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NB: Please keep .. more Letters to the Editor *sisgisr« Letters to the Editor more longer periods. When I breathed | not that Labor was much better. | Shaken Babies & Vaccinations | the wretched animals used for out, though, I felt virtually the | As my NEXUS subscription] [| read an article that describes | testing have adequate vitamin C same relief as if I had taken my | comes up for a renewal, could I controversy over "Shaken Baby in their bodies (unlike humans inhaler, and fell asleep soon after- | please have it sent free of charge, Syndrome" versus the pertussis who have none), how can they wards. Over the last 15 months, | the same as Jerry? I like NEXUS | vaccine [5/05]. It states that a | possibly assess risk factors, as the I've done this whenever I feel an | so much, I might even consider | number of suspected SBS cases vitamin C will to some degree attack coming on, and each time | committing a small crime—noth- | turned out in actuality to be com- nullify the side effects? (I know the attack has passed. ing major, just enough to qualify | plications caused by the pertussis that guinea pigs don't, poor little My experience is of course | fora free subscription. vaccine. sods.) "anecdotal" and likely to stay that | You are also saying that you I would like to contact the Short and deadly clip in this way. NEXUS readers will know | send NEXUS for free, upon | author of that article to find out if | week's Weekly Times (w/c 5 that the professor's method is | request, to many prisoners. Are | an infant who actually was diag- | December): Researchers at New unlikely to be widely researched | you sending free NEXUS sub- | nosed with pertussis could also be | York University found that GM without drug companies' funding. | scriptions to their victims as well? | mistakenly diagnosed as a "shak- | corm leaked the insecticide into With their marketing executives | Jerry Hamilton says that he got | en baby". My daughter had per- the soil from its roots. The all aiming—by definition, real- | 60 years just for a possession of a | tussis and my husband was unfor- | insect-killing toxin Bt exuded ly—to take a larger share of the | gram of cocaine. What a lovely | tunately alone with her when she | from the roots as well as the (huge) asthma "market", they are | sob story. I would like to see his | had a seizure. An MRI showed | above-ground foliage. unlikely to fund research that will charge sheet, how many priors he | she had some haemorrhaging on Scientists, writing in the journal likely cut drug use. Any attempts | had, and who he was going to sell | her brain. Therefore he is being | Nature, described how they iden- to reduce the size of the market | this coke to—your children, my | charged with child abuse. I don't tified the fully active toxin in the itself must seem nothing short of | children, or was he peddling his | believe he shook her, and I am soil surrounding the roots of Bt vandalism... wares in front of some high or | desperately trying to find profes- | corn. It remained active for 25 In 40 years of having asthma, | even primary school? sional help to advise us. days (this is not completely ver- I've never been this long without | In Australia, we are having peo- | If you have any suggestions on batim). Environmental cam- drugs. Perhaps it is indeed the ple serving 15 years, with parole, whom to contact, I would be so | paigners sounding warning placebo effect. The mainstream | for importation of many kilo- grateful! We need to find bells—probably too late for that. doctors' contempt reflects the cur- | grams of prohibited drugs, and | answers asap. Thank you. All the best for Christmas and rent medical view of this as | this poor, misunderstood child of | Holly, whisper@chibardun.net That New Year. showing nothing more than | our society got 60 years just for | {Dear Holly: The article's | Pat Coleby, Victoria, Australia human gullibility. I think I take | one gram? author, Viera Scheibner, PhD, | [Dear Pat: Apparently Sugar the alternative view, that it is the | And why is he in solitary con- | lives in the Blue Mountains | Blues is available on the Internet best form of healing—the body | finement?’ I would like to see his | region of NSW, and can be con + via www.amazon.com. Ed.] healing itself. However, I don't | prison charges and incident | tacted by telephone on +61 2 really care. The professor gave | reports. He refuses what he calls | 4787 8203, or by fax on +61 2 | Psychiatry: Fraudulent Science me a sense of control over my | slave labour? And what about the | 4787 8988. Good luck. Ed.] a rane mm "smeli ht See Sr tye a Tes tn Pes ae Mitch Beedie, Dorset OK * | [think it is time we stop feeling | Dear Duncan: I find NEXUS so| to your recent article in NEXUS, , Dorset, sorry for criminals and start feel- | informative and useful in my | "Psychiatry: Shrinking from the _ _ ing sorry for victims. Victims are | work that I feel slightly guilty | Truth" [7/01], that I have had Free Subscriptions for Victims? | the ones who deserve free sub- | that I never write and tell you so! | occasion to consult psychologists Dear Editor: First of all, I | S