more, because the FDA are cowards,
and the manufacturers are criminals.

Glad to see this.

All my best, Betty

www.mpwhi.com
www.dorway.com
www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

Subject: Sweeteners, menthanol and premature deliveries
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Dear Jim and colleagues

Please find attached a copy of a paper that has just come out
in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
It is a huge study of Danish women, indicating that women
who consumed artificially sweetened beverages were
significantly more likely than women who consumed
sugar-sweetened to have premature deliveries of their
babies.
You will be interested in particular because they suggest
that methanol may be implicated in an underlying mechanism
This may therefore be grist to your mill,

with best wishes from Erik

Prof Erik Millstone
SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research
Freeman Centre
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QE, ENGLAND
Phone +44 (0)1273 877380

See 'Can Science and Politics help keep each other honest?'
Professorial Lecture 11 May 2010,
available at
See recent Professorial Lecture at the University of Sussex on
'Can Science and Politics help keep each other honest?',
11 May 2010 available at
www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/sussexlectures/2010.php

[ Adequate folic acid protects most mothers from having
children with birth defects from methanol and
its products in their bodies, formaldehyde and formic acid. ]

Food Nutr Bull. 2008 Jun;29(2 Suppl):S205-9.
Folic acid for the prevention of neural tube defects:
the Danish experience.
Olsen SF, Knudsen VK.
Maternal Nutrition Group, Division of Epidemiology,
Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
sfolsen@hsph.harvard.edu;

Abstract

Evidence from controlled trials suggests that ingestion of
0.4 mg of folic acid per day in the periconceptional period
is effective in preventing neural tube defects (NTD).
For this reason, most countries recommend that women
planning pregnancy take folic acid supplements in the
periconceptional period, and some countries even fortify
stable foods with folic acid.
Denmark exemplifies a country with a relatively conservative
attitude with respect to taking action in these matters.
In 1999, a national information campaign was launched that
recommended women planning pregnancy take 0.4 mg of
folic acid periconceptionally, but with the moderation that
women who eat a healthy diet do not need to take folic acid
supplement.
The campaign was repeated during 2001.
The results of the latter campaign were evaluated by using
data from a national survey among pregnant women
conducted simultaneously with the campaign by the
Danish National Birth Cohort.
An increase in the proportion of folic acid users took place
concomitantly with the launching of the information events,
but the increase was limited.
Among women who did not plan their pregnancy, a small
proportion had taken folic acid supplements
periconceptionally, and this proportion did not change
concomitantly with the campaign.
Young age and low education were factors associated
with low likelihood of taking folic acid.
It seems that different and more efficient actions are
needed if a more substantial proportion of Danish women
and their fetuses are going to benefit from the knowledge
that folic acid supplementation in the periconceptional
period can prevent NTD.
PMID: 18709894

Rich Murray,
MA Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology,
BS MIT 1964 history and physics,
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2011-11-02T23:49:00.003-06:00

Fwd: Aspartame Submission from Prof. Woodrow C. Monte to EFSA: While
Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills 241 p -- Ch 12 Autism and other
Birth Defects 26 p -- 740 references full pdfs: Rich Murray
2011.11.03
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fwd-aspartame-submission-from-prof.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1629

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/While%20Science%20Sleeps%20-%20Chapter%2012%20(ref).pdf
Download Chapter 12 of the book "While Science Sleeps"
A compelling must read full of shocking facts

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---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Woodrow Monte <;woodymonte@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:17 PM
Subject: Aspartame Submission from Professor Woodrow Monte
To: maud.paques@efsa.europa.eu
Cc: Hugues.KENIGSWALD@efsa.europa.eu

Hugues Kenigswald, Chief
                                3 November 2011
Food Additive and Nutrient Division
European Food Safety Authority

Mr. Kenigswald:

            Please consider this a response to your letter of October
14th to Rich Murray requesting my work by November 5th. This is also
a continuation of my official submission to the EFSA call for data on
aspartame on the 7th of July, 2011.

            I explicitly give EFSA permission to exchange the book
chapter I attach to this email with the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee
on Food Additives.

            This is my work, I am the author and I own the copyright
to the work.

            My concern about the safety of aspartame centers on its
11% methanol content. My reservation about its safety has only
deepened over the twenty five years since my first scientific
publication questioning its safety in the Journal of Applied Nutrition
(previously sent to Sandra Adedapo).

            Every molecule of aspartame liberates a molecule of
methanol on consumption and each molecule of methanol metabolizes into
a molecule of formaldehyde within the brain and other vulnerable
tissue of the unsuspecting consumer.

            Formaldehyde is now universally classified as a known
human carcinogen with no safe level of consumption. The health threat
is magnified when this highly reactive substance is produced within
the body from methanol.

            My recent scientific article explains in detail the
premise by which methanol may act as a etiologic agent of
disease.(586)* The reference numbering of this version of my article
can be used on the reference section of my website,
http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/, to easily retrieve original
references where needed for elucidation.

            I am in press of a review of the entire body of methanol
literature as pertinent to aspartame poisoning in a book entitled
While Science Sleeps. The book will be available on Amazon.com very
soon. I recommend it to your committee as a thorough review of the
methanol literature by a food scientist who has never been a
consultant to the industry that profits from the sweetener.

            The recent controversial admission by the U. S.
Environmental Protection Agency that “methanol is a possible cause of
developmental birth defects”(627) and the recent release (this year)
of an internal U.S. FDA memo(677) pointing to aspartame as having
caused birth defects in laboratory animals are significant evidence to
suspect aspartame as the cause of the 25-year-old epidemic of autism,
whose point of origin appears to coincide to within one gestational
period of the date of aspartame’s addition to carbonated beverages.

            I have attached a prepublication copy of Chapter 12 of my
book, While Science Sleeps, that deals with autism and aspartame in
order to expedite your committee’s reevaluation of the safety of this
substance. I ask that any use of the material herein be sourced to my
in press book, While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills, by Woodrow C.
Monte, Ph.D.

            If I can do anything further to help in your review,
please let me know. In the recent past, I have registered with Sandra
Adedapo of your staff and sent her other information that I hope will
be helpful.

Kindest regards,

Woodrow C. Monte, Ph.D - woodymonte@gmail.com

Emeritus Professor of Food Science - Arizona State University
3575 Rocky Creek OR USA - Phone             001-541-765-7745 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            001-541-765-7745      end_of_the_skype_highlighting

* All references from submitted Chapter 12 of While Science Sleeps.

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Table of Contents

Introduction 3

I A Time When All the Easy Questions Have Been Answered 7

II Methanol: Where Is It Found? How Can It Be Avoided? 20

III Man And Methanol: A Tragic History of Mutation and Deceit 27

IV Formaldehyde Is The Real Problem 44

V The Silent Battle That Turns Methanol Into Disease 64

VI How Methanol Kills 73

VII Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (Heart Disease) 94

VIII Alzheimer's Disease and its Perivascular Nature 122

IX Multiple Sclerosis 136

X Classic Autoimmune Diseases Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis 184

XI Cancers of Aspartame 194

XII Autism and other Birth Defects 216 [ 27 p ]

Bibliography 242

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/references/
740 full text pdfs

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/pdf/1.pdf
(1) Monte WC. Aspartame; Methanol and the Public Health. Journal of
Applied Nutrition 1984;36(1):42-58.

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/pdf/627.pdf
(627) Shelby M. NTP-CERHR Expert Panel report on the reproductive and
developmental toxicity of methanol. Reproductive Toxicology
2004;18:303-90.

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/pdf/677.pdf
(677) Collins TFX. Memorandum: Aspartame shown to cause nural tube
birth defects in the New Zealand rabit, an animal very resistant to
methanol poisoning. Freedom of information: Department of Health
Education and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration; 1978.

A very important message to the European Food Safety Authority
Link below.

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/open-letter-to-hugues-kenigswald/
Read the open letter

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/While%20Science%20Sleeps%20-%20Chapter%2012%20(ref).pdf
Download Chapter 12 of the book "While Science Sleeps"
A compelling must read full of shocking facts

Chapter 12 Slideshow for Download [ 5 MB ]
http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/files/Chapter%2012%20Birth%20Defects%20caused%20by%20Aspartame.ppt

Birth Defects caused by Aspartame

Open Letter to European F. S. A.

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/multiple-sclerosis/
Chapter 9 Slideshow 1

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/the-teachers-paradigm/
Chapter 9 Slideshow 2

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/birth-defects-caused-by-aspartame/
Chapter 12 Slideshow
Birth Defects caused by Aspartame

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Dr Monte's DVD on Amazon.com $ 15
Solving the Mystery of Multiple Sclerosis: Is Your Diet Secretly Poisoning You?
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Aspartame is indeed 11% methanol (wood alcohol), which the human body
quickly turns into formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme, concentrated in
many tissues: Rich Murray 2011.11.02

Aspartame is indeed 11% methanol (wood alcohol), which the human body
quickly turns into formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme, concentrated in
many tissues: liver, kidney, brain, retina, skin, prostate, breast,
womb, muscle -- forming cumulative micro lesions and a wide variety of
symptoms.

Other methanol (formaldehyde) sources include wood and tobacco smoke,
dark wines and liquors, fruits and vegetables heated in sealed metal
and glass containers, and aspartame, as well as a variety of products
ranging from medicines to new carpet, drapes, and furniture to mobile
homes.

People vary enormously in individual vulnerability.

Folic acid can protect many people.

See while-science-sleeps.com/references/pdf/586
Prof. (retired) Woodrow C. Monte.

Amid health fears, Diet Coke sweetener [aspartame] in safety
spotlight, Sean Poulter, UK Daily Mail 2011.05.27, 141 comments:
Rich Murray 2011.05.30
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/05/amid-health-fears-diet-coke-sweetener.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1625
______________________________________________

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1391395/Amid-health-fears-Diet-Coke-sweetner-safety-spotlight.html

Amid health fears, Diet Coke sweetener in safety spotlight
By Sean Poulter
Last updated at 11:24 AM on 27th May 2011

A sweetener used in Diet Coke is to undergo a safety review over fears
that it has harmful effects on human health

An artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke is to undergo an urgent EU
safety review.

Aspartame is ingested every day by millions of people around the world
in more than 6,000 well-known brands of food, drink and medicine.

However, it has been the subject of a number of studies that appear to
show harmful effects on human health.

One recent study linked diet drinks containing aspartame to premature
births, while another suggested it could cause cancer.

To date, health watchdogs, including the European Food Safety
Authority (EFSA) and the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA), have ruled
out any link to ill-health.

But after several MEPs asked for a new investigation following
pressure from European health campaigners, EU Commission officials
have now asked the EFSA to bring forward a review that had been
planned for 2020.

The concern about artificial sweeteners such as aspartame relates to
the fact that they contain methanol, a nerve toxin which can be
metabolised in the body to form two more nerve toxins: formic acid and
formaldehyde, the chemical used to preserve dead bodies.

Earlier this year, experts on Britain’s Committee on Toxicity(CoT)
ruled that ‘long-term exposure to methanol consumed through food,
including from aspartame, is unlikely to be harmful to health’.

The committee pointed out that methanol is also found in fruit and vegetables.

As a result of the experts’ conclusions, the FSA ruled the consumption
of aspartame ‘is not of concern at the current levels of use’.

