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NB: Ples ge keep le .. more Letters to the Editor its" Letters to the Editor more Fasting for Freedom It took me a long time to come to | Vaccinations/Diabetes Link was playing a joke on me. It Dear Duncan: Re your Editorial | terms with the information that |p... puncan: I enjoyed listen- | WOuld be interesting to find out in Feb/March'97 issue where you taxpayer-funded Department of ing to you on the Richard Boyden what exactly is going on there. I talk about how we dutifully absorb | Health brochures not only present- " : didn't press him with too many the rubbish "They" t row at us, | ed very biased misinformation but show on the "Heart of America questions, because sometimes I "ve fe iodic short fast those "Rights" as presented did not . feel that the less you ask people toons and a half days) a great we actually exist. I nas real interested when you | like this, the more you are likely to to get myself back from feeling | 1 communicated with all the rele- aad eae ations My 13. get told. that other people are trying to own | Vant bureaucratic and politica se . me. It he ps me feel free on all | authorities... Without exception years-old daughter was diagnosed levels. I can walk past 'food' | the replies I have received negate Voc la ane tha vhe blood © | News, Twilight Zone and the book shops and other shops and think, | me and my experiences...they Mt she to hat iret the oo teats reviews. Dr Greer's UFO "T am free of all this." It's a mar- | Obfuscated the issues I raised an i em that she ean ee L Manifesto [NEXUS 4/02] was vellous feeling in every way. belittled me... thee during a inees ar wth - | really intriguing, but I ama little (Health note: I'm not a medical I learnt of the Rogers v. Whitaker stuuinisations Tor school got her doubtful the US Government will person and can only suggest peo- | High Court decision (1992) in | MP ewe | let him and the others get away ple get proper medical info before | Which the Court delivered a virtual Missouri, USA.” Sas ys wil h it { guess we'll just have to any fasting. I've trained myself | blueprint for patients’ rights— I continue to enjoy the magazine, and especially like the Global over nearly three decades to do it | Which, five years later, have stil Keep up the great work! safely.) y not been enacted in legislation... Top-Secret Bases in Australia Anthony Z., Monterey, NSW, Also, a media fast, i.e., no radio |, TOO many media outlets an Hi, Duncan: I was wondering if Australia. or newspapers (I haven't got tele- journalists have been contacted in | you or any readers might have any} [Dear Anthony: We hear vision) is a great way to free the | 22 endeavour to have these issues | information on a top-secret scien- | 'umours of secret bases all the mind. aired. Too many have declined, | tific/industrial establishment in the | time. As for Dr Greer, please note Best wishes, Elizabeth S but always with wishy-washy | Somersby area (near Gosford, the update on CSETI's activities in London, England UK. | excuses. Everyone is too fearful | about an hour's drive north from | Twilight Zone this issue. Ed.] to take on vested interests whilst, | Sydney). at the same time, suppressing | A week ago I met a gentleman at | Blatant Bias in Broadcasting Profits vs Patients’ Rights information the public has an my computer course who told me} Dear Duncan: Quite some time Dear Duncan: I write concern- | inalienable right to know. Talk | he worked at Somersby. When I ago Phillip Adams, on his "Late ing my experiences as a result of | about censorship! enquired what his occupation was, | Night Live" program on Radio my approaches to the bureaucracy, | Real choice and informed con- | I was told he couldn't tell me what | National (part of the ABC), rub- the legal fraternity and a multitude | sent in conventional health care is organisation he worked for, except | ished NEXUS as a magazine and of politicians after experiencing a | a myth. Since Rogers v. Whitaker, | to say that it was a private organi- | said that you had been seen in the highly avoidable medical mistake. | the Medical Journal of Australia | sation. From there on it got more | company of one of the leaders of I believe it gives grist to the mill | has stated that doctors will need to | interesting. the Nazi Party here in Australia. of a global conspiracy to defraud, | decide what they tell patients... He told me it involved nuclear | This attack shocked me because, exploit and kill off those who pay | The absence of infrastructure to physics and 'new energy sources', | if anything, my politics are leftish. ‘or these services, thereby making | redress violations of patients’ | and that he was covered under the | The madness of the far right terri- tich those who provide them. rig! ts epitomises the total disre- | National Secrecy Act (which| fies me—yet I had not seen any- My education into how my | gard for the luty of care... unfortunately I know little about). | thing in the magazine to indicate it exploitation had been manage In the pursuit of profits and cor- | Supposedly he isn't able to use | held such a bias. On the other eft me awed by my own naivety. | porate power, the pharmaceutical | anything he has learnt from this | hand, I respected Phillip Adams’ accepted my surgeon's word that | industry is clearly not interested in | organisation, if he ever leaves. | reporting. ysterectomy was necessary. patient care or public health. In | (Incidentally, he told me he earns Although confused, I continued believed that, when someone is | collusion with others whose inter- | a six-figure salary, an inducement | to read NEXUS, aware of the paid for performing and delivering | ests coincide (national medical | not to leave.) When I asked him if | shadow Phillip Adams had placed a service, the client's or patient's | associations, insurance, WHO, | it involved our government, he | over you and your magazine. welfare was paramount. etc.) there is a concerted and | told me it involved both our gov- | After 18 months I can find nothing I was given (by my surgeon) a | fraudulent effort to exploit med- | ernment and the United States | to substantiate Adams' claims, and brochure on "Patients’ Rights" and | ical patients relentlessly. Government. I would like your comments! a brochure on "Hysterectomy". | I believe that the vast quantity of | I jokingly said to him, "So the || Yours faithfully, Lyn W., Both were NSW Department of | mostly nonsensical replies from | things Brian Wilshire comes out | Alberton, Victoria, Australia. Health publications. I went into | politicians and bureaucrats I have | with aren't so far-fetched after | [Dear Lyn: Mr Adams' claims hospital feeling informed and | received in the past six years | all?" He replied that fellow work- | gre totally wrong and reflect both secure for my well-being. amply prove all of the above. I | ers often come into work, saying | shoddy journalism and personal Post-surgically, everything that | would be delighted to make all of | that something else had been | bias! NEXUS is not right-wing could go wrong, did. HRT was | it public, signatures and all... | leaked onto the airwaves. He | and it has no political agenda. Mr pushed on me with promises that | (Anyone who would like copies of | remarked how there were so many | Adams has fallen under the spell these nasties would cure my ills. | these documents, please send $10 | secret facilities in this country that | of 'researchers' who work for the No information was given in | to cover copying/postage costs.) people weren't aware of. extreme-right-wing Australia- regard to adverse reactions or Thank you once again for your |__| know it all sounds like some- | Israel Review, and seems more debilitation associated with this | very enlightening and evocative | thing out of the X-Files, but it does | than happy to regurgitate their procedure and these medications. | magazine. have me intrigued. If anyone has | slanderous claims about NEXUS. The positives of both the surgery | Yours sincerely, heard anything on the grapevine | Mr Adams himself has never and the subsequent HRT treatment | A. M. Vryenhoek, "Upson | about this place, I would sure love | bothered to contact me regarding were emphasised. No mention | Downs", Nimbin Rd, Bishops | to know. This man didn't leave | these silly allegations. And he was made of risks and dangers... Creek, NSW 2480, Australia. me with the impression that he | calls himself a journalist?! Ed.] JUNE - JULY 1997 NEXUS <5