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Media Coverage of Vaccines – Follow the Money

May 16, 2013
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For the past couple of weeks there have been numerous headlines in Australian media calling for “vaccine refusers” to lose certain public services and for unvaccinated children to be shunned by society, daycare, etc. There is even a campaign called “No jab, no play” (see links to stories below). This barrage of media coverage shows [...]

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Religious Exemptions and Medical Neglect – Who Decides?

May 13, 2013
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Dr. Paul Offit, leading vaccine mandate proponent, Merck consultant, rota virus vaccine developer, and head of infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia recently penned a piece, Ending religious exemption to medical neglect in Pennsylvania.1 While Dr. Offit horrifies parents with stories of all sorts of child neglect and abuse, if you have been paying [...]

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The Australian: Blaming “Vaccine Refusers”

May 5, 2013
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In another example of media hype and spin, The Australian newspaper in Australia ran this headline: “No jab, no play campaign reveals vaccination refusals high as babies die”. From the title, one would think several babies had died recently but that is not the case. The story mentions several infant deaths – one from 2009, [...]

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Spinning the Measles (AKA Blaming Dr. Wakefield)

April 30, 2013
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For the past couple of months headlines decrying the measles outbreak of 1,000 cases in Britain have been plastered across the globe: from Britain to the US, to Viet Nam, Australia, and the Middle East. It has been so widely covered it surely must make one stop and consider whether this is not coordinated. (Bear [...]

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MMR and Autism: Does the media tell the whole story?

April 18, 2013
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Recently we have discussed the manner in which the mainstream media spins facts, research, dates, omits information, etc. to influence public perception. In this post, we share the experience of a mother whose perspective you are not likely to see on the nightly news. Isabella Thomas, the mother of two children involved in the Lancet [...]

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Spinning the Chicken Pox Vaccine

April 15, 2013
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Does the timing of media releases ever seem coordinated to you? Case in point: March 20, 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data showing the autism epidemic has reached terrifying levels, affecting 1 in 50 children and 1 in 31 boys between, age 6 and 18.1 Then on March 29th, [...]

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What’s on my radar? – Autism Awareness Month

April 8, 2013

Each month I write about books, DVD’s, organizations, trends, and events that are “on my radar” as they are important, timely and educational – which means they will empower you to think for yourselves, enable you to challenge the received wisdom, and give you ideas of how you might get involved to help create positive [...]

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Doctors and Fraud – Are doctors less human than you?

April 8, 2013
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Our culture confers a very high status and respect on all doctors and scientists as though they are somehow better or more ethical than the average person. Our culture also tends to assume that doctors are all knowing and always know more than those who aren’t doctors. A case in point. I attended a meeting [...]

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Patient Safety Awareness Week – Would this Happen to a Child Without Autism?

March 8, 2013

As we read this horrifically tragic story, we must ask ourselves, would this happen to a child without an autism diagnosis, would this happen to a child that was blind or deaf? Why is it that the parents of those with the ASD diagnosis are not to be believed when they tell medical professionals that [...]

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Vaccine Registries – What’s All the Fuss About?

March 4, 2013
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In January, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare introduced two new bills to the Idaho Senate Health and Welfare Committee that would make it impossible to remove a child’s name and date of birth from the “voluntary” vaccine registry and extend the vaccine registry to all Idahoans with the stated purpose of monitoring their [...]

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