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Letters to the Editor ... Letters to the Editor Diet Soda Aspartame Dangers | antiseizure med for a while | a telephone conversation: "We | condition to be treated with Dear Editor: I have been ill with | longer, just in case I'm off the | get a lot of calls and mail from | Prozac, and women's menstrual unexplained seizures since 6/99. | mark. The antiseizure med has | people who claim to have a new cycles are deemed dangerous and My seizures are not convulsive left me with shaky, weak hands, | theory. Who do you think you are | unnecessary (Time, September 18, but, rather, I suffer serious dizzi- still some dizziness and unable to | to question the experts, and why | 2000). The cure is simple: just ness and vertigo sometimes for work on patients. I am very anx- | do you think there is a need to | use a continuous low-dose Pill and hours at a time. The neurologist is ious to discontinue it, instead of | question quantum mechanics?" reduce menstruation to only three baffled, as none of my symptoms | increasing the dosage when I have | One answered in a letter that he | or four times a year! ; is classic for "seizure" or for | 4 Seizure. (I am a dental hygien- | also had some reservations about} I can be contacted via "migraines". ist, ines office administra- uantum mechanics, but that he golight @earthlink.net sont i i it | ton.) My memory and concentra- | simply did not have the time to | ssellman.com, or at Ox 1c itly, the doctors attributed it tion abilities have been affected. read ny manuscript. Another | 690416, Tulsa, OK 74169, USA. miscarriage in 6/99. Then they After reading your article, I have responded that he did not have the | Best wishes, Sherrill Sellman even wanted to label me as having | 2° doubt that my symptoms will | time to read my manuscript and "panic attacks". Being the patient | improve dramatically. I would | that he did not think that current from hell, I refused the panic like to sue the pants off the FDA | physics needed any revisions, attack angle and said, "There is for allowing this to be marketed | even though "there are obviously something seriously wrong—so without warning labels. I'd have | open problems". Still another start looking elsewhere, pal!" liked to have had the choice of | said: "No one has time to exam- We decided to try an antiseizure putting my health and career in | ine new theories. They are all too medication, and my episodes Jeopardy. Thank you again for busy writing grant proposals. seemed to lessen in frequency. | YOU Very insightful article. You Then he offered a quote, saying: Coincidence, or was the seizure have put the light on at the end of | "For every crackpot who turns out Whooping Cough Cover-up I would like to reply to Donna who is concerned about her son contracting whooping cough. My two-year-old daughter contracted whooping cough from a child I was babysitting at the time. This other girl, Lindsey, had just recently been vaccinated for A A A “ 5 | my very long, frustrating tunnel! | to be a genius, there are a thou- : ve diagnosis wing in the first place? Sincerely, K. Quigley, Maine, | sand crackpots who will forever whooping cough. In addition, ecided to do some more USA, kdzsquigley @aol.com remain crackpots." Justine, my cousin's child, about research myself, and realised even the first "petit mal-like seizure" occurred after ingesting multiple | Conspiracy of Science? daily servings of diet soda. | In NEXUS 8/01 there is an inter- Whenever I would have a "break- | esting article, titled "Introduction through" seizure on the meds, in |}to Applied Aether Energy reflection it was after consump- | Science", by Dr Robert Adams. tion of multiple diet sodas. My | The article is not easy to read, but curiosity wondered if it was caf- | I got the idea that Dr Adams was feine or the artificial sweetener. forced to give up any attempt to When reading your article "The | describe his ideas by the use of Bitter Truth about Artificial | conventional, highly recondite Sincerely, Cecil Ross [author of were on antibiotics (several differ- Sweeteners" [NEXUS 2/28, 3/01 | mathematics, as required by mod- Logical Vohy sics “ISBN 0- ent types), which did not help at or website], I wanted to throw up! | ern theoretical scientists, particu- 9649888-1-X] Austin, Texas, | ul: That tells me several things: I began to shake at the simplicity | larly theoretical physicists. in precy ~’ | 1) The vaccine does not protect four years of age, had also been vaccinated shortly before she contracted whooping cough. Lindsey and Justine do not know each other and contracted whooping cough from their respective vaccines. My daughter, who has never been vaccinated, had a milder case and recovered sooner than either of the other girls. Both other girls What they are saying to me might very well be true, but how can they know whether or not my theories are worthless unless they take a moment of their busy time to read my work? I would like to know if any of your readers has also experienced this problem and if anyone else thinks that there might be a professional conspira- cy to keep outsiders outside. USA, jross7 @ austin.rr.com of everything that's been | Finally resorting to his own your child. happening to me. This seemed to | empirical findings, Dr Adams was oo, 2) Your child's natural immuni- explain the "unexplainable, non- | able to invent his Adams Thermo- | Homing in on Hormones ty is better able to fight off the classic" symptoms the doctors | Motor-Generator, which can only | Dear Duncan: It has been | disease without antibiotics. were all baffled with. Didn't they | be explained, he says, by the use | almost two years since I departed} 3) The milder, shorter version read about this in med school or in | of Tesla technology ("the skin | Australia for the US to continue | of whooping cough, which my their continuing education | effect"). In other words, accord- | my lecture tour for my book, | daughter had, was preferable to seminars? ing to Dr Adams, "one must elimi- | Hormone Heresy. Here's an | the longer, harsher cases the other Thank you, thank you, thank | nate the notion that electrons are | update on my progress this year. girls had. you...! This patient from hell is | the working gremlins of electro- Hormone Heresy became a best-| 4) Had I taken my child to the now taking things into her own | static energies". Cheers to Dr | selling book in Canada and is in | doctor (which I did not), she most hands. I have already discontin- | Adams. Someone finally has the | its second printing. It has also | likely would have been diagnosed ued drinking my much-loved diet | guts to come out and say in print | been translated into Italian. | as having "whooping cough" sodas (as they were also causing | (thanks to NEXUS New Times) | (Unfortunately, it is presently out | because she was not vaccinated. daily heartburn) and am drinking | that modern theoretical physics | of print in Australia.) I have been| The other girls were officially more water and juices from frozen | has more holes in it than my | traversing North America as a | diagnosed as having "croup", concentrate. In less than three | screen door. popular keynote speaker as well as | since they had been vaccinated. days, I am already feeling | In my many attempts to find a | radio and TV guest, lecturing | Just another way to cover up actu- immensely better. I'm going to | professional physicist who might | about the many myths and dangers | al statistics, and fool the average continue with this, as well as scru- | be interested in reading my alter- | of hormone treatments for women. | person into believing that vaccines tinise other things in my dietary | native theories about the structure | It's been quite an exciting time. are safe. intake. I can't believe the answer | and behaviour of atoms, I got | More than ever, my message is | By the way, when my two-year- could possibly be this simple. I | rejection after rejection from uni- | vital—as the natural cycles of all | old had whooping cough, her do understand I may be wrong, | versity professors who would not | women continue to be medicalised | three-week-old sister never con- but cutting this out isn't going to | even take the time to look at my | and pathologised. For instance, | tracted it. There is a lot to be said hurt me. I will continue with my | work. One professor responded in | PMS is now labelled a medical | for breastfeeding and the natural 4 -NEXUS FEBRUARY — MARCH 2001