Fukushima FUEL MELT confirmed

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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There has been little recent information in the news about the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant run by TEPCO in Japan.  A quietness that seemed ominous, even if it was somewhat over-shadowed by other events.

This is a bit ironic, given that nuclear radiation is positively a real and frightening reality.

The information offered below highlights four aspects:

1. The radiation emissions are high level and extremely dangerous.

2. Much important information has been kept from the public. It should be a criminal offence to withhold health-related information from the public.

3. TEPCO and whoever are assisting, are really struggling to cope.  A world-wide catastrophic event is in progress and is not being successfully contained.

4. Nuclear power plants ARE dangerous, potentially in all cases, demonstrably in others. The pro-nuclear industry can not be trusted to be honest. (Not that they are alone in that category!).

From ‘World Nuclear News‘:

Investigations at unit 1 at Fukushima Daiichi suggest that most of the fuel in the reactor core melted and dropped to the bottom of the reactor vessel in the early stages of the accident. Work has started on installing a structure to cover the damaged reactor building. 

 Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said that following the installation and calibration of two new water level gauges, water level readings suggest that most of the fuel in unit 1 had earlier melted and fallen to the bottom of the reactor vessel, where it has solidified and been kept adequately cooled. The company said that most of this core melt probably occurred within 16 hours after the unit automatically shutdown when the earthquake struck on 11 March.

The WNN article can be read here.

Further relevant information from asahi.com:

The radioactivity level inside the reactor building is very high, with a reading of up to 2,000 millisieverts per hour, an extreme danger to workers. That reading was taken May 13 at a site near a pipe leading to the pressure vessel at the southeastern part of the ground floor of the No. 1 reactor building.

The reading was the highest so far of the checks of radiation in the air conducted after the accident.

TEPCO must look for points where the radiation level is low in the building so that technicians can stay long enough to install pipes.

It also needs to work out a way to deter the flow of the highly contaminated water in the basement into the ocean.

Full article linked here.

And from Chris Marterson:

Well, it now turns out that much of my worst fears and about Fukushima have been confirmed with the news that TEPCO has finally admitted that reactor #1 has experienced a meltdown event that may have breached the primary containment vessel. Further, truly alarming levels of radiation are now being reported in and around Tokyo.

His article linked here.  A site with a wealth of relevant information.

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Quote: from Osama bin Laden

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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“I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. … Whoever committed the act of 11 September are not the friends of the American people. I have already said that we are against the American system, not against its people, whereas in these attacks the common American people have been killed. ….The Western media is unleashing such a baseless propaganda, which makes us surprised, but it reflects on what is in their hearts and gradually they themselves become captive of this propaganda. …. Terror is the most dreaded weapon in the modern age and the Western media is mercilessly using it against its own people.”

Osama bin Laden Sep 28, 2001

Acknowledgements to TIP. http://tipggita32.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/quote-114/

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Joke for the Day!

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

 An email from a friend:   (Scroll slowly at the end).

Well, a Girl Potato and Boy Potato had eyes for each other,and finally they got married, and had a little sweet potato, which they called ‘Yam’.
Of course, they wanted the best for Yam.
When it was time, they told her about the facts of life. They warned her about going out  and  getting half-baked, so she wouldn’t get accidentally mashed, and get a bad  name for herself like ‘Hot Potato’.

Yam said not to worry, no Spud would get her into the sack and make a rotten potato out of her!

But on the other hand she wouldn’t stay home and become a Couch Potato either.
She would eat properly so as not to be skinny like her Shoestring Cousins..

When she went off to Europe, Mr. And Mrs. Potato told Yam to watch out for those hard-boiled guys from Ireland and the greasy guys from France called the French Fries.

And when she went out West, she must watch out  for the Indians so she wouldn’t get scalloped.
They sent Yam to Idaho P.U. (that’s Potato University).

So that when she graduated she’d really be “in the Chips”.

But in spite of all they did for her, one-day Yam came home and announced she was going to marry Richie Benaud.

“Richie Benaud!!!!”, they cried. They were very upset and told Yam “You can’t possibly marry Richie Benaud because he’s just ….

Are you ready for this? Are you sure?

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OK! You asked for it: Here it is!

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… just a COMMONTATER!”

Of course, an Australian joke. Richie Benaud is a well-known cricket commentator on our media.

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Discovery of Bt insecticide in human blood proves GMO toxin a threat to human health

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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This article is based on the results of a Canadian study referenced in the article.
Much discussion has been published about the pros and cons of GMO foods. It is very important to learn as much as we can about the processes and end results.
There is no doubt in my mind that the companies promoting GM foods are doing it for their own benefits and not for the public good.
 
