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= REVIEWS information about the patient's right of informed consent (though such rights are rarely written in law) and advise patients to take an active role in deciding what's put into their mouths. They also warn that great care must be taken in removing toxic materi- als, for each patient requires a different detox program. Pregnant and breastfeeding women must think twice about dental revi- sion, lest released toxins overpower their immune system and damage the foetus. LOST CONTINENTS & THE HOLLOW EARTH by David Hatcher Childress and Richard Shaver Publisher: Adventures Unlimited, 1999 ISBN: 0-932813-63-1 (312pp tpb) Price: AUD$29.00; NZD$n/a; £12.95; NLGf38.90; USD$16.95 + p&h Available: Aust/NZ/UK/Europe— NEXUS : ' offices; USA—Adventures Unlimited, tel = (815) 253 6390, fax (815) 253 6300 UNINFORMED CONSENT he notion that the Earth is hollow, or at by Hal A. Huggins, DDS, MS, and least pitted with vast caverns and tunnel Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD systems, and populated by secretive, ancient Publisher: Hampton Roads, USA, 1999 civilisations who have spaceships, death ISBN: 1-57174-117-8 (276pp tpb) rays and mind-control machines, became Price: AUD$32.95; NZD$39.95; £10.99; entrenched in popular mythology with the NLG fn/a; USD$14.95 publication of a letter by Richard Shaver in Available: Aust—Gemcraft, tel (03) 9888 the December 1943 issue of Amazing 0111; NZ—Peaceful Living, tel (07) 571 Stories. The subject was an Elder Race of 8105; UK—Airlift, tel 0181 804 0400; Teros and Deros, lost continents, and the Europe—NEXUS office; USA—Hampton Mantong alphabet—which Shaver believed Roads, tel (804) 296 2772 to be the mother language from which the our mouth could qualify as a toxic root words of other languages were derived. waste site eligible for fines from your The Shaver Mystery came into its own. local environmental protection agency, with the March 1945 publication of the "I according to dentist Dr Hal Huggins and Remember Lemuria" issue, but by the end of cardiologist Dr Thomas Levy in their co- 1948 the publishers of Amazing Stor ies had written book, Uninformed Consent. tired of these so-called true stories—though If you have mercury amalgam fillings, the public certainly hadn't. Editor Ray crowns, caps, bridges, implants, braces or Palmer quit to start up Fate magazine and root canals, your mouth could contain dental Continued to promote Shaver's stories. toxins like mercury, cadmium, copper, zinc, Released as a book in 1948, J Remember beryllium, nickel and phenol, plus toxic Lemuria quickly sold out and has been out wastes created by anaerobic bacteria. The of print ever since. Now it is reproduced in authors describe in painful detail how these Lost Continents & The Hollow Earth, along materials leach into the body and are impli- with another (co-authored) Shaver novel, cated in a variety of disease conditions The Return of Sathanas. The rather weird including Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue, subject matter, though presented as fiction, leukaemia, lupus, multiple sclerosis and prompted a flood of letters through the Parkinson's, and have been known to cause 1940s from people claiming to have had birth defects. A mouth of amalgam fillings strange encounters with Teros and Deros. can indefinitely outgas mercury vapour on a There is substantial literature and circum- daily basis in the range of 1 to 50 micro- stantial evidence lending support to all sorts grams per cubic metre of air, and much of of "high strangeness", and author David this toxin then accumulates in the tissues. Hatcher Childress refers to many of these Drs Huggins and Levy refer to case histo- sources in his chapters on the Hollow Earth ries of "incurable" and certainly problematic —_ theory, UFO bases in Antarctica, tunnel sys- diseases being reversed through "dental revi- tems beneath South America, the under- sion" (replacement of toxic materials with ground Himalayan city of Agartha, plus the biocompatible ones). They also give sound — Shaver Mystery itself. APRIL —- MAY 1999 NEXUS +79