Up Close and Personal
The Monthly Interview with CTM Founder, Phillip Day

ECLUB: I understand you are not fond of the Royal Mail right now.
PHILLIP DAY: Seething. My apologies first to the thousands of Americans who received the flyer notifying them of my US Break Free tour FOUR MONTHS LATE, and over three months after the tour itself began.
ECLUB: What was the problem?
PHILLIP DAY: The Royal Mail's the problem. No accountability. Bovine incompetence. And no comeback. It's quite distressing how a supposedly professional and accountable organisation can mess up to the degree that it does (much of the mail in the UK is now delivered late and a chunk of it not at all). No-one's particularly bothered. If I ran my organisation the way the Royal Mail run theirs, I'd be bankrupt or in jail within a year. Anyway, folks, please don't keep ringing Credence USA and giving them an earful as the flyers keep turning up. It's obviously a tragic error, OK? We'll know better not to use them next time.
ECLUB: So, what have you got for us this month?
PHILLIP DAY: A special feature on the teenage angst, acne (also the adult version, acne rosacea). A special also on fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the yeast overgrowth connection. More on the dangers of mammography from none other than Prof. Samuel Epstein himself, in my view one of the world's leading toxicologist. Ladies, if you are still irradiating yourselves, please read this article.
ECLUB: Mammograms causing breast cancer.
PHILLIP DAY: These beastly scans load in up to 1,000 times the rads of a chest x-ray, and the idea that they are 'life-saving early detection' is patent rubbish. In more than a few cases, they can spell the downfall of the unsuspecting. Much of what shows up will be DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ), a non-invasion lesion that almost never goes on to become anything. Also, calcium oxalate deposits, an indication of fungal metabolism. If you insist on scanning, use the safe alternatives: infrared thermography, sonography, breast self-exam…
ECLUB: I had a sneak preview at the prostate PSA article. Wow!
PHILLIP DAY: PSA (the prostate specific antigen test) is now 'officially' useless as an indicator of anything other than prostate size. Most men will die with an enlarged prostate, not of it, and yet in the past, a high PSA reading often triggered surgical castration via prostectomy in a ridiculous attempt to 'make the cancer go away' when the patient often had nothing the matter with them to begin with.
ECLUB: Shades of women having mastectomies for DCIS readings.
PHILLIP DAY: Precisely.
ECLUB: You're going hard again on TETRA and those beastly masts, aren't you?
PHILLIP DAY: TETRA's the British government's new emergency radio system which has spawned over three thousand masts around the countryside and in cities, in addition to the huge numbers of mobile telephone masts already in place. Telecoms companies are now placing smaller masts on lamp posts also in an attempt to avoid all the public ranting that has understandably accompanied such irresponsible radiation placements. Here it comes again: RADIATION CAUSES CANCER. Mammograms, radiotherapy, mobile telephones, TETRA, even police officers getting testicular cancer waiting in their squad cars with the speed gun in their lap.
ECLUB: Boy, you're breaking my heart with these kinds of stories. What else?
PHILLIP DAY: A sinister new national children's database in the UK. To protect our children of course by making sure they have their vaccinations and mental health checks. We are also doing another fly-by of the toxic personal care and household products issue in the home. In fact, speaking on toxins, Professor Paul Connett of the world-encompassing Fluoridation Action Network (FAN) is touring Australia in his admirable, relentless bid to get the disgusting practice of poisoning the public water supply tossed out for good. Paul, if you're reading this, take the yellow chicken.
ECLUB: I beg your pardon?
PHILLIP DAY: The good Professor sometimes takes along a large yellow chicken and challenges it to a debate when the pro-fluoridation officials fail to show to give an account of their bogus science.
ECLUB: What's this about the BBC, Jesus and apricot kernels?
PHILLIP DAY: A story to warm the cockles of thy heart, Brian. A Christian lady from the island of Jersey who was diagnosed with 'terminal' pancreatic cancer gets spiritual and practical in the face of her mountain. This is truly an inspirational guide to anyone facing a similar prognosis. I won't spoil by blabbering further about it. However, a touching story in this morning's Daily Mail (21st September 2004), p. 23 entitled 'The Last Flight of Red Two'. The heartbreaking predicament of one of the Red Arrow pilots (of the famous British jet aerobatic team) who has been given a 'terminal' diagnosis of bile duct cancer.
ECLUB: I saw that too.
PHILLIP DAY: The lads gave him a victory lap in one of the few remaining Spitfires, which was doubtless completely amazing. The picture shows the lone fighter bracketed either side by the red jets with their streaming smoke-trails.
ECLUB: Anything we can do?
PHILLIP DAY: Let's all have a go trying to get in contact with Flight Lieutenant Matt 'Jarvo' Jarvis and point him to the Credence Internet cancer tour. As many of us as possible should e-mail the reporter, Bill Mouland, and get him to forward the link to yell a resounding 'Tally Ho!' to the brave aviator and tell him to get juicing those leafy green veggies and doing the necessary. It ain't over till the last Spitfire rumbles off into the blue.
ECLUB: A metaphor perhaps for Britain's predicament with the EU?
PHILLIP DAY: Don't get me started.
ECLUB: Thank you, Phillip.

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