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Originally Posted by Michaelangelica
Is this the book Buffy was talking about when she started this thread?
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I looked at a bunch of sites at the time, and I think this may have been one of them. What really sparked the thread was that my step-dad was an inveterate forwarder of chain-letter memes like this one, and it was fuzzy enough that it was not fodder for Snopes or other debunking methods.
All of these outside-the-mainstream health issues really should have more attention paid to them, mainly because their "truthiness" is so hard to pin down.
I've always been skeptical of the vaccine-autism link claim, but I can tell you that I am indeed allergic to Aspartame and Acesulfame-K: they both raise my heart rate and the latter actually gives me headaches.
Since there's no real commercial benefit from investigating this stuff, they're all ongoing mysteries that could be much worse than anyone imagines.
So when someone says government programs are all evil, ask them how any potential health dangers will ever be discovered....
He defers to economic interests over the public health, to executive agencies over the Congress, and to secrecy over the public's right-to-know... He's always tweaking the facts to the benefit of insiders,
Buffy
