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-- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901
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Sandy's Scandals Column
Past and current Scandals
- columns by Sandy Gottstein (aka Mintz)*
* March 20, 2010 - Political
autism (commentary) - Pat Boone - WorldNetDaily - "Popular actress
Jenny McCarthy has just released a book about her previously autistic
son – and the amazing progress she's had in bringing him out of the fog
and separation of his malady through controlling his diet. Having come
to the conclusion that he'd been adversely affected as a baby by some
of the normal immunization shots, she put him on a new and stringent
organic health diet – which she credits for his being now perfectly
normal! The book is gripping and hopeful, and may point the way to real
breakthroughs in treating this awful imprisonment named autism. My
daughters and I congratulate Jenny and thank God for her son's new
life."
* March 19, 2010
- CANADA: British
Columbia Officials Seek to Boost HPV Vaccinations in Girls - B.C.
Center for Disease Control via Aegis.org - "More than two years after
its launch, British Columbia's human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination
program has achieved 62 percent uptake among grade-six and -nine girls.
That is second only to Quebec, where uptake is 80 percent - a goal B.C.
officials are hoping to achieve with a ramped-up campaign.
French-language media in Quebec did not carry as many anti- vaccine
stories or focus on controversies, peers there told Dr. Gina Ogilvie,
B.C. Center for Disease Control (BCCDC)'s associate director of STD
prevention and control. As a result, many parents in Quebec were not
persuaded to refuse the vaccine for their child."
* ►March 18, 2010
- New
genetic
associations detected in a host response study to hepatitis B
vaccine - journal article (Genes
&
Immunity) - "The immune response to hepatitis B
vaccination differs greatly among individuals, with 5–10% of healthy
people failing to produce protective levels of antibodies. Several
factors have been implicated in determining this response, chiefly
individual genetic variation and age."