Despite this verdict, the FSA is currently recruiting volunteers for
an investigation into anecdotal reports of ill health, including
headaches and stomach upsets, associated with aspartame.

The watchdog announced the research project in 2009, however it has
had difficulties recruiting volunteers who claim to suffer problems.

EFSA spokesman, Lucia De Luca, said: ‘Aspartame is one of hundreds of
flavourings. It is on the market because it has been assessed in the
past and considered safe.

‘We have received an official request for a complete re-evaluation of
the safety of aspartame.

‘The re-evaluation is scheduled for 2020 but the Commission asked us
to do this re-evaluation now in the light of recent events.

A study last year of 60,000 mothers-to be found a correlation between
the amount of diet drink consumed and an early birth
‘In the past year, there have been a couple of studies looking at
aspartame and concerns expressed by consumer groups and others.’

In July last year, EU-funded research by Danish scientists, which
looked at almost 60,000 mothers-to-be, found a correlation between the
amount of diet drink consumed and an early birth.

Previously, the Independent Ramazzini Foundation in Italy has
published research suggesting aspartame caused several types of cancer
in rats at doses very close to the current acceptable daily intake for
humans.

Both of these have been evaluated by EFSA experts, who have rejected
any risk to human health.

Aspartame is manufactured by Ajinomoto Sweeteners Europe. The firm
said it welcomes the decision to bring forward the safety evaluation.

A spokesman said: ‘EFSA reaffirmed the safety of aspartame in 2006,
2009 and 2010. In addition, recent allegations about the safety of
aspartame made in France and by a handful of MEPs have already been
dismissed by EFSA.

‘This review of the extensive body of science on aspartame will
provide additional confirmation of the ingredient’s safety.

‘By providing an excellent sweet taste, aspartame makes a useful
contribution to a healthy, calorie-controlled diet and can help people
to avoid overweight and obesity, and their associated diseases.’

Comments (141)

Aspartame is indeed 11% methanol (wood alcohol), which the human body
quickly turns into formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme, concentrated in
many tissues: liver, kidney, brain, retina, skin, prostate, breast,
womb, muscle -- forming cumulative micro lesions and a wide variety of
symptoms.

Other methanol (formaldehyde) sources include wood and tobacco smoke,
dark wines and liquors, fruits and vegetables heated in sealed metal
and glass containers, and aspartame, as well as a variety of products
ranging from medicines to new carpet, drapes, and furniture to mobile
homes.

People vary enormously in individual vulnerability.

Folic acid can protect many people.

See while-science-sleeps.com/references/pdf/586
Prof. (retired) Woodrow C. Monte.

- Rich Murray, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 30/5/2011 07:04

I thought this was common knowledge? It still shocks me to see the
amount of overweight kids drinking diet soft drink in the mistaken
idea that adding aspartame to their diet is preferable to more sugar -
doesn't help them lose weight though does it? Diet coke with their Big
Mac meal?

- kiwi abroad, Ireland, 28/5/2011 23:35

Watch "the Truth about Aspartame" by Dr Russell Blaylock.

- Alan, Durham, 28/5/2011 22:09

I know, I know, I wear a tin foil hat but any one noticing that
conspiracy theorists are being proved right more and more? Rumsfeld's
disease has been known about for years.That's why the food companies
changed the labelling to "natural flavors" I guess something produced
from e coli bacteria's excrement is natural. Btw DM, I'm intigued to
know why your article reporting that GMO toxins have been found in 93%
of unborns only stayed up for a couple of hours. Yes it is still
searchable on site, but you would only search for it if you knew it
was there.

- tom bowden, perth australia, 28/5/2011 17:36

It's a choice but the facts have been around for years, I would never
buy food that has any artificial ingredients in but it's up to the
individual.

- quarrybanksurfer, Scotland, 28/5/2011 15:13

'EFSA spokesman, Lucia De Luca, said: "Aspartame is one of hundreds of
flavourings. It is on the market because it has been assessed in the
past and considered safe".' We are dealing with some tricky little
monkeys are we not? It took them years in the US to have this
flavouring legalised and it was done in very murky circumstances with
the help of Donald Rumsfeld who, had an interest in the corporation
that used it. The FSA is not here to look after your health, it is
here to make sure corporations maintain and increase profit. It is
frustrating that we seem to take backward steps all the time on this
sort of issue, indecently propelled by the Agri-corp shill SSEFRA C
Spelman MP.

- Bob, Leeds UK, 28/5/2011 14:22

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Re; http://www.sweeteners.org/Pdf/conferenceBrochure.pdf

International Sweeteners Association
LOW CALORIE FOODS, BEVERAGES AND SWEETENERS
CAN THEY REALLY CONTRIBUTE TO A HEALTHIER FUTURE?
Bibliothèque Solvay, Brussels
19 May 2011 09.00 - 17.00

aspartame, acesulfame K, saccharin, fructose each "caused accelerated
senescence in human dermal fibroblasts" (re metabolic syndrome and
diabetes), Kyung-Hyun Cho et al, Yeungnam University, Korea, Mol
Cells. 2011 Apr 21: Rich Murray 2011.05.21
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.htm
Saturday, May 21, 2011
[ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ]
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1624

aspartame doubts aired by EU MPs Corinne Lepage and Antonyia Parvanova
-- EFSA National Experts agreed that "there should be more clarity
about the metabolism of aspartame": Rich Murray 2011.04.24
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.htm
Sunday, April 24, 2011
[ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ]
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1621

aspartame water in rats for 6 months causes liver harm, RH Nair et al,
Mahatma Gandhi U, Food Chem Toxicol 2011.03.02: Rich Murray 2011.03.12
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.htm
Saturday, March 12, 2011
[ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ]
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1620

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21376768

Food Chem Toxicol. 2011 Mar 2. [Epub ahead of print]
Effect of long term intake of aspartame on antioxidant defense status in liver.
Abhilash M, Paul MV, Varghese MV, Nair RH.
School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University,
Kottayam, Kerala, India, 686560.
harikumarannair@hotmail.com, harinair@fastmail.fm,

careful expert lifetime study on mice shows liver and lung cancers
from aspartame, M Soffritti et al, Ramazzini Institute, Italy, checked
by US National Toxicology Program experts, confirms many previous
studies from 2001 on: Rich Murray 2011.02.27
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.htm
Sunday, February 27, 2011
[ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ]
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1619

re GC Ebers study, females harmed more by body making methanol into
formaldehyde in brain via ADH enzyme: 589 references, WC Monte,
retired Prof. Nutrition: Rich Murray 2011.01.08
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.htm
Saturday, January 8, 2011
[ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ]
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1614

Woodrow C Monte, PhD, Emiritus Prof. Nutrition gives many PDFs of
reseach -- methanol (11% of aspartame) puts formaldehyde into brain
and body -- multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, cancers, birth defects,
headaches: Rich Murray 2010.05.13
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.htm
Thursday, May 13, 2010
[ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ]
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1601

[ Other formaldehyde sources include alcohol drinks and
tobacco and wood smoke,
while adequate folic acid levels protect most people. ]

http://whilesciencesleeps.com/about

http://while-science-sleeps.com/references/pdf/586
[ summary, not peer reviewed ]
Monte WC.
Methanol: A chemical Trojan horse as the root of the inscrutable U.
Medical Hypotheses 2010;74(3):493-6
DOI 2010.10.16

Monte WC.
Bittersweet: Aspartame Breast Cancer Link.
Fitness Life 2008 Jan. 34: 32-36

Monte WC.
A Deadly Experiment. Methanol and MS,
Fitness Life 2007 Dec. 34: 36-41

Monte WC.
Sickly Sweet: Is your Diet Sweetener killing you?
Fitness Life 2007 Nov. 33: 31-33

http://whilesciencesleeps.com/references
740 references for above articles and upcoming book,
most with full text PDFs

http://whilesciencesleeps.com/montediet
[ and Fitness Life 2007 Dec. 34: 36-41 ]

Methanol: Where Is It Found? How Can It Be Avoided?

AVOID the following, ranked in order of greatest danger:

1. Cigarettes.
2. Diet foods and drinks with aspartame.
3. Fruit and vegetable products and their juices in bottles,
cans, or pouches.
4. Jellies, jams, and marmalades not made fresh and kept
refrigerated.
5. Black currant and tomato juice products, fresh or
processed.
6. Tomato sauces, unless first simmered at least 3 hours
with an open lid.
7. Smoked food of any kind, particularly fish and meat.
8. Sugar-free chewing gum.
9. Slivovitz: You can consume one alcoholic drink a day
on this diet -- no more! [ no fruit brandies ]
10. Overly ripe or near rotting fruits or vegetables.

Selection from Article 2, Fitness Life, December 2007, and
well discussed in the DVD video:

"Identical Symptoms of MS, Methanol Poisoning
and Aspartame Toxicity

The symptoms of multiple sclerosis (44, 83, 85, 169), chronic
and acute methanol poisoning (13, 144, 189), and Aspartame
toxicity (54, 58, 93, 181), are in all ways identical.

There is nothing that happens to the human body from the
toxic effect of methanol that has not been expressed during
the course of MS... nothing (143, 144).

This generalization extends even to the remarkable
opthomological conditions common to both: transitory optic
neuritis and retrolaminar demyelinating optic neuropathy with
scotoma of the central visual field (which occasionally
manifests as unilateral temporary blindness (85, 138, 163).

In fact, these opthomological symptoms have been thought of
for years in their respective literatures to be "tell tale"
indications for the differential diagnosis for each of these
maladies independently (85, 138, 148, 163, 169).

The common symptoms of
headache (13, 83, 181, 189),
nervousness (13, 83, 181),
depression (58, 83, 189, 181),
memory loss (18, 147, 85, 169, 181),
tingling sensations (13, 85, 168, 138, 169),
pain in the extremities (13, 85, 169),
optic neuritis (85, 138, 148, 163, 169),
bright lights in the visual field (139, 83),
seizures (21, 83, 160),
inability to urinate or to keep from urinating (139, 146, 167)
are all shared by each of these conditions and shared yet
again by complaints from aspartame poisoning
(54, 58, 93, 181).

I take these strikingly similar symptom patterns as evidence
that these disorders act on identical components of the
central nervous system and in the same way.

The "Miracle" that MS shares with Methanol poisoning

In the early stages of MS, or when a non-lethal dose of
methanol has been administered, complete recovery is a
possibility.

The only two afflictions for which such dramatic "remissions"
are reported from identical neuromuscular and opthomological
damage, even "blindness" is relapsing-remitting multiple
sclerosis (85) and methyl alcohol poisoning (138, 163).

The pathology of the two maladies is in may ways identical,
particularly when it comes to destruction of the myelin
sheath with no harm to the axon itself (18, 148, 176).

Sex Ratios for MS and Aspartame Reactions

Women bear the brunt of multiple sclerosis (91a-c) and lupus
(SLE)(73) with fully three-fold representations in infliction
numbers over men for both diseases.

This is exactly the proportion represented by adverse
reactors to Aspartame reported by the US Center for
Disease Control in their study of 1984 (58).

The Center found three women to every man whose
Aspartame consumption complaints were serious enough
to warrant investigation (93).

Although the female/male ratio for those stricken with MS has
always been high, recent estimates place it at over 3 to 1
(91, 91a, 91c).

What might account for the difference across sexes in
incidence?

