►August 13, 2003 -
A shot in the dark - According to a new book, it is not just MMR that
parents should be wary of - evidence is mounting that other vaccines may have
dangerous side effects - book review - The Guardian
January 26 - February 8, 2004 (2 weeks combined
due to illness)
►February 4, 2004 - Physicians
publish groundbreaking book on medical mistakes - UC News Wire - "Nearly
five years after an Institute of Medicine report put medical mistakes on the
public's radar screen, two UCSF Medical Center physicians have published a
groundbreaking discussion of why errors occur and what health care providers and
leaders must do to cure this epidemic...The book, Internal Bleeding: The Truth
Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes, was published today by
Rugged Land Publishers, New York."
January 19-25, 2004
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January 12-18, 2004
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January 5-11, 2004
►January 7, 2004 - Whitbread
prize honours children's book - Reuters via
www.abc.net.au - "Judges lavished praise on Haddon's winning novel, a murder
mystery whose 15-year-old detective and narrator is a boy with Asperger's
Syndrome, a form of autism."
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"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth."
-- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820
"What's the point of vaccination if it doesn't protect you from the unvaccinated?"
-- Sandy Gottstein
"Who gets to decide what the greater good is and how many will be sacrificed to it?"