ABC News Weighs "Pros and Cons" of Castrating RapistsThough leading the polls in Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has received additional and unwanted attention in recent days for his role in pardoning a convicted rapist who went on to rape and murder at least one and possibly two women after his release in 1999.
Wayne Dumond was convicted in 1984 of raping a teenaged girl who was a distant cousin of Bill Clinton, then governor of Arkansas. While out on bail and awaiting trial, Dumond claimed men in black ski ma... (more)
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Baby tax needed to save planet, claims expertA WEST Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus "baby levy" at birth and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 a child.
Writing in today's Medical Journal of Australia, Associate Professor Barry Walters said every couple with more than two children should be taxed to pay for enough trees to offset the carbon emissions generated over each child's lifetime.
Professor Walters, clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of West... (more)
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Nanotechnology a 'bigger concern' than GM foodsThe lifting of bans on genetically modified crops has revived the debate about the safety of the food we eat.
But the next step in industrial food production has got Australia's food regulator bracing itself for even more controversy.
Opponents to nanotechnology say it is a much scarier prospect than GM food, and while it can make food look better and last longer, there are fears about how it might affect the human body.
The regulator now faces the di... (more)
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The risk in nanotechnologyWAVING a packet of carbon nanotubes accusingly at the assembled American politicians during a hearing last month in Congress, Andrew Maynard was determined to make a point. The nanotechnology expert at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington, DC, had bought the tiny tubes on the internet. They had arrived in the post along with a safety sheet describing them as graphite and thus requiring no special precautions beyond those needed for a nuisance dust.
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Maryland Schools Have Huge Financial Stake in Coerced Vaccinations of SchoolchildrenWhat could possibly be behind these forced vaccinations? There are several factors that could be at play, but the primary suspicion that stands out in my mind is money. So I called the communications department of the Prince George's County School District to ask them specifically some questions about the amount of money the school district gets paid per child per day. They have not returned my call to answer the questions. Thankfully, the National Center for Education Statistics has some great ... (more)
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Anti-Smoking Drug Chantix Causes Suicidal Thoughts And Drastic Changes In BehaviorThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued a warning about Pfizer Inc's anti-smoking drug, Chantix, amid reports of at least one death, and suicidal thoughts and behavior linked to the medication.
An early agency assessment "reveals that many of the cases reflect new-onset of depressed mood, suicidal ideation (thoughts) and changes in emotion and behavior within days to weeks" of starting treatment, the FDA said in a posting about the new review.
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Meet the women who won't have babies - because they're not eco friendlyDesperate measures: Toni Vernelli was steralised at age 27 to reduce her carbon footprint
Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers - and a voice calling her Mummy.
But the very thought makes her shudder with horror.
Because when Toni te... (more)
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Human-animal hybrid embryos should be legal says Catholic ChurchThe Roman Catholic Church has called for women to be allowed to give birth to human-animal hybrids created in the laboratory.
Embryos injected with animal cells, or chimeras, should be treated as human beings where they have a preponderance of human genes, the bishops say in a sumbission to a Government committee.
And there should be no ban on implanting such hybrid embryos in the womb of the woman who supplied the original egg, they say in their submission on the D... (more)
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Children herded like cattle into Maryland courthouse for forced vaccinations as armed police and attack dogs stand guard(NewsTarget) Following the State of Maryland's threats against parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated, children were herded into a Price George County courthouse being guarded by armed personnel with attack dogs. Inside, the children were forcibly vaccinated, many against their will, under orders from the State Attorney General, various State Judges and the local School Board Director, all of whom illegally conspired to threaten parents with imprisonment if they did not submit thei... (more)
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Doctors Oppose Maryland Vaccine Roundup: Expect Dangerous Reactions When Children Are Treated Like CattleWASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons today condemned the "vaccine roundup" executed in Prince Georges county Maryland this week, and promised to do everything it can to support parents who refuse to immunize their children.
"This power play obliterates informed consent and parental rights," said Kathryn Serkes, director of policy for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), one of the few national ph... (more)
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Parents Must Immunize Their Children Or Go To Jail
Prince Georges County, MD
1,600 school children and their parents have been ordered to appear in circuit cou... (more) Related: No Law Says Parents Have To Get Their Children Vaccinated |
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Parents win right to grow babies for 'spare parts'PARENTS of sick children in Britain will be allowed to use IVF to create "spare-part babies" under controversial laws published yesterday.
The legislation will dramatically relax rules on IVF clinics creating "saviour siblings" who can help cure their older brothers and sisters of medical conditions such as leukemia.
Experts said that one day they could create a "designer baby" with kidneys perfectly compatible with a sibling suffering renal failure.
