Hi, guys, I’d like to let the community know what has happened recently. In the last two months, my headaches have dropped off dramatically. Some background: I used to get migraines once or twice per week (for years, probably decades). Going ten days without having one was a rare pleasure. I developed my own little scale of headache intensity. Level 3 is what I would call ”migraine”. At level 4, nausea began. Pain relievers would be pointless here, because I’d throw them up. At level 5, dry heaving would occur like a bad hangover. At level 6, it was a bit like dying, maybe ...
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History shows us that vaccines did NOT eradicate the diseases that plagued humanity. That is a common misconception -- in actual fact, it was better sanitation and hygiene in the cities that prevented the spread of diseases. These charts, from official sources, show us that vaccines (1) were not responsible, and are not necessary, for eliminating infectious diseases, (2) are not effective, and (3) are dangerous. See full article, including a slideshow of graphs showing the general decline of infections diseases in relationship to when immunizations began (well after declines), here.   [End]
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The so-called sunshine vitamin, which can be obtained from food or manufactured by human skin exposed to the sun, plays a key role in boosting the immune system, researchers believe. In particular it triggers and arms the body’s T cells, the cells in the body that seek out and destroy any invading bacteria and viruses. Read the rest of the article here.   [End]
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REUTERS: NEW YORK, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Blood fluoride levels were significantly higher in patients with osteosarcoma than in control groups, according to research published in Biological Trace Element Research (April 2009). Osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer, occurs mostly in children and young adults. Randhu and colleagues measured serum fluoride levels in three equal groups of age-matched and sex-matched patients. Group one had osteosarcoma, group two had non-osteosarcoma bone tumors, and group three had musculo-skeletal pain. “Mean serum fluoride concentration was fo ...
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’WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products because they can permanently damage the sense of smell, federal health regulators said. The over-the-counter products contain zinc, an ingredient scientists say may damage nerves in the nose needed for smell. The other products affected by the Food and Drug Administration’s announcement Tuesday are adult and kid-size Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Swabs. The FDA says about 130 consumers have reported a loss of smell after using Matrixx Initiatives’ Zicam products since 1999. Shares of the Scottsd ...
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(NaturalNews) Just how dangerous are the amphetamine stimulant drugs prescribed for children with so-called ADHD? According to scientific research funded by the FDA and the National Institute of Mental Health, drugs such as Ritalin increase the risk of sudden death by five hundred percent among children and teens. In these cases of sudden death, the child suddenly collapses and dies, only to be discovered later by parents or siblings. That’s what happened to Matthew Hohmann in 2004 ( see here), and according to this new research, it keeps happening to more and more children at a rate th ...
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Scientists are reporting discovery of a potential new alternative to aspirin, ReoPro, and other anti-platelet agents used widely to prevent blood clots in coronary artery disease, heart attack and stroke. Their study, scheduled for the June 23 issue of ACS Nano, a monthly journal, involves particles of silver -- 1/50,000th the diameter of a human hair -- that are injected into the bloodstream. Note: I don’t recommend injecting colloidal silver directly into your own bloodstream. Debabrata Dash and colleagues point out that patients urgently need new anti-thrombotic agents because tr ...
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H.R. 2218: Parental Consent Act of 2009 Bill here: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2218 To prohibit the use of Federal funds for any universal or mandatory mental health screening program. Speech here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r111:E30AP9-0060 SPEECH OF HON. RON PAUL ...
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(NaturalNews) Just how trustworthy are medical review boards that review and approve medical devices? In a Government Accountability Office (GAO) sting, investigators were able to invent and register a fictitious review board with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), complete with a fictitious panel of doctors and a canine president named ”Truper Dawg” (named after a real pet dog that had long since passed away). Names of other board members on the fictitious organization approved by the Department of Health and Human Services included ”April Phuls” and ”Timothy Wittless.” ...
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One of the things I considered related to my son was the fact that he was born in and lived in, as an infant and toddler, an apartment complex that had been built on a reclaimed swamp, in a town in the Puget Sound area (== lotsa rainy). The apartments typically had a black mold problem, which we did not know about at first. When we moved out of that complex and into a house, our Ionic Breezes basically proved that there was something wrong at that apartment complex -- the ”dust” was no longer black but was typical dust color in our house. It would not surprise me to find out that th ...
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This is an actual letter from an Austin woman sent to American company Proctor and Gamble regarding their feminine products. She really gets rolling after the first paragraph. It’s ... [Image Embedded Here]   [End]
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ANOTHER AUTISM CASE WINS IN VACCINE COURT By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On February 12, the federal ”Vaccine Court” in Washington issued a sweeping ruling in three highly touted ”test cases” against families who claimed that their childrens’ autism had been caused by vaccines. The Special Masters in those three cases found that Petitioners failed to establish causation between MMR vaccines, the mercury-laced vaccine preservative thimerosal, and autism (the court decision, which is under appeal, deferred any finding on a thimerosal-only theory of causation). The rulings could have a sign ...
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MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies. HFCS has replaced sugar as the sweetener in many beverages and foods such as breads, cereals, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soups and condiments. On average, Americans consume about 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS, but teens and other high consumers can take in 80 per ...
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(The liver produces bile. The gall bladder merely stores and concentrates it. You don’t lack bile due to lack of gall bladder; instead, bile never gets stored properly for use at the right digestive times.)   [End]
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Actually, erythritol is the sugar alcohol least likely to cause bloating, as the body absorbs it in the small intestine, and intestinal bacteria don’t metabolize it. Also, Truvia is a trademark... but I haven’t found anything about a ”patent” related to Truvia. Can anyone point me to this alleged ”patent”? Pepsi’s version is called ”PureVia” (also a trademark), and it includes isomaltulose as well as erythritol. Isomaltulose is an interestingly complex substance derived from sugar and basically treated by the body as a slower-burning sugar. Erythritol, on the other hand, is basic ...
