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A prominent expert featured in the summit is Dr. Kelly Brogan, a “holistic health psychiatrist” based in New York. In a blog post published Friday morning, gynecologist and Goop critic Dr. Jen Gunter points out that, in 2014, Dr. Brogan claimed that the notion that HIV causes AIDS is a “meme” brought upon us by the “medical-scientific-industrial marriage,” and that “drug toxicity associated with AIDS treatment may very well be what accounts for the majority of deaths.”
In the now-deleted blog post entitled, “HIV and Pregnancy: Pharma Abusing Women?” Dr. Brogan ignores overwhelming research finding that antiretroviral therapy significantly reduces the mortality rate of HIV-infected people, instead defaulting to a preferred rhetoric of pseudoscience supporters—that they’re just asking questions; they just want to save lives.
“Autism is childhood form of Alzheimer’s disease? Spare me. That Exley doesn’t immediately laugh at that idea and point out the enormous difference between the pathophysiology of autism and the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease tells you all you need to know about him. He’s utterly clueless about neurological disorders. As for his claims about aluminium (or aluminum, as we Yanks call it), he’s even more clueless.
“No doubt Christopher Exley would object to my characteriz...ation of him as “antivaccine.” How else can he be described, though? He parrots antivaccine talking points. He hangs out with antivaccine groups like Pour des vaccins sans aluminium and CMSRI. He gives interviews to utter antivaccine loons like Christina England. If he’s not antivaccine, at best he’s a useful idiot for the antivaccine movement and deluding himself that he’s doing research that advances the science of autism. Antivaccine or deluded dupe of the antivaccine movement, it doesn’t much matter to me. The end result is the same. He’s just the latest in an unfortunate line of scientists who have either gone antivax or prostituted themselves to the antivaccine movement to produce crappy science used to support the discredited notion that vaccines cause autism and are harmful. Let’s just put it this way. If you’ve been appearing on Robert Scott Bell’s show and speaking at the autism quackfest known as Autism One, chances are that your science is pseudoscience.”
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The Skeptical Beard shared James G Taylor's post.
Here I am, immersed in my studies, paying tens of thousands of dollars to become a biochemist, and everything I thought I knew about genetics is proven wrong by James Taylor of the internet.
Excuse me while I get my tuition refunded.
Let me explain something to you all:
WI-38 is the cell lines from a FEMALE aborted fetus, used to cultivate viruses used in vaccines. When you inject the DNA fr...om a FEMALE (carrying two X chromosomes) into a MALE (who already carries one X chromosome and a weaker Y chromosome) you now have an overload of the X chromosome. Now we have an onslaught of BOYS who think they should be GIRLS.
Do we have male DNA in vaccines? YES! The MRC-5 is the code given to the fetal cell line also used to cultivate vaccine viral components, and it comes from a MALE aborted fetus. Do we have girls thinking they are boys? YES! Is it as prominent as boys wanting to be girls? NO!
Why? Because girls have two dominant X chromosomes. When they are injected with a vaccine containing MRC-5, they aren't just getting a Y chromosome, but yet another dominant X chromosome, on top of the two they already have. That's why you don't see as many girls wanting to be boys as you do the other way around.
The Baphomet is half-male, half-female, blurring the lines. He is in charge of those who are mandating vaccines...they either kill, maim, or confuse our society. Nothing afflicting our children is our fault. It's all damage from a spiritual battle that we are losing.
Many thanks to Lee Stape for this magnificent information.
Bets ye won't load this one like others 
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The Skeptical Beard shared Cork Skeptics's post.
The Courier-Mail investigated a Brisbane homeopath, Cyena Caruana, who it says sells “vaccination alternatives” for babies and children as well as adult travellers, claiming that they can be used to prevent infectious diseases including measles.
The newspaper bought vaccination and booster pilules from Ms Caruana’s Homeopathy at Home Facebook page, including a $251.50 Homeopathic Travel Kit.
It then brought them to AJP contributors Professor Lisa Nissen and Dr Esther Lau.
...Prof Nissen and Dr Lau, from Queensland University of Technology, are referring the matter to the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
Dr Lau’s report on the “medicines” found that “from these preliminary results, there is nothing to suggest the vaccines are different from sucrose.