“(NaturalNews) The biotechnology industry’s house of cards appears to be crumbling, as a new study out of the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, recently found Bt toxin, a component of certain genetically-modified (GM) crops, in human blood samples for the first time. Set to be published in the peer-reviewed journal Reproductive Toxicologythe new study shreds the false notion that Bt is broken down by the digestive system, and instead shows that the toxin definitively persists in the bloodstream.Industry mouthpieces have long alleged that Bt toxin, which is derived from a soil bacterium known as Bacillus thuringiensis, is harmless to humans. The built-in pesticide has been integrated into certain GM crops to ward off pests. Bt corn, for instance, has actually been designed to produce the toxin directly inside its kernels, which are later eaten by both livestock and humans (http://www.naturalnews.com/026426_G…).

In the recent study, researchers Aziz Aris and Samuel Leblanc evaluated 30 pregnant women and 39 non-pregnant women who had come to the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS) in Quebec, Can., for a tubectomy. Upon taking blood samples, researchers detected the Bt Cry1Ab toxin in a shocking 93 percent of maternal and 80 percent of fetal blood samples. And 69 percent of non-pregnant women tested positive for the toxin in their blood.

All women involved in the study had been consuming a typical Canadian diet which, like in the US, is riddled with GM materials and toxins. Conventional soy, corn, canola, and potato products, for example, are in many of the foods eaten in both the US and Canada, which explains why Bt toxin was highly prevalent in the women’s blood samples.

And the fact that Bt toxin was detected even in unborn babies shows that the chemical is easily passed from mother to child, and that it persists far longer than the biotechnology industry claims it does. Clearly, the toxin is harmful both to pests and to humans. Earlier studies have already shown that Bt toxin and other pesticides end up contaminating and persisting in the environment, which makes it a major public health concern.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032407_Bt_insecticide_GMOs.html#ixzz1MUiNea4C ”

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Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist!

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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I am posting this information from ‘ForbiddenKnowledge’ verbatim.

It’s timely, a theme that I have favoured for some time, and it comes from a site for which I have great respect.

 

If readers have an issue with it, please comment and we can delve a bit deeper.

 

(Quote starts)

“This is official  

“Al-Qaeda-Doesn’t-Exist-A-Thon”

We’ll start off with the Corbett Report’s new
documentary:

This is the Prologue to the new documentary from
The Corbett Report, Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist. This
documentary interrogates the notion that Osama Bin
Laden single-handedly runs the pervasive Al Qaeda
terrorist network by examining its inception, its
links to Western intelligence, the double agents
and fictitious characters that populate its ranks,
and the fraudulent ways the Al Qaeda myth is
propagated in the controlled corporate media.
The documentary also offers ways that citizens
can become involved in helping to spread
understanding about the true government-sponsored
terror paradigm.

Video:

http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/page/1264.html

This is the second installment of Part One of
the ‘Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist’ Documentary, dealing
with the Founding and Funding of what we know as
Al Qaeda, including information on Brzezinski,
Operation Cyclone, the CIA, the ISI, MAK, and of
course Osama Bin Laden.

Video:

http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/page/1265.html

Part Two of the ‘Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist documentary”
This installment of the documentary goes into
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Operation Cyclone, the
ISI-CIA-MAK-US government funding circle and CIA
connections to Osama Bin Laden.

Video:

http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/page/1263.html

…and the kicker:

The BBC: Al Qaeda Does Not Exist

Video:

http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/page/1004.html

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Australia: Doctors Warn Parents to Keep Newborns at Home as Whooping Cough Epidemic Escalates

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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This article posted at Sott.net gives an alternative view to the concerns of vaccinations being potentially dangerous.  There is nothing clearcut in this issue, there is evidence supporting both sides of the argument. What is clear is that some aspects of some vaccines are definitely cause for concern. Similarly some aspects of choosing not to vaccinate involve increase health risks.

It is a great pity that the resolving of this dilemma is being left to the public, because the medical fraternity mostly have some ‘barrow to push’.

This whooping cough epidemic is currently very localised to areas around Sydney.

Author:   Jane Hansen   The Sunday Telegraph
“Doctors have warned parents to keep newborn babies at home to protect them from a whooping cough epidemic triggered by the “chardonnay set and alternatives”.

There have been 4580 cases of whooping cough so far this year, new data from NSW Health reveals.

