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ing when they chose to? Were we | is now 60 mg, yet studies by | Alternative vs Free Energy culty of writing proper reviews
not proud of our freedom? Pearson and Shaw suggest 7,500 | Dear NEXUS: I have recently | when you are also acting as a sales
Yet look at today. Since about | mg as a minimum. had correspondence with the | agent for many of the books, and I
1920 the USA has strictly con- FDA studies found no benefits | Centre for Alternative Technology | suppose that the dissemination of
trolled the numbers migrating | from the intake of ‘large’ doses of | in Wales concerning the question | alternative information should
thither. We Australians have had | vitamin C (not surprising since | of free energy. I would have | take priority over critical reviews.
our birthright to go ‘home’ to the | their idea of ‘large’ is around 300 | thought that being an ‘alternative'| Thanks for producing such a
United Kingdom, or to any of Her | mg). Vitamin C has been taken | technology centre they would be great magazine!
ajesty's dominions taken away | intravenously up to 150,000 mg | very interested in the notion and
from us, and now the news bul. without harm. , . want to investigate it further. Andrew Paterson, London, UK
letins and reports are full of stories | Yn 1971, the US FDA invited | But no! They "know of no | (Dear Andrew: Thank you for
about how ‘Europe’, Australia, | Linus Pauling (Nobel Prize—-win- | devices that have successfully | 9°47 kind comments. About the
Malaysia and other so-called ‘free’ | ning chemist) to a conference to | demonstrated the practicality of book reviews, hmmm. The books
countries are restricting not just | explain the benefits of vitamin C. | extracting energy from the Zero which would probably get caustic
immigrants in general, but even | Just prior to this conference, | Point Field", although go on to | "¢views are usually among the
refugees. Pauling's research was discredited | say, "...should anyone wish to pro- | books we do not review! It is just
What exactly are we supposed to | by the FDA with feeble data and | vide us with a working device...we | 100 easy to say caustic things
mean by freedom? For to me it | reasoning. When Pauling pro- | would certainly be happy to dis- | @bout someone's work. Ed.)
seems that our leaders atach ony duced meaningful data and | play it at the Centre".
one meaning—hnamely, the Iree- | irrefutable scientific evidence, his | Well, Free Energy people, that is iti
dom for the bully to exploit every- | invitation to the conference was | the challenge! if you can help in Oh, What a Sanitised World...
one else and, in particular, for us | withdrawn. any way concerning this, please Conditioned, controlled,
here to exploited by American oli- | EDA attitudes are the result of | contact the Centre for Alternative constrained as ac ild
gopolies. ignorance, bias, a misunderstand- | Technology at . Their website is meek and mil
a lack of hope or vision. In the | . and that logic and fact
Vitamin Dosage Controversy words of Stanton T. Friedman: | Yours sincerely, was enough for all
Duncan: The US FDA (United "Don't bother me with the facts; Kevin Butler, Frome, Somerset, and to think for yourself
States Food and Drug | my mind 1s already made up!" England, UK would cause you to fall—
Administration) has enormous Yours sincerely, from grace, from face,
power over what we consume, Andrew Duncan, East Doncaster, | Addicted to NEXUS from immovable feasts
based on studies biased toward | Victoria, Australia Dear NEXUS: An extremely to a world inhabited
finding predetermined conclu- good magazine which I have been by evil beasts
sions.
The FDA (and its Australian
equivalent [the TGA]) approves
Speed of Light Calculations reading for 18 months.
To the Editor: Ihave seen a sug- | Like someone once said, the
gestion that there has been a mea- | world is divided between those
So I became a dutiful slave
with a path to follow
the use of genetically engineered surable decline in the speed of | who have read NEXUS and those right through to my grave
bovine hormones. They have light since first calculated in 1675. | who have not. in a fortress created
Danned powerful Lae The decline apparently continued | Make it monthly, as I start going by fools like me
the meat industry. eng used DY | until c. 1960 and no further into withdrawal symptoms after who had glimpses of truth
The RDIs (Recommen ed Daily decline could be noted. six weeks. . but chose not to see
fc As I'm not scientifically trained | Steve Bailey, Exeter, Devon, whose comfort came first
ntakes) of vitamins and minerals
have been set frighteningly low— (ie., ignorant!) I hope readers can steve @ socks28.freeserve.co.uk
with its stability...
a safety curtain aimed merely at | 2MSWer some alate, How would . . and the planet forgot
preventing deficiency symptoms. this affect tne . Dee radioactive Reviews under Review its true destiny...
In Australia in 1992, the maxi- those objects in heat is which Dear Duncan: I think you maga- clamouring for sanitised
mum allowed dosage of vitamin A se objects gal avast which | zine is wonderful. It is one of the conformity
per supplement tablet dropped | @PP&ar to be Separating aster than only worthwhile magazines with for what °
from 25,000 IU to 5,000 IU. The the speed of light? serious international distribution. . OF WE
FDA has changed the RDI of folic The log sine curve postulated — My only complaint is that your A bright new reality waits near
acid from 250 ug to 400 ug. almost vertical up to a point in the | hook reviews seem to be a little for those without caution or fear
Why? What studies prompted past—would at some past time | tog generous. The result is that who've discovered a way
this? Professor Roger Williams | PToduce almost infinite speed of | one tends to view them in the to empower themselves
(discoverer of pantothenic acid, light, according to my informant, | same light as the blurb on a book above suffering,
vitamin B5) suggests it should be | With interesting implications. | cover: a sales tool, rather than a blindness and greed
more like 2,000 pg. Has any reader of NEXUS (bril- | serious review. I know this is : :
The RDI of vitamin C was once | liant!) further information on this? | maybe the kind and even ‘spiritual’ .
set at 30 mg, It was changed to 60 | Or—I'm a new reader—is there a | way to do it, but it prevents the | Poem by Michael Antares,
mg and later knocked back to 45 | back issue of NEXUS addressing | reader from making an informed Sydney, NSW, Australia
mg. Why? Which is correct? If I | it? purchase. If your reviews were | (Dear Readers: Please do not
consumed 30 mg, thinking this | James McBride, coguk@aol.com | more honest (and perhaps a little | take this as a signal to send in
was adequate but later learned I | (Dear James: I have noticed dis -| more caustic), your readers would | your poetry. Tam absolutely, defi -
should have taken twice this, how | cussions on this very subject tak -| know when someone has written | nitely, positively, never going to
do I know that 60 mg is not half as | ing place in various corners of | something exceptional. publish anyone else's poem ever
much as I should need? The RDI | cyberspace. Search thither! Ed.) That said, I understand the diffi- | again! Thank you. Ed.)
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