Rachel Carson on Detecting Injury Before Symptoms
We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effect and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of hazard. Even research men suffer from the handicap of inadequate methods of detecting the beginnings of injury. The lack of sufficiently delicate methods to detect injury before symptoms appear is one of the great unsolved problems in medicine. “But,” some will object, “I have used dieldrin sprays on the lawn many…
The Scientific Logic Behind Zika: A Tall Tale
Consider the following logic. (Now, mind you… this is an imaginary story, tale. It probably could not really happen in real life.) Say, you have 100 pregnant women living in a small city in Brazil. The city borders a dense jungle area. A wealthy local businessman wants to develop the area, and so he buys up the stretch of land and commences spraying large amounts of the highly…
Huffington Post Pulls Veteran Columnist’s VAXXED Movie Review
Lance Simmens, author, whistleblower, political veteran, fracking activist, and more, went to see Vaxxed: From Coverup To Catastrophe at one of the California screenings, and was moved, enraged, awakened. He wrote a column for The Huffington Post about it, and it went up, as per the usual protocol–he has been a contributor for eight years and written almost 200 articles…
Brazilian Study Unable to Determine Causal Link Between Zika and Brain Disorders
According to a new study led by neurologist Maria Lucia Brito Ferreira, MD of Restoration Hospital in Recife, Brazil, the Zika virus may be linked to an autoimmune disorder, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), that is similar to multiple sclerosis. ADEM is an immune mediated inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system that can be triggered by viral or bacterial…
Victims of HPV Vaccine in Japan Will Sue State and Vaccine Makers
In the U.S., the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has been a subject of controversy from the very beginning after Merck’s Gardasil vaccine was licensed in 2006. Japan is one of the many nations raising concerns about HPV vaccine following persistent reports that girls are suffering severe adverse effects after getting vaccinated. Here is what happened in Japan in a nutshell.
Robert De Niro Debates Autism’s Link to Vaccines | TODAY Show
The Tribeca Film Festival now is celebrating its 15th year and founders, actor Robert De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal mark the occasion with an interview on TODAY. De Niro, who has an autistic child, comments on the decision to pull the anti-vaccination film “Vaxxed” from this year’s lineup, even though he says, “I think […]