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The HPV Vaccine on Trial: Guilty as Charged
When Merck’s human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil (since replaced by Gardasil 9), was first licensed in 2006, it was hailed as a tremendous achievement of modern medicine: a vaccine to prevent cancer! What could possibly be better?
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“The Addiction Spectrum”: A Holistic Approach to Healing
This paragraph from The Addiction Spectrum: A Compassionate Holistic Approach to Recovery, by Paul Thomas, MD, and Jennifer Margulis, PhD, beautifully sums up the source of addiction: Being human is hard. Period. Which is why I agree with Thomas when he says that mainstream ideas about addiction, both causes and treatments, are outdated and in need of an overhaul, an overhaul that this book neatly provides.
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Autoimmunity: The Intersection of Toxic Metals and Microbes?
Have you noticed the recent dramatic increases in autoimmune diseases and neurological dysfunctions? Has your neighbor or your niece been recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, or late-onset type 1 diabetes? Maybe you know someone whose kids all have some combination of PANDAS, ADHD, and autism? We’ve explored the explosion in neurological conditions on this website many times before, and while we haven’t covered autoimmunity in the same kind of detail, we have been keenly aware of a concomitant and related increase in all forms of autoimmunity, all of which are considered “incurable.”
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PANDAS: The “Gift” that Keeps on Giving
Last Tuesday night, my 18-year-old daughter “Trinity” and I attended a screening of the new documentary My Kid Is Not Crazy at Staten Island University Hospital. The film is about children who suffer from pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections, or PANDAS for short. Unlike most people, Trinity and I are very familiar with PANDAS. Though she was never formally diagnosed, it essentially ruled our lives from the time she was five at least until she was nine.
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“The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism”: A Dazzling Scientific Achievement
For those of us who have been reading – and talking about – the science on the subject of autism and vaccines for years, it can be very frustrating speaking with members of the medical and scientific communities, most of whom believe what they are told by the CDC and the mainstream media: all the credible science says there is no link between vaccines and autism. Of course, that's so far from the truth it’s ludicrous, but it’s certainly understandable that even scientists believe it as the lie is repeated over and over again by people who really ought to know.
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Scientific Proof: Vaccines DO Cause Autism
This is it: The Changepoint. Can you feel it? The last 30 years have led inexorably to this moment when, for the first time in history, all the candidates remaining in the race for the presidency of the United States feel the need to clarify their stance on the use of vaccines – repeatedly and conflictingly. How did we get to the point where vaccines have become such a highly charged, controversial issue? After all, if vaccines are truly as safe as “they” say they are, wouldn’t anyone want a “get out of sickness free” card?
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The Vaccine-Friendly Plan: A New Book that Will Mean Healthier Kids
If you listen to the mainstream media, you might be under the impression that United States parents are sharply divided between those who believe all children should be vaccinated according the CDC-recommended schedule and those who believe no children should receive any vaccine ever -- and that virtually all pediatricians are firmly in the first camp.
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Feed Your Children Well: “The Dirt Cure” by Dr. Maya Shetreat-Klein
One doesn’t have to look far to notice that, when it comes to the health of either people or the planet, food is Topic #1 these days. Whether the goal is reversing obesity, diabetes, depression, heart disease, or any combination of the “new” childhood epidemics of chronic illness, including asthma, ADHD, autism, and allergies – especially the anaphylactic food allergies that are ubiquitous nowadays – everyone seems to be seeking the magic formula that will result in true health and wellness.
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Measles, the Public Health Crisis that . . . Wasn’t
While doing research for an upcoming blog on the changing representation of “anti-vaxxers” in the media, I revisited some of last year’s media coverage of the recent measles outbreak at Disneyland. In the wake of that outbreak, the media turned on vaccine-hesitant parents with an unprecedented wave of vicious stories, frequently pitting more the more fearful parents against their neighbors. These articles blamed the then-current outbreak on a rising tide of vaccine exemptions and vaccine hesitancy in today’s parents, frequently referred to as the “anti-vaccine movement.”
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They’ve Found “the Autism Gene”? Don’t Be Misinformed Like This “Science Blogger”
It has come to our attention at TMR that there is at least one “science blogger” claiming “we’ve actually found the one thing” that causes autism. “A University of North Carolina researcher actually found the gene that causes autism,” she says, and to back up her claim, which certainly needs backing up, she links this article which references this study.
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