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The FDA is still doing all it can to promote amalgam in spite of that warning. The FDA’s web page with the warning can be found here. It’s a FAQ, and question #3 has the warning paragraph. The remainder of the FAQ is still very much geared toward convincing people to keep putting mercury in their teeth. For example, in spite of the warning, question #6 reads: 6. Should pregnant women and young children use or avoid amalgam fillings? The recent advisory panel believed that there was not enough information to answer this question. The panel ”believed”? Nice to know tha ...
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ScienceDaily (Apr. 25, 2008) — How do mercury emissions affect pregnant mothers, the unborn and toddlers? Do the level of emissions impact autism rates? Does it matter whether a mercury-emitting source is 10 miles away from families versus 20 miles? Is the risk of autism greater for children who live closer to the pollution source? A newly published study of Texas school district data and industrial mercury-release data, conducted by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, indeed shows a statistically significant link between pounds of industrial rel ...
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ADHD isn’t a disease. It’s a label given to students who are driven to distraction by a critically flawed educational system and/or a boatload of irritating chemicals in the food supply so that the drug companies can sell more drugs to shut these kids up. Obviously, merely getting kids a bit high to calm them down would be political suicide, but convincing people it’s a ”disease” that needs ”medication” has been an excellent public relations maneuver. Witness yourself. Most ”medicines” for ADHD are central nervous system stimulants. Think cocaine and speed and meth, and you’ll g ...
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David Kirby has purposely presented this case incorrectly, the court had never concluded that vaccines caused autism in the girl. Oh really? Did you come up with that one on your own, or did the folks who do your thinking for you tell you that? Let’s just look at the text of the report, shall we? In sum, DVIC has concluded that the facts of this case meet the statutory criteria for demonstrating that the vaccinations CHILD received on July 19, 2000, significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder, which predisposed her to deficits in cellular energy metabolism, and ...
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Begs the question of how many kids have convulsions following not getting any shots. Since the number is dramatically lower than either one shot or two, your specious, trollish optimism must necessarily conclude that no shot is better than either one shot or two shots. Thanks for supporting the anti-vaccination crusade, Corinthian!   [End]
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In case we needed more evidence that we’re being lied to, check out the Raw Story article here.   [End]
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ProQuad Vaccine Linked to More Convulsions; CDC Panel Amends Preference for Combo MIKE STOBBE AP News Feb 27, 2008 19:30 EST Children suffered higher rates of fever-related convulsions when they got a Merck & Co. combination vaccine instead of two separate shots, according to a new study presented Wednesday. The results prompted a federal advisory panel on vaccines to water down their preference for the combo vaccine ProQuad, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella as well as chickenpox. In the study of children ages 12 months through 23 months, the rate of seizur ...
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ProQuad Vaccine Linked to More Convulsions; CDC Panel Amends Preference for Combo MIKE STOBBE AP News Feb 27, 2008 19:30 EST Children suffered higher rates of fever-related convulsions when they got a Merck & Co. combination vaccine instead of two separate shots, according to a new study presented Wednesday. The results prompted a federal advisory panel on vaccines to water down their preference for the combo vaccine ProQuad, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella as well as chickenpox. In the study of children ages 12 months through 23 months, the rate of seizur ...
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The actual text of the concession filed by the US attorneys can be found here. This was filed on November 9th in one of the test cases pending against the government for vaccine-induced autism. There are some 4,900 cases pending, and given that this one was conceded three months ago, it is quite likely that many other of these cases will also be fully resolved in favor of the victims, assuming they can show similar conditions to this case. Seems pretty likely. At least for this particular case, a problem with the energy producing units, mitochondria, seems to be a precursor for de ...
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Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Way back in the year 2001, when Quackbusters Stephen Barrett, Terry Polevoy, and their attorney Christopher Grell decided to file their cockamamie lawsuit (Barrett v. Clark) in Oakland, CA Superior Court, they brandished it on the internet as their crowning activity. Little did they know, then, that it would NOT be just one more stumbling, bumbling, fumbling, act, typical of their machinations. In fact, this lawsuit would lead them to laughable internet infamy, drawing the wrath of virtually every internet gian ...
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Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 I’ve discovered another quackbuster scam - one to destroy a whole group of US Dentists, the head of a major Dental School, a device manufacturer, and a major emerging dental issue - NICO, and, with some very good help, I’ve begun the process of breaking up the scam. I’ve helped engineer the destruction of about half of the scam already, and the rest is in the works. We should be finished after a court trial, I’ll tell you about shortly, in April. With luck, we’ll get the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s ...
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Thanks. I’ve been in lurker mode... my muse has been off tending to other projects... *wink*   [End]
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Man, does the author ever have it wrong. The Constitution does not GRANT rights. The Constitution merely recognizes several of them and forbids the federal government (and, ultimately, all state and local governments, as well) from violating those rights. Your rights are yours whether your government realizes it or not, and the government has no authority to take them away, although it has lots of means of using force to punish people for exercising their rights. All of those effort to curtail the exercise of rights are completely unconstitutional and plainly wrong to any decent hu ...