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine
(94) reports biopsies of the gastric lining of men and women.

A result was that the concentration of ADH in the
gastric lining of men was much higher than for woman.

Men have the advantage of removing methanol from the
bloodstream four times faster on an equal-body-size basis
than women.

Thus, for men, methanol is more likely to be removed from the
blood before it reaches the brain.

The brain is spared but the methanol removed would still be
metabolized to formaldehyde in the gut where it would reap
its havoc on a more forgiving organ.

This may help explain why men have more gastrointestinal
complaints from both methanol and Aspartame consumption
(93, 99).

On the other hand, women's complaints from both more
frequently involve serious neurological complications."...
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"The meteorite, which is thought to have measured up to 1 km across, would have formed an impact crater up to 10 km in diameter, but the material ejected by the impact spread out for at least 50 km.

The rock layer, which stretches from Gairloch in the south to the Sutherland village of Stoer to the north, is sandwiched between sedimentary rocks which form part of the Torridonian sandstones of Sutherland."

"This reveals that that the 10 meter-thick
[33 feet] layer, which has been traced for
over 50 km [31 miles] along the Scottish
coast, was almost entirely emplaced as
a devastating density current that sped
outwards from the point of impact — just
like a density current from a volcano.
Only the uppermost few centimeters
actually fell out through the atmosphere,"
said study team member Richard Brown
of the University of Durham.

http://www.space.com/13325-gas-blast-meteorite-strike-resembled-volcanic-eruption.html

Ancient Meteorite Blast Resembled Volcanic Eruption

OurAmazingPlanet Staff
Date: 19 October 2011 Time: 11:33 AM ET

A billion years ago, a meteorite slammed
into the Earth along the coast of what is
now Scotland. A forensic investigation
by a team of volcanologists has pieced
together exactly how the debris from the
impact devastated the surrounding region.
The new research shows that some
aspects of giant meteorite impacts may
mimic the behavior of large volcanic
eruptions.

Meteorite impacts are more common than
most people realize, but what happens when
the meteorite hits? Direct observation is
understandably difficult, but researchers
can pick through impact debris that hasn't
eroded away and then forensically
reconstruct these catastrophic events.

The volcanologists say that an improved
understanding of what happens when large
objects hit the Earth will help us understand
how such events affect life on the planet.

Volcanologists analyzed a layer of ejected
debris from this huge meteorite impact and
discovered that much of the debris moved
across the ground as rapid, dense,
ground-hugging currents of gas and debris,
remarkably similar to the pyroclastic density
currents — fast-traveling streams of hot
ash and rock — that flow outward from
explosive volcanoes.

"In particular, the way that ash and dust
stick together seems identical," said study
team member Mike Branney of the
University of Leicester in England.
"Moist ash from explosive volcanoes
sticks together in the atmosphere to
fall out as millimeter-sized pellets.
Where these drop back into a hot
pyroclastic density current, they grow
into larger layered structures, known
as accretionary lapilli."

The researchers studied the finely
preserved deposit in northwest Scotland
from the ancient impact. It shows both
types of these 'volcanic' particles — pellets
and lapilli — are produced.

"This reveals that that the 10 meter-thick
[33 feet] layer, which has been traced for
over 50 km [31 miles] along the Scottish
coast, was almost entirely emplaced as
a devastating density current that sped
outwards from the point of impact — just
like a density current from a volcano.
Only the uppermost few centimeters
actually fell out through the atmosphere,"
said study team member Richard Brown
of the University of Durham.

[ microphotos ]
Meteorite impact ejecta (left) compared with volcanic deposits (right) showing closely similar structures made of dust particles. The top two photos show accretionary lapilli in density current deposits, whereas bottom two photos show pellets that formed when dust in the atmosphere clumped together and simply fell onto the land surface.
CREDIT: From Michael Branney and Richard Brown 2011 (Journal of Geology 199, 275-292)
View full size image

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/26/uk_meteorite_impact/

UK's biggest meteorite impact rocked Scotland
Prehistoric Ullapool enjoyed 'quite a show'
By Lester Haines

Posted in Space, 26th March 2008 13:00 GMT

It's lucky for the good burghers of Ullapool in Scotland that they weren't around 1.2 billion years ago, because it was around then that the biggest meteorite ever to hit the British Isles would have made a bit of a dent in local house prices.

That's according to the combined forces of the University of Oxford and the University of Aberdeen, who say that "unusual rock formations" previously thought to have volcanic origins are actually the debris ejected from a meteorite strike which threw material over an area 50 km across.

The volcanic theory has always had geologists scratching their heads, since there are "no volcanic vents or other volcanic sediments nearby". The researchers moved in for the kill by taking rock samples in 2006, and have now published their revelations in the journal Geology.

Ken Amor of Oxford Uni’s Department of Earth Sciences, explained: "Chemical testing of the rocks found the characteristic signature of meteoritic material, which has high levels of the key element iridium, normally only found in low concentrations in surface rocks on Earth. We found more evidence when we examined the rocks under a microscope; tell-tale microscopic parallel fractures that also imply a meteorite strike."

Professor John Parnell, head of Geology & Petroleum Geology at the University of Aberdeen, chipped in with: "These rocks are superbly displayed on the west coast of Scotland, and visited by numerous student parties each year. We’re very lucky to have them available for study, as they can tell us much about how planetary surfaces, including Mars, become modified by large meteorite strikes. Building up the evidence has been painstaking, but has resulted in proof of the largest meteorite strike known in the British Isles."

Amor added: "If there had been human observers in Scotland 1.2 billion years ago they would have seen quite a show. The massive impact would have melted rocks and thrown up an enormous cloud of vapour that scattered material over a large part of the region around Ullapool. The crater was rapidly buried by sandstone which helped to preserve the evidence."

The researchers hope that the evidence they've gathered will help them to "understand the ancient impacts that shaped the surface of other planets, such as Mars", Amor concluded. ®

Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullapool_bolide_impact

[ microphoto ] Accretionary lapilli from the Stac Fada Member

Evidence for a bolide impact centered on Ullapool [ 57.899602 -5.157701 ] was published by a combined team of scientists from the University of Oxford and the University of Aberdeen, in March 2008.[1]
he evidence is centred on Ullapool, a harbour town on Loch Broom in the Ross and Cromarty district of the Highland council area of northwest Scotland.
This suggests it was the largest bolide impact ever to strike what are now the British Isles.
The impact, which has been dated to 1177±5 million years ago,[2]
melted rock at the site and
left parallel shock fractures in quartz and biotite and
a tell-tale trace of iridium.
Centered on the impact crater, a wide ejecta field has been traced, some 50 km across, forming the Stac Fada member within the Stoer Group of the Torridonian.
The affected layer of rock, which on land stretches from Gairloch [ 57.720780 -5.686293 ] in the south to Stoer [ 58.203414 -5.34027 ] in the north is six to 22 metres thick.[3] [ 60 km apart ]
Until recently, these anomalous formations[4] were unsatisfactorily credited to an isolated instance of volcanism.
The crater, preserved under sedimentary layers of sandstone, is currently presumed to lie under the Minch, the waterway that separates the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides from the north-west Highlands of Scotland.
It has been estimated that the impact would have created a blast with the force of 145,000 megatons and that the shock wave would have created winds of 420 km/h as far away as the site of modern Aberdeen.[3]

See also

Silverpit crater, the only other proposed impact crater in or near the British Isles.
Impact event
List of impact craters on Earth
North West Highlands Geopark
Geology of Scotland

References

Kenneth Amor, Stephen P. Hesselbo, Don Porcelli, Scott Thackrey, and John Parnell,
"A Precambrian proximal ejecta blanket from Scotland",
Geology 36, 4, March 2008:pp. 303–306; DOI: 10.1130/G24454A.1.

Notes

^ University of Aberdeen media release, 26 March 2008;
Oxford University media release, 26 March 2008.

^ Parnell, J.; Mark D., Fallick A.E., Boyce A. & Thackrey S. (2011).
"The age of the Mesoproterozoic Stoer Group sedimentary and impact deposits, NW Scotland".
Journal of the Geological Society 168 (2): 349–358. doi:10.1144/0016-76492010-099.

^ a b Urquhart, Frank, (27 March 2008)
"Discovery with deep impact on Scots coast".
Edinburgh. The Scotsman.

^ The strata under study are part of the Stac Fada Member of the Precambrian Stoer Group of Scotland.

http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/36/4/303

Geology; April 2008; v. 36; no. 4; p. 303-306; DOI: 10.1130/G24454A.1
© 2008 Geological Society of America

A Precambrian proximal ejecta blanket from Scotland

Kenneth Amor 1,
[ +44 (0)1865 272000 ken.amor@earth.ox.ac.uk ]
Stephen P. Hesselbo 1,
Don Porcelli 1,
Scott Thackrey 2
and John Parnell 2
1 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK
2 Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, Meston Building, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK

Ejecta blankets around impact craters are rarely preserved on Earth.
Although impact craters are ubiquitous on solid bodies throughout the solar system, on Earth they are rapidly effaced, and few records exist of the processes that occur during emplacement of ejecta.
The Stac Fada Member of the Precambrian Stoer Group in Scotland has previously been described as volcanic in origin. However, shocked quartz and biotite provide evidence for high-pressure shock metamorphism, while chromium isotope values and elevated abundances of platinum group metals and siderophile elements indicate addition of meteoritic material.
Thus, the unit is reinterpreted here as having an impact origin.
The ejecta blanket reaches >20 m in thickness and contains abundant dark green, vesicular, devitrified glass fragments. Field observations suggest that the deposit was emplaced as a single fluidized flow that formed as a result of an impact into water-saturated sedimentary strata.
The continental geological setting and presence of groundwater make this deposit an analogue for Martian fluidized ejecta blankets.

Key Words: ejecta, impactites, shock metamorphism, PGE, suevite, Torridonian

http://www.scotsman.com/news/discovery_with_deep_impact_on_scots_coast_1_1161196

"The meteorite, which is thought to have measured up to 1 km across, would have formed an impact crater up to 10 km in diameter, but the material ejected by the impact spread out for at least 50 km.

The rock layer, which stretches from Gairloch in the south to the Sutherland village of Stoer to the north, is sandwiched between sedimentary rocks which form part of the Torridonian sandstones of Sutherland."
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impact ejecta [melt] emplacement on terrestrial planets, Gordon R Osinski et al 2011, 2 pages: Rich Murray 2011.10.19
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http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2011/pdf/1866.pdf
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IMPACT EJECTA EMPLACEMENT ON TERRESTRIAL PLANETS.
G. R. Osinski 1,
L L. Tornabene 2, and
R. A. F. Grieve 1,

Gordon R. Osinski a,b,
Livio L. Tornabene c,
Richard A.F. Grieve a b d,
a Departments of Earth Sciences/Physics and Astronomy, University of
Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, Canada N6A 5B7
b Canadian Lunar Research Network/NASA Lunar Science Institute, Canada
c Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space
Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560-0315, USA
d Earth Sciences Sector, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0E8
Received 9 February 2011; revised 4 August 2011; Accepted 8 August 2011.
Editor: T. Spohn. Available online 21 September 2011.

