Issue 47

• A MESSAGE FROM OUR EDITOR | Jeanne Ohm, DC

• CONSCIOUS PATH | Making the Transition from Fear to Courage

• FEATURE | Unchecked Power

• TRUTH BE TOLD | Astroturf

• SPECIAL | Anti-Science?

• INFORMED CHOICE | What the News Isn’t Saying About Vaccine-Autism Studies

• INFORMED CHOICE | Half Empty

• INFORMED CHOICE | Blackmail and the Medical Vaccine Exemption

• INFORMED CHOICE | Urgent Call to Action

• CHIROPRACTIC FOR LIFE | And Now What Do I Do?

• CHIROPRACTIC FOR LIFE | Giavanna’s Journey

• HOLISTIC HEALTHCARE | 3 Ways to Activate Your Inner Healing Potential

• NUTRITION | Touch as Nutrition

• PREGNANCY & BIRTH | The Bittersweet Reality of Birth Intervention

• PREGNANCY & BIRTH | You’re Not Allowed to Not Allow Me

• COMMUNITY | The Health Benefits of Finding Your Tribe

• WELLNESS LIFESTYLE | Free the Children

• TOUCH THE FUTURE | Raising Awake Children in a Broken School System

• PARENTING | Children Who Shine from Within

• PARADIGM SHIFT | Waiting for the Big One

• A MOMENT OF TRUTH | 10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Change the World

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Question Authority: Our Rights to Make Informed Conscious Choices

Jeanne Ohm, D.C.

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Making the Transition from Fear to Courage

Paul Lenda

• Shift, “Self-Actualization,” https://www.shift.is/self-actualization/

Additional Resources:

• Demartini, John, “Fear or Freedom,” https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/The-Conscious-Path/fear-or-freedom.html

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Unchecked Power

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

• Kennedy JR, Robert F., “NO ON SB277 Speech Sacramento at The Capitol on April 8, 2015,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U14ITEFqrlg

Additional Resources:

• “The Tuskegee Timeline,” https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm

• Obukhanych, Tetyana, “An Open Letter to Legislators Currently Considering Vaccine Legislation,” PhD https://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/an-open-letter-to-legislators-currently-considering-vaccine-legislation-from-tetyana-obukhanych-phd-in-immunology/

• Fisher, Barbara Loe, “California Enacts Vaccine Law That Forces Parents to Choose Between Human Rights and Civil Rights,” https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/07/14/california-enacts-vaccine-law.aspx

• Fisher, Barbara Loe, “The CDC Military-like Vaccine Extremist Program to Vaccinate Every Child in America,” https://vaccineimpact.com/2015/the-cdc-military-like-vaccine-extremist-program-to-vaccinate-every-child-in-america/

• National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC): https://www.nvic.org/

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Astroturf

Sharyl Attkisson

• Attkisson, Sharyl, “Astroturf and Manipulation of Media Messages,” TEDxUniversityofNevada, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYAQ-ZZtEU

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Anti-Science?

Zoey O’Toole

• Achenbach, Joel, “Why Do many Reasonable People Doubt Science?” https://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/science-doubters/achenbach-text

• “Adventures In Autism,” https://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2007/06/no-evidence-of-any-link.html

• Angell, M.D., Marica, “Is Academic Medicine for Sale?” https://www.smokescam.com/marciaeditorial.htm

• Attkisson, Sharyl, “The ‘Open Question’ On Vaccines and Autism,” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-open-question-on-vaccines-and-autism/

• Brandt, Allan M., “Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study,” https://www.med.navy.mil/bumed/Documents/Healthcare%20Ethics/Racism-And-Research.pdf

• De Becker, Gavin. The Gift of Fear. Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, 2000.

• Dreger, Alice, “The Most Scientific Birth Is Often the Least Technological Birth,” https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/the-most-scientific-birth-is-often-the-least-technological-birth/254420/

• Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1996.