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Try here and here and here.   [End]
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DON’T MOURN FOR US by Jim Sinclair This article was published in the ”Our Voice,” the newsletter of Autism Network International, Volume 1, Number 3, 1993. It is an outline of the presentation I [Jim Sinclair] gave at the 1993 International Conference on Autism in Toronto and is addressed primarily to parents. Parents often report that learning their child is autistic was the most traumatic thing that ever happened to them. Non-autistic people see autism as a great tragedy, and parents experience continuing disappointment and grief at all stages of the child’s and family’s lif ...
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My autistic son has never been immunized. If mercury is the cause or a cause, it might very well be related to the fact that he was the first of our children to be breastfed, and my wife had some amalgam in her mouth. Mercury likes to accumulate in breast tissue. We also had a fluorescent light shatter in our kitchen when he was young -- another possible source of mercury contamination. We also lived, at the time, in an apartment complex that was built on a filled in swampy area and had a tendency to accumulate black mold. ... My point is, we’ve been down this road. What c ...
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Corinthian, you keep ignoring my questions. You repeatedly fail to answer even a single question I pose, then fault me as if I’m ignorant by trying to overwhelm me with irrelevant data. Sometimes you are so intellectually dishonest that it’s embarassing to watch, but we proved awhile ago that you have no shame when it comes to advancing your beliefs. Evolutionists insist that all life derived from non-life -- evolution depends on abiogenesis. Sure, we can break them apart and pretend they’re different, but as evolution is simply an unbroken chain from now backwards in time as life ...
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Actually, I do hold those sciences to a higher standard. I don’t claim that physical reality is precisely understood by chemistry, for example. The only claim I make is that we have a model, based on observation, which does an excellent job of predicting chemical behavior. But you are incorrect that these are based on ”circumstantial evidence”. In chemistry, what we have a lot of observation about the way atoms and molecules behave, and when you dive right into it, patterns are found and described, but it’s simply regurgitating what has been observed, finding the pattern, finding eve ...
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I’m holding science to its own standard. Evolution is allegedly a scientific fact. Yet evolution is little more than a belief with circumstantial evidence. The best you have to offer are structural similarities and divergences as proof of evolution. Yet this does not prove evolution. Look at what humanity has managed to tease out of the dog genome. Everything from the chihuahua to the Great Dane, pugs and boxers, shepherds, poodles, and even the really weird ones. Using bone structure as an indicator of speciation, we’d have dozens of different dog species if we didn’t already ...
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But you didn’t make him aware. You only rehashed what he’s already aware of. Huge difference.   [End]
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... a) that the original poster believes his commentary is 100% true, or b) that Corinthian actually took the time to refute so much of it.   [End]
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Surf here.   [End]
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This is an interesting assumption on the part of the people finding the grave. Have tests been done to determine ethnicity? I mean, during World War II, millions of people were killed, and they had to be buried somewhere. People died for all sorts of reasons; a lot of the deaths in the concentration camps were due to disease. Starvation was another. This is a lot like the desire to see transitional species as proof that evolution happens, without ever proving that evolution actually happens. They’ve been looking for Jewish graves, so they find a mass grave and declare it Jewish. ...
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That didn’t take long! The link I provided is no longer valid. I wonder who was responsible for getting the article pulled...   [End]
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This is good -- especially the 2nd article you linked to. It has some very strong arguments in favor of an evolutionary model as the basis for speciation within a genus, a family, or an order. You still, however, have not shown how orders develop from other orders, or how classes from other classes, or how phyla are created from other phyla, or how animals originally developed from whatever their precursors were, or, for that matter, how single-celled organisms became multicellular organisms, or even how the first cell appeared. These are questions that must be answered for (random-mu ...
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(3) ID’s negative attacks on evolution have been refuted by the scientific community”. I dunno... I’m still waiting for evidence from you that shows how new orders evolved from pre-existing orders.   [End]
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Thornton and coworkers used state-of-the-art statistical and molecular methods... LOL. So, using a model that pre-supposes Evolution is a fact, they proved that Evolution happens. Thank goodness these folks are being paid to figure these things out. They might be dangerous in areas where actually productive work is expected to happen.   [End]
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... then my work here is done! Carry on!   [End]
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Sorry, Corinthian, but Google gave me a grand total of six links, only two of which were in English (and two of which were, amusingly, in Arabic...). I used ”Ambulocetus, Kutchicetus, Rhodocetus Cetacean evolution” in Google. The most interesting one of the two was a PowerPoint presentation. Unfortunately, the images of the fossils that the presentation shows (on slide #12) really doesn’t cut it for me. It shows missing links that are assumed to exist but are certainly not shown, and the divide between the creatures with legs and those which clearly do not simply don’t show this ” ...
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The parent post is utterly stupid. Communism does not have a valid implementation anywhere on this planet. Even the former Soviet Union called itself the ”Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”. Not a mention of Communism anywhere in the name. It wasn’t communism. It was socialism, through and through. China’s not a real communist state, either. Cuba comes closest, but still no cigar. (*snicker*) Real communism terrifies the people with power because they lose their power in that scenario. You have to actually stop thinking you’re better than others, you have to be willing ...
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Your posts were moved to the Evolution Debate and Politics Debate forums.   [End]
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Thanks for proving Corinthian right, Celcius. I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but there is no longer any doubt in my mind.   [End]
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Paleontologists proposed that whales had evolved from land mammals with legs, and therefore, in an example of its predictive power, the theory of evolution forecast that legs would be found on fossilized whales. In recent years the evolution of whales from now extinct land mammals has become well documented through newly found fossils from the Eocene epoch, about 50 million years ago (Wong 2002). The fossilized whales contain well-defined feet and legs. In modern adult whales, the front legs have evolved into flippers and the rear legs have shrunk so that no visible appendages appear. Hind ...