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Vaccine "failure" exposes Aussies to AIDS virusNine Australians are believed to be among thousands of people who are unaware a once-promising vaccine for AIDS has increased their infection risk, after they participated in clinical trials around the world.
The multinational trials involving more than 3,000 HIV-negative volunteers were cancelled in September after a large-scale study found the vaccine was not effective at preventing infection.
Researchers have this morning revealed far worse news - those who recei... (more)
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The mouse that shook the worldIt can run for hours at 20 metres per minute without getting tired. It lives longer, has more sex, and eats more without gaining weight. Could the science that created this supermouse be applied to humans?
Scientists have been astounded by the creation of a genetically modified "supermouse" with extraordinary physical abilities – comparable to the performance of the very best athletes – raising the prospect that the discovery may one day be used to transform peo... (more) Related Audio: Ode To A (Super)Mouse: Alan Watt of CuttingThroughTheMatrix.com discusses this article |
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South Africa Aids-Vaccine Trial Volunteers Warned of HIV-Infection Risk Researchers are recalling people who took part in the aborted Phambili AIDS-vaccine trial to tell them the product could have increased their susceptibility to HIV infection, should they be exposed to the virus by unprotected sex or dirty needles.
Phambili was the local arm of an international phase IIb study to test Merck's MRKAd5 candidate AIDS vaccine. The trial was stopped last month after an independent data and safety monitoring board analyse... (more)
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Fury at DNA pioneer's theory: Africans are less intelligent than WesternersOne of the world's most eminent scientists was embroiled in an extraordinary row last night after he claimed that black people were less intelligent than white people and the idea that "equal powers of reason" were shared across racial groups was a delusion.
James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in the unravelling of DNA who now runs one of America's leading scientific research institutions, drew widespread condemnation for comments he made ahead of his arrival in Britai... (more)
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Prescribe 'the pill' at middle school?Students who have parental permission to be treated at King Middle School's health center would be able to get birth control prescriptions under a proposal that the Portland School Committee will consider Wednesday.
The proposal would build on the King Student Health Center's practice of providing condoms as part of its reproductive health program since it opened in 2000, said Lisa Belanger, a nurse practitioner who oversees the city's student health centers.
If the... (more)
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Vaccine-linked polio hits NigeriaNigeria is fighting a rare outbreak of a vaccine-derived form of polio, says the UN's World Health Organization.
It says 69 children in the north have caught the paralysing disease from others who had already been immunised.
The WHO says such rare outbreaks have occurred where immunisation campaigns did not reach enough of the population.
In 2003 Islamic leaders brought a temporary halt to the vaccine campaign in the north saying it was a Western cons... (more)
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ACLU: Government forcibly gives deportees psychotropic drugsLOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion to stop immigration authorities forcibly drugging deportees as they are put on commercial flights back to their home countries.
The motion, filed Tuesday in federal court, comes after an immigration official testified in the Senate last month that 50 immigrants over a seven-month period were forced to take psychotropic drugs. Many of them had no psychiatric diagnosis.
"The new information shows the gove... (more)
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Deaths Associated with HPV Vaccine Start Rolling In, Over 3500 Adverse Affects Reported As Canada, in large part due to aggressive behind the scenes lobbying, rolls out the not-comprehensively-tested Merck HPV vaccine for girls as young as nine, a look at developments on the vaccine south of the border should cause Canadians serious concern. In the United States a similar lobby campaign by the same company launched the mass HPV vaccination of girls beginning in June last year.
In just little over a year, the HPV vaccine has been associated ... (more)
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The CDC, Vaccines and Autism I listened to ABC NEWS tonight waiting for the story about the new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines with mercury and autism. I watched commercials for prescription pharmaceutical products like Advair and wondered what influence the drug industry has on ABC NEWS. The ABC report on the CDC study again dismissed any suspicion that the mercury used in vaccination is linked to autism.
NBC NEWS t... (more)
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China's one-child policy: doctors discover 23 sewing needles in womans head Luo Cuifen knew something was wrong when she went to the doctor after finding blood in her urine, but nothing could have prepared her for the discovery of 23 sewing needles, which doctors believe were stuck deep into her as a baby by her grandparents.
Doctors suspect they wanted to kill her because her family preferred a son. Some of the needles were pushed into the fontanelle, the soft spot on the head all babies have before the bones knit. Ms Cuifen, now 29, ... (more)
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'Human-animal' embryo green light Regulators have agreed in principle to allow human-animal embryos to be created and used for research.
But scientists wanting to use hybrids will still need to make individual applications, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority said.
An HFEA consultation showed the public were "at ease" with the idea when told it could pave the way for therapies for conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.
Opponents have s... (more)
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