• Martha Herbert website: https://www.marthaherbert.org/

• NCBI, “Lleal-lymphoid-nodular Hyperplasia, Non-specific Colitis, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Children,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9500320

• Root-Bernstein, Michele and Robert, “Einstein On Creative Thinking: Music and the Intuitive Art of Scientific Imagination,” https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine/201003/einstein-creative-thinking-music-and-the-intuitive-art-scientific-imagination

• Smith, Richard, “Peer Review: A Flawed Process at the Heart of Science and Journals,” https://jrs.sagepub.com/content/99/4/178.short?rss=1&ssource=mfr

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What the News Isn’t Saying About Vaccine-Autism Studies

Sharyl Attkisson

• ACTA Neurobiologiae Experimentals, “Influence of Pediatric Vaccines on Amygdala Growth and Opioid Ligand Binding in Rhesus Macaque Infants: A Pilot Study,” https://adventuresinautism.com/Hewitsonetal2010.pdf

• Age of Autism, “Columbia University Press and Dr. Paul Offit Sued for Autism’s False Prophets,” https://www.ageofautism.com/2009/02/columbia-university-press-and-dr-paul-offit-sued-for-autisms-false-prophets.html

• Attkisson, Sharyl, “CDC Responds to Allegation it Omitted Vaccine-Autism Study Link,” https://sharylattkisson.com/cdc-responds-to-allegation-it-omitted-vaccine-autism-study-link/

• Attkisson, Sharyl, “CDC: ‘Possibility’ that Vaccines Rarely Trigger Autism (AUDIO),” https://sharylattkisson.com/cdc-possibility-that-vaccines-rarely-trigger-autism/

• Attkisson, Sharyl, “Family to Receive $1.5+ In First-Ever Vaccine-Autism Court Award,” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-to-receive-15m-plus-in-first-ever-vaccine-autism-court-award/

• Attkisson, Sharyl, “How Independent Are Vaccine Defenders?” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-independent-are-vaccine-defenders/

• Attkisson, Sharyl, “The ‘Open Question’ On Vaccines and Autism,” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-open-question-on-vaccines-and-autism/

• Attkisson, Sharyl, “Researcher Who Dispelled Vaccine-Autism Link: ‘Most-Wanted Fugitive’,” https://sharylattkisson.com/researcher-who-dispelled-vaccine-autism-link-most-wanted-fugitive/

• Axelrod, Jim, “Doctor Blames Discredited Autism Research for Measles Outbreak,” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doctor-blames-discredited-autism-vaccine-link-research-for-measles-outbreak/

• CDC, “Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism,” https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/autism.html

• Conradis, Brandon, “Key figure at UnitedHealth Group Was Major Obama Donor,” https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/10/key-figure-at-unitedhealth-group-was-major-obama-donor/

• CDC, “Vaccine Information Statements (VIS),” https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/index.html

• DeSoto, M. Catherine, PhD, “Blood Levels of Mercury Are Related to Diagnosis of Autism: A Reanalysis of an Important Data Set,” https://jcn.sagepub.com/content/22/11/1308.abstract

• “DTaP Vaccine: What You Need to Know,” https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/dtap.pdf

• FDA, “Thimerosal and Expanded List of Vaccines,” https://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/VaccineSafety/UCM096228#t3

• Gallagher & Goodman, “Hepatitis B Triple Series Vaccine and Developmental Disability in US Children Aged 1—9 Years,” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02772240701806501#.VeShlH30-y0

• Gallagher & Goodman, “Hepatitis B Vaccination of Male Neonates and Autism Diagnosis,” https://www.progressiveconvergence.com/Hepatitis%20B%20Vaccination%20male%20neonates%201997-2002.pdf

• Haberman, Clyde, “A Discredited Vaccine Study’s Continuing Impact on Public Health,” https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/us/a-discredited-vaccine-studys-continuing-impact-on-public-health.html?_r=1

• Handley, J.B., “The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia: Division of Infectious Diseases,” https://www.rescuepost.com/files/offit-letter1.pdf