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OK, let’s say for a moment that atheism is a tool by which the enslavers seek to further enslave us. ... It isn’t the disbelief in God that causes that problem. It’s the ”I’m better than you” issue. It isn’t limited to atheism. It’s a problem for any group that has beliefs. There are atheists who recognize that they are no more special than anyone else. Their lack of a belief in God does not translate into a ”better than” situation. It gives them a sense of humility, that they are just a little bitty part of a very big universe. On the other hand, there are atheists who do ...
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That’s not atheism. That’s patriotism. Teaching children to make oaths to their country and its symbol before they’re old enough to understand what they’re actually doing and saying? That’s not atheism they’re being indoctrinated in. In fact, it works whether the pledge says ”under God” or not.   [End]
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So what is it about atheism that is inherently evil? I mean, all your original post showed, and what I tried to clarify, was that evil gravitates toward whatever power source it can find and then inflicts misery on the rest of the world. How does people not believing in God necessarily make them the next Hitler?   [End]
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Well... actually, the ”de-religionisation” of America is actually an attempt to convince people that they’re no better than animals. If you can dehumanize everyone, then you can justify doing anything to anyone at any time. But it’s not atheists as a whole which are doing it, any more that it’s all of Judaism that is hell-bent on killing any religious displays during Christmas. Religion tells us that we’re more than just animals -- that we are spiritual creatures, not just walking piles of meat and bone and blood, and that what we do here and now toward matters in ways that may not ...
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Religion stopped being the mass murderer when religion lost power. Wherever the power is centered, that’s where the mass murderer seeks to place himself. Religion is often a convenient tool to get people to buy into it. Then again, so is patriotism. But it isn’t ”religion” that causes it. People cause it. Particularly evil people gravitate toward the power center and, once power is acquired, they use it to inflict harm and suffering on others. That’s the pattern that the author of the original post is missing. Because religion has lost power in much of the world, evil is ...
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They are the thugs. The war between Sunni and Shia was set up long ago to make sure that the religion of Islam never stabilizes. The only way it will occur is for one side to emerge victorious (by killing off the other side in its entirety), and the only thing that brought a truce to the area was a dictator who was willing to brutalize both sides as necessary to ensure the peace. Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq had a policy of religious tolerance. Under the occupation of the United States, where we try to get them to ”just get along”, well, they don’t want that. At best, Sunni and Sh ...
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Chloride is ionized Chlorine, meaning the presence of an extra proton.   [End]
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May 28, 2007 An Open Letter to the Democratic Congress Why I Am Leaving the Democratic Party By CINDY SHEEHAN Dublin, Ireland Dear Democratic Congress, Hello, my name is Cindy Sheehan and my son Casey Sheehan was killed on April 04, 2004 in Sadr City , Baghdad , Iraq . He was killed when the Republicans still were in control of Congress. Naively, I set off on my tireless campaign calling on Congress to rescind George’s authority to wage his war of terror while asking him ”for what noble cause” did Casey and thousands of other have to die. Now, with Democrats in control of Con ...
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An excerpt of the documentary Dying to Have Known can be found here. In it, you can see what QuackWatch guru Stephen Barrett and other ”experts” have to say about Gerson Therapy, and how they are, quite simply, lying. If you have an incurable cancer, Gerson Therapy is worth a look. [Video Embedded Here]   [End]
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Here’s hoping I’m there the moment these words come back to haunt you, supersport.   [End]
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I love it when they make comments like this: ”Such a complex arrangement could not have been invented twice throughout evolution , it must be the same system,” said Gáspár Jékely, another team member.   [End]
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Rove thought he was safe by using computers outside federal government control to plot his schemes. Yet, somehow, leaks happen, especially when an administration becomes a problem for those who believe themselves our owners. What follows is a transcript of an investigation into the prosecutor firings that the Bush administration would rather you and I know nothing about, aided by the fact that some 500 of Rove’s e-mails have magically found their way into (investigative reporter) Greg Palast’s hands. David Iglesias, by the way, is the attorney whose story was immortalized in A Few Good ...
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Does Aspartame multiply female MS? - New Study Report at Neurology Conference... By: Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder - Mission Possible International Monday, May 7th, 2007 About 400,000 people in the US are victims of Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a horrible autoimmune disease that devastates the central nervous system. At the American Academy of Neurology’s annual meeting, Dr. Gary Cutter, professor of Biostatistics at the University of Alabama, said women are now four times as likely as men to get multiple sclerosis: “It started at two-to-one and is now four-to-one.” Researche ...
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Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen Thursday, May 2nd, 2007 The ”quackbuster” organization is learning a very HARD lesson about the reality of the US legal system. And, I’m very pleased. They’re learning, in the most humiliating, and financially devastating way, that US Courts don’t want the system abused to harass those that the ”quackbusters” don’t like. In the Barrett v. Clark case, today, an order was issued for Plaintiffs Terry Polevoy MD, and Stephen Barrett MD, to come up with a grand total of $433,715.93 in bonds - $264,311.68 for Polevoy alone, and $169,404.25 fro ...
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Because that’s too simple, that’s why. The truth is just too freekin’ simple for people. It couldn’t be that easy. Look at the replies from Christians! So much complexity in their explanations. People imagine God to be so complex because of their belief that humans are little walking images of God, so, since they’re so certain of their own complexity (look at how complex our bodies are... sheesh), God must be at least as complex as we think we are. But I’ll bet that God is simple, too. God might as well be a synonym for ”truth”.   [End]
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I’m going to quote the most important element of a very recent Tim Bolen article, because we really need the enormity of what just happened to be fully realized by both sides of the QuackWatch debate. ...as of April 23, 2007, the date of the US Supreme Court decision in ”Ongom,” anything, and everything, on quackwatch.com is not usable in a State Administrative Hearing - nor can it be used even to bring charges, or an accusation against a health professional. A prosecutor, a Board, or State employee, knowingly using such unacceptable evidence is risking their personal assets, for such ...