1 Departments of Earth Sciences/Physics and Astronomy, University of
Western Ontario, 1151
Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada,
2 Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space
Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560-0315, USA (
gosinski@uwo.ca )

Introduction:

Impact cratering is one of the most
fundamental processes responsible for shaping the
surfaces of solid planetary bodies. One of the principal
characteristics of impact events is the formation and
emplacement of ejecta deposits. An understanding of
impact ejecta deposits, and their components, is critical
for the results of planetary exploration; particularly
future sample return missions. Their compositional and
physical characteristics provide fundamental information
about the sub-surface of planets. Current models
of ejecta emplacement, however, do not account for
several important observations of planetary ejecta
deposits; in particular, the presence of double or
multiple layers of ejecta. Further, there is also no
universal model for the origin and emplacement of
ejecta on different planetary bodies. Here, we present a
new working model for the origin and emplacement of
ejecta on the terrestrial planets, in which ejecta is
emplaced in a multi-stage process.

Critical observations from the terrestrial planets:
It is generally acknowledged that proximal ejecta
deposits around impact craters on airless bodies, such
as the Moon and Mercury, are emplaced via the process
of ballistic sedimentation – this results in the incorporation
of local material (secondary ejecta) in the
primary ejecta, via considerable modification and erosion
of the local external substrate [1]. A typically
overlooked, but critical, observation is that proximal
ejecta may consist of more than one layer.
Moon and Mercury. On the Moon, melt ponds on
the rim terraces of complex lunar craters and overlying
parts of continuous ejecta have been documented since
the 1970s [2] (Fig. 1a). The interpretation is that these
deposits consist of impact melt that has flowed and
pooled according to local slopes, after its initial
emplacement as ejecta. This is consistent with
observations from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
(LROC) (Fig. 1b). Images recently returned by the
Messenger spacecraft show the presence of what is
interpreted as melt ponds around several Mercurian
impact craters [3]. If ballistic sedimentation followed
by radial flow accounts for the emplacement of the
continuous ballistic ejecta, it begs the question as to
the origin of this overlying melt-rich ejecta observed
around many lunar and Mercurian craters.

Venus.
The relative increase in the volume of impact melt
produced on Venus, for a given transient
crater size, compared to the Moon is manifest as
spectacular melt outflows exterior to Venusian craters [4].
Several factors complicate the interpretation of these
outflows around Venusian craters and not all may have
the same origin; however, they share many traits with
exterior lunar impact melt deposits and ponds.

Fig. 1. (a) Large impact melt (“m”) pond around King Crater
crater. Portion of Apollo 16 image 1580 (NASA).
(b) A portion of LROC NAC image pair (M106209806RE) of melt
overlying the continuous ejecta blanket at Giordano Bruno
crater (NASA/GSFC/ASU).

Earth.
Ejecta deposits are relatively rare due to
high rates of erosion on Earth; however, given the ability
to ground truth, any model must be consistent with
the interpretation of the characteristics of ejecta deposits
on Earth, if it is to be generally applicable.
The nature, lithological and stratigraphic relations
of ejecta at several buried complex structures are
known only from drill core but indicate the presence in
the proximal ejecta of a low-shock, lithic breccia overlain by
melt-bearing deposits. Some of the best preserved and
exposed ejecta deposits on Earth occur
at the Ries structure, Germany [5]. The Ries clearly
displays a distinctive two-layer ejecta deposit (Fig. 1a)
with a series of impact melt-bearing breccias
(suevites), and impact melt rocks overlying the
continuous ejecta blanket (Bunte Breccia). Studies of the
Bunte Breccia strongly support the concept of ballistic
sedimentation [6].
Early workers suggested that the upper surficial
“suevite” ejecta at the Ries was deposited sub-aerially
from an ejecta plume [5] and the term “fallout” was
used to qualify the suevites. This is despite the fact that
the surficial suevites are unsorted to poorly sorted,
which is not predicted by subaerial deposition (i.e.,
fallout from an ejecta plume). More recently, it was
suggested that the proximal surficial suevites were
emplaced as surface flow(s), either comparable to
pyroclastic flows or as ground-hugging volatile- and
melt-rich flows [7, 8]. The most intransigent argument
used to support an airborne origin for suevites at the

42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2011) 1866.pdf

Ries are so-called “aerodynamically shaped” glass
clasts and “gneiss-cored glass bombs” [5]. An airborne
emplacement was offered as a possible explanation for
their shape; however, such “morphologies” can be
found in injection dikes of impact melt-bearing breccia
that clearly cross-cut the lithologies of the crater floor
of the Mistastin Lake impact structure, Canada (Fig.
2b). In this case, the “fladen” cannot be explained as
aerodynamically-shaped, and are likely due to shaping
during transport within a confined flow (cf., glass coatings on lithic clasts).

Fig. 2.
(a) Impact melt-bearing breccias, or “suevites” (S)
overlying Bunte Breccia (BB) at the Ries structure. Note the
sharp contact between the two units.
(c) Elongate, “aerodynamically-shaped” glass bombs and
gneiss-cored glass “bombs”.
These features are widely cited as de facto evidence
for airborne emplacement but these are actually from a
dike of suevite in the crater floor of the Mistastin structure.

Mars.
The Martian impact cratering record is notably more diverse
than that of the Moon, Mercury or Venus.
In particular, approximately one-third of all
Martian craters !5 km in diameter possess discernable
ejecta blankets, with over 90% possessing so-called
layered ejecta that display single (SLE), double (DLE),
or multiple (MLE) layer morphologies [9]. In general,
MLE craters are typically larger and their ejecta are
found at greater radial distances than SLE craters,
when normalized to crater size. DLE craters remain
enigmatic. Contrasting models have been proposed to
account for these layered ejecta on Mars.
The working hypothesis: Based on the above
observations that impact melt occurs outside the rim
at both simple and complex craters, we suggest that the
current view of impact ejecta emplacement, i.e., a one
stage and strickly ballistic process that occurs during
the excavation stage, is incomplete. A multi-stage
emplacement process that intimately links the generation
of impact melt lithologies, allochthonous crater-fill
deposits and ejecta is proposed:

1) Crater excavation and ballistic emplacement –
The initial emplacement of a continuous ejecta blanket
is via the process of ballistic sedimentation. Materials
are derived from the excavated zone of the transient
cavity and are of generally relatively low shock level.
It is suggested that several parameters will affect the
morphology and extent of this primary ejecta layer, in
particular the volatile content and cohesiveness of
surficial target materials.

2) Late excavation – early modification and minor
flow emplacement –
In simple craters, there is movement of
highly shocked and melted materials initially
down into the expanding transient cavity. Some of
these materials are driven up and over the transient
cavity walls and rim region, consistent with the presence
of thin melt veneers around some simple lunar
craters and impact melt rocks outside the rim at some
terrestrial craters. Impact angle and preexisting
topography can have a major influence during this stage.

3) Crater modification and “late” flow emplacement –
The observations of impact melt-rich deposits
overlying ballistic ejecta deposits and the sharp contact
between these units, where observed, argue for the
general late-stage emplacement of melt-rich ejecta. It
is suggested that cavity modification, in particular
uplift, imparts an additional outward momentum to the
melt- and clast-rich lining of the transient cavity during
the modification stage, resulting in flow towards and
over the collapsing crater rim and onto the proximal
ballistic ejecta blanket, forming a second thinner and
potentially discontinuous layer of non-ballistic ejecta.
For oblique impacts, an additional mechanism may be
the emplacement of external melt in a process more
akin to what is believed to occur at simple craters, i.e.,
by the late-stages of the cratering flow-field. In this
case, the initial direction of the flows is preferentially
downrange. The final resting place for the melt-rich
deposits will be controlled to a large extent by the local
topography of the target region.

4) Minor fallback –
Fallback of material from the
vapour-rich ejecta plume will occur during the final
stages of crater formation on bodies with an atmosphere
and will produce the very minor “fallback” material in the
crater interior, which will be characteristically graded,
such as observed at the Ries structure in
the terrestrial environment.

Acknowledgements:
G.R.O. is support by an Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Industrial Research
Chair sponsored by MDA Space Missions and the
Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

References:
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Rev. Geophys. Space Phys. 13:337-362.

[2] Hawke B.R. and Head J.W. 1977
in Impact and Explosion Cratering. Pergamon Press:
New York. p. 815-841.

[3] Prockter L.M., et al. 2010.
Science 668-671.

[4] Asimow P.D. and Wood J.A. 1992.
JGR 97:13643-13665.

[5] Engelhardt W.v. 1990.
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[6] Hörz F., et al. 1983.
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21:1667-1725.

[7] Osinski G.R., et al. 2004.
Meteor.Planet. Sci. 39:1655-1684.

[8] Newsom H.E., et al. 1986.
JGR 91:239-251.

[9] Barlow N.G. 2005
in Large Meteorite Impacts III: GSA Special Paper 384.
Geological Society of America: Boulder. p. 433-442.

42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2011) 1866.pdf
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10 m broken rock hill with black glazes, W of Rancho Alegre Road, S of
Coyote Trail, W of Hwy 14, S of Santa Fe, New Mexico, tour of 50
photos 1 MB size each via DropBox: Rich Murray 2011.07.28 2011.08.03
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/08/10-m-broken-rock-hill-with-black-glazes.html
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/08/35479730-106085926-1865-km-el-top-10-m.html
photos 3-5 of 50
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ground views of over 100 .1-.5 km shallow (ice comet fragment bursts)
craters, Bajada del Diablo, Argentina (.78-.13 Ma BP) [42.87 S 67.47 W]
Rogelio D Acevedo et al, Geomorphology 2009 Sept: Rich Murray 2010.03.28
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010/03/ground-views-of-over-100-1-5-km-shallow.html
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over 25,000 Carolina Bays measured with precision LiDAR -- probable ejecta sheet from 41 Ka impact on Saginaw Bay, MI, USA, Michael E Davias: Rich Murray 2011.10.17

2011-10-18T21:41:00.001-06:00

over 25,000 Carolina Bays measured with precision LiDAR -- probable ejecta sheet from 41 Ka impact on Saginaw Bay, MI, USA, Michael E Davias: Rich Murray 2011.10.17
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/10/over-25000-carolina-bays-measured-with.html

[ Rich Murray: after following their work for 3 years, I am impressed by the impressive evolution in presentation and interpretation of precise and very beautiful evidence, so I am quoting from their vast site to provide an introduction. ]

Michael E. Davias, Stamford, CT michael@cintos.org 917-751-8861
Jeanette L. Gilbride, NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695

http://www.Cintos.org\

We presented a poster at the 2011 GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis.
The poster content, seen below, is also available as a PDF for download.

http://cintos.org/graphics/GSA_2011/GSA-2011_Poster_192776_Davias-HQ.pdf

I presented a TALK on the Survey and its use of LiDAR & Google Earth.