• I Speak of Dreams, “Those Lists of Papers Claiming That Vaccines Cause Autism: They Don’t Show What They Claim (Part 1),” https://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2013/08/-those-lists-of-papers-that-claim-vaccines-cause-autism-part-1.html

• Lewin Group, https://www.lewin.com/clients/pharmabiodevice/

• NCBI, “Serological Association of Measles virus and Human Herpesvirus-6 with Brain Autoantibodies in Autism,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9756729

• NCBI, “Abnormal Measles-Mumps-Rubella Antibodies and CNS Autoimmunity in Children with Autism,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12145534

• NCBI, “Administration of Thimerosal to Infant Rats Increases Overflow of Glutamate and Aspartate in the Prefrontal Cortex: Protective Role of Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22015977

• NCBI, “Ancestry of Pink Disease (Infantile Acrodynia) Identified as a Risk Factor for Autism Spectrum Disorders,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21797771

• NCBI, “A Positive Association Found Between Autism Prevalence and Childhood Vaccination Uptake Across the U.S. Population,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623535

• NCBI, “B-Lymphocytes from a Population of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Unaffected Siblings Exhibit Hypersensitivity to Thimerosal,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23843785

• NCBI, “Induction of Metallothionein in Mouse Cerebellum and Cerebrum with Low-dose Thimerosal Injection,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19357975

• NCBI, “Lasting Neuropathological Changes in Rat Brain After Intermittent Neonatal Administration of Thimerosal,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21225508

• NCBI, “Persistent Behavioral Impairments and Alterations of Brain Dopamin System After Early Postnatal Administration of Thimerosal in Rats,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21549155

• NCBI, “Possible Immunological Disorders in Autism: Concomitant Autoimmunity and Immune Tolerance,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17974154

• NCBI, “Risk Factors for Autistic Regression: Results of an Ambispective Cohort Study,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22290858

Additional Resources:

• National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC): https://www.nvic.org/

• Center for Personal Rights: https://www.centerforpersonalrights.org/

• Institute for Vaccine Safety: https://www.vaccinesafety.edu/

• Vaccine package inserts: https://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/ucm093830.htm

• Vaccine ingredients: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf

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Half Empty

Arjun Walia

• Horton, Richard, “Offline: What is Medicine’s 5 Sigma?” https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736%2815%2960696-1.pdf

• Marcovitch, Harvey, “Editors, Publishers, Impact Factors, and Reprint Income,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964337/

• Oliva, Robert, “Flawed Medical Research May Be Ruining Your Health & Your Life (Important!),” https://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/05/06/flawed-medical-research-may-be-ruining-your-health-your-life-important/

• Tomljenovic, Lucija, PhD, “The Health Hazards of Disease Prevention,” https://nsnbc.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BSEM-2011.pdf

• Walia, Arjun, “One of the Most Important Scientists in the World: ‘Most Cancer Research is Largely a Fraud’,” https://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/05/11/one-of-the-most-important-scientists-in-the-world-most-cancer-research-is-largely-a-fraud/

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Blackmail and the Medical Vaccine Exemption

Barbara Loe Fisher

• Fisher, Barbara Loe, “Blackmail and the Medical Vaccine Exemption,” https://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/May-2015/blackmail-and-the-medical-vaccine-exemption.aspx#_edn1

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Urgent Call to Action

Andrea Marconi, D.C., CACCP

• NVIC Advocacy Portal, https://nvicadvocacy.org/members/Home.aspx

Additional Resources:

• NCIV’s Reforming Vaccine Policy & Law Guide: https://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements/Reforming-Vaccine-Policy—Law-Guide.aspx

• Vaccine Reporting Systems – You Have Options!: https://www.nvic.org/reporting-systems.aspx

• Vaccine Adverse Event Recording System: https://vaers.hhs.gov/index

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And Now What Do I Do?

Bobby Doscher, D.C.