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Some people believe that something works only if it has studies proving that it works. For someone to go and find out for himself whether or not something has practical value and ignore the so-called experts (who often act as if they can divine truth without actually testing a hypothesis -- real scientists, this lot) really annoys some people, who are themselves firm believers in the pharmaceutical-sponsored version of medical reality. And then these people, who clearly have nothing better to do with their lives, spend hour after hour surfing CureZone (a site dedicated to exploring the ...
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The truth about cavitations... Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen Sunday, April 22nd, 2007 Public agencies have relied on the ”quackbuster” operation for expertise in health care issues far too long. The time when an agency could fly some ”quackbuster” bozo in for a hearing, have them testify to nonsense for a few hours, and stuff them back on a plane, fat check in hand, with the sure knowledge they had a ”win” is long gone. The State of Pennsylvania Chief Counsel’s office and the Pennsylvania Dental Board found that out the hard way, over almost a three year period, in the ...
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Like the fool you are, we may humor you from time to time, but it is done with contempt and done so you go away and bother someone else. Speak for yourself, Corinthian. You have no authority to speak for ”we” here. If the best you can do is appeal to large numbers as the basis for your sense of self respect -- a vocal sheep among the flock -- then you truly are lost. Not a single worthwhile advancement in science was performed by someone maintaining the status quo. In fact, the attitude you have is precisely the attitude that has blocked the advancement of science time after ti ...
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No, he’s being raked over the coals because he’s not being politically correct. He probably thought he was being funny with his ”nappy-headed hos” comment. But the touchy-feely brigade is out in full force these days. I have to wonder how many of the folks who called in to complain were actual watchers of his show. I mean, Imus has a pretty damning history of derogatory comments directed to a large number of groups -- this should hardly be news to anyone. If enough of Imus’s actual   [End]
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Nicely played, Corinthian. Looks like I’ll be sleeping in this Sunday.   [End]
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No, as a matter of fact, Barrett uses no tools at all, because he’s not a license holder, and he probably couldn’t help a little old lady across the street, let alone help someone with a medical problem! Corinthian, your attempts to deflect the real issues are transparent. If someone came to court as a doctor to testify in a case as an expert, he damn well better be a practicing, licensed doctor. If someone used to be a lawyer but is no longer a lawyer, he’ll get himself in deep doo-doo legally if he starts giving out legal advice. What someone used to be doesn’t matter. If yo ...
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... but keep defending Barrett, anyway, Corinthian. His dedication to his noble, selfless cause to protect us all from our own foolish desires not to make the choices that the pharmaceutical industry wants us to make is certainly worthy of a knighthood or a sainthood or something -- in spite of the fact that it’s essentially proven from this single trial that his character is unsavory, to put it mildly. It isn’t just in Barrett v. Clark (Rosenthal) that Barrett shows his true colors. In fact, Barrett hates it when people point out the truth about him and has brought suit over forty ti ...
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One obvious thing that goes ignored here, as if it doesn’t matter, is that Hanne was undergoing chemotherapy (AND radiation treatments!!!) throughout her bout with cancer. The whole point of chemotherapy is to kill the cancer cells before killing the non-cancerous cells using poisons , the very kinds of substances that Clark forbids. Where in Clark’s writings does she ever once say ”by the way, do this *while* you’re on chemo for best results”? She doesn’t. Ever. So how can Pia claim with a straight face that her friend Hanne followed Clark’s protocol to the letter? Doing chemot ...
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Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen Monday, April 9th, 2007 The US ”quackbuster” operation, suffers humiliation almost daily these days. When you listen to their leadership discuss this problem they inevitably blame one person for their woes - scientist, and author, Hulda Regehr Clark PhD. 76 year-old Clark, an independent scientific researcher and author of six best-selling books on health care and what’s wrong with it, is clearly the most hated person in quackbusterland. Why? Is it because they can’t beat her down, can’t stop the sale of her books, can’t have her imprison ...
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Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen Sunday, April 8th, 2007 The US ”quackbuster” operation, perhaps one of the slimiest groups on Planet Earth, sank to a new low this last few weeks when they, apparently, abandoned their own attorney, Christopher Grell, leaving him, perhaps, in financial, and professional ruin. Hundreds of pages of Court documents show the depth of Grell’s desperation. This coming Wednesday, April 11th, 2007, at 2:00PM, a hearing will be held in Oakland Superior Court in California to determine Grell’s ability to pay the costs of his, and two ”quackbuster” ...
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Note: dental amalgam is the primary source of mercury exposure. Dental amalgam exposes people to a minimum of twenty-five times more mercury per day than a daily diet of seafood would. Boys Contaminate W.Va. Town With Mercury Wednesday, April 4, 2007 (04-04) 11:18 PDT Clendenin, W.Va. (AP) -- A group of boys playing with mercury swiped from a dental office created an environmental headache for one small town after tracking it into their school, homes and church and up the steps of the public library. Five of the 25 students who handled the poisonous substance showed high l ...
