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A Few Questions For David Kirby

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

A few questions for Mr Kirby. (All originally posted in the comments section of the above blog post) You state that a study has recently been completed that: showed that a few minutes of exposure with even miniscule amounts of thimerosal can damage dendritic cells, causing immune dysfunction and cytokine-induced inflammation, both of which are [...]

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Lenny Schafer’s Cognitive Dissonance

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Another day, another Schafer Mercury Report. Lenny has a dig at the recently published Afzal et al paper ‘Absence of detectable measles virus genome sequence in blood of autistic children who have had their MMR vaccination during the routine childhood immunization schedule of UK’: It is hard to understand why the authors claim that their [...]

Posted in MMR, Mercury, Schafer, Wakefield | 49 Comments »

Announcement About Megan

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

As most of you know I stopped blogging about Megan publicly some time ago. Well, I really miss it. It really irks me that I can’t tell people whats going on in her life and how she’s doing. What I’m, going to do is set up a private blog which will require people to enter [...]

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DAN! Protocol For Dummies

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Whenever anyone else hears the word ‘DAN!’ with that little exclamation mark do they go ‘DAN! – DAN! – DAN - DAN!’ to the opening four bars of the theme to ‘Dragnet’? No? Ah well, just me then. Ken Aitken is a psychologist. He’s also a DAN! Doctor. One doesn’t need to be an actual [...]

Posted in Chelation, MMR, Mercury, Thimerosal | 125 Comments »