Herbal remedies are often seen as harmless, soothing treatments that tap into the ancient wisdom of traditional healing. While that may be the case for some, there are also those that cause cancer—and sometimes it’s nearly impossible to tell one from the other.
According to a study published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, traditional components of herbal remedies used throughout Asia are widely implicated in liver cancers there. In Taiwan, for instance, 78 perce...nt of 98 liver tumors sampled displayed a pattern of mutations consistent with exposure to herbs containing aristolochic acids (AAs). These are carcinogenic components found in a variety of centuries-old herbal remedies said to treat everything from snakebites to gout, asthma, and pain.
Because of their toxicity, some (but not all) of the herbs and plants known to contain AAs have been banned in Taiwan and other places. These flora tend to come from the genera Aristolochia (e.g., birthwort, pipevine) and Asarum (wild gingers). The Food and Drug Administration has also issued several warnings and advisories over AA-containing remedies.
The school teaches students all about past “prophets,” and trains them how to hear and interpret supposed messages from God. In other words, an institution that portrays itself as an education center is disconnecting more and more young people from reality. They are learning how to play into their delusions and ignore the real world.
It doesn’t stop there. The incredibly popular school also props up the harmful practice of faith healing, which encourages people to avoid traditional medicine (that’s been proven to work) and instead engage in chanting and praying.
To gain admission, they were required to give their recruiter — or “master,” as she was called — naked photographs or other compromising material and were warned that such “collateral” might be publicly released if the group’s existence were disclosed.
The women, in their 30s and 40s, belonged to a self-help organization called Nxivm, which is based in Albany and has chapters across the country, Canada and Mexico.
Sarah Edmondson, one of the participants, said she had been to...ld she would get a small tattoo as part of the initiation. But she was not prepared for what came next.
Each woman was told to undress and lie on a massage table, while three others restrained her legs and shoulders. According to one of them, their “master,” a top Nxivm official named Lauren Salzman, instructed them to say: “Master, please brand me, it would be an honor.”
A female doctor proceeded to use a cauterizing device to sear a two-inch-square symbol below each woman’s hip, a procedure that took 20 to 30 minutes. For hours, muffled screams and the smell of burning tissue filled the room.
According to the CEH, which purchased the samples tested directly from the InfoWars online shop, “People who take the Myco-ZX product would ingest more than six times the daily limit for lead under California law.” Those taking Caveman True Paleo would ingest twice the Californian daily lead limit.
The tweet witch is already powerful enough. She doesn't need your help creating fake tweets.
"Look, if you want to bilk rich white women out of their hard-earned dollars for rocks under the guise of these rocks being so pretty that they’ll make them feel more in touch with their inner goddesses, great. Do you. But as soon as you start telling me that these rocks are a viable alternative for the unspeakable trauma of rape, or that essential oil can cure major depression, or that turmeric prevents cancer, or any other relentless nonsense and bullshit you insist upon, i...t is no longer harmlessly naive; it’s dangerous. It’s bad enough when every blogger nobody on Pinterest is doing it, but for Gwyneth Paltrow, a millionaire with limitless access to every piece of medical care we could ever possibly imagine, to tell women “this is an option for you” is despicable. Fuck this, fuck that, fuck these rocks, fuck all of it. Sell them on therapy. Sell them on medication. Sell them on talking to a friend, a stranger, something useful and tangible that is not a fucking rock. How dare you."
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In a meta-analysis of 55,842 CVs, it was found that applications with "white" names received 36% more callbacks than identical CVs submitted with typically "black" names.
"We find no change in the levels of discrimination against African Americans since 1989, although we do find some indication of declining discrimination against Latinos. The results document a striking persistence of racial discrimination in US labor markets."
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Kevin is a great skeptic and friend of mine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
"Hurricane Harvey's unprecedented flood waters have seriously afflicted one of the most prolific and respected members of our online community, leaving two to three feet of water in his home. News from authorities isn't great, with Harris county saying it could be WEEKS before floodwaters subside.
"I'm raising some money to help Kevin eventually pay for repairs, realize that he's very much l...oved, and perhaps gain a little peace of mind.
"ALL proceeds with be donated to the rock dude."