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The whole conspiracy scenario, is nothing more than an attempt to make the incomprehensible make sense to you. the facts do not support any conspiracy but your psychological need for an explanation that alleviates your anxiety demands that you construct one.   [End]
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Oh my goodness! An actual response! Thank you! Your reasoning is good, but it’s also very much based on ”coulda”s. You are correct -- structural integrity can be compromised well before the melting point of steel. No argument there. At 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit, the load bearing ability of steel can be compromised. For your explanation to be valid, you need to have a situation where properly oxygenated fuel was being used, and the heat was being properly concentrated, as in your wood stove example. (I have a wood stove insert myself, and I have never gotten it to glow red, let ...
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Since it is you who made the claim it is up to you to prove I wrote what you claim. Nice try, Corinthian, but you’re the one who made the original claim -- that the ”real facts” about alternative healing are available from QuackWatch. No amount of mental gymnastics can change that simple fact. Again, your argument fails. there is no evidence to support any conspiracy claim.   [End]
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Evade, evade, evade. That’s all you do, Corinthian. You must be so proud.   [End]
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He even supports QuackWatch as a result, and everything QuackWatch reports is 100% true as a result. Patently untrue, I’ve never said that. Wow, I didn’t think I was going to get you to ever bite. Which parts of QuackWatch are untrue, then? I mean, when you tell people they should go read QuackWatch to get the truth about alternative medicine, you really aren’t suggesting that QuackWatch might not be completely factual, are you? You don’t need to say the exact words, Corinthian. Your actions speak volumes. QuackWatch couldn’t possibly be wrong about any of them O ...
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Oh, I’m telling lies to ”gain support”? What are you, in junior high? Corinthian, my commentary on you has nothing to do with the truth or falsity of ANY conspiracy theory related to 9/11. For me to say so would, in fact, be a logical fallacy, but for you to suggest that I cannot comment on you at all in any sort of aside from the main topic is just another red herring. If I tried to imply that your conflicting beliefs proves that 9/11 conspiracies are true, that would be an (egregious) logical error. There is nothing illogical, however, about pointing out the obvious flaw in your ...
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Corinthian, YOU were the topic of that message. I simply pointed out how you suffer from a case of conflicting beliefs. You support QuackWatch, which is evidence that you certainly believe that humanity is full of people who are willing to use other people for their own personal gain. On the other hand, you believe that the federal government is full of people who couldn’t possibly do so, as evidenced by your advancement of the official story of 9/11. Your efforts are a red herring to avoid, yet again, answering for the cognitive dissonance that anyone with a shred of conscience woul ...
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You are the one who just threw the red herring out there, Corinthian. Congratulations! You just accused me of a logical fallacy that I didn’t commit by committing it yourself! There oughtta be a hall of hypocritical fame for something like that.   [End]
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This is the place where Corinthian’s belief system really shines. Corinthian is keenly aware of all the scammers and other scum who run around trying to ruin other people’s lives. He even supports QuackWatch as a result, and everything QuackWatch reports is 100% true as a result. Because there are so many scammers, QuackWatch couldn’t possibly be wrong about any of them -- hell, it hasn’t even come close to exhausting all the scam material out there yet! And yet, when people with even more power and money at their disposal find their way into government, they somehow magically tran ...
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Corinthian, at what temperature do steel girders melt? Corinthian, at what temperature does jet fuel burn? Corinthian, at what temperature does office material and cubicle padding burn? Can you draw upon that practical experience and answer the questions, Corinthian? It’s really easy stuff, Corinthian. Can you do it?   [End]
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Actually, you can really only claim I don’t understand it if you’re willing to accept that you don’t. You never answered my inquiry into your profession that justifies your belief that you’re some expert in the material in question, but then you merely said that you ”understand it”. Well, that’s nice, but you’re no more on the front lines of evolutionary, chemical, biological, or physical research than I am. Are you? As for my failures to make rational connections... OK, now you’ve devolved into ”protecting fragile ego” mode. I’ve demonstrated repeated errors in your reasoning. You ...
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No text! Except this! And that! And that and this!   [End]
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Corinthian, why couldn’t QuackWatch advance its position without resorting to attacking free speech? If QuackWatch’s position is correct, can’t it make its claims without trying to silence its critics? Corinthian, if you explained to a Scientologist that one of the biggest problems with Scientology is that its attempts to silence its critics are blatant examples of violating free speech, wouldn’t you expect that single datum (especially since Scientology claims to support free speech) to be sufficient to cause the Scientologist to start to question the real intent of the church? B ...
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Corinthian, I’ve already demonstrated that you lack a sufficient grasp of logic for you to credibly sit on judgment of anyone else’s reasoning skills. A real adherent of science, upon being shown up so many times, would go spend some time brushing up on formal and informal logic, but not you, Corinthian. Oh, no. Instead, you expose yourself for the tool that you are by rejecting any call to improve your skills. You don’t learn while continuing to fault others for the same thing. It is the virtually identical hypocrisy you fault in so many others. Let me know when you understand why ...
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There is no hard science. The largest crime scene in America was washed clean before any real investigation could take place.   [End]
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While I’m not the one attacking Christianity with this at this time, I’m too amused by this reply (because I know who did post the thread) not to respond. You said, ”It is very common that people enjoy mocking Christianity, but the people that enjoy doing so, do it because TRUE Christianity (righteousness) mocks and offends their conscience.” Are you absolutely certain that there couldn’t be another reason? Or many possible other reasons? While I have my doubts that you can accept what I’m about to tell you, I’ll say it anyway. I do not like mocking Christianity. At this poin ...
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Of all the things to attack from Clark, the liver flush is coming from the exactly wrong direction. There are simply too many of us who have done it and seen what comes out to know that it’s performing as expected. I cannot and won’t claim that everything that comes out is a ”gall stone”, because that would be silly. On the other hand, I’ve seen ”chaffe”, bile balls (soft green things), beige ”tic tacs”, and various other things come out from liver flushes. In fact, I’ve had stones come out from live gall bladder attacks, well before I knew what a liver flush is, so I know what rea ...