Northern Sydney and South Eastern Sydney have led the way in this year’s resurgent epidemic, recording the highest incidence of whooping cough, with 669 and 522 cases respectively. The Illawarra region was next highest followed by Western Sydney and Southern Sydney.

National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance deputy director Dr Rob Menzies said it was unsurprising which suburbs had the highest rates of infection.

“It’s a phenomenon where highly educated people feel they need to do their own research on what is best for their child and there is scepticism of official government policy,” he said.

“But a lot of people are likely to find wacky anti-vaccination sites where a lot of the information is distorted. It is not helping that people opt out of vaccination.

“It puts their children at risk and it puts other people’s children at risk.”

The epidemic has infected one in five children at a school near Lismore, prompting doctors to warn parents to cocoon newborns to minimise the risk.

“With vaccination rates so low in this area we say to the mothers of newborns, do not take them out in the community,” local paediatrician Dr Chris Ingall said.

“We’re appalled at how many kids are getting whooping cough because the chardonnay set and the alternatives don’t vaccinate their children.”

Areas with low vaccination rates had 300 per cent more cases of whooping cough between 2008 and 2010, according to figures from NSW Health.

The national average of conscientious objectors to vaccinations is 1.1 per cent but, in Mullumbimby, 21 per cent are conscientious objectors, as are 16 per cent in Byron Bay, meaning that as many as one in five families have children who are unvaccinated.

The epidemic of 2008-09, which affected 12,000 people and claimed the life of four-week-old Dana McCaffery from Tweed Shire, began on the north coast and spread to affluent Sydney suburbs such as Bondi, Vaucluse, Coogee and Manly, where up to 8 per cent of children are not vaccinated.

Dana McCaffery’s parents Toni and David now have baby Sarah, 14 weeks, who they are cocooning, until she has all three shots to cover her against the epidemic.

“We know it is out there and rather than it be a silent predator, we are not going out and not working,” Mrs McCaffery said.

Her husband is a schoolteacher at St Joseph’s Primary School in Alstonville which is in the grip of a whooping cough epidemic.

Doctors say adults, whose shots have worn off, can pass on the disease to infants.

“We have tried to make some sort of difference ourselves, when we were standing over our daughter’s grave and thought people need to know about this, but still only 18 per cent of adults are vaccinated,” Mr McCaffery said.

Comment: Parents would be wise to consider the risks of vaccines and to do their own research. There is an ongoing controversy about the dangers and efficacy of vaccines. The following quote is from from Roger R. Gervais, D.C., N.D., a naturopathic physician. The full article may be found here.

Finally, there is understandable concern among public health officials and parents alike as to what would happen without the vaccines. In the case of at least one (the Pertussis vaccine), the vaccine, which is known or suspected of causing infantile encephalitis and sudden infant death syndrome, would appear to be worse than the disease. It has also been implicated in bacterial infections including meningitis.

Many years ago, Sweden banned the Pertussis vaccine because of these dangers. For similar reasons, Japan delays the vaccine until after two years of age, whereas in North America, it is usually administered at two months of age. Both Sweden and Japan are credited with having the lowest infant mortality rates in the world. This fact would tend to discredit claims that the Pertussis vaccine is necessary to prevent an escalation of infant mortality in North America.

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On Cholesterol and Fats (Post 1)

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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 Much has been said on this topic. After posting a few different views, I should be able to come up with some summary and/or conclusions. In the meantime the articles should be of interest.

Paul Fassa, ‘Natural News‘ is the author, I have copied it from Sott.net. 

“For decades we have been indoctrinated that cholesterol from saturated fat is the major harbinger of heart disease and death. The result has been big profits for unhealthy, cheaply produced no/low fat foods like margarine and Big Pharma‘s dangerous statin drugs.

Over several decades, this propaganda has diminished or even destroyed the health of millions while killing thousands who have been put on cholesterol lowering statin drugs. Simply put, cholesterol as the major heart disease threat is disinformation.

Bad vs Real Science

The original study that started the whole cholesterol/heart disease hypothesis was conducted on rabbits. They were fed enormous quantities of butter and lard daily, equivalent to a quart a day for humans. But those animals are herbivores, not omnivores. Herbivores are not equipped to digest animal proteins and fats. When a similar study was conducted years later on rats, which like humans are omnivores, there were no negative consequences whatsoever.

More impressive are the three epidemiological human studies involving tens of thousands of subjects over two to three generations. They all discovered higher death rates among those with lower cholesterol counts. Those studies were: The Framingham Study; The Honolulu Heart Program Study; The Japanese Lipid Intervention Trial.

