Posts by JWoods

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No Link Found Between Vaccine Mercury and Autism

by leavingwt in

some red meat for the anti-science crowd.

no link found between vaccine mercury and autisma new government study adds to the evidence that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative until recently found in many vaccines, does not increase children's risk of autism.. it shows kids who had been exposed as babies to high levels of the preservative -- through vaccines they received or their mothers received while pregnant -- were no more likely to develop autism, including two distinct subtypes of the condition.. .

"this study should reassure parents about following the recommended immunization schedule," said dr. frank destefano, director of the immunization safety office at the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) in atlanta, and the study's senior author.. .

JWoods

Wasn't there recently a lawsuit that found just the opposit?

I am only aware of a lawsuit that found no connection with vaccines - but, anyway:

How is a lawsuit going to solve a scientific or medical question?

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NFL Kick-Off

by XJW4EVR in

ok, not really, but i had to much to do on thursday to post.

so who are you picking?.

i am glad to see my 49ers back in contention, though i believe that seattle will give them a run for their money.. my superbowl picks?

JWoods

Is it me or does Shanahan look like George W.?

LOL - it is just you.

I always say 8 - 8 at the beginning of the season (at least for the last decade) and that way I am not too badly disappointed.

Remember, last year was the first legitimate playoff win they have had in the last - what, eleven years? And I don't see significant improvements this year.

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No Link Found Between Vaccine Mercury and Autism

by leavingwt in

some red meat for the anti-science crowd.

no link found between vaccine mercury and autisma new government study adds to the evidence that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative until recently found in many vaccines, does not increase children's risk of autism.. it shows kids who had been exposed as babies to high levels of the preservative -- through vaccines they received or their mothers received while pregnant -- were no more likely to develop autism, including two distinct subtypes of the condition.. .

"this study should reassure parents about following the recommended immunization schedule," said dr. frank destefano, director of the immunization safety office at the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) in atlanta, and the study's senior author.. .

JWoods

Hasn't that study (or a similar one) been out for at least 3 years?

This may also put a damper on the pseudo-medical practice of EDTA chelation of kids to "reduce mercury" if they have autism. There have been several deaths due to this practice - a procedure medically used only in extreme cases of heavy-metal poisoning.

Not that it will stop the true anti-vaccine believers, of course.

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NFL Kick-Off

by XJW4EVR in

ok, not really, but i had to much to do on thursday to post.

so who are you picking?.

i am glad to see my 49ers back in contention, though i believe that seattle will give them a run for their money.. my superbowl picks?

JWoods

I think it may be a little premature to pronounce the Washington Redskins "healed and competitive again" due to Shanahan and McNabb -

The facts are that Dallas threw away that game with that idiotic blown play at the end of the first half, and that the Skins only managed to score two field goals on the credit of their actual offense.

I also think it is obviously way too early to put Dallas up as a favorite for the superbowl - that kind of thinking has more to do with their stadium than it does with their team. I can hardly see Dallas much better than an 8 - 8 team this year.

BTW, the Dallas offensive coordinator took the blame for that fumbled play at the end of the half this morning on the radio. He said it was his call, a bad one, and that Romo was following orders.

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JW has contract to build hanger on airforce base

by Aussie Oz in

doesn't that sound suss to you?.

my boy is currently working as a builders labourer for a jw.... told me on the weekend that he is off to build a hanger on an airforce base with his jw boss who got thr contract to build it.. i remarked that that sounded a bit suspect.... he said, 'yeah, i thought so too'.... oz.

JWoods

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, I knew several witnesses who had aerospace jobs that involved civilian work on military aircraft.

They were not DFd or dissasociated for this, but they were highly pressured to change their employment. They were not allowed to be a servant, or an assistant, or have any other priviledges in the congregation while holding these jobs. Interestingly, I never saw anything in writing on this, but it was the definate policy of the time.

Note that this was in contrast to people like tobacco farmers who were flat-out told to sell the farm (or grow something else and go broke on it) - or, be unconditionally disfellowshipped.

The witness leadership (the society) was careful to avoid a direct confrontation with the U.S. over military issues. JW young men facing the draft were always lectured to say to the authorities that it was entirely their own decision, not the society, to refuse military or CO non-military service.

I believe that the WTBTS still held a complex over the fact that Rutherford and others went to Federal prison at the time of WW1 over sedition issues.

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