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Bring it on, tough guy. Do you ever use the material you offer? Are you a chemist? A physicist? A doctor? A nutritionist? A nurse? A research biochemist? A DNA researcher? If not -- well, then, chances are, we’re not all that different in this regard. I don’t live this stuff (either?). Call me on logical fallacies any time, anywhere. I’ll accept any help honing my skills that you can offer. You have yet to answer for any of yours. It’s amusing (in a haughty, holier-than-thou kinda way) how you accuse Bolen of lacking reasoning skills for having an opinion which differ ...
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OK, so here you are, suggesting that Bolan’s support of Clark makes you question his reasoning ability. Fair enough, although this still has nothing to do with the news he is reporting in this article. But when I pointed out to you a similar scenario that is considerably more valid -- that the character of the QuackWatch crew is provably unsavory, precisely because they’re more than willing to attack freedom of speech -- and that you should reconsider your support of them therefore, your response was to misrepresent what I said and then use your misinterpretation as a straw man. Rat ...
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Any chance you have ”silver” fillings?   [End]
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HOW’D THIS AMALGAM BUSINESS ALL GET STARTED? Looking into the history of amalgams is most illuminating. In the 1830s there were two groups of dentists in America: those favoring mercury amalgams and those opposed to it. Those not in favor of amalgam -- the American Society of Dental Surgeons -- disliked amalgam’s tendency to fracture teeth as it expanded in fillings. Nor were they happy with the idea of mercury’s side effects, like insanity (Mad Hatter’s Disease) and loss of motor function from nerve damage. (Bernard) So the Society pledged never to use amalgam for fillings. (Lorsche ...
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God created all the space and all the dirt. Doesn’t that make them holy or sacred already? If only you folks would learn to cherish all of God’s gifts... The insanity of religion is to believe that God likes some space and some dirt better than other space and other dirt. Is God somehow lacking in properly diginified space and dirt to claim for Himself? Can God not designate any additional dirt and space that He wants to as holy? I know, let’s limit the holy space and the holy dirt to keep it scarce so we can all fight over it! Just like oil, money, gold, water, food, and ever ...
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Bolen has no credibility if he is referring to Clark as anything but a joke and an opportunistic scammer. So in other words, unless everything someone says is 100% true 100% of the time, nothing that person says is true. You’re real big on pointing out others’ logical fallacies. How I wish you’d apply your critical eye to yourself... You probably missed this comment to you, but it is an excellent example of your own inattention to logical rigor. It’s also in reference to QuackWatch... I wonder why QuackWatch is such a blind spot for you...?   [End]
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Here I thought people went to dental school because it provides the greatest opportunity to inflict excruciating pain on the largest number of people without any legal repercussions.   [End]
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Anti-Quackwatch ”Defamation” Litigation ROARS Forward... Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen Thursday, February 1st, 2007 It’s not easy, these days, being a ”quackbuster.” What with the (1) public humiliation surrounding recent High Court decisions (2) rejection by the US Court System of ”quackbuster” ”expert witnesses,” (3) pointed questioning of ”quackbuster” credentials (3) internet, and other successful public challenges, of the quacker’s activities, and much more, the ”quackbusters” have really fallen on hard times. The ”quackbuster” flagship, the National Counci ...
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Actually, no, I have no belief or information to suggest that Zionism is in any way related to amalgam use. I might be persuaded that the promotion of amalgam is just another thing the establishment uses to poison the population, but really, I think it’s just entrenched medical error. It doesn’t have to be any more complicated than that. On the other hand, I oppose Zionism, for completely different reasons than the ones I have for opposing amalgam, and that’s the point I was trying to subtly point out. I also oppose corporate personhood.   [End]
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Actually, you implied (blatantly) that by reading it for a few more years, Biblenutritionist might finally understand it correctly. It’s little wonder you think there is no possibility for genuine debate here on CureZone.   [End]
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Yeah, we had this discussion. It seems that the major belief held by Christians is that Adam and Eve’s having eaten the apple from the Tree of Knowledge corrupted all the animals, too, and allowed some of them to become... well, gay. I wonder if it also corrupted the plants? That might explain why some plants can self-pollenate. Perverts.   [End]
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This has been fascinating reading, I must say. But I found a tidbit that you might not like so much (from Peter Borger): Chris , Spetner’s figures refer to point mutations, which are irrelevant for evolution anyway. The measured point mutations in bacterial cells generally lower than one in a million, indeed. However, they shuffle their genomes almost every generation. They are in a constant state of flux: they loose genes, duplicate genes and translocate genes. That is muations as well. For human mtDNA, the usual tool for genetic studies changes so immensely fast that if we l ...
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I have one autistic child myself. ”Special” he may be, but that’s not a good thing. *sigh* I guess I should warn you not to get me started. *grin*   [End]
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John, the fossil record has been interpreted through darwin’s eyes. The problem evolutionists have is that they often date old bones and fossils by the rock they’re in/next to. This is not logical. I recently ran across a site where human remains and cow remains and dinosaur remains were all found in at the same site....I’ll post this later.....if scientists were to date those fossils, they’d probably date the human and cow remains with carbon 14, yet date the dinosaur remains by dating the rocks. This is because dinosaurs are assumed to be old....but who would know for sure unless they us ...
