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Jenny McCarthy And Vaccination
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
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Growing up in the 1960′s I can remember lining up in my grade school and getting some of the first polio vaccines. I didn’t like getting shots, but we had to have them. During my youth I managed to acquire a number of infectious diseases such as measles, rubella, measles, and whopping cough.
But vaccines mean a bit more to me, than to most. The reason is that my father is an orphan. He was an orphan raised in an orphanage in Seward, Alaska called the Jesse Lee Home. He wrote a book about his, “Jesse Lee Home: My Home.” You may recall that home from my father’s book, but more likely you will remember Balto – popularized by Walt Disney.
Tags: autism, mercury, vaccination
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The Myth of Second Hand Smoke
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
The 1964 Surgeon General Report, which declared that the inhalation of cigarettes would likely cause lung cancer and heart disease, had a profound impact in the United States. This report started America thinking that the practice of inhaling cigarette smoke was unhealthy and began a long series of studies, lawsuits, and laws, that changed the face of America from a primary smoking society—where over 60 percent of adults in the U.S. smoked—to a number that is now about 30 percent. (more…)
Tags: Myths, second-hand smoke, Smoking
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