On Sun, 25 May 2014 04:47:40 +1000, in misc.health.alternative,
Post by Fred's brain fungusPost by Bob OfficerOn Sun, 25 May 2014 04:05:47 +1000, in misc.health.alternative,
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Viera Scheibner, Ph.D - "Many infants who suffer the so-called 'shaken
baby syndrome' may be victims of undiagnosed vaccine damage.
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/09/04/here-we-go-again-the-vile-tactic-of-blaming-shaken-baby-syndrome-on-vaccines-part-2/
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About a week ago, I wrote about something that really irritates me,
namely that most despicable of antivaccine claims, which is that
shaken baby syndrome is somehow a misdiagnosis for vaccine injury. It
is a claim that, as far as I can recall, began when, for reasons that
have continued to elude me more than a decade later, the antivaccine
movement glommed onto the case of Alan Yurko, a man convicted of
shaking his girlfriends baby to death, and tried to get him freed
based on the claim that the baby had really died from encephalitis
caused by vaccine injury. The claim was so ridiculous as to make one
wonder why anyone would take it the least bit seriously, but some
antivaccinationists hate vaccines so much that no contortion of the
truth is too twisted. Its an idea that appears to have originated
with Australian antivaccinationist Veira Scheibner in the late 1990s.
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The rest of the blog is a very good read.
and a few other non-flattering mentions of Scheibner
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/10/05/using-the-lie-that-sbs-is-a-misdiagnosis-for-vaccine-injury/
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/06/13/the-cost-of-the-anti-vaccine-movement/
Read comment # 4
Nods to #Ratbags.
and Last here is this wonderful article full of supporting links. All
of them are interesting.
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/02/03/the-clueless-cite-the-ignorant/
Enjoy your Memorial Day Holiday For those american's do you know the
origin of the Memorial Day holiday...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day
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The first widely publicized observance of a Memorial Day-type
observance after the Civil War was in Charleston, South Carolina, on
May 1, 1865. During the war, Union soldiers who were prisoners of war
had been held at the Charleston Race Course; at least 257 Union
prisoners died there and were hastily buried in unmarked graves.[12]
Together with teachers and missionaries, black residents of
Charleston organized a May Day ceremony in 1865, which was covered by
the New York Tribune and other national papers. The freedmen cleaned
up and landscaped the burial ground, building an enclosure and an
arch labeled, "Martyrs of the Race Course." Nearly ten thousand
people, mostly freedmen, gathered on May 1 to commemorate the war
dead. Involved were about 3,000 school children newly enrolled in
freedmen's schools, mutual aid societies, Union troops, black
ministers, and white northern missionaries. Most brought flowers to
lay on the burial field. Today the site is used as Hampton Park.[13]
Years later, the celebration would come to be called the "First
Decoration Day" in the North.
David W. Blight described the day:
"This was the first Memorial Day. African Americans invented
Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is
black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world
with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been
about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of
a Second American Revolution.[14]
However, Blight stated he "has no evidence" that this event in
Charleston inspired the establishment of Memorial Day across the
country.[15]
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12> Joan Waugh; Gary W. Gallagher (1 June 2009). Wars Within a War:
Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War. Univ of North
Carolina Press. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-8078-3275-2.
13> Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American
Memory (2001), ch. 3, "Decoration Days", pp. 67-70
14> Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American
Memory (2001, 2nd printing), ch. 3, "Decoration Days", pp. 67-70
"Blight, David W., Lecture: "To Appomattox and Beyond," ''".
Oyc.yale.edu. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
15> David Blight, cited by Campbell Robertson, "Birthplace of
Memorial Day," New York Times, May 28, 2012 - Link is first of two
web pages - Blight quote from 2nd web page: "He has called that the
first Memorial Day, as it predated most of the other contenders,
though he said he has no evidence that it led to General Logans call
for a national holiday."
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Bob Officer
"One of my pet hates is being made an idiot
out of ...but you go right ahead"
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