Many agree that stress coupled with heavy refined carbohydrate and junk food diets (SAD) are the sources of most obesity, diabetes, chronic inflammation, and heart disease.

Getting Fats Into Your Diet

Cholesterol is essential to many metabolic functions and forms 20% of our brains as well as part of our cell walls. Depression is often the result of low blood cholesterol levels. Our bodies make some cholesterol while regulating cholesterol blood levels. So if you consume too much cholesterol, the body compensates by making less.

The only bad cholesterol is external, unnatural oxy-cholesterol, which is the result of heating fats to where they oxidize. This occurs commonly in processed and fast food. Natural oxy-cholesterol is produced in the body as part of a regulatory function. But unnatural oxy-cholesterol can obstruct bile functions and eventually cause arterial problems. This arrangement is prevalent among SAD consumers.

A leading nutritional biochemist, Dr. Harry Eidiner Jr., has confirmed in medical journals that you cannot digest protein without fat in your diet. A vegetarian who consumes raw milk dairy products from grass fed cows and free range hen eggs has no problems with taking in sufficient fats.

Strict vegans may have a more difficult time getting enough fats. Virgin coconut oil and fresh raw nuts can be added. Unrefined cold pressed poly-unsaturated plant based oils have positive fatty acid value also. Balancing omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids (around two or three to one) is healthiest. Hemp oil has that balance.

Omega-3 flaxseed oil can offset the imbalance of omega-6 olive oil. Avocado and avocado unprocessed oils are rich in good fats. Avocado is so nutrient dense it’s often considered a super food. Just make sure polyunsaturated fat oils don’t go rancid or get overheated. Seafood or fresh water fish not farmed are good fatty acid sources. But choosing healthy seafood is getting dicier daily.

Eating meat? A few of us need to. But unless you’re wiling to go the extra mile to find meats from grass fed livestock treated humanely and pay the extra bucks, you’ll be eating meat from diseased, drugged, and distressed animals. Not so healthy. This diet also perpetuates more massive, outrageous suffering to our friends in the animal kingdom.

Include some fat in your diet. Simply avoid refined carbs, processed or fast foods and the phony food no-fat diet craze that lingers on as the legacy of some old bad science. “

Click this to see the original article: cholesterol and fats

I have included several ‘related articles’, some after a brief glance, some not read at all. The idea is to provide relevant reading material. It should be possible to arrive at some good conclusions.

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Meat Industry Secrets: Meat glue

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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I am an enthusiastic meat-eater and find this information disturbing. I don’t feel the need to reduce my consumption but certainly have learnt that what one buys and the sources are important to our health.
 
Anthony Gucciardi is the author of this post from Sott.net. Two extracts follow:
(NaturalNews) Are you eating meat cemented together by “meat glue”? It may sound shocking and far-fetched to most people, but a recent news story covered by the Australian Today Tonight show unveils how the meat you’re eating could be made up of scraps glued together to form a deceptively “normal” piece of meat.

Just as big pharma supplies dangerous substances to countless people worldwide, the meat industry may not be far behind in such nefarious deeds. Using a special product called “meat glue”, meat suppliers have been caught using meat scraps, too small to sell, to create normal sized portions of meat for distribution. This misleading sales tactic is so effective that even experts can’t tell the difference between a regular piece of meat and a piece of meat tainted with “meat glue”.

Conventional meat isn’t much better

Although this shocking story unveils the hazards of meat tainted with meat glue, would eating “conventional” meat products be much better? The answer is almost always “no.” Conventional meat is injected with hormones and antibiotics and is thoroughly contaminated by pesticides. Animals are often locked in small cages or are raised in prison-like farms that force the animals to consume genetically modified corn instead of grass. Although it seems like the only creatures affected by these alterations are the animals themselves, that notion is far from true. Most of the population consumes meat, and by corroding the world’s meat supply with meat glue, the human population ultimately suffers.

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Humour: Old Butch, the Rooster

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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          Old Butch

John   was in the fertilized egg  business.

He  had several hundred young layers (hens), called  ‘pullets,’ and ten  roosters to fertilize  the eggs.
He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.
This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.
Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.  John’s favorite rooster, old  Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch’s bell hadn’t rung at all! When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.  To John’s amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn’t ring.  He’d sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next  one. John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result was the  judges not only awarded old Butch the “No Bell  Piece Prize,” but they also awarded him the “Pulletsurprise” as well.

Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the  unsuspecting populace and screwing them when they weren’t paying attention.

