Arise
Charity Racket
[2006] Exposed: the secret corporate funding behind health research
Quotes
''In the 1990s, Arise cooked up a project to promote the virtues of eating
chocolate, smoking, drinking tea, coffee, and alcohol! The idea was to produce
scientific studies to be used as propaganda fodder for press consumption.
The scientific excuse to promote these particular lifestyle habits was to avoid
guilt, which the researchers rationalized, could increase stress and undermine
the immune system. This could then lead to forgetfulness, eating disorders,
heart problems or brain damage. In short, as Arise spokesmen said, “The ‘health
police’ could be causing more harm than good.” This lifestyle assessment
project, which lasted from September 1993 to March 1994, generated 195 newspaper
articles, radio and TV interviews in some of the world’s top media outlets. Much
of this coverage centered around a poll Arise claimed it commissioned called
“Naughty but Nice.” In documents that have now just become available, Guardian reporter,
George Monbiot, reports that funding for this project originated from Coca-Cola,
Phillip Morris, British American Tobacco, and RJ Reynolds, among others.''
[2006] DEATH BY
PROPAGANDA by Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND and Elissa Meininger