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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS SCIENTISTS ADMIT VACCINES ARE A MYSTERY states with or without the request or per- mission of the state." "Many of the recommendations pub- lished in this report have been underway for several years," observes Henry Lamb. "The now-published time line for full implementation suggests that UN strate- gists are confident that the world is ready to accept global governance." (Source: Behind the Headlines, 8 December 1996, America's Future, Inc., 7800 Bonhomme, St Louis, MO 63105, USA; phone (314) 725 6003; web site: hitp-//accessus.net/~eamiller/af/) While textbooks say that DNA in food is digested and destroyed, Dérfler found that a genetic material from a bacterial virus called M13 survived to emerge in faeces. (Source: New Scientist, 4 January 1997) wo hundred years after Edward Jenner first immunised people against small- pox, the function of a key ingredient of modern vaccines remains an almost total mystery. It has been called "the immunolo- gist's dirty little secret". Vaccines are supposed to work by giving the immune system a sneak preview of future enemies in the form of weakened or killed disease-causing micro-organisms, bits of those micro-organisms or even pieces of their DNA. A quick look at this pale imitation, called an "immunogen", is enough to get the immune system stocking up its armouries ready to retaliate when the micro-organism strikes for real. However, the vast majority of vaccines don't work unless they also contain some- thing called an "adjuvant"—a fancy-sound- ing name for a non-specific mix of some very weird ingredients. At one time or another, the mysterious adjuvants have included any one of a list of suspicious-sounding substances, including detergent, oil and water, aluminium hydroxide, dead bacteria that have nothing to do with the disease the vaccine is sup- posed to protect against, bits of those dead bacteria, or some mix of these. Vaccines based on whole viruses, such as the oral polio vaccine, can wake up the immune system single-handedly. But all the bacterial vaccines, and the more mod- ern viral vaccines (such as the hepatitis B one) that for safety reasons use only parts of a virus, are doomed to failure without an adjuvant. The adjuvant used in most vaccines administered to children is alum, or alu- minium hydroxide. (Source: New Scientist, 2 November 1996) MEASLES JABS LINKED TO AUTISM lhe UK Department of Health is under pressure to fund research into the safety of childhood vaccines, as evidence contin- ues to mount of a link between the injec- tions and autism. There have already been concerns about vaccines causing other forms of brain dam- age, but now, one of the world's leading experts on autism is backing parent groups in their demands for studies to be done on the vaccination risk. Dr Bernard Rimland, director of America's Autism Research Institute, said the idea that vaccines could be causing the conditions was unpopular with the medical establishment. "But there is now no doubt in my mind that something serious is hap- pening," he said. A class action lawsuit, being prepared by Dawbarns Solicitors on behalf of vaccine- damaged children, includes 169 cases allegedly linked to measles, mumps and rubella inoculations. Kirsten Limb, of Dawbarns, said there had been another 200 enquiries from par- ents fearing their children had developed autism as a direct result of vaccinations. (Source: The Sunday Telegraph, UK, 24 November 1996) CAN DNA FROM GENE-ALTERED FOOD BE PASSED ON? lhe 4 January 1997 issue of New Scientist magazine carried an interest- ing editorial criticising the withholding of information pertaining to the safety of allowing genetically engineered food (GEF) onto the market. More importantly, the same issue ran a news item which gives opponents to GEF some very scary ammunition. It is assumed that the DNA from the genes of GEF is destroyed in the stomach. However, it has recently been shown that DNA fed to a mouse can survive the gut and pass into cells in the body! This is a totally unexpected result, and should send shivers down our collective spines. Walter Dérfler, of the University of Cologne, made the above announcement at the International Congress on Cell Biology in San Francisco in December 1996. URI GELLER VINDICATED man seeking a long-lost submarine learned the cost of ignoring the advice of Uri Geller, the UK-based psychic, when he spent more than £1 million looking in the wrong place. Eight years ago, Geller pinpointed the exact location of a submarine sunk more than a century ago. But William Scanlan- Murphy, sceptical of Geller's abilities, chose to ignore his advice and instead financed a fruitless search of an area 15 miles west of the actual location. Eventually he gave up, believing the wreck had been destroyed. It was only 8 = NEXUS FEBRUARY - MARCH 1997