Vote carefully this year, the bells are not always audible.

 
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Epidemic of Autism

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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An observable increasing incidence of autism is increasingly being associated with vaccines. This SOTT post is worth reading.

I have added the link below which gives a detailed talk by Dr Wakefield giving much food for thought about the possible detrimental effects of vaccines on babies. In particular the neo-natal exposure to the hepatitis B vaccination.

He stated that had reasonably expected trial testing been carried out, there would not have been approval of this vaccination for new born babies. In regards to MMR vaccinations, he criticised the use of non-tested combined vaccines as distinct from individual vaccines. As far as I know, he has not advocated not vaccinating babies or children but was critical of exposure at such an early age. And was critical of the lack of safety testing by the drug companies and allowed by the authorities. Some of this information is dated but seems to still apply as autism is increasing and, if anything, the lack of safety testing is now probably more of a problem.

The Sott post:

An ‘epidemic of autism‘ seems to be taking place as increasing number of children and adults have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, according to a new study.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that compared to the 1in 10,000 children having autism in the past, it is now 1 in 110 children in the US who has been diagnosed with the disorder. 

The recent study, Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Adults in the Community in England reveals that one percent of Britons, over 16 years, have an autism spectrum disorder.

Out of a group of 2,828, 19 participants in the study had ASDs, which corresponds to 9.8 per 1,000 adults. Autism was found to be more common among men than women. Lack of educational qualifications and living in rented social (government-financed) housing seemed to be crucial factors in those having autism. Those found to be autistic did not make increased use of services for mental health problems. The study also discovered that those diagnosed with an ASD had not previously been aware of their condition.

Link to the Sott.net article. by Rathi Manohar Medindia.net

Link to Dr Wakefield’s videos.

 There are a lot of organizations opposing the suggestion of increased rates of autism. Similarly, those who oppose the hypothesis of the vaccination connection. Do they have vested interests?

Considerable weight has been brought to bear against Dr Wakefield leading to he and his work being condemned. On the other hand, it was in the interests of the drug companies to ‘clobber’ him and I strongly believe that is what happened.

This site tells the other side of the story:   Here is an extract.

What, then, was this high-profile prosecution really about? If there was no scientific fraud, no undisclosed financial conflicts of interest, no ethical breaches in performing tests on sick children, and no complaints from patients or their families, then what was the big deal? Did the international scandal and multi-million dollar prosecution proceed merely to chastise a doctor for drawing blood from children at a birthday party, with their consent and their parents’ consent? Of course not.

Dr. Wakefield was, and remains, a dissident from medical orthodoxy. The medical establishment subjected him to a modern-day medical show trial for his dissent.

Dr. Wakefield’s research raised fundamental doubts about the safety of vaccines and the etiology of autism. Dr. Wakefield was punished for his temerity to caution the public about vaccine risks and to urge them to use their own judgment.

Dr. Wakefield was punished for upholding vaccination choice.

The purpose of the proceeding, as in any show trial, was to communicate to other doctors and scientists, and to the public, the error of the perpetrator’s ways. A show trial offers a veneer of due process but, at its core, displays naked power. The apparent intent of the prosecution was to intimidate others from following Dr. Wakefield’s footsteps and to teach the lesson that anyone in the medical or scientific community who dares to publicly question the safety and efficacy of vaccines will be punished with utmost severity.

The GMC appears to have decided that if the price of such a lesson was scientific ignorance about vaccine-autism links and the suffering of severely ill children, then so be it. Dr. Wakefield was made an example.

The GMC destroyed Dr. Wakefield’s professional reputation and livelihood, and The Lancet and other publications confiscated his professional accomplishment through retraction. The GMC colluded with The Lancet the media, the British Department of  Health, the pharmaceutical industry, and even with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Justice, to discredit Dr. Wakefield.

The Center for Personal Rights is confident that the world will look back at the prosecution of Drs. Wakefield, Walker-Smith, and Murch with shame and remorse.

Dr Wakefield’s defence is supported here:

“I stand by the Lancet paper’s methodology and the results which call for more research into whether environmental triggers cause gastrointestinal disease and developmental regression in children. In fact, despite media reports to the contrary, the results of my research have been duplicated in five other countries (to see citations to studies, visit http://tinyurl.com/4hrdt5y.)

And, includes this comment by the Editor: “Developed nations that require the most vaccines for babies tend to have the highest infant death rates. May 4, 2011 ”

It is, of course, up to the reader to convince themselves where the truth lies.

It would make sense to be very wary of any drug company influence, and that extends right to the top.

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