►February 24, 2004 - Dr. Andrew Wakefield and the MMR Controversy - Second Opinion by Nicholas Regush - www.redflagsdaily.com - "It doesn’t look very good for Dr. Andrew Wakefield, an English physician and researcher who has championed the need to investigate the potential relationship between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism...Today, the scavengers of British journalism surfaced and attacked him and his work, and attempted to destroy whatever chance he may have to rescue his scientific reputation."

Comment:  Excellent overview.

►February 24, 2004 - The corporate stooges who nobble serious science - The MMR scandal shows a business riddled with conflicts of interest - "It looks like a conflict of interest and his failure to disclose it was wrong. But the crime for which he is being punished is everywhere. The scientific establishment is rotten from top to bottom, riddled with conflicts far graver than Dr Wakefield's....In other words, the great majority of the scientists with conflicts of interest are failing to disclose them...So, given that undisclosed conflicts of interest in science are everywhere, why is it only Dr Wakefield whose bloody remains are being dragged through the streets? The obvious answer is that his alleged cooption works against the interests of the drugs companies, while almost everyone else's works in their favour."

Comment:  Very interesting article.

►February 23, 2004 - LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER - Bill forces shots on all children - Homeschoolers fight state legislation that criminalizes parents who object - WorldNetDaily - "Commented Euteneuer in a statement: "Along with Mississippi, West Virginia is the only state to forbid religious vaccine exemptions. This bill goes even further by prohibiting physicians from granting medical exemptions according to what they believe is best for each patient. Senate Bill 439 would also make West Virginia the only state to force homeschoolers to be immunized."

►March 2004 - Death by Medicine - by Gary Null, PhD, Carolyn Dean, MD, Martin Feldman, MD, Debora Rasio, MD, and Dorothy Smith. PhD - LE Magazine - "Natural medicine is under siege, as pharmaceutical company lobbyists urge lawmakers to deprive Americans of the benefits of dietary supplements.  Drug-company front groups have launched slanderous media campaigns to discredit the value of healthy lifestyles.  The FDA continues to interfere with those who offer natural products that compete with prescription drugs…These attacks against natural medicine obscure a lethal problem that until now was buried in thousands of pages of scientific text.  In response to these baseless challenges to natural medicine, the Nutrition Institute of America commissioned an independent review of the quality of 'government-approved' medicine.  The startling findings from this meticulous study indicate that conventional medicine is 'the leading cause of death' in the United States.”