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Giavanna’s Journey

Denise Goodman

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Additional Resources:

• Snevily, Madison, “The Vital First Adjustment,” https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/Chiropractic/the-vital-first-adjustment.html

• D’Ambrosio, John, “Innate Expressions, Sensory Sensitivities,” https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/Chiropractic/innate-expressions-sensory-sensitivities.html

• Tullius, Steve, “From Distress to Express,” https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/Chiropractic/from-distress-to-express.html

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3 Ways to Activate Your Inner Healing Potential

Michelle K. Nielsen, D.C.

• Cannon, W., “The Wisdom of the Body,” NY: Norton Pubs, 1939.

• Glaser JL et al., “Elevated serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate levels in practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi Programs,” Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1992.

• Paul Susic MA Licensed Psychologist Ph.D Candidate, “Stress Management: What can you do?” St. Louis Psychologists and Counseling Information and Referral.

• Prakash R, Rastofgi P, Dubey I, Abhishek P, Chaudhury S, “Small BJ. Long-term concentrative meditation and cognitive performance among older adults,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Rastogi P%22%5BAuthor%5D

• Smith D, Dillbeck MC, Sharma HM., “Erythrocyte sedimentation rate and Transcendental Meditation,” Alternative Therapies in Clinical Practice, 1997.

• Wallace RK, Dillbeck MC, Jacobe E, Harrington B., “The effects of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program on the aging process,” International Journal of Neuroscience, 1982

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Touch as Nutrition

John Tuite

• Campaign to End Loneliness, “Lonelines: A Threat to Health,” https://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/threat-to-health/

• Campaign to End Loneliness, “Loneliness Research,” https://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/loneliness-research/

• Tuite, John, “Touch As Nutrition by John Tuite,” https://www.dailygood.org/story/983/touch-as-nutrition-by-john-tuite-kindness-blog/

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The Bittersweet Reality of Birth Intervention

Jennifer Barham-Floreani, B.APP.CLIN.SCI., B.CHIROPRACTIC

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You’re Not Allowed to Not Allow Me

Cristen Pascucci

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Additional Resources:

• The International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN): https://www.ican-online.org/

• Evidence Based Birth: https://evidencebasedbirth.com/

• La Leche League: https://www.llli.org/

• Science and Sensibility: https://www.scienceandsensibility.org/

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The Health Benefits of Finding Your Tribe

Lissa Rankin, M.D.

• Gena, Mama, “6 Practices I do Every Morning,” https://www.mamagenas.com/exquisite-self-care/

• Rankin, Lissa, MD, “7 Tips For Finding Your Tribe,” https://wakeup-world.com/2013/08/06/7-tips-for-finding-your-tribe/

• Rankin, Lissa, MD, “How To Stay Healthy Even If You Eat Junk, Smoke Ciggies, Skip Exercise & Booze It Up,” https://lissarankin.com/how-to-stay-healthy-even-if-you-eat-junk-smoke-ciggies-skip-exercise-booze-it-up

• Rankin, Lissa, MD, “Meet Your Inner Pilot Light,” https://lissarankin.com/meet-your-inner-pilot-light

Additional Resources:

• Pathways Connect: https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/item/pathways-connect.html

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Free the Children

Charles Eisenstein

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Raising Awake Children in a Broken School System

Nanice Ellis

• Autism & ADHD, https://wakeup-world.com/category/health-wellbeing/autism-adhd/

• “CDC Report Finds Toddlers are Being Medicated for ADHD at Alarming Rates,” https://wakeup-world.com/2014/05/27/cdc-report-finds-toddlers-are-being-medicated-for-adhd-at-alarming-rates/

• Ellis, Nanice, “Raising Awake Children in a Broken School System,” https://www.shift.is/self-actualization/

• “Imagination – Access to the Infinite,” https://wakeup-world.com/2014/07/11/imagination-access-to-the-infinite/

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Children Who Shine from Within

Rachel Macy Stafford

• Stafford, Rachel Macy, “Children Who Shine From Within,” https://www.handsfreemama.com/2014/04/29/children-who-shine-from-within/

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Waiting for the Big One

Charles Eisenstein

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10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Change the World

Andrew Harvey

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