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2011AM/finalprogram/abstract_192576.htm

A PDF of the deck [ very detailed slide show ] is available HERE.

http://cintos.org/graphics/GSA_2011/Davias_GSA2011_Presentation_165-9_HQ.pdf

2011 GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis (9–12 October 2011)
Paper No. 165-9
Presentation Time: 10:35 AM-10:50 AM
LIDAR DIGITAL ELEVATION MAPS EMPLOYED IN CAROLINA BAY SURVEY
DAVIAS, Michael, Stamford, CT 06907, michael@cintos.org
and GILBRIDE, Jeanette L., North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695

Aerial photographs of Carolina bays taken in the 1930’s sparked research into their geomorphology, but revealed only part of their unique planforms.
Digital Elevation Maps (DEMs), using LiDAR-derived data, accentuate the visual presentation of these shallow basins.
To support a geospatial survey of Carolina bay landforms in the continental US, 400,000 km2 of hsv-shaded DEMs were created as KML-JPEG tile sets for visualization on a virtual globe.
A majority of these DEMs were generated with LiDAR data, while the remainder represents USGA 1/3 arc second data. We demonstrate the tile generation process and their integration into Google Earth for open public access over the Internet.
While the generic Carolina bay planform is considered oval, we document regional variations.
Using a small set of empirically derived planform shapes, we created Google Earth overlay elements to support the manual capture of individual Carolina bay shapes and orientations.
The resulting overlay data element for each measured bay is extracted from Google Earth and programmatically processed to generate metrics such as geographic location, elevation, surface area and inferred orientation.
When visualized in LiDAR, we document the robustness of a single planform shape across hundreds or thousands of basins within geographically large areas.
We maintain that utilizing a virtual globe facility for data captures and extraction results in more reliable data sets compared to processes that reference flat map projections.
This is especially true when capturing the geospatial shape and orientation of the bays, which can be skewed and distorted in the projection process.
Using the process described, we have measured over 25,000 distinct Carolina bays, and have assembled their individual characteristics into a geographic information database.
We examine the Google Fusion geospatial visualization facility, through which the database has been made publically accessible.
Preliminary findings from the survey are briefly discussed, such as how bay surface area, eccentricity and orientation vary within and across ~700 .25 deg x .25 deg grid elements.

We presented a poster at the 2011 Southeastern Section GSA Meeting in Wilmington.
The poster content, seen below, is also available as a PDF for download.

http://www.cintos.org/graphics/GSA_2011/Poster%20SE-GSA%202011%20184903.pdf

2010 GSA Abstract 176738 Oct 31 Denver, slide show

http://www.cintos.org/LiDAR_images/page5/page5.html

http://www.cintos.org/LiDAR/index.html

Graphic shows the impact site and triangulation from ~200 bay "fields".

The Saginaw Impact Manifold

Evaluating The Carolina Bays As Surface Features In A Distal Ejecta Blanket:
Geophysical Flow Analysis Predicts Bay Orientations,
Enables Triangulation To A Causal Impact Site

Abstract

We present a novel approach to the genesis of the Carolina bays, proposing that those enigmatic landforms are depositional features within a 1 to 10 meter-thick blanket of hydrated ejecta associated with a cosmic impact into the Wisconsinan ice shield during the latter part of the Pleistocene era, ~40,000 years ago.

The ellipsoidal bays exhibit an "inferred orientation", facilitating the use of a triangulation network to identify the associated terrestrial impact crater.

Attempts by others to triangulate bay orientations to a causal crater may have failed because the ballistic physics and fluid mechanics aspects of an ejecta distribution were not considered.

An analytical model was heuristically developed to generate ejecta emplacement orientations that reflect large-scale geophysical flow effects, and its results were compared to empirically measured bay orientations at ~250 Carolina bay "fields" (representing many thousands of bays).

Our model's predicted results correlate well with actual bay orientations when an oblique cosmic impact across the Saginaw area of Michigan is considered.

The great-circle distances separating the proposed Saginaw impact crater and all identified Carolina bays also correlate well; the bay’s geographic distribution is along an annulus surrounding the proposed crater.

These positive correlations suggest that a unique geospatial relationship exists between the proposed impact location and the Carolina bays of North America.

To facilitate independent testing of the hypothesis, a web-based version of the model was made publicly available for integration with the Google Earth GIS.

Inspiration

The inspiration for our conjecture was an observation in the paper The Goldsboro Ridge, an Enigma, by R. B. Daniels, E. E. Gamble and W.H. Wheeler, 1970:

The Goldsboro ridge is a unique feature on the Sunderland surface and requires special explanation whatever its origin.
It must be either an erosional remnant of a once more extensive sediment or a depositional feature.
...The Goldsboro sand overlies the Sunderland Formation conformably.
The contact is always abrupt but there is no evidence of deep channeling, basal coarse material, and evidence of weathering at the contact.
Even the Carolina Bays do not disturb the underlying Sunderland materials....
The sand in the bay rim is not different from the Goldsboro sand.
Therefore, these Carolina Bays are merely surface features associated with the formation of the ridge.

[ Saginaw Crater center 43.680 -83.82 SW-NE long oval ]

Ejecta Volume Calculations

Using the cut/fill facility in Global Mapper, we calculated that the crater excavated approximately 2,300 cubic kilometers of sedimentary strata from the crater.
Given a conservative average ice cover of 500 meters, the 32,000 square kilometers [ about 140X230 km ] of crater surface area would supply another 16,000 cubic kilometers of pulverized ice to the slurry mix.

A 30 km impactor would supply ~14,000 cubic kilometers of hydrated silica.
These values would yield a sand/water ratio of 1:1.
A substantial majority of the 16,000 cubic kilometers of ejecta would likely fall locally back onto the ice sheet, to be distributed as "glacial till" as the sheet retreats.
Using a conservative estimate of 10% as distal, the 1,600 cubic km of debris would be capable of blanketing 300,000 square kilometers of North America with a 5-meter thick distal ejecta sheet.

At the present time we are investigating the existence of any correlated anomalous scientific data about the Saginaw Bay area and the Wisconsin-era Glacial Lobe associated with it.
Among the items identified to investigate:

Anomalous Saginaw Basin Aquifer Oxygen Isotope Markers Dated to Younger Dryas

Anomalous hydraulic pressures in the surrounding strata layers

Anomalous glacial deposits, with large bolder fields juxtapositioned within similarly dated, but smaller sized debris

Identification of Precambrian deposits in glacial till, unique to the Saginaw lobe and not seen in any other Wisconsin-era lobe deposits

Upwelling of Heavy Metals seen in Saginaw Bay Sediment

Buried sub-glacial runoff channels suggestion the deposition of terrestrial debris on top of glacial sheets

Anomalous buried soil layers suggesting deposits above warmer climate flora

Anomalous salt-bearing springs surrounding the Saginaw bay; used for commercial salt production in 1800s

Unusually High Helium Atmospheric noble gas signatures in area aquifer fluxes

Existence of structural anomaly beneath Saginaw bay floor suggested by several researchers; considered to be anticline by some

Carbon dating of natural gas from wells across Michigan Basin show activation ~13 kya

Research suggests significant basin re-heating event in past; reactivation of Keweenawan Rift implicated by others

Glacial geomorphic processes unique among all other Wisconsonian-era events

Researchers have examined the "moraines" of the Saginaw Glacial Lobe and have offered several solutions to their anomalous relationship with the other Wisconsin-Era Ice Sheet lobes.
Both the Michigan and the Huron/Erie lobes are seen as having overridden the original terminal margins of the Saginaw lobe, presenting a confusing picture of its advance and retreat.
We ask the question: did the "Saginaw Lobe" ever exist?, or could the excision of the central Michigan landscape be the result of a cosmic impact?
While there is good reason to expect that the central Michigan Peninsula was covered by a deep ice sheet, as it traversed down from the north, we question the existence of the "plunge" and focused Saginaw lobe advance from the northeast as commonly portrayed.

Our current proposal holds that the impact carved out much of the current bedrock topography of the Michigan basin surrounding and west of the Saginaw Bay.
Local ejecta, distributed in a butterfly pattern, was heaped on top of the then-present Wisconsin ice sheet.
As the sheet melted beneath the ejecta blanket, many of the enigmatic "moraines", hummocks and tunnel landforms were created.
Eventually, the large lake created within the ice sheet crater catastrophically drained southward, initially creating the Kankakee Torrent, and later the Central Kalamazoo River Valley (CKRV).

The Enigmatic Sand: a Call for Collaboration

Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating (OSL) has proven to be a reliable method of dating sedimentary deposition timetables over the span of 1 kya to 100 kya.
The process, which is well understood and accepted, is one which requires a rigorously controlled sample collection, handling and processing regimen.
As such, it cannot be casually applied for testing across an extensive geography for research into a poorly-provenanced conjecture.
The conjecture under consideration - our Saginaw Impact and Distal Ejecta Manifold - has minimal support in the community at present, yet we feel justified in the expenditure of the considerable resources suggested here.

We propose a scenario in which significant quantities of distal ejecta, in the form of a 1-10 meter thick sheet(blanket) of fine-grained sand, was deposited (blanketed) across a wide area for the North American continent in a singular event lasting less than an hour ~41 thousand years ago (ka).
During this blanketing, we propose that the constituents of the strata were heated to beyond 200 C, resetting their OSL clock.
Identifying a coherent OSL dating across a wide field of samples would strengthen the case for our conjecture.

Our conjecture suggests that the resulting strata of sand - as a unit - can easily be discriminated from more generic fluvial and eolian deposit using a set of easily applied and identified criteria:

located immediately below current A soil horizon

homogeneous strata unit of 1 to 10 meters in thickness

unconsolidated

contact with underlying strata to be conformable and sharply defined

blanket will drape over hosting terrain up-slope/ down-slope while maintaining strata thickness

mottled, laminated or gnarly presentation in vertical and horizontal cross section, suggesting turbid deposit environment

no indications of stratified horizons within the unit (single deposition sequence accepted)

exception to above when multiple units of otherwise-qualified strata exists in contact with each other, generating a horizon

no indications of aqueous deposition, i.e. shells, therefore deductively considered eolian

virtually no clay lenses present

incongruous course skew seen in unit

tightly constrained grain size across unit

grain size (as a unit) variable from exceedingly fine sand up to small gravels

no variation in heavy metal suite across strata

little variation in presented color across unit

Suggested sitings for this strata include:

sourced from within the rim of a Carolina bay structure, or within a field of these structures

Costal margins, where a truncated bay will be interpreted as a parabolic dune

Late Pleistocene (MIS-3) -era deposits on elevated platforms where existence is enigmatic

Surficial deposits may represent re-worked surfaces. We encourage sampling of rims at depths of a meter or more.

Ideally, samples meeting the above criterial would also have previously been tested to indicate:
* OSL dating of ca 41 kya,

Due to the proposed geographic extent of this strata, we recognize it may well be considered "common" within your experience; yet enigmatic nonetheless in context, raising questions about the true depositional method.

Please consider the profile offered above, and should you have access to experimental datum derived from previous research which identified depositional strata meeting these criteria, we implore you to consider collaboration with us.
In addition, should you have knowledge of , and access to, sites which exhibit these criteria, we invite you to assist us in obtaining OSL dating across the vertical and extent of the unit.
Samples from depths of at least one meter are desired, so as to avoid reworked soils and encounter the original structural rim formation.

