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Asthma and "Life Sciences" By Ron Law Royal Society of New Zealand wrote: "Internet playing a key role in debate over GE food - academic The internet has played a crucial role in increasingly successful "people power" protests - Otago's Dr Hugh Campbell" Hugh Campbell is one real scientist who has committed to researching organic agriculture/horticulture. Some of his most excellent papers/reports can be found at http://www.organicsnewzealand.org.nz The internet gives people power like no other technology has in the past. The key to it is its ability to enable us to share information faster than you can reach for the 'cancel' button and say ??????? Email lists such as this are significant 'people power' tools. "Asthma results mean trials in Wellington, China Encouraging results from Wellington research into an asthma vaccine is prompting further trials on patients in the Capital and in China (RSNZ)" This is a most interesting little snippet. The Asthma research unit in Wellington found in a major study about 1,300 children that 30% of vaccinated kids had some form of allergy/asthma but NONE of the non-vaccinated ones had any form allergy/asthma (<10yrs). They concluded that more research was needed -- but no one would pay for it so it hasn't been done!! Fascinating that they are now working on a vaccine to prevent a disease that previous research from Wellington suggested was caused by vaccinations!! You don't need to be a rocket scientists to guess that a Death-Sciences company is financing their research and that no Death-Science company would research a followup to their previous study as it would have meant that they would make less of a profit. This highlights the stupidity of placing 'public good' research on a free-market foundation. There has to be a major ethical issue in here somewhere. Ron Law PS Did you know that DeathSciences pharmaceutical products are actually referred to as ethical products? That's true! The Oxford dictionary describes an ethical as a noun, "a medicine or drug not advertised to the general public, and usually available only on a doctor's prescription." I guess that means that drugs advertised to the general public such as Xenical are, by definition, unethical! How true. [Source: Genetic Engineering List gE@naturallaw.org.nz, posted by "Ron Law" juderon@ihug.co.nz 11 Feb 2000] ** This material is distributed for research and educational purposes only. ** Feedback to: <welcome@ecoglobe.org.nz>

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