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educated and informed parents are the been preserved due to your generous are capable of doing research. The infor-
biggest threat to their well-being. information sharing. I homeschool and I mation about vaccines is not unknow-
Kim Schuette, CN can't wait to get heavy into nutrition and able outside of medical school. Further,
San Diego, California health with them so they can continue I was told by my medical doctor not to
on the good health they've been given as vaccinate.
DIET, NOT GENETICS children. Here is a photo of my WAPF If vaccines are “completely safe” as
I just wanted to write and say thank babies. Thank you! the author states (without any references)
you for your website and all the work Gina Anderson why was the National Vaccine Injury
that has been put into educating the San Jose, California Compensation Program set up as part of
public. I found your foundation eleven the U.S. Court of Federal Claims with a
years ago, right before I started having special section just for autism?
children. Thankfully I grew up on a To use legislation to remove the
nourishing diet, but I had played around philosophical exemption “loopholes”
with veganism and vegetarianism for a to force people to vaccinate is a way
while. I immediately changed my diet. to force medical procedures. Not only
I have four children now and I recently is this an archaic mindset, it is anti-
brought the oldest two (at nine years and American and harkens to Big Brother.
six years) to the orthodontist for a check Lastly, I think it is very interesting
up to see how things looked. She told that the author zeroed in on the state of
me that she never sees palates as wide Ohio, a presidential swing state. You
and well-developed as in my girls´. She can’t start too early, right?
said it must be good genetics and I said If there had been any unbiased sci-
it was a good diet. She looked at me entific reality in this piece I would have
strangely. We left with no procedures been much more interested. Instead, it
recommended, which is a rarity for sure. was the same old shut-your-mouth-and-
We are Irish so I often worry that do-what-the-doctor/government-says
my kids have a bit of a narrow face, but fear-mongering rhetoric.
their palates are wide and beautiful. I am Leah E. McCullough
often concerned about the mere two and Author of Freedom from
one-half years between a few of them CHARACTER ASSASSINATION Fibromyalgia:
but I was careful about my diet, and it The October 6, 2014 Time Maga- 7 Steps to Complete Recovery
shows now. zine article “Who’s Afraid of a Little
Also, none of my kids has ever Vaccine?” by Jeffrey Kluger is a propa- All but two states (West Virginia and
needed an antibiotic or over-the-counter ganda opinion piece masquerading as Mississippi) allow for religious exemp-
drug. They've never had a broken bone journalistic fact. In the article he shifts tions. You do not need to belong to any
or injury yet they climb trees and race all the perception of non-vaxers as religious particular church to claim a religious
over the Nova Scotia country side. They fanatics or negligent parents to wealthy, exemption—you simply state in writing
are not vaccinated but apparently have arrogant, nothing-bad-can-touch-me that you have a religious objection to
had whooping cough without me know- parents. vaccinations.
ing because they have been exposed on One thing I know is that to go com-
numerous occasions and have never had pletely against what everyone in main- MECHANISTIC TERMINOLOGY
obvious symptoms. stream society is doing is not a decision I have noticed, over the course of
I converted my husband a long time one takes lightly. Most non-vax parents years of reading Wise Traditions, a dis-
ago and our whole family's health has are college-educated. That means they turbing pattern in this otherwise excel-
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