At present, the project is unfunded.
Please contact us for more information.

geoablation features and rocks in South Australia: Rich Murray 2011.09.25

2011-09-25T23:52:00.009-06:00

geoablation features and rocks in South Australia: Rich Murray 2011.09.25

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Club Space Rock blog,

Forum discussion,

Possible Impact Crater?,

Posted by Adelaide Thunder [Chris] on April 1, 2011 at 6:09 am in Meteorite Hunting,

[ His photos of the third finger size sample show a brown rock with a dark glassy glaze -- much like the glazes I find on small rocks and 1-3 m bedrocks within 160 km of Santa Fe, NM, as well as on parking lot 1-2 m lava rocks in Lydgate State Park, S of Kapaa, east coast of Kauai, Hawaii:

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww195/cmhandler/impact_splash.jpg?width=750

His fourth image of a chipped piece of clear silica is very similar to the Libyan Desert Glass, which Mark Boslough of Sandia Lab in Albuquerque, NM, ascribes to an air blast torch hitting the desert sand:

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww195/cmhandler/glass.jpg?width=750

http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/07/vast-geoablation-in-argentina-craters.html

Also similar is the small rock he pictures in his post of May 29.

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww195/cmhandler/CSC_0168.jpg?width=721 ]

-30.251716 138.336828 ~.3 km NS size,

.119 km el on W edge,

N of Lyndhurst, just W of road B83,

Google ground images,

click on each twice to get large and larger,

Ochre pit 24 images

By burchy,

in first photo, fabuous views from solid white rock on L to very dark red rock on R, very enhanced colors,

photo 23100499.jpg 10234X4071 Px,

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/23100499

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/23100499?source=wapi&referrer=kh.google.com

[ click on arrows above photo to view all 24 lovely views of South Australia ],

Aboriginal Ochre Pit

By Flett

natural colors,

photo 3378254.jpg 2299X769 Px

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/3378254.jpg

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3378254?source=wapi&referrer=kh.google.com

Ochre Cliffs

By martin13s,

natural colors, faint Moon, position further to L,

photo 122566208.jpg 8353X1743 Px

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/12256208

http://v8.cache1.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/12256208.jpg?redirect_counter=1

natural colors, full Moon, position further to R,

photo 12256954.jpg 7828X1795 Px

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/12256954

http://v8.cache1.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/12256954.jpg?redirect_counter=1

Pierson Barretto inspires many to support high school students in Recife, Brazil to collect air burst impactites: Rich Murray 2011.09.24

2011-09-24T00:29:00.002-06:00

Pierson Barretto inspires many to support high school students in Recife, Brazil to collect air burst impactites: Rich Murray 2011.09.24
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/09/pierson-barretto-inspires-many-to.html

Pierson Barretto "Cashew" crater, ~ .1 km size,
impactites studied by high school students 2011.08.27,
just SW of road BR 408. ~ 30 km WNW of Recife, Brazil,
-7.950723 -35.118484 .085 km el,

Pierson gives details and photos of the high school students collecting impactites at several craters.

https://sites.google.com/site/redemarcgravedeastronomia/home/2010/2011/oficina-estudo-da-origem-das-paleolagoas-pernambucanas

[ translated to English from Portuguese by Google ]

RMA > Activities > 2011 >
WORKSHOP: STUDY OF THE ORIGIN OF PALEOLAGOAS Pernambucano
Launch Project SCIENCE with high school students of the Gymnasium Pernambuco, Rua da Aurora, 703 - Santo Amaro, Recife - PE.
The workshop is a joint Museum Louis Jacques Brunet,
has cultural support and sponsorship of the Consulate General of Federal Republic of Germany in Recife,
cultural support of the Mayor of Santa Cruz da Baixa Verde,
Institute of Co-Responsibility for Education,
State Government of Pernambuco and
scientific support of the Network for Astronomy Marcgrave - RMA.

Date: May / Jun / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov 2011.

Research on the hypothesis for the origin of cosmic paleolagoas , Pleistocene and Holocene.

NEWS

19/JUN/2011 - Origin intriguing crater researcher

THE SECRETARY OF THE PEOPLE
Sunday, September 11, 2011
German Consulate sponsored workshop in Santa Cruz da Baixa Verde,
Pernambuco students of the Gymnasium

VISIT OF THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ DOWNTOWN GREEN AND CONSUL OF GERMANY TO THE MUSEUM OF LOUIS JACQUES BRUNET

The cultural attache of the Consulate of Germany, Martin Mahn,
Museum Director Brunet, Anne Sales,
the Consul General of Germany in Recife, Thomas Wülfing,
the reprentante the City of Santa Cruz da Baixa Verde, José de Lima,
support for the workshop.

...Impactitos are metamorphic rocks of the impact site , fused or partially liquefied at the instant of shock, by high pressure and temperature, are found in craters of meteoritic origin.

Some examples of impactitos found in the crater of the pot.
[ These are much like the samples I've been collecting for three years in New Mexico. ]

Most of the molten rock found in impact craters are the gaps.

STUDY OF ORIGIN OF PALEOLAGOAS Pernambucano

Opening the workshop with teachers and students of GP - May 2011

...Structure Cajueiro evaluation for field trip - June 18, 2011

Visit reconheciemnto structure suspicion of meteoric origin (BRPEPaudalho001)
Cashew located on the farm in the municipality of Paudalho, city of Guadalajara, Pernambuco,
with teachers (and tutors students of the previous semester) in Pernambuco Gym to evaluate the feasibility of the visit with students high school.

Structure of the cashew tree, field trip - August 27, 2011
Output GP: Saturday at 8:00

Visit to the structure with high school students of the Gymnasium Pernambucano to collect rocks and impactitos possible.

[ Pierson Barretto "Cashew" crater, ~ .1 km size,
impactites studied by high school students 2011.08.27,
just SW of road BR 408. ~ 30 km WNW of Recife, Brazil,
-7.950723 -35.118484 .085 km el,

Pierson gives details and photos of the high school students collecting impactites at several craters. ]

EXPOSURE

STUDY OF ORIGIN OF PALEOLAGOAS Pernambucano

National Week of Science and Technology
Climate change: natural disasters and risk prevention
Museum Louis Jacques Brunet
Gym Pernambuco, Rua da Aurora, 703 - Santo Amaro, Recife - PE
17 OCTOBER 2011
Contact: Barretto Pierson
cosmopier@gmail.com

Pierson Barretto gives best amateur site for worldwide evidence for
Holocene impacts: Rich Murray 2011.09.06
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/09/pierson-barretto-gives-best-amateur.html
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3 INQUA abstracts re Younger Dryas cold era evidence, James P and Douglas J Kennett, July 2011 Bern, Switzerland: Rich Murray 2011.09.17

2011-09-17T21:54:00.006-06:00

3 INQUA abstracts re Younger Dryas cold era evidence, James P and Douglas J Kennett, July 2011 Bern, Switzerland: Rich Murray 2011.09.17
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/09/3-inqua-abstracts-re-younger-dryas-cold.html

http://cosmictusk.com/upcoming-bern-inqua-conference-packed-with-younger-dryas-boundary-studies

[ Put the ID number in place of 1666 to get other abstracts ]

http://www.inqua2011.ch/?a=programme&subnavi=abstract&id=1666&sessionid=60

Abstract
ID: 1666
Title: Younger Dryas Onset Marked by Dramatic Environmental and Biotic Change
Content:

The onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) episode was marked by a complex array of abrupt and potentially linked changes in the Earth's environmental and biotic systems.

We will broadly review YD changes in atmosphere and ocean circulation, ice sheets, North American continental hydrosphere, biosphere including extinctions, and human culture.

The cause of the YD is controversial and currently debated, yet any causal hypothesis needs to account for these changes.

YD cooling is enigmatic in its timing, magnitude and abruptness at near-peak insolation.

Such cooling episodes with YD characteristics and timing in earlier Terminations appear more affiliated with terminal glacial episodes.

YD onset is also outstanding because of close collective association with major, abrupt continental-scale ecological reorganization, megafaunal extinction and human adaptive shifts.

The YD climate onset was remarkably abrupt (~one year) suggesting atmospheric climate response preceded oceanic change.

Maximum cooling was atypically early, near the YD onset and associated with an abrupt increase in atmospheric dust.

A major North American hydrographic reorganization, apparently associated with destabilization of ice sheet margins, was marked by abrupt switch in flow from the south to northern oceans.

This outburst flooding may have coincided with major drainage of Lake Agassiz.

Associated outburst floods affected widely separated areas of the Arctic.

The ocean responded by major change in meridional overturning.

On land, responses include widespread evidence of biomass burning;

change in sediment deposition including a layer with exotic materials interpreted to be of cosmic impact origin;

broad continental vegetation disruption;

abrupt megafaunal extinction; and

genetic bottlenecks reflecting population declines and/or animal migrations.

The North American human record suggests abrupt disappearance of the Clovis culture;

a human genetic bottleneck; and

a widespread archeological gap during early YD centuries.

Session: 60 The enigmatic Younger Dryas climatic episode
Authors: James Kennett
Presenter: James Kennett
Type: oral

ID: 1526
Title: Soot as Evidence for Widespread Fires at the Younger Dryas Onset (YDB, 12.9 ka)
Content:

Evidence continues to grow in support of a major extraterrestrial (ET) impact as a trigger for the late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in North America at the onset of the Younger Dryas (YDB, 12.9 ka).

Sediment at the base of a C-rich, dark layer is marked by peaks in magnetic microspherules, Ir, nanodiamonds, and other materials consistent with an ET event (Firestone, 2007; Kennett, 2008).

This layer also exhibits spikes in charcoal, C spherules, glass-like C, and PAHs indicative of continent-wide burning, coeval with evidence for a major abrupt increase in burning in Greenland (Mayewski, 1993; Legrand, 1997).

Synchronous, widespread soot in high abundances is a marker for extensive, impact-related fires.

Soot analysis allowed us to test the possibility that the explosion of an impactor triggered combustion of biomass or fossil C, as hypothesized for the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-P, 65 Ma) (Wolbach, 1985; Belcher et al., 2009).

Previous analyses of samples from N. America and Europe, yielded YDB soot (± 10%) at two sites in N. America:
Murray Springs, AZ (20 ppm) and
Blackville, SC (2000 ppm) (Wolbach, 2007).

We now report results from analysis of six more sites:
Arlington Canyon and nearby Arlington Springs, CA;
Bull Creek, OK;
Hall's Cave, TX;
Murray Springs (new sampling); and
Lommel, Belgium.

Soot concentrations spike in the YDB layer at four of these sites:
2000 ppm at Arlington Canyon, CA;
500 ppm at Bull Creek;
2000 ppm at Hall's Cave, TX; and
6000 ppm at Murray Springs, 30x higher than previously observed there.

Significant YDB soot at five locations up to 3500 km apart across North America, combined with other wildfire evidence, suggests widespread burning and aeolian transport of soot across North America ~12.9 ka ago.

These results support an impact sufficient to ignite continental-scale fires.

Session: 60 The enigmatic Younger Dryas climatic episode
Authors: Adrienne Stich
Charles Kinzie
James Kennett
Allen West
Wendy Wolbach
Presenter: James Kennett
Type: poster

ID: 1584
Title: Human Population Decline across Parts of the Northern Hemisphere during the Younger Dryas Cooling Period
Content:

There is an ongoing debate about a possible human population decline or contraction at the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) at 12.9 ka.

We used three methods to test whether YD climate change affected human population levels.

FREQUENCY ANALYSES.

This method employed lithic projectile point data from the Paleoindian Database of the Americas
(PIDBA, http://pidba.utk.edu ).

We tallied diagnostic projectile points used by North American Paleoindian cultures, such as Clovis, that existed prior to about 12.9 ka, and obtained point totals that were larger than those of immediately post-Clovis cultures.