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I agree. My thinking is that the CDC is still trying to downplay the danger by discounting other research which shows the exposure level to be more problematic. That’s why I also posted the Swedish government’s opinion of the research.   [End]
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OK, I can see your point. In such a position myself, maybe I’d feel the same way. Support definitely costs money. Compared to a hospital visit, Clark’s prices from QuackWatch are relatively cheap.   [End]
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Nice try, Jayson, but this isn’t a court of law, and I don’t have to answer all your charges. If you really believe what you just said, then you’re so far below possessing any reasoning ability that there really isn’t any hope for you.   [End]
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So no, you don’t have the fee schedule; instead, you have QuackWatch’s assertions about what Clark charges, plus the hearsay of an acquaintance. This is an acquaintance who allegedly went to Clark’s place, without cancer, to seek treatment, ... and paid $12,000... and more... to be... cured of... what, precisely? Was the ailment this person went in for addressed or not? The ”cancer” was allegedly ”cured”, I get that. If the person didn’t actually have cancer, but was so diagnosed, and then was magically cured of something that he didn’t actually have, I would agree that this was a s ...
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I agree with you. I have no problem with her earning a living. Jayson’s claim, however, was that Clark is a scam artist, making megabucks off her followers. Thus, I challenged him. Where are the megabucks?   [End]
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Do you have her fee schedule available that you can post?   [End]
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Hmmm... I have purchased... exactly one of her books. I have purchased none of her supplements or gizmos. I’m not interested in beliefs about how much money she makes or doesn’t. The claim of ”megabucks” was made. To me, megabucks is somewhere in the vicinity of Chevron’s quarterly profits. Heck, we can even go lower than that, let’s just try with any given televangelist makes. I’ll even accept photographs of the exhorbitant mansion she lives in and court records showing that she owns the property in question. Or the Leer jet she uses to make her escape when the authorities come ...
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The infamous Faciolopsis buskii (which she misspells) and claims is in every cancer (and many other North American human ailments) is the most preposterous thing that one can imagine. Then you really don’t have much of an imagination. She’s a scam artist making mega bucks off of her followers.   [End]
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I have to disagree with you here. Unless you have historical evidence of the recent existence of all those fossilized creatures, then it’s specious for you to claim that these creatures all existed within the last few thousand years, and that horizontal gene transfer proves it. The body of evidence that is the fossil record shows several mass extinctions occurring throughout what we assume is hundreds of millions of years. If we assume that the timing of the fossil record is off and that it really only spans several thousand years, then some of those severe extinction events should ha ...
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Nope. Just a simple fact. As a bonus, pointing it out annoys the more insecure of Clark’s detractors. As with anything, proof of one piece of a body of knowledge does not prove the entire body of work as valid. Nuking the sponge does not prove that the synchrometer works, or that zapping works, or that flukes are among us, or anything else. The only thing it really shows is that she’s not 100% wrong. No one is, but you’d be hard pressed to find a detractor who understands that fact, whether anti-Clark or anti-anything-else, really.   [End]
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Go look at the Swedish version in the previous post. They found studies showing that it could be as high as 100 micrograms per day in extreme cases.   [End]
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Not yet, but it’s on my to-do list. Thanks, =-John-=   [End]
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Yes... and here’s where things go terribly wrong. In the ”One Less” commercials, one of the warnings at the end is that the immunization will not eliminate all forms of cervical cancer -- because it can’t possibly, and the manufacturer would hate to have someone immunized, only to get cervical cancer, and then sue. But here’s what one of the proponents of this stupid law said in the article: “Cervical cancer is of particular interest to our members because it represents the first opportunity that we have to actually eliminate a cancer,” Women in Government President Susan Crosby said.
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Again, I don’t think ”soda” is calcium carbonate, but I could be wrong. As for it being ridiculed by science... well... In 1993, Louis Kervran earned an Ig Nobel Prize for having proven that chicken hens convert potassium into calcium via some cold fusion process. So far, no one has been able to disprove his work [OK, some scientists claim to have attempted to replicate the results and failed...], but instead of trying, most scientists simply ignore what is an uncomfortable truth. Wikipedia has the details here.   [End]
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Actually, I think you’ll find that it’s sodium (hence ”soda”) carbonate, not calcium carbonate. Sodium carbonate can dissolve in water (and is an excellent source for the buffering agent, carbonate); calcium carbonate does not dissolve in water.   [End]
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I have no good answer for you. Producing stomach acid is never   [End]
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One last point, in the FAQ on CZ I believe, it states a mere increase of 0.3 in blood pH increase doubles the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood. What I’ve heard (hearsay, believe at your own risk) is that at pH 7.45, the blood can carry 68% more oxygen than it can at pH 7.3.   [End]
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I’m sorry. OK, try this. Blood uses a substance called a buffer, plus an enzyme to greatly speed up the process, to remove acidity from the blood as soon as it arrives in the bloodstream. A buffer is a substance that keeps acidity from running rampant by merging with it so that it cannot try to eat through something else. And what a happy coincidence it is that the buffer used eats up acid to form the very same things our body produces when it breaks down sugars for energy: water and carbon dioxide. Human bodies excel at ridding themselves of carbon dioxide and water, so eliminati ...
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Well, think about it for a moment. Sugars break down into acids before eventually becoming carbon dioxide and water (which, together, can be acidic). Proteins are made up of amino acids. Fats are made up of fatty acids. There aren’t any amino alkalis. There aren’t any fatty alkalis. There are far more acids in our lives than there will ever be bases. We simply don’t work that way.   [End]
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Thanks for the info. So how, then, does this process get reversed? Is it an equilibrium process based on the concentration of iodine, or are there enzymes associated with this, or...?   [End]
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