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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)*
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* ►March 12, 2010 - Autism-study
doctor facing grant probe
- Accusations over funds stir those who reject that there is no vaccine
link to the disorder. - Philadelphia Inquirer
* ►March 12, 2010 - ‘Little
Women’
Talk To The FDA About Gardasil - Pharmalot - "They
call themselves the “Little Women,” and they say they’ve spent the
past three years documenting Gardasil. They also run a web site called TruthAboutGardasil,
which displays pictures of young women who, their families claim, were
harmed by the vaccine. For its part, Merck has always stood by the
safety of Gardasil and last year, both the FDA and the CDC reaffirmed
the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness (see here
and here)."
* ►March 12, 2010 - Rapid
Responses to: Why did the Lancet take so long? Re: Patient
Confidentiality - John Stone, Contributing editor: Age of Autism -
journal article (BMJ) - "Prof
Dodge raises some interesting questions. It might be one kind of issue
if Mr Deer had legal access to the documents and possibly misused them,
but what if he did not have legal access? Would this still be a matter
for the civil courts, or something else? I think we need
clarification."