For the SE U.S., the ratio of Clovis points (n=1993) to post-Clovis points (n=947) reveals a point decline of 52%.

For the Great Plains, a comparison of Clovis and fluted points (n=4020) to Folsom points (n=2527) shows a point decline of 37%, suggesting a population contraction of similar magnitude.

QUARRY USAGE.

Eleven major Clovis-age lithic quarry sites in the Southeastern U.S. exhibit either limited usage or total abandonment just after the YD onset, only to resume normal usage hundreds of years later.

Those usage patterns imply a severe population decline or reorganization around 12.9 ka.

SUMMED PROBABILITIES.

This method involved calibrating relevant 14C dates from across the Northern Hemisphere and combining the probabilities, after which major peaks and troughs in the trends were assumed to reflect changes in human demographics.

We found an abrupt, statistically significant decline at 12.9 ka, followed by a rebound 200 to 900 years later.

The overall decline was more than 50%, similar in magnitude to the decline in Clovis-Folsom point ratios.

The coeval YD declines in projectile points, quarry usage, and 14C dates appear linked to significant changes in climate and biota.

While the causes of the YD remain controversial, evidence suggests that human population declines occurred nearly simultaneously across the Northern Hemisphere around 12.9 ka.

Session: 60 The enigmatic Younger Dryas climatic episode
Authors: David G. Anderson
Albert C. Goodyear
James Kennett
Allen West
Presenter: James Kennett
Type: poster

http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/faculty/kennett/Home.html

[ photo ]
Professor: Marine Geology, Paleoceanography, Stratigraphy, Micropaleontology, Paleobiology

Office: Webb Hall 1037A
Phone: (805) 893-3103 or
805-893-4187
FAX: 805-893-2314
E-mail: kennett@geol.ucsb.edu

Research Interests

Research largely deals with earth system history during the Cenozoic based on the analyses of the deep sea sedimentary record and the uplifted marine record on land.
A variety of paleoenvironmental proxies are used (stable isotopes, fossils, sediments) to reconstruct paleoclimatic, oceanographic and biotic changes in the sedimentary record.
Of greatest interest is to help develop better understanding of past global changes; to evaluate the dynamic interactions that constantly occurred in the past between the several global spheres (lithosphere, oceansphere, atmosphere, cryosphere and biosphere).

The kinds of questions we think about include the following:
What is the climate evolution of the polar regions?
When and how did the major ice sheets form?
How have changes in ocean circulation affected global climate development?
How did the oceans circulate during times of global warming?
How tight are the linkages between climate change and thermohaline circulation?
How rapidly do climate and oceans switch between different states and what processes drive these changes?
How has the global climate changed during the classic ice-age period and how has this affected North American climate? What is the record of biological evolution in the oceans and how does this help with the understanding of evolutionary processes?
Data related to this and other questions are generated in light stable isotope mass spectrometry and micropaleontological laboratories.

http://pages.uoregon.edu/dkennett/

Department of Anthropology
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1218
Phone (Office): 541-346-5106
E-mail: dkennett@uoregon.edu

Abstracts for Session 60 “The enigmatic Younger Dryas climatic episode”
Oral Presentations July 20-27, 2011 INQUA Conference, Bern, Switzerland

ID Title Presenter Talknbr. Invited
1666 Younger Dryas Onset Marked by Dramatic Environmental and Biotic
Change James Kennett 1 x
835 The Younger-Dryas Cold reversal: Ice-Earth-Ocean Intercations
During a Period of Rapid Climate Change Richard Peltier 2 x
366 Assessing the effectiveness of different freshwater drainage
routes at triggering the Younger Dryas Alan Condron 3
2964 Reduced Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and
Regional Climate Change During the Younger Dryas Jerry McManus 4 x
3138 Oceanic Variability in the Gulf of Alaska during the Younger
Dryas Summer K. Praetorius 5
1514 Abrupt changes in runoff from North America during the Younger
Dryas James Teller 6 x
262 Younger Dryas glaciation of Scandinavia – the type area for the
Younger Dryas Jan Mangerud 7 x
1813 Unusual material in early Younger Dryas age sediments and their
potential relevance to the YD Cosmic Impact Hypothesis Malcolm
LeCompte 8 x
2641 Exceptional iridium concentrations found at the Allerød-Younger
Dryas transition in sediments from Bodmin Moor in southwest England
William Marshall 9
1556 Nanodiamonds and the Usselo layer Annelies van Hoesel 10
2768 Vegetation change and the Younger Dryas: a continental-scale
perspective Matthew Peros 11 x
209 The Younger Dryas in the Neotropics: paleoecological evidence from
Venezuela Encarni Montoya 12 x

Posters

ID Title Presenter

583 New paleoclimatic reconstruction for the Allerød and Young Dryas
of the plain part of Ukraine (based on palynological data) Lyudmila
Bezusko
997 Vegetation dynamics during Younger Dryas climatic episode (12600 –
11500 yr. cal. B.P.) in Northwest Lithuania Eugenija Rudnickaite
1177 Effective moisture during the late glacial to Holocene transition
from mainland eastern Australia John Tibby
1181 The boundary phenomenon of the Pleistocene – Holocene in the
Baikal Siberia (Russia) Natalia Berdnikova
1184 A review on the radiocarbon and absolute chronologies bracketing
the Younger Dryas climatic event Edouard Bard
1294 Individual and community responses of diatoms to the Younger
Dryas climatic reversal in a South Carpathian glacial lake Krisztina
Buczkó
1378 North Atlantic reservoir ages linked to high Younger Dryas
atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations William Austin
1447 The Bull Creek valley stream terraces, buried soils, and
paleo-environment during the Younger Dryas in the Oklahoma Panhandle,
USA Alexander Simms
1526 Soot as Evidence for Widespread Fires at the Younger Dryas Onset
(YDB, 12.9 ka) James Kennett
1584 Human Population Decline across Parts of the Northern Hemisphere
during the Younger Dryas Cooling Period James Kennett
1587 Eastward Drainage of Glacial Lake Agassiz: The Perspective from
the Lake Superior Basin Steve M. Colman
1591 Nanodiamonds as Evidence for a Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact Event Allen West
1606 Shock-melt Evidence for a Cosmic Impact with Earth during the
Younger Dryas at 12.9 ka Allen West
1619 Evidence for Widespread Biomass-Burning at the Younger Dryas
Boundary at 12.9 ka Allen West
2667 Greater-than-present wet conditions from 14.6 to 10.2 cal ka yr
BP in the southwestern Great Lakes area, North America Brandon Curry
2765 Evidence of Younger Dryas aridity in dune-paleosol successions in
the Midwest of U.S.A. Hong Wang
2853 Pedogenic Climate Signals in the Great Plains (USA) during the
Pleistocene-Holocene Transition (Bølling/Allerød – Boreal) William C
Johnson
2875 The Allerød-Younger Dryas Transition in lake sediments from The
Netherlands Wim Hoek
3116 Megafaunal Extinction at the Younger Dryas Onset in North America
Douglas Kennett
3134 Carolina Bays: Younger Dryas Time Capsules Malcolm LeCompte

Pierson Barretto gives best amateur site for worldwide evidence for
Holocene impacts: Rich Murray 2011.09.06
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/09/pierson-barretto-gives-best-amateur.html

www.cosmictusk.com
blog for all point of view, now sharing major progress re mainstream research

within mutual service, Rich Murray

Rich Murray, MA
Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology,
BS MIT 1964, history and physics,
1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
rmforall@gmail.com
505-819-7388
Skype audio, video rich.murray11

http://RMForAll.blogspot.com new primary archive

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2,000 km long 4.1 km high Valdivia Seamount, a huge terminal deposit from a tsunami going SE from South America and the Gulf of Mexico: Rich Murray 2011.09.15

2011-09-15T23:26:00.001-06:00

2,000 km long 4.1 km high Valdivia Seamount, a huge terminal deposit
from a tsunami going SE from South America and the Gulf of Mexico:
Rich Murray 2011.09.15
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/09/2000-km-long-41-km-high-valdivia.html

Valdivia Seamount, over 2,000 km SWNE from South Africa,
-26.190663 6.36022
-0.414 km deep at top edge,
-4.545 km deep to SW -- a 4.1 km drop.
I see this as a huge terminal deposit from a tsunami going SE from
South America and the Gulf of Mexico, probably from the 13 Ka BP comet
fragment air blast barrage...

10 m broken rock hill with black glazes, W of Rancho Alegre Road, S of
Coyote Trail, W of Hwy 14, S of Santa Fe, New Mexico,
tour of 50 photos 1 MB size each via DropBox:
Rich Murray 2011.07.28 2011.08.03
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/08/10-m-broken-rock-hill-with-black-glazes.html
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/08/35479730-106085926-1865-km-el-top-10-m.html
photos 3-5 of 50
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/92

vast geoablation in Argentina, craters from SW to NE -- Cox re
Boslough bursts: Rich Murray 2011.07.31
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/07/vast-geoablation-in-argentina-craters.html
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/91

unique erratic 3 m rock, complex mixed composition, and many possibly
related airburst features W of Vaughn, New Mexico:
Dennis Cox: Rich Murray 2010.11.26
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010/11/unique-erratic-3-m-rock-complex-mixed.html
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/78
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-post_27.html
12 photos of 3 m erratic rock 09-NOV-10 11:10:48 WP128 3 m rock,
34.600080 -105.342566 1.900 km el,
just S of SR 60 US 285, 8 km W of SR 54,
15 km W of Vaughn, NM, 57 km E of Laguna Del Perro impact field,
unique erratic 3 m rock, complex mixed composition.

Pierson Barretto gives best amateur site for worldwide evidence for
Holocene impacts: Rich Murray 2011.09.06
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/09/pierson-barretto-gives-best-amateur.html

Pierson Barretto, a retired architech and long-time amateur astronomer
in Brazil, has completely surpassed Dennis Cox, Rich Murray, Michael
Davias, and other amateurs for the most convincing, detailed, and
dramatic introduction to worldwide evidence for Holocene impacts.

https://sites.google.com/site/cosmopier/
IMPACT CRATER Scars and Palaeolagoons
Under Continuous Construction
This site is dedicated to a new approach on solar system astrophysics,
archaeology, paleontology, archaeoastronomy, climate studies, water
resources and environmental evolution from the End-Pleistocene and
Holocene.
The site shares some clues about craters, scars, palaeolagoons and
their possible cosmic origin...

www.cosmictusk.com
blog for all point of view, now sharing major progress re mainstream research

within mutual service, Rich Murray

Rich Murray, MA
Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology,
BS MIT 1964, history and physics,
1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
rmforall@gmail.com
505-819-7388
Skype audio, video rich.murray11

http://RMForAll.blogspot.com new primary archive

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AstroDeep/messages

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages
group with 118 members, 1,625 posts in a public archive

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rmforall/messages
______________________________________________

abstracts available for INQUA Session 60 The enigmatic Younger Dryas climatic episode, July 2011 Bern, Switzerland -- two by Malcolm LeCompte: Rich Murray 2011.09.13

2011-09-13T23:35:00.001-06:00

abstracts available for INQUA Session 60 The enigmatic Younger Dryas climatic episode, July 2011 Bern, Switzerland -- two by Malcolm LeCompte: Rich Murray 2011.09.13
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/09/abstracts-available-for-inqua-session.html

http://www.inqua2011.ch/?a=programme&subnavi=abstract&id=1813&sessionid=60

Abstract Details
ID: 1813
Title: Unusual material in early Younger Dryas age sediments and their potential relevance to the YD Cosmic Impact Hypothesis
Session: 60 The enigmatic Younger Dryas climatic episode
Authors: Malcolm LeCompte
Albert Goodyear
Mark Demitroff
Dale Batchelor
Edward Vogel
Charles Mooney
Barry Rock
Presenter: Malcolm LeCompte
Type: oral

Content:

The cause of the abrupt Younger Dryas (YD) climate change with its North American megafauna extinctions, population bottlenecks, and cultural disappearance remains enigmatic.
Iron- and silica-rich magnetic spherules reported from Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) sediments and dated to the stadial’s onset were interpreted by some as cosmic impact relicts.
They interpreted Northern Hemisphere YDB spherules as either impact ablation accumulations or ejecta.
Others, claiming adherence to the same protocol, reported an inability to find spherule enhancement in YDB strata.

We review spherule identification and counting methodology of two opposing studies.
An independent blind-test examination was conducted using samples from two pre-YD occupation sites common to both studies: Blackwater Draw, NM, and Topper, SC.
At Topper, samples were taken from sediments located above, adjacent to, and at the Clovis artifact debitage layer.
Absence of overlying debitage indicates a multi-century hiatus in human activity before successor culture reoccupation.
We found increased spherule abundance in YDB strata at both common sites.
We also report spherules present in YD-age sediment from Paw-Paw Cove, MD, contrary to its reported absence.
Spherule geochemistry reflects similar iron, titanium, aluminosilicate, oxygen, and carbon content at three widely separated sites.
Spherules with elevated concentrations of rare earth elements including Cerium, Lanthanum, and Praseodymium are occasionally detected.
Our spherule positive results are consistent with the YD Cosmic Impact Hypothesis study that found similar spherule composition and increased abundances in YDB sediments.

Earlier negative results appear due to non-adherence of grain-size sorting protocol and subsequent examination of smaller than recommended aliquots.
Size sorting mitigates neurocognitive factors making optical microspherule searches much less labor intensive.

http://www.inqua2011.ch/?a=programme&subnavi=abstract&id=3134&sessionid=60

ID: 3134
Title: Carolina Bays: Younger Dryas Time Capsules
Session: 60 The enigmatic Younger Dryas climatic episode
Authors: Malcolm LeCompte
Kiara Jones
LaEsha Barnes
Ryan Lawrence
Cedric Hall
MyAsia Reid
Devina Hughes
Leroy Lucas
Mark Demitroff
David Kimbel
Presenter: Malcolm LeCompte
Type: poster

Content:

Cold, dry, windy conditions prevailed far south of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during glacial epochs.
A half-million, similarly aligned, elliptically shaped, shallow depressions or Carolina Bays are artifacts of potent Pleistocene geomorphic forces.
We assume Bay formation by strong late Pleistocene winds deflating loose sandy sediments to create hollows or blowouts.
Episodic modification continued into the early Holocene when dry, windy periods alternated with wet, calm periods.
Windblown and water-borne sediments repeatedly filled Bay bottoms.
Their fill became a layered repository of transported material; time capsules for post LGM history.
OSL, 14C dating, pollen analysis, and cultural assemblages have been used to date Bays.
Rockyhock, Chowan County, NC and Kimbel, Cumberland County, NC, provide an opportunity to examine Younger Dryas paleoenvironmental conditions and test the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis.
Both Bays were surveyed using Ground Penetrating RADAR to evaluate subsurface structure.
Sediment composition differs between Bays;
Rockyhock contains fluvial sediments, while Kimbel is primarily aeolian fill.
Kimbel Bay’s windblown sediments contain significant quantities of potential impact markers including: nanodiamonds, carbon spherules, glasslike carbon, charcoal, and magnetic spherules.
Their exact chronostratigraphic significance remains undetermined.
Rockyhock Bay’s fluvial sediments contain only a very few magnetic spherules in rim sediments.
Carbon spherules, glasslike carbon, and charcoal were not found with analysis of bay center samples pending.
A relationship is probable between wind action and impact marker abundance.
Marker concentration may be enhanced by complex size segregation dynamics during eolian activity.
Bay floors with bounding surfaces could be described as traps that collected otherwise rare and widely scattered soil constituents.

http://nia.ecsu.edu/sp/staff/lecompte/cv.html

Malcolm A. LeCompte
Campus Box 672 ECSU, Elizabeth City, North Carolina 27909
(252)267-1743 cell
(252)335-3807 office
Email options:
lecomptem@mail.ecsu.edu, malecompte@aol.com, mlecompte@astrovision.com

http://cosmictusk.com/upcoming-bern-inqua-conference-packed-with-younger-dryas-boundary-studies

[ Put the ID number in place of 1813 or 3134 to get other abstracts ]

Abstracts for Session 60 “The enigmatic Younger Dryas climatic episode”
Oral Presentations July 20-27, 2011 INQUA Conference, Bern, Switzerland

ID Title Presenter Talknbr. Invited
1666 Younger Dryas Onset Marked by Dramatic Environmental and Biotic Change James Kennett 1 x
835 The Younger-Dryas Cold reversal: Ice-Earth-Ocean Intercations During a Period of Rapid Climate Change Richard Peltier 2 x
366 Assessing the effectiveness of different freshwater drainage routes at triggering the Younger Dryas Alan Condron 3
2964 Reduced Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and Regional Climate Change During the Younger Dryas Jerry McManus 4 x
3138 Oceanic Variability in the Gulf of Alaska during the Younger Dryas Summer K. Praetorius 5
1514 Abrupt changes in runoff from North America during the Younger Dryas James Teller 6 x
262 Younger Dryas glaciation of Scandinavia – the type area for the Younger Dryas Jan Mangerud 7 x
1813 Unusual material in early Younger Dryas age sediments and their potential relevance to the YD Cosmic Impact Hypothesis Malcolm LeCompte 8 x
2641 Exceptional iridium concentrations found at the Allerød-Younger Dryas transition in sediments from Bodmin Moor in southwest England William Marshall 9
1556 Nanodiamonds and the Usselo layer Annelies van Hoesel 10
2768 Vegetation change and the Younger Dryas: a continental-scale perspective Matthew Peros 11 x
209 The Younger Dryas in the Neotropics: paleoecological evidence from Venezuela Encarni Montoya 12 x

Posters

ID Title Presenter

583 New paleoclimatic reconstruction for the Allerød and Young Dryas of the plain part of Ukraine (based on palynological data) Lyudmila Bezusko
997 Vegetation dynamics during Younger Dryas climatic episode (12600 – 11500 yr. cal. B.P.) in Northwest Lithuania Eugenija Rudnickaite
1177 Effective moisture during the late glacial to Holocene transition from mainland eastern Australia John Tibby
1181 The boundary phenomenon of the Pleistocene – Holocene in the Baikal Siberia (Russia) Natalia Berdnikova
1184 A review on the radiocarbon and absolute chronologies bracketing the Younger Dryas climatic event Edouard Bard
1294 Individual and community responses of diatoms to the Younger Dryas climatic reversal in a South Carpathian glacial lake Krisztina Buczkó
1378 North Atlantic reservoir ages linked to high Younger Dryas atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations William Austin
1447 The Bull Creek valley stream terraces, buried soils, and paleo-environment during the Younger Dryas in the Oklahoma Panhandle, USA Alexander Simms
1526 Soot as Evidence for Widespread Fires at the Younger Dryas Onset (YDB, 12.9 ka) James Kennett
1584 Human Population Decline across Parts of the Northern Hemisphere during the Younger Dryas Cooling Period James Kennett
1587 Eastward Drainage of Glacial Lake Agassiz: The Perspective from the Lake Superior Basin Steve M. Colman
1591 Nanodiamonds as Evidence for a Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact Event Allen West
1606 Shock-melt Evidence for a Cosmic Impact with Earth during the Younger Dryas at 12.9 ka Allen West
1619 Evidence for Widespread Biomass-Burning at the Younger Dryas Boundary at 12.9 ka Allen West
2667 Greater-than-present wet conditions from 14.6 to 10.2 cal ka yr BP in the southwestern Great Lakes area, North America Brandon Curry
2765 Evidence of Younger Dryas aridity in dune-paleosol successions in the Midwest of U.S.A. Hong Wang
2853 Pedogenic Climate Signals in the Great Plains (USA) during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition (Bølling/Allerød – Boreal) William C Johnson
2875 The Allerød-Younger Dryas Transition in lake sediments from The Netherlands Wim Hoek
3116 Megafaunal Extinction at the Younger Dryas Onset in North America Douglas Kennett
3134 Carolina Bays: Younger Dryas Time Capsules Malcolm LeCompte

10 m broken rock hill with black glazes, W of Rancho Alegre Road, S of
Coyote Trail, W of Hwy 14, S of Santa Fe, New Mexico,
tour of 50 photos 1 MB size each via DropBox:
Rich Murray 2011.07.28 2011.08.03
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/08/10-m-broken-rock-hill-with-black-glazes.html
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/08/35479730-106085926-1865-km-el-top-10-m.html
photos 3-5 of 50
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/92

vast geoablation in Argentina, craters from SW to NE -- Cox re
Boslough bursts: Rich Murray 2011.07.31
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/07/vast-geoablation-in-argentina-craters.html
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/91

unique erratic 3 m rock, complex mixed composition, and many possibly
related airburst features W of Vaughn, New Mexico:
Dennis Cox: Rich Murray 2010.11.26
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010/11/unique-erratic-3-m-rock-complex-mixed.html
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/78
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-post_27.html
12 photos of 3 m erratic rock 09-NOV-10 11:10:48 WP128 3 m rock,
34.600080 -105.342566 1.900 km el,
just S of SR 60 US 285, 8 km W of SR 54,
15 km W of Vaughn, NM, 57 km E of Laguna Del Perro impact field,
unique erratic 3 m rock, complex mixed composition.

Pierson Barretto gives best amateur site for worldwide evidence for
Holocene impacts: Rich Murray 2011.09.06
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/09/pierson-barretto-gives-best-amateur.html

Pierson Barretto, a retired architech and long-time amateur astronomer
in Brazil, has completely surpassed Dennis Cox, Rich Murray, Michael
Davias, and other amateurs for the most convincing, detailed, and
dramatic introduction to worldwide evidence for Holocene impacts.

https://sites.google.com/site/cosmopier/
IMPACT CRATER Scars and Palaeolagoons
Under Continuous Construction
This site is dedicated to a new approach on solar system astrophysics,
archaeology, paleontology, archaeoastronomy, climate studies, water
resources and environmental evolution from the End-Pleistocene and
Holocene.
The site shares some clues about craters, scars, palaeolagoons and
their possible cosmic origin...

www.cosmictusk.com
blog for all point of view, now sharing major progress re mainstream research

within mutual service, Rich Murray

Rich Murray, MA
Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology,
BS MIT 1964, history and physics,
1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
rmforall@gmail.com
505-819-7388
Skype audio, video rich.murray11

http://RMForAll.blogspot.com new primary archive

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AstroDeep/messages

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages
group with 118 members, 1,625 posts in a public archive

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rmforall/messages
______________________________________________